Ambitious 2018 Ahead For Harbor Retirement Associates
Florida-based senior living developer/operator, Harbor Retirement Associates, has a plan to open a new assisted living/memory care community nearly every month in 2018, a tall order for any operator or developer. HRA will start the year by opening a community each in Jacksonville, Florida, and Long Grove, Illinois (Chicago MSA) in January. Then, throughout the year, the company has grand openings planned in Delaware, Ohio, South Carolina, Florida and Virginia, bringing the 2018 total to 10 new communities. And that’s following the three communities HRA opened recently in McKinney and Southlake, Texas and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Operationally, opening 10 communities in a year is hard... Read More »
Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Jacksonville Assisted Living Community
After already buying a 124-unit assisted living community in Cincinnati, Ohio this month, Chicago Pacific Founders added another community to its portfolio in December, this time in Jacksonville, Florida. The private equity firm acquired a 189-unit senior living community, with independent living, assisted living and memory care services, in a newly developed residential section of Jacksonville, nearby dining, shopping, medical facilities and, of course, the beaches. Like in all of its transactions, Chicago Pacific Founders hired Grace Management to operate the community. Read More »
Greystone Gets It Done
Aspens Senior Living partnered with Greystone to obtain construction financing for two of its latest seniors housing projects located in North Carolina and Arizona. First, to the Tar Heel state, where Aspens and joint venture partner Pennybacker Capital are currently building a 182-unit independent living community in Raleigh. A regional bank provided a $24.2 million loan to fund the construction. Then, in Gilbert, Arizona, Aspens, Pennybacker Capital and McFarlin Group are developing a 204-unit independent living community, with the help of a $25.8 million loan provided by a publicly traded bank and also arranged by Greystone. Greystone also snuck in a $16.5 million HUD loan arranged by... Read More »
Capital Funding Group’s Transaction Trifecta
Certainly ending the year on a strong note, Craig Casagrande of Capital Funding Group originated three transactions, totaling over $47 million. The largest of the loans, at $31.243 million, refinanced a bridge loan on a New York skilled nursing facility. CFG had closed the bridge loan at the end of 2016 to help the borrower recapitalize equity on what was an underleveraged facility, and simultaneously applied with HUD for a refinance, closing the transaction this October. Staying in New York, and with HUD, Mr. Casagrande originated a $9.843 million refinance for another skilled nursing facility in the state. And finally, CFG closed a bridge-to-HUD loan for a Pennsylvania SNF, totaling $6... Read More »
Capitol Seniors Housing Constructs
Capitol Seniors Housing has made it clear that it sees a great opportunity in the 55+ active adult space, but assisted living still has a place in its investment strategy, of course. The private equity firm just broke ground on a brand-new 86-unit assisted living/memory care community in Fulton, Maryland (about halfway between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore). At a cost of $27.5 million, or about $320,000 per unit (high for the area-average of $233,000 per unit, according to our in-house database), the community will be operated by The Arbor Company upon completion, which is expected in late-2018. Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Represents Hawkeye In Iowa Skilled Nursing Sale
Chad Elliot, Quintin Harris and Kevin Laidlaw of Lancaster Pollard represented the seller of a six-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Iowa. Owned by Hawkeye Care Centers, these six facilities total 551 beds, with three of the properties featuring a small assisted living or independent living portion. Quality mix was high (over 50%) and operating margin averaged in the low teens, which is not too bad for skilled nursing in this market. The Lancaster Pollard team sold the portfolio to Summit Healthcare REIT for $29.5 million, or about $53,500 per bed. Summit entered into a triple-net lease agreement with Accura HealthCare, an Iowa-based operator with 18 facilities across the state.... Read More »
Big Is Not Always Better, But Capital Structure Counts
Two looming hospital system mergers will create the largest health systems in the country. I assume most of you have heard about the two potential not-for-profit hospital system mergers that will create the largest systems in the country, larger than even HCA, the biggest for-profit hospital company. In one way, this bothers me because with one of them, the combined entity will have 191 hospitals, plus all the ancillary businesses. I just don’t understand how that can be run efficiently. The for-profit chains did their own large mergers, and a few of them are suffering the results and shedding hospitals to pay down debt. But there is one big difference with not-for-profit mergers, and that... Read More »
Cushman & Wakefield Sells For Capitol Seniors Housing
Three and a half years after purchasing a 97-unit assisted living/memory care community in Silicon Valley (in the town of Fremont, to be more specific), Capitol Seniors Housing is exiting the asset, making a tidy return we imagine, thanks to Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig and Alex Petrosian of Cushman & Wakefield, who represented CSH in a competitive bidding process. Since acquiring the property from Westport Capital Partners in 2014 for $23.75 million, or about $244,800 per unit, CSH and its operating partner, MBK Senior Living, worked to improve the community’s occupancy, which sat at 81% in 2014, and margin, at just 19%. CSH invested upwards of $1.0 million to improve the... Read More »
Improvements Ahead For Irma-Affected Assisted Living Community
New ownership has changes in store for a 64-unit Florida assisted living community it acquired for $3.675 million, or $57,400 per unit, with a 9.25% cap rate. Built in 1989 in Lauderhill (located just west of Fort Lauderdale), the community, which was owned by a partnership between a local owner and a local operator, totals 105 beds in 64 rooms. Historically, its occupancy has been near full (resting at 94% at the time of the sale), but that was in part driven by its below-market rents. That in turn also affected the community’s operating margin of roughly 20% on approximately $1.77 million of revenues. It didn’t help that the facility sustained about $30,000 in damage from Hurricane Irma.... Read More »
Ray’s Evansville Sale
Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap has sold a health care campus in Evansville, Wisconsin, the only property of its sort in town. The campus includes a 71-bed skilled nursing facility (built in 1971) that is 69% occupied with a 42% quality mix, and a 25-unit assisted living community (built in 2009) that is fully occupied with mostly private pay residents. Mr. Giannini sold the property for $5.1 million, or about $53,100 per bed/unit, with an 11.9% cap rate on annualized 2017 figures. The buyer was not disclosed. Read More »Schedule a demo
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