The Ensign Group Shores Up Its Iowa Skilled Nursing Presence
The Ensign Group kept its steady deal flow coming with the acquisition of a 74-bed skilled nursing facility in Des Moines, Iowa. This makes six properties in Iowa for Ensign, which leased the facility to its Midwest-based subsidiary, Gateway Healthcare. Occupancy was just 74%, but that is typical of Ensign acquisitions. The Iowa deal is similar to the company’s acquisition of a 100-unit assisted living/memory care community in Las Vegas, Nevada, which we detailed in the April issue of The SeniorCare Investor. That property could also improve its census, which stood at 45% at the time of the sale. This tendency of Ensign to acquire value-add properties (at the pace it has been acquiring)... Read More »
March Madness and Washington Madness
While March Madness for basketball may be over, the madness in Washington with healthcare reform and Medicaid block grants may be just beginning. First of all, although I am not a gambler, and do not like to speculate in stocks, I do love to fill in my brackets for March Madness. And I have been participating in Randy Bufford’s Trilogy Health Services Madness group for about 10 years now. And….this year I came in fourth out of 695 participants, my second top five finish in 10 years. That’s the good news. The other good news is that, although we were subject to quite a bit of dysfunction in Washington two weeks ago, it looks like the skilled nursing industry has been spared the chaos that... Read More »
Two Quick Sales for Senior Living Investment Brokerage
Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage closed out the month in style with two transactions. First, in Decatur, Illinois, Mr. Saul sold two senior living communities located across the street from each other. Built in 2001, Keystone Gardens is a 50-unit independent living community, while Keystone Meadows, which was built in 1999, features 60 units of assisted living. Both communities are 72% occupied. These were the only Illinois properties for the Michigan-based seller, which had reached their hold on the investment and decided to liquidate. The buyer, a Michigan-based regional operator with three other communities in Illinois and others across the Midwest, plans to leverage... Read More »
IPA Seniors Housing’s High Quality Sale
We hope the team of Mark Myers and Joshua Jandris from IPA Seniors Housing had a big celebratory dinner in San Diego for their latest skilled nursing transaction, which involved seven facilities and 1,456 total licensed beds. Called “The McGuire Portfolio,” these facilities are located mainly in the Buffalo, New York area (five), with one in East Patchogue, Long Island and one in Warren, Michigan. The Warren facility was the largest with 297 beds, while the others range from 153 to 216 beds. Occupancy was the lowest at the Michigan facility (at 90%), but was consistent at around 96% across the rest of the portfolio, which averaged roughly 35 years old. The portfolio was made more... Read More »Greystone’s Freddie Mac First
In a first for the seniors housing industry, Greystone closed Freddie Mac’s first-ever lease-up loan for a client in Northern California. More common in the multifamily market, the lease-up program is for experienced clients to lock-in low interest rates earlier in the process for refinancing newly-built properties. Now, for a just-built 66-unit assisted living/memory care community in San Jose, the team of Scott Kavel, Neal Raburn and Cary Tremper of Greystone provided a $27.5 million Freddie Mac loan, with an 11-year term, 30-year amortization and a fixed interest rate. The loan takes out the original construction loan just three months after the community opened. We suspect lease-up was... Read More »Justin Hutchens a CEO Again
HCP, Inc. (NYSE: HCP) just announced that Justin Hutchens, elected president of the REIT in January, will be leaving to be CEO of HC-One, one of the largest care home providers in the United Kingdom with more than 300 properties. A little over two years ago, Formation Capital Safanad and Court Cavendish purchased healthcare property group NHP, which included the HC-One portfolio. Funding for that acquisition just happened to come from HCP, to the tune of about $630 million. In addition, it subsequently purchased 36 HC-One properties. So, HC-One and HCP are no strangers, and we believe that this did not come out of the blue, and that the HC-One investors decided that perhaps it was time to... Read More »Recent Senior Care M&A Deals, Week Ending March 31, 2017
Check out our recent senior care M&A transactions! Long-Term Care AcquirerTargetPrice Regional operatorThe McGuire portfolioN/A Not disclosedRiverwood Lodge Assisted Living$1.5 million Regional owner/operatorSerenity Gardens$3.8 million Regional companyKeystone Gardens & Keystone Meadows$11.15... Read More »KeyBank Arranges Over $700 Million for Blackstone’s Big Brookdale Acquisition
Blackstone and Brookdale Senior Living are in the news again. Working with KeyBank Real Estate Capital’s healthcare business, the joint venture received about $703 million in financing to fund Blackstone’s acquisition of 64 Brookdale-operated communities from HCP, Inc. A Fannie Mae credit facility makes up most the financing, which was arranged by Charlie Shoop of KeyBank and provides long-term, non-recourse, flexible financing. Meanwhile, KeyBank provided the balance from its balance sheet, in a transaction led by Peter Trazzera. The total financing represents about 62% of the $1.125 billion purchase price, which came out to approximately $188,500 per unit. That was for 100% of the... Read More »What to Pay For an “A” Quality Assisted Living Community
It is becoming increasingly apparent that there are two separate markets for assisted living properties between those we consider “A” properties and those that are “B” properties. We first separated out these two markets in 2012 (and did so again in our just-published 2017 Senior Care Acquisition Report) based on the properties’ age, size and location, and while there will likely be some “A” communities in with the “B” communities (and the other way around), it all evens out. The difference was stark in 2016, with “A” properties averaging $265,700 per unit, compared with $94,200 per unit for “B” properties. That difference of $171,500 per unit easily beats out 2015’s $110,100 per unit gap... Read More »
Strawberry Fields REIT Refinances Scottsburg Skilled Nursing Facility
Six years after initially leasing a skilled nursing facility in Scottsburg, Indiana, and three years after purchasing it, Strawberry Fields REIT LLC is refinancing the facility with a $4.4 million 35-year HUD loan, featuring a 3.65% fixed interest rate. The REIT utilized a new FHA lending partner to execute the transaction, which took out an existing conventional bank acquisition loan. The 99-bed facility certainly has room to improve, with occupancy of 69% based on licensed beds and around 80% based on operational beds. But it has increased in value since Strawberry Fields’ 2014 purchase, when the facility sold for $3.415 million, or $34,495 per bed. Recently, it has been appraised for... Read More »Schedule a demo
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