New senior care operator in Texas
A new entrant in the post-acute care market made their first acquisition: a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities in Texas for an undisclosed price. Formed in June 2015 by Michael Wallace, formerly President of Daybreak Ventures, Shady Shores Communities purchased the four facilities, with 424 beds, from three separate owner/operators. The mostly Medicaid census averaged 70% occupancy across the portfolio. Shady Shores is also in the process of developing three other facilities in Texas. To finance the acquisition, Oxford Finance provided a four-year $7 million senior secured term loan and a $1 million revolving line of credit. Mr. Wallace is wasting no time growing the business,... Read More »Mourning Granger Cobb
We mourn the passing of Granger Cobb, the former CEO of Emeritus and Board member of Brookdale Senior Living. Granger spent almost his entire career serving the needs of the elderly, starting with his first company, Cobbco, Inc. While he lost his fight against cancer, his spirit will live on in the senior living professionals he nurtured over the past 30 years. He is survived by his wife of 31 years and two daughters. A celebration of his life will be on October 24. Read More »The Name Game
In the last couple of days, two big players in the seniors housing industry announced name changes. First, Thomas DeRosa, CEO of Health Care REIT, announced in a letter to employees that the REIT would be renamed Welltower. Despite this change, the company will still trade under its ticker symbol “HCN” on the New York Stock Exchange. And then following this announcement, the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA) unveiled its new name, Argentum. Derived from the Latin for “silver,” the new brand will reflect the organization’s expanded focus on “expanding senior living” for the “silver generation.” While Health Care REIT’s announcement seems to have come out of left field, the ALFA... Read More »Agapé Senior Living portfolio sells for $154 million
In one of the largest US seniors housing sales so far in 2015 (sixth-largest, to be exact), a private equity firm bought the independently operated South Carolina Agapé Senior Living portfolio, representing 10 communities with 856 units of seniors housing and three facilities of 294 skilled nursing beds. Agapé grew the portfolio organically through internal growth and acquisitions, with all the properties relatively young and large in size. In fact, the oldest building was built in 1990 (a SNF), and the smallest was a 58-unit AL/MC community. The final purchase price was $153.9 million, or $156,400 per unit for the AL/MC units and $68,000 per bed for the skilled nursing, with a 9.9% cap... Read More »Big Rock, Big Project
Big Rock Partners is at it again. Already developing a $75 million senior living project in Celebration, Florida and a $25 million project in Port Royal, South Carolina, the real estate investment management firm is set to begin construction of Atria at Villages of Windsor, a 318-unit senior living community in southern Palm Beach County. The 22.5-acre site, which Big Rock purchased for $10 million, happens to be the largest, and one of the last, entitled senior housing parcels in the county, where existing senior living communities were built on average 21 years ago. Designed by Gensler and to be constructed by Moss & Associates, the 425,000-square foot community will feature 186... Read More »Berkadia originates $366 million financing
Working with both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Berkadia arranged two loans totaling $366.7 million for Brookdale Senior Living to refinance 39 of its seniors housing properties in two separate portfolios. The first portfolio, including 21 properties with 1,924 units and an average occupancy of 91%, is made up of 5.7% IL, 15.9% MC and 78.4% AL units. It was refinanced with a $226.4 million, 10-year loan through Fannie Mae arranged by Managing Directors Heidi Brunet and Christopher Fenton of Berkadia. The loan come to $117,700 per unit. The pair also closed a $140.3 million (or $117,900 per unit), seven-year loan through Freddie Mac for a portfolio of 18 properties, which consists of 1,190... Read More »Being Large In Seniors Housing
Size isn’t all its cracked up to be, and it does matter whether you own or operate the real estate. We always hear that size matters, but it can also work against you. While no one has claimed to be able to define the optimal size of a seniors housing company, I have yet to hear anyway say that they would be comfortable running a company with more than 500 properties. Most would say that 250 would be tops, with many of them even much smaller. I am talking about owning and operating, with the emphasis on operating. For REITs, I don’t know if there is a real number where their efficiencies get maxed out. They are not hiring the staff and serving the food. And they are not trying to... Read More »When it rains, it pours
The announcements keep coming from Lancaster Pollard, with the firm announcing two transactions (and three loans) plus a new addition to its M&A group just in the last few days. First, Mike Ashley led the way in obtaining funding for a local nonprofit to refinance and renovate its senior living facility in Higginsville, Missouri. With Life Care Services managing the facility since 1995, the nonprofit plans to increase the number of skilled nursing beds by 16 private rooms in a new wing, in addition to making other improvements to the building. Following the $5.4 million renovation, the community will feature 145 IL units, 26 AL units and 56 SNF beds. Lancaster Pollard worked with local... Read More »Stayin’ Alive
A North Carolina skilled nursing facility that was built in 1994 but voluntarily closed in 2012 was purchased for $6.05 million, or $43,200 per bed. Owned by a regional owner/operator based out of the Southeast, the facility features 133 skilled nursing beds and seven assisted living beds. After closing the facility, the owner still kept the license and CON active, which was probably the motivation behind the acquisition, as the buyer, a North Carolina-based skilled nursing operator, will either invest capital to upgrade/reopen or build a new facility within the county. Patrick Burke of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction. Read More »Build in Broken Arrow
At the beginning of this year, we wrote about the rise of seniors housing construction in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area, with four projects scheduled to open in the second half of 2015, representing a total investment of over $35 million. Indeed, according to NIC MAP data, the construction vs. inventory ratio for assisted living in the MSA is over 30%, one of the highest for any MSA in the country. Well, we have to add one more to the books, as Prevarian Senior Living just broke ground on a 105-unit assisted living/memory care community in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Prevarian, a private equity investor, is partnering with an affiliate of St. John Medical Center Hospital, on whose campus the... Read More »Schedule a demo
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