• Public REIT Lands Portfolio in Competitive Sale

    A portfolio of Class-A seniors housing communities sold in the Southeast to an undisclosed publicly traded REIT. Featuring six assets in Georgia and South Carolina, the portfolio totaled 156 independent living, 200 assisted living and 70 memory care units. The communities were built between 2017 and 2022 by a Southeast-based developer. Occupancy... Read More »
  • Regional Owner/Operator Acquires Ocala AL Community

    The third and final asset in the Hampton Manor portfolio has sold with the help of Brad Clousing and Dan Geraghty of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Hampton Manor Deerwood in Ocala, Florida, was built in 2005 and expanded in 2016 to now feature 61 units of assisted living. The property is stabilized, so the new owner can hit the ground... Read More »
  • Second Generation Operator Divests SNF Portfolio to PE Firm

    A Northeast-based private equity firm engaged Daniel Morris of Plains Commercial Real Estate in its plan to enter a new state. The firm has an existing skilled nursing footprint, and had specific acquisition criteria, which narrowed the focus down to a few potential targets.  The company ultimately acquired a five-facility, 506-bed skilled... Read More »
  • CIBC Springs Ahead with Deal Flow

    CIBC has been hard at work this Spring, successfully closing several acquisition financings for senior care clients across the country. The largest was a $51.5 million term loan that supported the purchase of four skilled nursing facilities in Illinois totaling 586 beds. Historical performance trended positively over the last two years across the... Read More »
  • National Healthcare Properties Kicks Off IPO Push

    National Healthcare Properties, Inc. launched its public offering of 38.5 million shares of its Class A common stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-11 filed with the SEC. The initial public offering price is expected to be between $13.00 and $16.00 per share, and the company expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to... Read More »
Brookdale vs Capital Senior Living

Brookdale vs Capital Senior Living

Not that there is a competition, but since the end of 2020, Capital Senior Living has outperformed Brookdale Senior Living with a price gain of 345% compared with 93% for Brookdale. It helped that Capital Senior was starting from a very low point. But for both companies that is pretty good, and both beat the overall market.   They have both benefitted from the vaccine impact, with increases in leads, tours, move-ins and census. For each of the last three months, Brookdale has posted a 50-basis point increase in month-end occupancy, which is great, but will it be enough?  Investors think they are on the right track, and have pushed the share price up by more than 25% in the... Read More »
The Stahler Group Sells Monterey County Memory Care Community

The Stahler Group Sells Monterey County Memory Care Community

The Stahler Group of Marcus & Millichap just closed the sale of a 69-unit assisted living/memory care community in Monterey County, California. Well located with strong demand and limited competition, the 22-year-old community was owned by a not-for-profit healthcare provider and originally leased by Emeritus, then ultimately by Brookdale Senior Living. Brookdale chose to not renew their lease for the community, which brought in sufficient cash flow but also offered significant operational upside with occupancy at 65%.  After multiple full-price, competitive offers, a buyer with a strong regional presence stepped in to buy the community, using acquisition debt from a regional... Read More »
Ziegler Sells Two Healthpeak Properties/Brookdale Senior Living CCRCs

Ziegler Sells Two Healthpeak Properties/Brookdale Senior Living CCRCs

Ziegler’s Dan Revie Tedd Van Gorden represented Healthpeak Properties in the sale of its last two entrance-fee CCRCs that were part of its joint venture with Brookdale Senior Living. The deal includes Foxwood Springs, a 434-unit campus in Raymore, Missouri, and Robin Run, a 457-unit campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. Both were originally part of the National Benevolent Association portfolio that went through bankruptcy proceedings over a decade ago. And after Healthpeak bought out Brookdale’s interest in the joint venture in Fall 2019, these were the only two campuses excluded from that transaction.  Subsidiaries of the Texas-based not-for-profit Boncrest Resource Group acquired the... Read More »
Bloom Senior Living Sells Two South Carolina Communities

Bloom Senior Living Sells Two South Carolina Communities

Kandu Capital and its operating affiliate Bloom Senior Living just sold two of their South Carolina assisted living and memory care communities. Bloom at Hilton Head and Bloom at Bluffton have been part of the Bloom family of communities since they were purchased from Brookdale Senior Living in 2013 for $7.2 million, or $61,500 per unit.   They were struggling at the time with just $3.5 million of revenues and Bloom turned them around and grew revenues and EBITDA significantly, with EBITDA reaching $1.2 million in 2016. Then, several new communities were opened in the market and COVID-19 appeared. Occupancy dipped but the communities remained very cash... Read More »
Brookdale Senior Living Bottoms Out

Brookdale Senior Living Bottoms Out

It has been a tough go for Brookdale Senior Living for several years, really, ever since its acquisition of Emeritus in 2014. But the pandemic was almost the final nail in its coffin. Now those nails are beginning to be removed, and perhaps the resurrection is in sight.  While there is work still to be done, the big O, as in occupancy, has finally ended its slide. It looks like February was the bottom, with average occupancy dropping 60 basis points to 69.4% from January, and then remained there in March but increased 50 basis points in April to 69.9%. End-of-month occupancy also bottomed out in February at 70.1%, increasing by 50 basis points by March 31 and... Read More »