• 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »
  • Two Seniors Housing Sales Close

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage is continuing on its hot streak this month, closing two additional deals in Alabama and Florida. In the Alabama transaction, Dan Geraghty and Brad Clousing represented a large national owner/operator that was resizing its portfolio to concentrate on its core market. So, the company divested an assisted... Read More »
  • Selectis Health Exits Georgia

    Selectis Health, Inc. has completed its exit from Georgia with the help of Michael Segal and Daniel Waldhorn of Blueprint. In the beginning of the year, Selectis Health divested Providence of Sparta Health and Rehab and Warrenton Health and Rehab to Journey, also with the help of Segal and Waldhorn (more on that deal can be found here). The... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Divests Third Class-A Asset

    Caddis Partners and Singerman Real Estate have divested another seniors housing community, Heartis Fayetteville. This comes shortly after the joint venture’s sale of Heartis Venice and Heartis Longview. Ross Sanders, Dave Fasano, Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare represented the seller in all three... Read More »
  • Bonds Issued for Independent Living Expansion

    Ziegler closed John Knox Village’s $47.85 million Series 2026A, B-1, B-2 and B-3 bonds issued through the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri. John Knox Village (JKV), a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, is a CCRC consisting of 1,038 independent living units, 180 assisted living units and 121 skilled nursing beds. This transaction marks JKV’s... Read More »
Insured success

Insured success

Fortegra Financial Corporation, an affiliate of Tiptree Financial Inc., is a specialized insurance and insurance services company that is dipping its toes in the seniors housing market. That is not to say Tiptree is a debutante to the industry, with its wholly owned subsidiary Care Investment Trust making five acquisitions for 17 properties since 2013. For Fortegra, the company is acquiring a 77-unit senior living community with independent/assisted living and memory care services in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The stabilized property was owned by a regional operator which is exiting the industry with this sale. Fortegra is paying $11.5 million, or $149,351 per unit, for the community and is... Read More »

2016 HUD Rankings

We reported a few weeks ago that Lancaster Pollard was the most active HUD 232 LEAN lender with 60 transactions with a total value of $554.4 million, but KeyBank was close behind at 54 loans worth $521.8 million. In third place was Housing & Healthcare Finance with 28 deals and $355.9 million. HHC also closed the largest loan of the fiscal year, an $80.7 million loan on a 520-bed skilled nursing facility in New York. Berkadia Commercial Mortgage came next with 26 deals worth $180.5 million and Capital Funding followed them with 21 financings worth $261.0 million, including the second-largest closing of the year: a $43.4 million loan for a 314-bed skilled nursing facility in New York.... Read More »
Blueprint’s Mass of deals

Blueprint’s Mass of deals

Continuing Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ active 2016, Steve Thomes and Chris Hyldahl were the lead advisors in the sale of a 123-bed skilled nursing facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts, owned by a New York-based national owner, for $4 million, or $32,520 per bed. Occupancy could be improved from 79%, but that will be the job of a regional owner/operator with a significant presence in eastern Massachusetts. But wait, there’s more…in Massachusetts. Mr. Thomes, with the assistance of Michael Segal and Ben Firestone, sold an 87-bed skilled nursing facility to a regional owner/operator that is growing its Massachusetts portfolio. Really operating at 78 beds, the facility was 83%... Read More »

A RED refinance

RED Capital Group worked with Kensington Senior Living to refinance its 75-unit assisted living/memory care in the high-barrier to entry market of Los Angeles County. The community opened in 2014 and leased up not long after that. RED originally arranged a balance sheet construction loan, which was paid off with the current $29 million Fannie Mae refinance. Read More »

HHC’s bridge to success

Since its launch in the Fall of 2015, Housing & Healthcare Finance’s (HHC) bridge lending program has brought in a lot of business so far in the last year, with the lender brokering 13 transactions and over $250 million in loan volume. Included in those closings were mostly skilled nursing facilities, except for a 183-unit CCRC in Cincinnati, Ohio, a SNF/assisted living community in Sacramento, and a SNF/ALF portfolio in Arkansas. The largest transaction totaled $60 million, while the smallest was approximately $4.2 million. Apart from brokering these transactions, HHC also provides bridge loans through its partner, Congressional Bank. The program is led by Isaac Haas and Neil Gamss,... Read More »
Brookdale Senior Living Disappoints Again

