HJ Sims Helps Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America partnered with HJ Sims to issue $39.73 million in tax-exempt bonds to refinance its 268-unit/bed CCRC in Anoka, Minnesota. Originally built in 2012 with 120 skilled nursing beds and 59 assisted/independent living units, this community added 65 IL units and 24 memory care units to the campus, in addition to converting the 59 AL/IL units to all-assisted living. The borrower is an affiliate of Volunteers of America, an interdenominational church and Christian human services organization that has been in operation since 1896. Series 2011 and Series 2014 bonds financed the development of both phases of the community, and the Series 2017 bonds will advance refund only the... Read More »Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending March 24, 2017
Check out our recent senior care M&A transactions! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Carefield Senior LivingPark Visalia Assisted Living$7.65 million The Ensign Group, Inc. Desert View Senior LivingN/A Tryko Partners, LLC Spaulding Nursing and Therapy CenterN/A Institutional investor The Waters of... Read More »Booming Blueprint
Following Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ announced acquisition of Pyms Capital Resources, the brokerage firm highlighted its growing strength with two more deal closings in the middle of the country. First up, Christopher Hyldahl and Giancarlo Riso arranged the sale of a six-facility skilled nursing portfolio in Iowa on behalf of the local owner/operator seller. The portfolio, which includes 273 total dually-certified beds, offers a huge opportunity for improvement to the buyer, a New York-based owner/operator interested in expanding in Iowa. Built over the last 20 years by the seller, the portfolio was just 52% occupied at the time of the sale, but had a quality mix of... Read More »Berkadia’s Banner Year Continues
Berkadia is already having a banner year for its Seniors Housing and Healthcare team, led by Chris Honn. So far in 2017, the firm has closed over $300 million in financings, the largest being a $98 million seven-year Fannie Mae loan for a 605-unit entrance-fee CCRC in Florida. Berkadia just announced its latest transaction, also with Fannie Mae. On behalf of a new client, Heidi Brunet of Berkadia arranged a $19.5 million, seven-year loan to pay off existing construction debt. The recently leased up property in question is located in Washington State and features 120 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. This financing will also help the new client fund upcoming... Read More »Occupancy’s Impact on Skilled Nursing Facility Prices
The skilled nursing industry has experienced consistent declines in average occupancy over the past few years, sinking to a new low of 81.8% in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to NIC’s latest Skilled Nursing Data Report. It should be said that the actual level of occupancy has become less important for skilled nursing facilities because the focus has been centered on short-term-stay patients. Almost by definition, because of the high level of turnover with these patients, and the inability to consistently and constantly fill those beds on discharge, overall occupancy tends to suffer. But since these patients are more profitable than longer stay patients, providers have not worried as... Read More »A New Institutional Buyer Lands in Plymouth, Minnesota
A joint venture between The Waters Senior Living and an institutional partner has acquired a recently built assisted living/memory care community in Plymouth, Minnesota, with the help of financing arranged by Aron Will of CBRE. The Waters originally developed and has operated the property in Plymouth, a high-income suburb of Minneapolis. With 61 assisted living and 28 memory care units, the community will still be managed by The Waters. To fund the deal, CBRE secured a $16.25 million floating rate loan from a national bank, with a three-year term that is interest only. That structure seems to be the sweet spot for the prolific Mr. Will. Read More »
Seniors Housing Sentiment on Eve of NIC Conference
As we ready ourselves for attending the NIC Conference, it should be interesting from a sentiment perspective. Good morning San Diego! For those of you attending the NIC Conference I hope to be able to chat a little with you, maybe later tonight or Thursday night. You know where to find me. This will be an interesting conference from a sentiment perspective. Are people still on a high from some of the record pricing in the acquisition market of the past few years? Or will we be seeing continued caution from those worried about occupancy, labor, rising interest rates and the new community openings this year? The party is definitely not over, but if you were to balance out the positives with... Read More »
Pyms Capital Resources Joins Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors
On the eve of NIC’s Spring Investment Forum in San Diego, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced the joining of its firm with Pamela Pyms and Hayden Behnke of Pyms Capital Resources. Working together since 2011 out of Denver, Colorado, Ms. Pyms and Ms. Behnke not only bring their talent for deal making to Blueprint, but local market expertise of Colorado and the surrounding region. Pyms Capital Resources also helps developers source equity and debt, in addition to arranging partnerships among institutional investors and national operators. In Blueprint, Ms. Pyms and Ms. Behnke are joining a fast-growing brokerage firm with 45 transactions and $554 million in business closed in... Read More »
National Health Investors Growing Yet Again
Continuing its buying streak, National Health Investors added five new memory care communities and a new tenant relationship to its growing portfolio. The LaSalle Group developed these communities, located in Texas and Illinois with 223 total units, under the Autumn Leaves brand of stand-alone memory care communities. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard that name, as Autumn Leaves seemed to open a new community every other week in 2014/2015, concentrating in the Texas and Illinois markets. The openings keep coming too. Just this month, the operator opened its first South Carolina community in Greenville. There are two more projects scheduled to open in that state in the next two years,... Read More »
The Highs and Lows of Seniors Housing Prices
Last week, we examined the difference in price between the low and high ends of the skilled nursing M&A market. As opposed to just using the average or median, breaking down the market by quartile allows us to separate the higher end of the market from the lower end, since many sellers think the average has no meaning to their particular properties that may be newer, in better locations or just more profitable (and often all three). So, what about the seniors housing (independent and assisted living combined) market? Like the overall average seniors housing price in 2016, the upper quartile price in 2016 of $241,500 per unit rose from its 2015 level ($227,900 per unit) and was just off... Read More »Schedule a demo
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