Handing over the reins
The joint venture owner of a 283-unit entrance fee CCRC in Brentwood, Tennessee recently reshuffled its ownership, with a minority stakeholder acquiring the 70% share from partner and co-developer, Westminster Capital. Back in 2007, Westminster, Harpeth Green Properties (the current buyer) and LCS developed the community on nearly 50 acres. It featured 217 independent living units, a 66-bed skilled nursing facility and a stand-alone adult day care building. Plus, an additional phase of development is scheduled to start sometime in the next year, and will include 97 more IL units, a 350-seat auditorium and an 11,000-square foot health center. LCS’s affiliate, Life Care Services, operates... Read More »Senior Care Valuation Market Weirdness
Asset valuations are out of whack amid continued investor appetite for properties but not companies. I will be honest, sometimes I just don’t get it. I know some of you think I do, but the level of weirdness out there is greater than I have seen in my 30 years covering this sector. In today’s world, you have a group of investors that will pay a publicly traded company $325 million for their owned properties, but the entire company, including the owned properties, has a market value of only $100 million. Healthcare REITs, the most efficient buyers and owners of real estate, are trading at yields that would make a junk bond salesman blush, even though in most cases they have a lot of good... Read More »
Love and Supportive
A brand new supportive living facility is set to go up on a 2.5-acre lot in an urban neighborhood around six miles from downtown Chicago. All 120 studio and one-bedroom units will be backed by Illinois’s Supportive Living Program, which is an apartment-style alternative to skilled nursing care for low-income seniors and those with disabilities under Medicaid. The project is estimated to cost approximately $27 million, or $225,000 per unit. MR Properties, which was formed in 2000 as a joint venture between two experienced Chicago developers, Phil Mappa and Colin Regan, is developing the facility, after having previously built a 335-unit community and a 224-unit community, both for... Read More »Griffin-American starts small
After a busy year during which it made over $1.55 billion in healthcare acquisitions, Griffin-American Healthcare REIT-III recently made a relatively small deal in central Pennsylvania, acquiring a 120-unit independent/assisted living community in Palmyra for an undisclosed price. Built in 2007, this community was owned by AMC Delancey Group, Inc. and Heritage Senior Living, which will continue to operate under Griffin-American. Occupancy stood at 93% at the time of the sale. Joshua Jandris, Mark Myers, Charles Hilding and Andrew Hilding of Marcus & Millichap handled the transaction. Read More »
Hats off to Vita
Already with three skilled nursing facilities in the state of New York, Vita Healthcare Group (which is based in New Jersey) has in the past seven months worked to grow its presence in the Mid-Atlantic region. Back in June 2015, the company purchased two facilities with 256 total beds in the towns of Columbia and Elizabeth, Pennsylvania for $18.3 million, or $71,445 per bed. Now, Vita has acquired a 140-bed facility in Hatboro (Philadelphia MSA) for an undisclosed price. Both transactions featured strikingly similar facilities. The Columbia and Elizabeth facilities were built in 1978 and 1968, respectively, and were 86% and 79% occupied, respectively. Meanwhile, the Hatboro facility was... Read More »Troubles Everywhere
This week can go down as one of the worst we have seen in the seniors housing and care market. Putting aside the nearly $10 billion drop in market value of the healthcare REITs and senior care companies, when analysts start asking HCP, Inc. whether they think HCR ManorCare, its $6 billion tenant (well, now closer to $5 billion), may have to file for bankruptcy protection, you know that things are out of whack. The problems at HCR ManorCare, among other things, sent HCP (and some of the other healthcare REITs) into a nosedive. At one point Thursday, HCP’s yield was just over 9.0%, something that is shocking to most people. Now, three of the healthcare REITs yield more than 10%, with a few... Read More »
Father/son tag team steps down
A father and son team is selling their only senior care asset, a 48-unit assisted living/memory care community in North Carolina, for $3.65 million, or $76,042 per unit. Built in 1984, the community features all double-occupancy rooms, with 64 adult care home beds and 32 special care beds. There is certainly room for improvement in operations. Occupancy was just 74% based on beds, with a 50% private pay census. Plus, due to several changes to Medicaid reimbursement (which actually prompted the sale), cash flow suffered, with the community pulling in just $106,000 on approximately $2 million of revenues. The buyer, a national operator with a strong presence in North Carolina, plans to... Read More »
Turn around…again
When Platinum Healthcare purchased a 197-unit CCRC in Cincinnati, Ohio in September 2014 for $3 million, the community had already posted a $1.5 million loss on $5.9 million of revenues in 2013. This was even after the previous owner, Deaconess Long-Term Care, invested $918,000 in capital improvements in the last two years of owning it. The CCRC was over 63% occupied (its skilled nursing was 87% occupied, while assisted and independent living were just under 50% occupied, both with high Medicaid censuses). Now, Platinum is selling the community, which still is just 62% occupied overall and losing over $1 million on approximately $6.1 million of 2014 revenues. The purchase price this time... Read More »Senior Care and REIT Stocks Collapse
Brookdale Senior Living and HCP, Inc. were the first to report on fourth quarter earnings, and investors did not like what they heard. I really don’t know what to say about the news that came out yesterday, other than it had a disastrous impact on the market. Investors were hoping for something positive out of Brookdale Senior Living’s earnings call, but what they got was that a sale of the company was off the table, they may do a stock buyback, and slow growth is what can be expected now. The reaction? The stock plunged by 25% in two hours. HCP, Inc. announced its fourth quarter results, which included announcing they were writing down their HCR ManorCare investment by $817 million, and... Read More »The Ensign Group funds its future
Already one of the more prolific buyers in the healthcare M&A market with 23 transactions in 2015 across the Long-Term Care, Home Health Care and “Other Services” sectors, The Ensign Group is positioning itself for another big year in M&A and increased its revolving credit facility by $100 million to an aggregate $250 million. The facility is supported by a lending consortium arranged by SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, and as much as $105 million of it has been drawn as of February 1, 2016. This new expansion also reduced the LIBOR-based interest rate by 50 basis points and extended the termination date for the revolving commitment to February 5,... Read More »Schedule a demo
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