

Southeast sale
Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a pair of senior living communities, one vacant and one well occupied, in the Southeast. First, in Ormond Beach, Florida, was a 36-unit purpose-built (but empty) memory care community. Despite that, the community was well maintained, and the buyer, citing strong occupancy of other communities in the area, intends to re-open it. And second, Mr. Clousing sold a 32-unit assisted living community in Prattville, Alabama. Historically well occupied, the community is located on a 4.5 acre site that allows for expansion of the physical plant. So there is opportunity at both locations for the undisclosed buyer. Read More »Harborview’s Good Work
Harborview Capital Partners brought in SunTrust Bank to help refinance a portfolio of 19 senior living communities, with 917 units, located in Kentucky and Tennessee. Consisting of independent living, assisted living and memory care units, the communities are owned by Goodworks Unlimited, which operates a portfolio of 25 properties in TN and KY. Avi Begun and David Nussbaum of Harborview arranged a $68.3 million loan provided by SunTrust, featuring a five-year term and LIBOR+155 interest rate. That should position Goodworks well for future growth and expansion projects. Harborview has been quite busy the last few months, closing over 10 HUD and bank financings since November.... Read More »
Trilogy Health Services opens 105th campus
Trilogy Health Services is continuing on its fast pace of development, having just opened its 105th health care campus in Sylvania, Ohio, after developing eight and completing four additions to existing campuses in 2016 alone. Designed on the “Village Center” prototype, the community features 102 beds of assisted living, skilled nursing, short-term rehab, outpatient therapy and respite care organized into neighborhoods. There are a number of amenities at the community too, which is located near another Trilogy community in Maumee (both in the Toledo MSA) built in 2012. A number of independent living duplexes are also in the works, with an estimated opening date of late summer 2017. We’ll... Read More »
Becker serves up refinancing
Aaron Becker of Lancaster Pollard refinanced a portfolio of six skilled nursing/rehab facilities located throughout Connecticut (5) and Rhode Island (1), with the help of HUD. The borrower is Apple Rehab, a CT-based provider of short-term rehab services with 25 locations. For the six facilities (which total 517 beds), Apple received six loans totaling $40.7 million, all with 30-year terms and low, fixed interest rates. The refinancing provides significant debt service savings and increases Apple’s replacement reserves. Read More »
Senior Care M&A Results For 2016
M&A activity in seniors housing and care in 2016 nearly matched that of 2015. Our preliminary results are in, and in the senior housing and care market, 2016 looked very similar to 2015. The dollar value of publicly announced senior care M&A transactions was $14.4 billion last year, just edging out 2015’s $14.2 billion. The number of deals, however, declined by 6%, falling from 359 in 2015 to 337 in 2016. This latter number may rise as a few more disclosed deals are discovered, but it still ranks as the second most active year ever. The dollar total for the fourth quarter of 2016 represented 45% of the year’s total, as a few large transactions came in, something that was in short... Read More »
The All-in-One Deal
Valstone Properties brought in Walker & Dunlop to refinance their portfolio of 12 memory care properties located throughout New Jersey and also provide funding for the acquisition/refinancing of two additional communities. Working with HUD, Kevin Giusti and Michael Vaughn of W&D arranged a 35-year $28.38 million loan with an 80% loan-to-value. The financing reimbursed Valstone for their original acquisition costs, capital expenditures and various renovations. It also involves the largest number of individual properties, which total 215 units, to be included as one loan under HUD’s scattered site policy since the HUD 232 program’s inception, which allowed for significant... Read More »
Meridian in Massachusetts
New York City-based Meridian Capital Group is helping an undisclosed buyer with the purchase of three skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Massachusetts. Led by Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson, the firm arranged a two-year $64 million bridge-to-HUD loan, provided by a finance company, with a full-term of interest-only payments. Plus, with an additional $5 million earn-out feature, the financing comes to 90% loan-to-cost, pushing the acquisition cost up to an estimated $76.7 million. Read More »
The Keys to Success
At a time when seniors housing values are still around a record-high (averaging nearly $200,000 per unit for assisted living and over $230,000 per unit for independent living in the four quarters ended September 30, 2016), a group of local operators in Pennsylvania is exiting the market. Of course, owning four recently built, well performing assets helps with capitalizing on value. Developed by the selling group, the Keystone Villa Portfolio is located across three campuses between Harrisburg and Philadelphia and features 509 total units. The Douglassville location was built in two phases in 2004 and 2008 as a 123-unit independent living community, but has since added in 2009 and 2013, 124... Read More »
Carrieros’ close
Damien and Ken Carriero had their hands full, to say the least, in their latest closing. The duo from Collier’s International sold a 30-unit/50-bed assisted living community in Venice, Florida for $2.15 million, or $71,667 per unit, with an 11.79% cap rate. The deal was far from “straight-forward,” though. The current seller sold the community a few years ago as a lease with an option and then moved to California. However, the buyer/lessee apparently ran the operations into the ground, while leaving the building in a state of disrepair, and then promptly left the country. The seller, now an owner/operator in California, hired a management company to turn things around, but soon fell behind... Read More »