• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 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 »

Four Green Bay-area properties sold

Jacob Gehl of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors led the sale of a portfolio of four assisted living/memory care communities in Wisconsin for $18.35 million, or $146,800 per unit, with an 8.7% cap rate. Included in the portfolio were three properties in Green Bay, including a 20-unit stand-alone memory care community, and one in Appleton. Combined occupancy stood at 92% at the time of the sale, and the portfolio generated approximately $1.6 million in trailing EBITDAR on an annualized basis. Senior Housing and Healthcare Capital was the seller, while Summit Healthcare REIT was the buyer, which will lease the properties for a 12-year term to an affiliate of Compass Senior Living, an... Read More »

Top dollar for D.C. SNF

In one of the highest valued SNF deals ever seen in the Washington D.C. area, on a per-bed basis, a public, non-traded REIT purchased a 296-bed facility in the capitol for $50 million, or $168,900 per bed, with a 15% cap rate. For that high price (which is more than double the average price paid per bed for SNF sales in the 12 months ending September 30, 2015 of $76,900), the buyer will add a very well performing facility to its portfolio. Built in 1983, facility was 94% occupied over the trailing 12-month period ending March 31, 2014 with a 17% quality mix. Meanwhile, revenues and EBITDA were around $33.5 million and $7.5 million, respectively, which would represent a 22% margin. Included... Read More »

REIT divests non-core Mass. SNF

The team of Steve Thomes, Tim Cobb and Ben Firestone of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors closed the sale of a 107-bed skilled nursing facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts for $3.21 million, or $30,000 per bed. Prompted by the desire of its publicly-traded REIT owner to strategically divest some of its non-core assets, the facility had just marginal EBITDAR on approximately $6.8 million of trailing 12-month revenues. Hoping to capitalize on the low price-per-bed value and expand its footprint in the Northeast, a regional owner/operator was the buyer. Read More »

Private investor sees potential

A pair of skilled nursing facilities in Texas that pulled in more than $12.5 million in total revenue but only retained approximately $500,000 in EBITDA (an operating margin of just 4%) presented an appetizing turnaround opportunity to buyers when it was put on the market. Owned by a public REIT and leased to a third party operator with which the REIT had a larger relationship, the properties included a 160-bed facility in Houston and a 149-bed facility in Mesquite. In addition to their low occupancy (collectively at 75%) and quality mix (at just 15%), the facilities also had age going against them, with the Houston facility built in 1970 and the Mesquite facility in 1977. However, to a... Read More »