• Berkadia Announces Array of Closings

    Berkadia is riding a transaction hot streak, closing 19 property sales in the last 45 days. The activity included a portfolio featuring five assisted living/memory care communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota sold to Jaybird Capital, an affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, through HUD assumptions. Jaybird assumed management of the... Read More »
  • Tremper Capital Group Closes Several Financings

    Tremper Capital Group showed off its variety with a series of financings closed for clients across the country. They included a construction loan, an acquisition loan, a bank refinance and a portfolio financing. First, the team closed non-recourse construction financing for an assisted living/memory care community in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.... Read More »
  • Upstate New York SNF Trades Between Not-for-Profits

    Joe Knapp of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of a skilled nursing facility in upstate New York. The Center For Nursing And Rehab in Hoosick Falls, New York, comprises 82 beds in a single-story building that sits on four acres. It was built in 1954, but renovated in 1979 and 1995.  Apparently, the facility... Read More »
  • Acquisition Financing Closed for Distressed California Community

    Private debt fund and direct commercial real estate lender Wilshire Finance Partners closed an $8.15 million first lien bridge loan for the acquisition and repositioning of a distressed seniors housing community in California. The financing included reserves specifically allocated for capital improvements and operational support during the... Read More »
  • Developer and Operator Secure Construction Financing

    Another new development will soon be underway, with BLDG Real Estate and The Fellowship Family securing financing for a $100 million full-continuum community, Fellowship Wildlight. BLDG Real Estate is a real estate development firm that specializes in design, development and asset execution across multiple product types. The Fellowship Family is... Read More »
The Members Breakfast with Alan Butler

The Members Breakfast with Alan Butler

On May 4th, 2017, we hosted the seventh installment of The SeniorCare Investor Members Breakfast at The Princeton Club in New York City. Our special guest at the subscriber-only event was Erickson Living CEO, Alan Butler.  For 45 minutes, Mr. Butler sat down with our Editor, Steve Monroe, to discuss his joining Erickson in 2010, the company’s emergence from bankruptcy, and the future of the CCRC model. Subscribers can watch the discussion below.... Read More »
Two Oregon Originations for Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Two Oregon Originations for Grandbridge Real Estate Capital

Two Portland, Oregon-area seniors housing communities received financing from Grandbridge Real Estate Capital’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Group, headed by Richard Thomas and Meredith Davis. Starting in Portland proper, the team closed a $12 million non-recourse loan for a 58-unit assisted living/memory care community that at one point was the last acquisition of Sunwest Management before the company filed for bankruptcy protection. The original TIC investors then sold the community in late 2015 to Chicago-based Focus Healthcare Partners. Artegan began managing the 10-year old community, which was 85% occupied and earning over $630,000 in EBITDA at the time of the sale. Focus... Read More »
The Big Deals Are Upon Us Again

The Big Deals Are Upon Us Again

Sabra Health Care REIT and Care Capital Properties announced their merger in a somewhat negative SNF market for REITs. When I wrote the lead story for the May issue of The SeniorCare Investor talking about the return of the “Big Deal” to the market, I hope you didn’t think I had any inside information. Just days after it was published, Sabra Health Care REIT and Care Capital Properties announced their merger. I had written that a REIT buying a smaller REIT could make sense, except that one of the problems with that type of deal is that you end up with a certain amount of unwanted assets. That said, the transaction makes a lot of sense for both REITs. Separately, their cost of capital was... Read More »

Lancaster Pollard Lands Financing For Nonprofit Clients

Lancaster Pollard showed its strength in agency funding, closing over $40 million in financing to help a couple of not-for-profit clients expand their services. First, in Osceola, Wisconsin, Brad Competty led the way in closing a $7.1 million HUD refinance on behalf of Christian Community Homes, a senior care provider in western Wisconsin (Minneapolis-St. Paul MSA). Originally built in 1981 as a skilled nursing facility, CCH expanded its Hudson, WI campus over the years to include senior apartments (opened in 1986), assisted living (1993) and memory care (2009). More recently, in 2011, the organization expanded on a new campus in Osceola with a 40-bed skilled nursing facility and a 20-bed... Read More »

