• Senex Foundation Divests SNFs to Owner/Operator

    Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by Senex Foundation, a Denver, Colorado-based owner/operator, to help with the disposition of a four-property portfolio and recently closed the second tranche involving two skilled nursing facilities in Nebraska. The deal included the... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The REITs’ Acquisition Appetite

    With most of the Q1 earnings results in, we’ve been sifting through a lot of good news on occupancy growth, resident rate increases, expanding NOI margins and the phenomenal long-term outlooks. But our main takeaway had to be the major M&A plans that almost every publicly traded company has completed so far this year and plans to close... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

    Sonida Senior Living reported its first quarter results after becoming the eighth largest seniors housing owner toward the close of the quarter. The company completed its acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties, a public, non-traded REIT that owned 69 seniors housing communities, bringing Sonida’s owned portfolio to 153 owned properties and... Read More »
  • Alta Senior Living Secures Refinance

    At the end of 2021, Alta Senior Living acquired Tequesta Terrace Senior Living (at that time, Village of Tequesta, Tequesta Terrace), a 106-unit assisted living/memory care community in Palm Beach County, Florida. After executing its value-add capex, operational turnaround and lease-up plan, Alta engaged Blueprint to run a full debt process. A... Read More »
  • All-Cash Skilled Nursing Deal Closes

    An undisclosed buyer acquired a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio through an all-cash transaction after the seller’s senior lender pushed for an exit. Stan Klos III of 3G Healthcare Real Estate handled the deal. An initial buyer walked away from the deal after a conversion from a lease-only structure was declined by the lender. Another... Read More »
Brookdale Gets Another Large Freddie Mac Financing

Brookdale Gets Another Large Freddie Mac Financing

Brookdale Senior Living continues to make moves that put the company on surer financial footing, having just refinanced existing debt with a $111.1 million Freddie Mac loan arranged by Monique Bimler of KeyBank Real Estate Capital. Secured in two tranches of 14 cross-collateralized seniors housing properties in Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and Washington, the first mortgage was arranged as a 10-year split payment master note. There will be a five-year interest-only period split between 40% floating rate and 60% fixed rate payments, with a 30-year amortization schedule after that. This transaction follows a much larger $327... Read More »
Flashback Friday: Brookdale Becomes King

Flashback Friday: Brookdale Becomes King

Oh, how times have changed. And the mighty have fallen. Taking a look at the June issue of The SeniorCare Investor from 2006, what headline appears? “Brookdale Becomes King: Changing the Face of Seniors Housing.” Hindsight is 20/20, but there were already warning signs of Brookdale Senior Living’s bust as it was in the middle of a meteoric rise. Debuting on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2005 at $19.00 per share, Brookdale went on an acquisition spree in the months afterwards, culminating in its May 2006 acquisition of American Retirement Corporation for $33.00 per share, or $1.2 billion plus assumed debt and leases. Also coming along with the deal was ARC’s CEO Bill Sheriff, who... Read More »
Capital Senior Living and Brookdale Still In Price Tank

Capital Senior Living and Brookdale Still In Price Tank

Stock values still hitting lows, but not cheap enough for big buyers to come in. I am not sure if you have been following it, but Capital Senior Living’s share price just hit a new low yesterday. In fact, the market value of the company is just $110 million. Think about it, some individual assets have traded at prices above this, and while the $110 million does not include the debt on its books, there have got to be buyers putting pencil to paper. Brookdale Senior Living is not faring too well either. But they aren’t buying into the low valuations, at least for now. The question remains, if things are not going to be much better six months from now, why buy shares now? You may as well... Read More »
Avalon Senior Living Grows

Avalon Senior Living Grows

Avalon Senior Living has partnered again with Eastridge Pacific Holdings, LLC (EPH), this time buying three senior living communities in California from HCP, Inc. that had been leased to Brookdale Senior Living. The 205 units (210 beds) offer independent living, assisted living and memory care services. The purchase price was $15.7 million, or $76,585 per unit, and came with an approximate cap rate of 8.0%. Mike Garbers, formerly of Greystone and now with JLL, represented the seller, and MidCap Financial provided the mortgage financing. Eastridge Pacific entered the senior living industry in 2016 as an equity partner in Kalakaua Gardens, a 17-story community in Honolulu with 216 beds. It... Read More »
Capital Senior Living Misses the Mark, Again

Capital Senior Living Misses the Mark, Again

As we were watching the share price of Capital Senior Living drop for several days in a row before announcing their fourth quarter earnings results, we were wondering whether something had leaked out, or whether it was the usual sell off because the company had underperformed relative to expectations for too many quarters in a row. We may never know which it was, and maybe a bit of both, but underperformance was there again. Now, we can’t shoot the messenger because Kim Lody took over as CEO at the beginning of this year and was just a Board member before that, but the results were probably worse than anyone expected. Sequential occupancy declined by a whopping 110 basis points from the... Read More »