• 60 Seconds with Swett: Senior Care’s PR Problem

    Recently, we have seen stories circulating about the connection between REIT ownership and the way skilled nursing facilities provide care, stemming from a study written by the nonprofit journalism outlet KFF Health News. We’ve seen this before, headlines like “real estate investors profit while patients suffer,” usually with graphic cases of... Read More »
  • Blueprint Sets Pricing Record in New York State

    Blueprint advised a repeat private equity client in a record-setting sale of two standalone memory care communities in high barrier-to-entry submarkets in New York State. Combining for 104 units, these assets were purpose-built in the late 1990s and were stabilized at the time of the deal. Not only that, they were generating cash flow in excess... Read More »
  • CareTrust Keeps Its Foot on the Gas

    CareTrust REIT has deployed nearly $1 billion in closed transactions so far this year, after closing around $1.8 billion in investment activity in 2025, and its pipeline includes $450 million of near-term, actionable opportunities, excluding larger portfolio transactions. The REIT announced that it closed a few separate transactions in mid-April,... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Announces Slew of HUD Closings

    VIUM Capital closed four HUD 232/223(f) financings in March totaling more than $63 million across a mix of skilled nursing and seniors housing communities. Two of the financings involved skilled nursing facilities in Oklahoma totaling 176 beds. The assets were originally acquired as part of a larger portfolio and refinanced following a... Read More »
  • Lument Secures HUD Express Lane Transaction

    Lument closed a refinance through HUD’s Express Lane for a 120-unit seniors housing community in Lincoln, Nebraska. Built in 2017, Pemberly Place Senior Living features 132 licensed beds and offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services. It also has an on-site medical clinic to offer a range of other healthcare services. The... Read More »

Southeast sale

Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage sold a pair of senior living communities, one vacant and one well occupied, in the Southeast. First, in Ormond Beach, Florida, was a 36-unit purpose-built (but empty) memory care community. Despite that, the community was well maintained, and the buyer, citing strong occupancy of other communities in the area, intends to re-open it. And second, Mr. Clousing sold a 32-unit assisted living community in Prattville, Alabama. Historically well occupied, the community is located on a 4.5 acre site that allows for expansion of the physical plant. So there is opportunity at both locations for the undisclosed buyer. Read More »

Harborview’s Good Work

Harborview Capital Partners brought in SunTrust Bank to help refinance a portfolio of 19 senior living communities, with 917 units, located in Kentucky and Tennessee. Consisting of independent living, assisted living and memory care units, the communities are owned by Goodworks Unlimited, which operates a portfolio of 25 properties in TN and KY. Avi Begun and David Nussbaum of Harborview arranged a $68.3 million loan provided by SunTrust, featuring a five-year term and LIBOR+155 interest rate. That should position Goodworks well for future growth and expansion projects. Harborview has been quite busy the last few months, closing over 10 HUD and bank financings since November.... Read More »
Trilogy Health Services opens 105th campus

Trilogy Health Services opens 105th campus

Trilogy Health Services is continuing on its fast pace of development, having just opened its 105th health care campus in Sylvania, Ohio, after developing eight and completing four additions to existing campuses in 2016 alone. Designed on the “Village Center” prototype, the community features 102 beds of assisted living, skilled nursing, short-term rehab, outpatient therapy and respite care organized into neighborhoods. There are a number of amenities at the community too, which is located near another Trilogy community in Maumee (both in the Toledo MSA) built in 2012. A number of independent living duplexes are also in the works, with an estimated opening date of late summer 2017. We’ll... Read More »
Becker serves up refinancing

Becker serves up refinancing

Aaron Becker of Lancaster Pollard refinanced a portfolio of six skilled nursing/rehab facilities located throughout Connecticut (5) and Rhode Island (1), with the help of HUD. The borrower is Apple Rehab, a CT-based provider of short-term rehab services with 25 locations. For the six facilities (which total 517 beds), Apple received six loans totaling $40.7 million, all with 30-year terms and low, fixed interest rates. The refinancing provides significant debt service savings and increases Apple’s replacement reserves. Read More »
Senior Care M&A Results For 2016

