Strawberry Fields REIT Enters Arkansas Market
Strawberry Fields REIT entered the state of Arkansas in a big way, acquiring nine skilled nursing facilities in the state from one seller, plus one Kentucky facility from another. Totaling 1,004 beds, the facilities were owned by The Skyline Group, which acquired them from AdCare Health Systems, Inc. in October 2016 for $55 million, or 54,780 per bed, after leasing them for several months at a rate of $450,000 per month. The facilities are currently profitable, but report occupancy in the low-70s, with a 15-20% quality mix, and they are now being sold for $37.975 million, or $37,800 per bed. Strawberry Fields REIT will brand these facilities under the “Waters” brand and will add them to a... Read More »
Blueprint Handles Record Sale In Oregon
We just recorded the highest-priced single-asset seniors housing sale in the state of Oregon, in a transaction handled by Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Dan Mahoney, Jacob Gehl and Blake Bozett. The target is located in Portland and was originally developed in 1992 by the current seller. Also renovated in 2000, the community features 286 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. Integral Senior Living has managed it since 2011, and managed it well, apparently, as it was 94% occupied with a 100% private pay census. We have also estimated it operated at a roughly 45% margin on approximately $13 million of in-place revenues. Strategic Student & Senior... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Acquires Catholic Health Care Campus In California
CareTrust REIT bought a California senior care campus and brought on a new tenant in its latest transaction. Formerly owned by the Catholic not-for-profit Our Lady of Fatima, the Saratoga campus consists of 85 skilled nursing beds and 37 assisted living units, with both components well occupied. It sold for $19.0 million (which includes transaction costs), or $152,500 per bed/unit, with a roughly 12.8% cap rate. Under the management of CareTrust’s new lessee, Kalesta Healthcare, it is expected to bring in approximately $1.7 million in cash rent for each of the next two years, which thereafter escalates based on CPI. The lease term comes with an initial term of 15 years and two five-year... Read More »
Love Funding in the Last Frontier
Love Funding secured financing for the Last Frontier’s newest assisted living community. Located in Anchorage’s U-Med district (and less than two miles from three hospitals), the community is being purpose-built by Baxter Senior Living as a high-end assisted living option for Alaskans. Along with 63 private AL and 33 private and semi-private memory care units, the private pay community will feature amenities including a theater, café and pub, fitness studio and art center, with Portland, Oregon-based Paradigm Senior Living as its manager. Love Funding’s Holly Bray secured a $20.1 million bridge loan provided by Love’s parent company, Midland States Bank, with First National Bank Alaska... Read More »
Frontier Moving Forward With Financing From Columbia Pacific Advisors
Fresh off of Frontier Management’s ownership restructuring, it was business as usual for the firm, which obtained financing for its newly opened standalone memory care community in Tucson, Arizona. Columbia Pacific Advisors, though its bridge lending platform, CPIF Lending, provided the $6.225 million loan, with a 24-month interest only term and a 12-month extension, to refinance the original construction financing on the 48-unit community. The transaction allows Frontier to continue stabilizing the community and pursue its next development project. The loan, which Frontier expects to pay off within 18 months, was underwritten at a loan-to-value of 66%, but that goes down to 56% upon... Read More »
The Latino Factor
Latinos are the fastest growing worker cohort, but like all workers, they need more education and training. So do seniors housing workers, if we want to keep them. I read an interesting article from the Wall Street Journal over Labor Day Weekend titled “The ‘Latino Factor’ Will Save America’s Economy.” The gist of it was that the Latino population in the U.S. is the fastest growing cohort in the labor market and will play an increasingly important role in the economy as the baby boomers age. Seniors housing providers would probably agree, as many Latinos are care providers in their communities, and they would like to hire more of them. But the article argued that what is needed is... Read More »
Saul Closes Two Midwest SNF Sales
Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage closed out the month with two Midwest transactions. First, he sold a struggling SNF in St. Charles, Illinois. At 40-years old, the 120-bed facility struggled with cash flow (losing over $1 million in EBITDAR), while occupancy stood at just 58%, with a 55% Medicaid, 28% private pay/insurance and 17% Medicare census. Its Wisconsin-based private owner (who is retired and elected to sell for estate planning purposes) had leased the facility for many years to a not-for-profit. But after the recent affiliation with another not-for-profit health system, they did not want to operate long-term and decided to terminate the lease and transfer operations... Read More »
Blueprint Ends Active August With Corpus Christi Closing
Trent Gherardini wrapped up a busy month for Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors with the sale of a 204-bed skilled nursing facility in Corpus Christi, Texas. It was owned by a Florida-based owner for generations, but its lease with the existing tenant was coming to an end. Because the owner did not operate in Texas, the facility was deemed to be non-core. In addition, the facility was negatively affected by recent hurricanes, although with no major damage. It sold to a private owner/operator with a growing Texas portfolio. Read More »
Clousing Sells In The Southeast
Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Brad Clousing helped a private fund divest an assisted living/memory care community in Marietta, Georgia that did not fit into its geographic criteria. Built in 1995, the 56-unit community was just 59% occupied and operated at a 2.5% margin on under $2.2 million of revenues. Paying $7.06 million, or $126,100 per unit, a regional operator based in Atlanta is the new owner. Then with Daniel Geraghty, Mr. Clousing sold a 96-unit independent/assisted living community in Due West, South Carolina. It too struggled with occupancy, at just 72%, and it didn’t help that its not-for-profit owner was in financial distress. However, the new owner, a partnership... Read More »
CBRE’s Two Latest Transactions
The CBRE team showed their strength in their latest two transactions. First, it was announced that not only did Lisa Widmier represent a publicly-traded REIT in its sale of a 120-unit assisted living community in Sterling Heights, Michigan to Chicago Pacific Founders, but Aron Will arranged the acquisition financing too. Through CBRE’s Freddie Mac Seller Servicer direct lending program, Mr. Will secured a $15.5 million, floating rate loan, with a 10-year term and 60 months of interest only. Chicago Pacific Founders’ wholly owned subsidiary Grace Management will take over operations. Separately, Mr. Will was joined by Kevin Randles to arrange a fixed-rate Fannie Mae loan in another deal.... Read More »Schedule a demo
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