Brookdale Occupancy Declined As Expected
Brookdale Senior Living was no different from the rest of the market, posting sharp drops in first quarter occupancy. When we wrote the May issue of The SeniorCare Investor, we had to make some assumptions before Brookdale Senior Living announced its first quarter earnings. One assumption was that its occupancy rates had dropped given everything else we had heard in the market. Our assumptions were right. The legacy Emeritus properties posted a 110 basis point decline from the fourth quarter of 2014, and a whopping 200 basis point decline from a year ago. The legacy Brookdale properties dropped 80 basis points sequentially and 110 basis points from a year ago. This was not good news, but... Read More »High prices for struggling AL communities
You know we are in a strong seller’s market when even the non-stabilized properties are worth on average 68% more in 2014 than in 2013. After hovering around $85,000 per unit in 2012 and 2013, the average price paid for non-stabilized assisted living communities (which we define as having an occupancy lower than 85%) in 2014 was about $139,000 per unit, showing that buyers are worrying less about the potential of filling empty rooms. Maybe all this talk about demographics has convinced many buyers that seniors will be knocking on their door in just a matter of time. Read More »HHC Finance closes $133 million in HUD loan modifications
HHC Finance closed about $133 million in HUD loan modifications in March and another $80 million in April across 26 separate transactions, which resulted in significant overall interest rate reductions on the loans, all for skilled nursing facilities. With interest rates set to increase, some of the modifications would not have been feasible, but HHC was prepared and was able to close them. Since introducing the program just in January, that is a lot of business. Read More »How do you sell a 24-unit assisted living community for over $370,800 per unit?
How do you sell a 24-unit assisted living community for over $370,800 per unit? Just throw in a nine-hole golf course and a clubhouse! That is just what David Rothschild and Mary Christian of CBRE did in selling a property for Icahn Enterprises in Vero Beach, Florida. The sale included a 42,000 square foot clubhouse, a nine-hole golf course and a 24-unit assisted living building (24,000 square feet) that can be expanded to 48 units. In addition, there is extra land for development, and everything is located within an age-restricted community that itself is located within a 1,000-acre master-planned community. The existing campus that was sold was producing about $7.45 million in revenues... Read More »REIT Shares Under Pressure Again
Rising interest rates are sending health care REIT shares down, but will it last? The timing could not be worse. What am I talking about? The recent rise in interest rates and its impact on REIT share values, not to mention looming acquisitions. The 10-year Treasury rate hit a low of 1.65% in February, which most people did not think was sustainable. It has now risen by a third, or 55 basis points, to 2.20%. That is a huge percentage change in rates, even though still quite low from an historical perspective and much lower than the jump in the spring of 2013 that sent REIT share prices plunging by 25%, which was a big overreaction. Easy for me to say. But with the recent rise in rates,... Read More »Valuations soar for “A” quality IL properties
The higher valuations in 2014 (according to the 2015 Senior Care Acquisition Report) should surprise no one. The average price paid per unit for “A” quality independent living communities rose 21.8% from $228,200 in 2013 to $277,900. But, the lesser quality deals didn’t hold back either. In fact, the average price paid per unit for “B” properties rose 55.8% from $99,600 in 2013 to $155,200. This goes to show that in today’s market, just about any piece of property will garner interest from a buyer, as long as it can show potential for profits. Read More »Capital One arranges HUD loan
Capital One Multifamily Finance announced today that it provided a $10.9 million fixed-rate HUD loan for an experienced owner/operator of skilled nursing facilities to refinance its 133-bed facility in Northern Illinois. Joshua Rosen, out of Capital One’s Chicago office, originated the loan, which will refinance existing debt on the property at a lower, long-term rate. The facility was built in 1962, expanded in 1985, and substantially renovated between 2005 and 2012. Also, the current owners, who purchased the facility in 2012, renovated the residents’ rooms and bathrooms since taking over, so the facility is relatively modern. It is also well occupied and well positioned in its market.... Read More »Would you buy a Certificate of Occupancy?
There is always a good amount of risk when purchasing a seniors housing community at Certificate of Occupancy. While you avoid the risks associated with development and construction costs, you are saddled with the burden of fill-up. But Capitol Seniors Housing (CSH) is up for the challenge, having recently purchased, along with its joint venture partner Harvard Management Company, a 92-unit/109-bed assisted living/memory care community in Tampa, Florida. The newly opened community was developed by a joint venture between Walt Chancey and Rookis Development Company and presold to CSH prior to breaking ground for an agreed price of $20 million, or $217,400 per unit. CSH has brought in The... Read More »Wells Fargo expands seniors housing construction financing platform
With construction heating up in the seniors housing industry, Wells Fargo is looking to position itself to help fund that growth using its balance sheet, floating rate lending platform. It started about a year ago when Wells Fargo brought in Mark Cotsakis, who had been with the bank for over 25 years, to head the newly formed Senior Housing Finance Group (SHFG), part of the Wells Fargo Commercial Real Estate Group. Since then, Mark and his team of about 18 have been hard at work, with approximately a half-billion in closings in the past year, and they are set to close another quarter-billion in the next two months, totaling some 30 transactions. The closings have ranged from $8 million to... Read More »Trilogy Health Services expands in Louisville, again
Trilogy Health Services recently announced that it is opening its 91st health campus, and its fifth in the Louisville, Kentucky area alone. Dubbed “Forest Springs Health Campus,” the community follows Trilogy’s basic prototype of 50 skilled nursing beds and 45 assisted living units, but with the addition of about 30 independent living villas. Altogether, the 115,000-square foot campus will cost approximately $13 million or $104,000 per bed. Louisville-based DMK Development was the developer of the project, having previously done 18 senior living projects with Trilogy in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, and with more to come (Trilogy, as you may know, has also worked with Mainstreet in... Read More »Schedule a demo
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