Skilled Nursing Portfolio Acquisitions Financed by KeyBank
KeyBank Real Estate Capital arranged acquisition financing for two skilled nursing portfolios in Nevada and Texas. A joint venture between Capital Senior Ventures and BlueMountain Capital Management was the buyer in both transactions. In the larger deal, Grant Saunders and Peter Trazzera provided a $105.8 million bridge loan to fund the purchase of 12 skilled nursing facilities and to refinance the existing debt of four SNFs located throughout Texas. In total, the 16 facilities have 1,924 beds. Then, Messrs. Saunders and Trazzera arranged a $21.9 million loan for the acquisition of three skilled nursing facilities and 359 beds in Las Vegas and Carson City, Nevada. Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Rocks Refinance for SanStone
Lancaster Pollard was brought in by North Carolina skilled nursing provider SanStone Health & Rehabilitation to reorganize its capital stack. Kevin Oakley acted as lead banker and, with the help of Gerald Swiacki and Joe Munhall, helped close a series of transactions resulting in more than $120 million in financing for the borrower. That included arranging a new commercial banking relationship as the syndication agent and structuring HUD debt. All of this will help address future capital needs, including funding acquisitions, modifying ownership interests and increasing borrowing capacity to mitigate risk. Read More »
Does The Election Matter?
With Tuesday’s mid-terms, will there be any impact on seniors housing and care? First of all, this mid-term election matters in many ways. But I keep on getting asked whether it will have much of an impact on the seniors housing and care sector. My gut response is no, at least on the federal level. Over 30 years, I have never really heard that the sector has performed better or worse depending on which party controlled Congress. On the local level, however, it is a different story, where local voting and referendums can really have an impact on the sector. Take Maine, for instance. They had a vote yesterday to tax Mainers with income above $128,400 (apparently, 1.6% of the... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Shows Variety In Latest Closings
Evans Senior Investments displayed some variety in its two latest transactions. First, the firm closed the sale of a 30-unit/60-bed memory care community located about five miles southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. Built in 2010, the community was formerly owned and operated by Genesis Healthcare, and although it had 100% private pay residents, occupancy was just 61% at the time of listing. A private equity firm with a local footprint around Sin City saw the opportunity to add value ended up buying the community for $2.1 million, or $70,000 per unit, bringing in Pacifica Senior Living to operate. Switching gears slightly, Evans Senior Investments then worked to procure a new tenant for an... Read More »
HHC Finance’s Bridge Lending Program Takes Off
Housing and Healthcare Finance’s (HHC Finance) Capital Advisory Group closed an impressive number of bridge loans lately, totaling $185 million across 12 transactions in the last several months. The team, led by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss, spread out across the country to get the deals done in North Carolina, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, New York and Alabama. The largest transaction involved a two-skilled nursing facility portfolio in California receiving a $50 million loan. HHC Finance’s Elan Magence joined Messrs. Haas and Gamss to arrange the transaction. On top of that busy period of bridge lending, HHC Finance closed an $11 million HUD refinance of a 100-bed... Read More »
Grandbridge Refinances Highgate Senior Living Portfolio
Washington State-based senior living operator, Highgate Senior Living, refinanced two of its communities in the Pacific Northwest with the help of Grandbridge Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group. Richard Thomas originated the Freddie Mac loans, which included an $8.5 million first mortgage for an assisted living/memory care community in Bellingham, Washington (about 30 miles southeast of Vancouver, British Columbia) and a $5.225 million loan for an assisted living/memory care community in Great Falls, Montana. Each loan comes with a fixed rate, 10-year term and 30 years of amortization. Read More »Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending November 2, 2018
Check out our recent senior care M&A transactions! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Apollo Global Management, LLC17 seniors housing properties$264 million Private investorChandler Health$9.2 million CareTrust REIT, Inc.ManorCare Health Services-Fargo$4.65 million Vantage Point Capital5 skilled nursing... Read More »
HCP Sheds More Brookdale Properties
The team at Cushman & Wakefield announced that they represented HCP, Inc. in the REIT’s sale of 17 Brookdale Senior Living-managed seniors housing communities for $264 million. Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner, James Dooley and Sam Dylag led the way on the transaction and are still working to close on the sale of two more properties, expected later this quarter for a purchase price of approximately $113 million. Private equity firm Apollo Global Management was the buyer, fulfilling both their geographic/product diversity and value-add strategies. HCP is nearing the end of its Brookdale-restructuring process, having also transitioned operations away from Brookdale at 35 other communities and... Read More »
Who Won the Battle For the Post-Acute Patient?
On November 1, we hosted the long-awaited Battle for the Post-Acute Patient: SNFs vs. LTACs vs. IRFs. On the webinar, Steve Monroe (our moderator) and panelists Jim Haulihan of Fox Subacute, Mike Munter of Symphony Post Acute Network and Marc Zimmet of Zimmet Healthcare Services Group had a lively discussion about who’s currently winning that battle, how it’s driving up SNF values and whether managed Medicare and Medicaid will be their friend or foe, among other topics. You can listen to the 90-minute webinar here. But we also wanted to hear what our audience had to say and posed two questions. Here are the results: Do you believe SNFs should be able to care for current LTAC and IRF... Read More »
Ensign Deal Flurry
The temperatures have dropped, and The Ensign Group has announced a flurry of acquisitions across the country to start off November. The largest of the deals involved four senior living communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area. Averaging 84% occupancy, the portfolio featured a majority of memory care units (150), with 53 assisted living and 36 independent living units too. Ensign acquired just the operations and brought in its senior living subsidiary Bridgestone Living, LLC to operate, subject to a long-term lease. Next, Ensign acquired both the real estate and operations of two skilled nursing facilities in Meridian and Gooding, Idaho, for an undisclosed price. One facility has... Read More »Schedule a demo
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