CFG Capital Markets Advises on Seniors Housing Sale

We typically see Capital Funding Group in the financing side of the business, boasting a steady stream of agency and bridge loan closings of late. But CFG Capital Markets, its investment banking and securities subsidiary, has just announced they represented the seller in its disposition of two seniors housing communities operated by Oxford Senior Living. Located in Derby, Kansas (Wichita MSA), the 48-unit stand-alone memory care community was built in two phases in 2011 and 2013. The McKinney, Texas community features 73 units of assisted living and memory care, and only just opened in January 2017 at a cost of $15 million, or $205,500 per unit. Understandably, it is still in lease-up, at... Read More »

Capital Healthcare Investments Doubles In Size

Capital Healthcare Investments (CHI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MTGE Investment Corp., a publicly traded hybrid REIT, has purchased a portfolio of nine skilled nursing facilities in Virginia with about 1,050 beds. The transaction almost doubles the size of CHI’s portfolio, which now includes 14 skilled nursing facilities and six mostly assisted living/memory care communities. The purchase price was $130 million, or close to $124,000 per bed. Why the high price? The average age is just 15 years and the occupancy is in the low 90s. Five of the nine properties were built in the past 10 years. The facilities will be leased back to the seller under a 15-year lease with two five-year renewals... Read More »

Sentio Healthcare Properties Agrees To Sell

In breaking news, Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors announced that it entered into a definitive merger agreement to buy Sentio Healthcare Properties, which is partly owned by KKR (NYSE: KKR), in a transaction valued at $825 million.  Kayne is paying $14.37 per Sentio share in cash about 11.5 million shares) with some upward adjustments that will most likely take the price to $14.65, with the deal expected to close in the third quarter. Sentio is a public, non-traded REIT that owns a mix of seniors housing properties and MOBs. Citigroup Global Markets and Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (nice month they are having) were the financial advisors to Kayne, and Robert A. Stanger & Co. and UBS... Read More »

Expensive Seniors Housing Sales With Low Expense Ratios

It’s no surprise that as a community’s expense ratio declines, its value increases. As such, there was a near-perfect correlation between the expense ratio and the average price per unit paid in the seniors housing market in 2016 (including independent living and assisted living communities), according to the The Senior Care Acquisition Report. The best-operating communities with expense ratios under 65% were valued on average at $298,100 per unit, way up from the $256,100 per unit recorded in 2015. Both years were still heavily influenced by high-quality independent living sales. Meanwhile, the grouping with a 65% to 69% expense ratio fell in value year over year, from $193,000 per unit... Read More »

Aron Will and Avanti Senior Living

Plans for an Avanti Senior Living community in Covington, Louisiana (New Orleans MSA) have been in the works for several years. Now, it is one step closer, with Aron Will of CBRE arranging a $14 million construction loan to fund the project. A regional bank provided the financing, which features a four year, floating rate term and 48 months of interest only. Avanti is developing the project in a joint venture with Iron Point Partners, an investment manager that manages several real estate private equity funds. Designed with the local style in mind, the planned community will resemble a large manor house, featuring 60 assisted living units and 50 memory care units. Adding to its appeal, the... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Facility Turnaround a Priority

Skilled Nursing Facility Turnaround a Priority

Revera, Inc., a Canadian senior care operator, has at last completed the sale of its portfolio of Northeast skilled nursing facilities, with the sale of a struggling 96-bed skilled nursing facility in Barre, Vermont. The deal was a long time coming and part of a four-property portfolio, which included facilities in Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts that sold in 2015 and 2016. The parties agreed that each transaction would close as change of ownership was approved, and Barre was the last one. The property has seen better days. Built in 1972, the single-story facility with a majority of semiprivate units was recently designated a special focus facility by CMS. Occupancy and the... Read More »