Brookdale Senior Living Disappoints Again

Brookdale Senior Living’s stock price plunged 20% on disappointing third quarter news….and forecasts. My, my, my. Brookdale Senior Living just doesn’t seem to be able to get a break. Despite having a 40 basis point increase in same-community occupancy from the second quarter, which beat the market as a whole, problems continue. They are seeing new properties having a big impact on their secondary market properties, they revised downward full year 2016 forecasts, former employees are soliciting staff and customer leads, and Dan Decker has decided to become even more involved, becoming Executive Chairman as opposed to Chairman of the Board. On top of all of this, they are forming... Read More »

Blackstone and Brookdale

The beginning of November brought with it a lot of big news. Sorting through the mess that was the Brookdale Senior Living earnings announcement, which caused quite the buzz in the industry, we also noted the year’s second-largest transaction was announced. Private equity firm Blackstone Real Estate Partners is acquiring 64 Brookdale-operated seniors housing properties from HCP, Inc. for $1.125 billion, or about $188,500 per unit. That was for 100% of the ownership, but Brookdale will pay Blackstone $170 million for a 15% ownership interest in the joint venture, in addition to operating the portfolio on behalf of the joint venture. Occupancy across the portfolio averaged 85%, and the... Read More »
Purchase by way of Punzel

Purchase by way of Punzel

A regional owner/operator already with seven senior living communities located throughout California recently added another one to its portfolio. Sacramento-based Ray Stone Inc. bought a 102-unit independent living community in Redding, California, which was owned by a local operator. Despite being built 30 years ago, the community was 96% occupied and operated at a 46% margin on approximately $3.13 million in revenues. The purchase price came to $18.35 million, or $179,900 per unit, with a 7.8% cap rate. Kevin Randles and Aron Will of CBRE originated a fixed-rate loan through its Fannie Mae DUS multifamily loan origination program to finance the acquisition. Jason Punzel of Senior Living... Read More »
Cambridge Realty Capital’s crazy end to October

Cambridge Realty Capital’s crazy end to October

The team at Cambridge Realty Capital got to work this October, announcing eight transactions in the span of a few days. The largest of them featured a $26.92 million HUD loan closed for a 320-bed skilled nursing facility in Melville, New York. All but one of the remaining six transactions featured a HUD loan, ranging from $2.2 million to $18.3 million, for skilled nursing facilities, ranging in size from 78 to 170 beds. Cambridge also arranged a $3.0 million HUD loan for a 65-bed assisted living community in Boiling Springs, South Carolina. All told, nearly $80 million in financing was closed in the last few days of October. Well done to the Cambridge team. Read More »

HCP boosts seniors housing holdings

Just as HCP, Inc. is about to spin off its large skilled nursing portfolio into a new REIT, it has closed a smaller, but large in today’s M&A market, acquisition of a portfolio of seven assisted living and memory care communities with 526 units in Maryland and Virginia. The price was $186.25 million, which comes in at $354,400 per unit, much higher than the average price per unit of $198,000 for the past four quarters, but near the levels we have been seeing for some good portfolios of late. The properties were built between 1993 and 2013, and talking to other buyers it appears that occupancy was not quite stabilized, so there should be room for improvement for the new operator, Senior... Read More »

CFG’s transaction trifecta

Capital Funding Group showed off its variety of services in its latest grouping of closings, totaling $25 million in financing. Gary Sever led the way in the largest transaction, closing a $17.6 million HUD construction loan for a to-be-built assisted living/memory care community in Cary, North Carolina. The building is expected to open in May 2017 with 40 AL and 40 MC units. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Stein originated a $5 million cash flow loan for a Texas skilled nursing operator. And finally, Chip Woelper arranged a $2.5 million working capital line of credit for a 141-bed skilled nursing/rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles. Well done to the CFG team. Read More »