Senior Care M&A Results For 2016

M&A activity in seniors housing and care in 2016 nearly matched that of 2015. Our preliminary results are in, and in the senior housing and care market, 2016 looked very similar to 2015. The dollar value of publicly announced senior care M&A transactions was $14.4 billion last year, just edging out 2015’s $14.2 billion. The number of deals, however, declined by 6%, falling from 359 in 2015 to 337 in 2016. This latter number may rise as a few more disclosed deals are discovered, but it still ranks as the second most active year ever. The dollar total for the fourth quarter of 2016 represented 45% of the year’s total, as a few large transactions came in, something that was in short... Read More »
The All-in-One Deal

The All-in-One Deal

Valstone Properties brought in Walker & Dunlop to refinance their portfolio of 12 memory care properties located throughout New Jersey and also provide funding for the acquisition/refinancing of two additional communities. Working with HUD, Kevin Giusti and Michael Vaughn of W&D arranged a 35-year $28.38 million loan with an 80% loan-to-value. The financing reimbursed Valstone for their original acquisition costs, capital expenditures and various renovations. It also involves the largest number of individual properties, which total 215 units, to be included as one loan under HUD’s scattered site policy since the HUD 232 program’s inception, which allowed for significant... Read More »
Meridian in Massachusetts

Meridian in Massachusetts

New York City-based Meridian Capital Group is helping an undisclosed buyer with the purchase of three skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Massachusetts. Led by Ari Adlerstein, Ari Dobkin and Josh Simpson, the firm arranged a two-year $64 million bridge-to-HUD loan, provided by a finance company, with a full-term of interest-only payments. Plus, with an additional $5 million earn-out feature, the financing comes to 90% loan-to-cost, pushing the acquisition cost up to an estimated $76.7 million. Read More »
The Keys to Success

The Keys to Success

At a time when seniors housing values are still around a record-high (averaging nearly $200,000 per unit for assisted living and over $230,000 per unit for independent living in the four quarters ended September 30, 2016), a group of local operators in Pennsylvania is exiting the market. Of course, owning four recently built, well performing assets helps with capitalizing on value. Developed by the selling group, the Keystone Villa Portfolio is located across three campuses between Harrisburg and Philadelphia and features 509 total units. The Douglassville location was built in two phases in 2004 and 2008 as a 123-unit independent living community, but has since added in 2009 and 2013, 124... Read More »
Carrieros’ close

Carrieros’ close

Damien and Ken Carriero had their hands full, to say the least, in their latest closing. The duo from Collier’s International sold a 30-unit/50-bed assisted living community in Venice, Florida for $2.15 million, or $71,667 per unit, with an 11.79% cap rate. The deal was far from “straight-forward,” though. The current seller sold the community a few years ago as a lease with an option and then moved to California. However, the buyer/lessee apparently ran the operations into the ground, while leaving the building in a state of disrepair, and then promptly left the country. The seller, now an owner/operator in California, hired a management company to turn things around, but soon fell behind... Read More »
Lancaster Advises on Sale to Shepherd Health

Lancaster Advises on Sale to Shepherd Health

A Miami Beach-based real estate developer/operator, Shepherd Health, is taking its services to Daytona Beach, Florida with the acquisition of a 146-unit senior living community that comes with a sterling reputation. Built in 1984, the fully occupied (and 100% private pay) community has 120 assisted living and 26 independent living units. In 2015, it was one of three Florida AL communities to have received a “Silver – Achievement in Quality” award from the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living. That may have helped push the purchase price up to $30.5 million, or an above-average $208,904 per unit. Having been a long-term capital partner of the... Read More »
Cain Brothers and Pilgrim’s Place

Cain Brothers and Pilgrim’s Place

Pilgrim’s Place, a not-for-profit CCRC in Claremont, California was originally established over 100 years ago, and now is planning a $9 million renovation with the help of a $36 million tax-exempt bond issuance from Cain Brothers. The community has grown over the years to feature 182 independent living units, 56 assisted living units and 62 skilled nursing beds on a 32-acre neighborhood campus. Cain Brothers structured the bonds with a 4.25% coupon priced at a discount, and an all-in total interest cost of 4.46% and net present value savings on the advanced refunding portion of more than $1.5 million, or 6.4% of refunded par. Read More »