Senior Living Investment Brokerage Closes Two Southeast Sales
Toby Siefert and Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage teamed up to sell a 183-bed Washington, D.C. skilled nursing facility for $30 million, or a well above average $163,900 per bed. Built over 35 years ago adjacent to a local medical center, the facility had recently undergone $1.0 million in capital improvements, certainly lowering its effective age. It features a mix of private and semi-private units and was 94% occupied. Its regional owner/operator sought to reduce its exposure in the D.C market, and sold the facility to a partnership between a private New York-based investment group and an East Coast regional operator at a 10.4% cap rate. Mr. Clousing followed the D.C.... Read More »
Capital, Capital Everywhere
After attending two conferences focusing on two different healthcare real estate sectors, it is all about capital. Having just returned from two different conferences in Florida, the one conclusion I can draw from both of them is that there still is way too much capital looking for yield. One, the Revista-sponsored medical real estate conference, was mostly focused on the medical office building market, which transacted more than $13 billion in investments last year. Who would have thought? The other was the American Seniors Housing Association’s annual meeting, which had record attendance with a lot of “deal talk” going on. One industry veteran told me he was only talking to architects... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Lands A Triple
Evans Senior Investments (ESI) showed its range in closing three transactions across the country, totaling over $20 million. First, in its home state of Illinois, ESI represented the seller, an independent owner/operator, in the sale/leaseback of its 30-unit assisted living community in Winnebago (near Rockford, Illinois) for $4 million, or $133,300 per unit. Just 10 years old, the community was operating well, with 97% occupancy, 100% private pay census, and a 33% operating margin on about $1.225 million of revenues. A publicly traded REIT added the property into a master lease in which the seller already managed other communities on behalf of the REIT. Moving South, ESI handled the sale... Read More »
TIC Investor Sells California Memory Care Community
A Southern California-based regional operator is heading north, to Petaluma (about 40 miles northwest of San Francisco), to acquire and take over management of a 40-unit memory care community. Previously owned by a TIC investor, who decided to divest the asset to realize their investment objectives, the community was built in 1996 on a 1.68-acre plot. Recent minimum wage requirements and increased competition caused the community to raise wages. Adding to its woes, community leadership was unstable, leading the community to expend significant overtime to deal with the vacant positions. These issues combined to affect its financial performance, with the operating margin at just 14% on over... Read More »
Two HUD Loans From Lancaster Pollard
Lancaster Pollard announced two HUD refinances it closed on behalf of clients in Illinois and Oregon. First, Brett Murphy arranged an $11.2 million HUD loan for a 100-unit supportive living facility in McHenry, Illinois (Chicago MSA), which refinanced the original tax-exempt bond construction financing structured in 2007 and cut the ownership group’s debt cost of capital in half. Then, Matt Lindsay and Casey Moore led the way on an $8.8 million HUD refinance of a 48-bed memory care community in Woodburn, Oregon. After successfully opening the community in 2014, ownership decided to refinance its senior and mezzanine construction debt into a non-recourse, 35-year fixed rate... Read More »
Monticello In Music City
One of Monticello Asset Management’s investment vehicles originated $16.48 million in first lien debt to finance the acquisition of a 119-bed skilled nursing facility in Nashville, Tennessee, with the experienced owner/operator buyer looking to refinance through HUD in the coming years. Built in 1970 and completely renovated and expanded in 2013, this facility has a 48-bed short-term care unit, made up of all private rooms, and the remaining 71 beds are dedicated to long-term care patients. There is also a 4,000-square foot therapy gym that, along with the state-of-the-art upgrades received in 2013, helps the facility compete in the area. It was acquired by a public REIT as part of a large... Read More »
LTC Properties, Affinity Living Group & Sunwest Management
The story of Sunwest Management keeps creeping up in the news, although not in a bad way this time, as a former Sunwest assisted living/memory care community in Spartanburg, South Carolina, just sold to a joint venture between LTC Properties and Affinity Living Group. Originally built by the former Manorhouse Retirement Communities in 1999, the 87-unit community was sold to Sunwest in 2005 for approximately $6 million, or about $69,000 per unit. The lender, however, foreclosed on the property when the community was just 50% occupied and sold it to private investor Chris Brogdon in 2010 for $4.95 million, or about $57,000 per unit. Average monthly rents fell to $2,400, from $2,625 per month... Read More »
New Owner At New Albany Skilled Nursing Facility
Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage facilitated the sale of a 156-bed skilled nursing facility in New Albany, Indiana, on behalf of the same investor he sold the property to roughly 10 years ago. Located across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky, this one-story facility was built in 1974 with 152 beds. The current seller, TMV Properties (a private partnership), purchased the facility in early 2007 for $5.7 million, or $37,500 per bed, when occupancy was 80% and quality mix was just 20%. TMV, which operated one other facility in Indiana at the time, invested in improvements and brought therapy services in-house. Both occupancy and quality mix have improved since then, and... Read More »
HCR ManorCare Continues to Fight
We are not sure what HCR ManorCare’s end game is in its battle with landlord Quality Care Properties, which owns the vast majority of its properties. HCRMC recently filed a motion in court to dismiss certain claims in QCP’s receivership complaint. We are not sure what leg they have to stand on. The provider is so far behind on its contractual rent payments that it is a wonder that QCP has not done what other REITs have done when their tenants have not been able to pay the rent. On January 25th, HCRMC did not pay the reduced rent of $14 million that was due. The past dues are simply piling up, and while we understand there is a difficult operating environment, it does not mean you can... Read More »
Senturian Senior Housing Brokerage Sells Alabama Assisted Living Community
Watson McCollister of Senturian Senior Housing Brokerage handled the sale of a 56-unit assisted living community in Anniston, Alabama. Built in 2000 on 24 acres, this community includes 32 assisted living and 24 memory care units. It was owned by a local operator and operated at a 26% margin on approximately $2.46 million of gross revenues. Occupancy was 91% when the initial offer was accepted, but shot up to 100% by closing, with NOI substantially improving as well. With the help of an $830,000 mezzanine loan provided by United Community Bank and arranged by Contemporary Healthcare Capital, the out-of-state buyer (based in Charleston, South Carolina) purchased the community for $7.86... Read More »Schedule a demo
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