The Ventas Spin-off Has People Talking
Here are differing opinions as to what motivated Ventas to spin out most of its skilled nursing portfolio. There has been a lot of talk about the recent announcement by Ventas to spin out most of its skilled nursing properties into a new publicly traded REIT. In our April newsletter issue, we stated that it was a smart move for Ventas, and a great move for Ray Lewis, who will become CEO of the new spin out. But tongues have been wagging in terms of whether this was a defensive move on the part of Ventas, meaning that management has decided that the skilled nursing business is not something they want to focus on, at least not with small operators in their portfolio. Or, was it an offensive... Read More »Average skilled nursing facility cap rate falls
A couple of weeks ago, we discussed the fall in the average skilled nursing facility cap rate by 60 basis points to 12.4% (according to the 2015 Senior Care Acquisition Report, just recently published). For assisted living, we saw an even larger fall of roughly 90 basis points to 7.75%. The downward trend is not surprising, as AL cap rates have steadily declined since the Great Recession, but the extent of the fall was. In this market of higher and higher valuations plus abundant (and cheap) capital, buyers are looking to pay more for quality assisted living communities, even if that means pricing out operating risk somewhat, because margins aren’t changing all that much, at least not that... Read More »KeyBank provides $635 million Fannie Mae credit facility
KeyBank provoked some conversation at the recent NIC Conference after announcing that it would provide a $635.6 million Fannie Mae credit facility to subsidiaries of Senior Housing Realty Trust, a Maryland-based REIT owned by an affiliate of Senior Resource Group and its institutional partners. The facility came with a 10-year term (with 10 years of interest only) and a fixed rate, plus the option for releases, additions, substitutions and the capacity to expand with additional fixed or floating debt. KeyBank will also be able to provide flexible financing solutions ranging from balance sheet to permanent mortgage loans. The 12 properties that are being refinanced with this facility are... Read More »The Hollinger Group exits the seniors housing market
Last month, we wrote about Care Investment Trust’s purchase of the Hollinger South Portfolio, which included five properties in South Carolina (4) and Florida (1) and sold for $29.1 million, or $103,000 per unit. This month, the remaining senior living properties owned by The Hollinger Group, dubbed The Hollinger North Portfolio, were sold to Care Investment Trust, a subsidiary of Tiptree Financial, Inc., for $54.48 million, or about $181,000 per unit, with a 7.5% cap rate. The communities, which consisted of 299 units of assisted living and memory care units, were located in Maryland (3), New Jersey (1), Pennsylvania (1) and Virginia (1). Average occupancy was around 94% and the... Read More »Why do skilled nursing values continue to soar?
In the last year, we have seen more skilled nursing deals valued above $100,000 per bed than ever before. That number of deals in turn drove up the average price per bed for SNF deals to a record high in 2014, to $76,500 per bed. But what was it about these facilities that drove up their valuations to new heights? For one, they were newer. Facilities built in the past 20 years sold for an average price of $111,900 per bed, compared to facilities built between 20 and 40 years ago ($72,400 per bed) and 40 years and older ($75,700), according to the just-published 2015 Senior Care Acquisition Report. We will see how SNFs evolve over time, and what will happen to those 1960s and 1970s... Read More »HHC Finance continues HUD lending
After it finished HUD’s FY2014 as the top HUD lender in the country, HHC Finance continued by facilitating HUD refinancing for a portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities in California, closing the three loans simultaneously. The borrower, an owner/operator of SNFs throughout the state of California, locked in 30-year fixed rates in the mid-3%s on each of the facilities, including a $27.5 million loan (for a 139-bed facility) and a $28.8 million loan (180 beds) for two facilities in Northern California. The third loan was $20.1 million for a 163-bed facility in Southern California. Across the facilities, all of which had a five-star rating, average occupancy was in the mid to low... Read More »The end of the Sunwest Management saga
At long last, the end of a saga. The final Sunwest Management properties of the portfolio purchased by Lone Star, have been sold, and it was somewhat of a unique sale. For reasons that are too detailed to discuss, the properties were the last ones in a private REIT established years ago by the seller, and the sale had to be the purchase of the entity as opposed to the purchase of the outright real estate. SilverStone Health Care Real Estate figured out a way to get it done, and they closed on this portfolio for about $112,000 per unit. The portfolio included a 340-unit IL/AL/MC campus in the Peoria/Sun City area of Arizona and a 148-unit AL/MC community in Yuma, Arizona. The total purchase... Read More »Two quick-fire transactions from RED Capital Partners
From its growing balance sheet construction lending platform, RED Capital Partners announced the closing of two separate transactions within a day of each other. The first was an $8.8 million loan for a 46-unit memory care community in Lakewood, Colorado (Denver area). The borrowers were Taylor Fitzpatrick Capital, the Crystal Group and Milestone Retirement, which will operate the community. And second, RED closed a $13.86 million loan for a 107-unit assisted living/memory care community in Kearns, Utah (Salt Lake City area) being developed by Link Development and managed also by Milestone Retirement. The project is estimated to cost about $17.9 million, amounting to $167,300 per unit,... Read More »NHI/Bickford continuing to grow
As many of you may know, National Health Investors and Bickford Senior Living are in the middle of their joint venture to build 36 assisted living/memory care communities in eight states. The joint venture is mostly funded with borrowings on NHI’s unsecured bank credit facility, but KeyBank National Association recently announced that it secured $78 million in Fannie Mae financing for 13 of the joint venture’s properties, consisting of interest-only payments at 3.79% and a 10-year maturity. The proceeds of the loan will go towards reducing borrowings on NHI’s credit facility. Read More »Valuation and construction
According to the just-published 2015 Senior Care Acquisition Report, valuations of assisted living and independent living communities are reaching unprecedented heights. In seniors housing, we saw a deal in 2015 valued over $500,000 per unit, two deals with prices over $400,000 per unit and a whopping 15 sold over $300,000 per unit. As valuations continue to rise due to the availability of capital, increasing investment demand and sellers with higher quality properties being attracted to sell in this hot market, more and more may look to construction to get into or grow in the seniors housing market. Of course, new development comes with its risks, but as prices continue to rise, buyers... Read More »Schedule a demo
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