• WOW! Sonida Senior Living Goes BIG

    Sonida Senior Living just announced what can only be described as a transformational acquisition. Since new management came in, CEO Brandon Ribar and CFO Kevin Detz, Sonida has been on an upward path of improved operations and a balance sheet that has grown stronger. Occupancy has been increasing (87.7% in Q3) and NOI and EBITDA are rising. Spot... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

    We were predicting a record-breaking end to the year in terms of M&A activity, but we are not sure we expected a 100+ deal month, with 110 transactions and counting. Just to put that in perspective, the previous record for any month was 77 deals in October of last year, and only four months had previously broken the 70-deal barrier. So this... Read More »
  • Newmark Ends October with Portfolio Closings

    Newmark announced a flurry of transactions at the end of October involving various institutional firms. The largest was a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Northeast known as “Stars and Stripes.” Word on the street is that the portfolio sold for north of $800 million, and that a sub-portfolio was valued at more than $1 million per... Read More »
  • Stacked Stone Acquires Missouri Portfolio

    Stacked Stone Ventures announced the purchase of a seven-community assisted living/memory care portfolio in Missouri for $71 million, or $212,600 per unit. Totaling 334 units and 405 beds, the Oak Pointe portfolio was developed between 2015 and 2020 by an investor group called ClearPath Senior Housing, which included Jeff Binder of Senior Living... Read More »
  • Blueprint Sells Georgia Community to LTC Properties

    LTC Properties divested seven skilled nursing facilities through two separate deals for $122 million in October. In those transaction announcements, the publicly traded REIT noted that it intended to redeploy proceeds for the acquisition of newer, stabilized SHOP assets. It looks like that’s what the publicly traded REIT did in Georgia at the... Read More »
Healthpeak Properties Nears Seniors Housing Exit

Healthpeak Properties Nears Seniors Housing Exit

Healthpeak Properties has nearly completed its exit from the rental seniors housing business, selling another $1 billion of assets in the first quarter of 2021, according to its latest earnings release. This comes after approximately $2.5 billion of seniors housing dispositions in the fourth quarter of 2020, so they are clearly antsy to get out.   The latest tranche of divestments included 12 properties in PEAK’s SHOP portfolio operated by Oakmont Senior Living and totaling 1,043 units. At $564 million, or $540,750 per unit, it represents the largest deal of the quarter. And considering Healthpeak’s haste to get out, commanding that sort of per-unit... Read More »
Joint Venture Acquires Former Brookdale Community in Florida

Joint Venture Acquires Former Brookdale Community in Florida

Owner/operator Inspirit Senior Living and investment/asset management firm Venue Capital co-sponsored a joint venture with Drake Real Estate Partners to acquire a seniors housing community in Lecanto, Florida. Immediately after the deal, the three parties are also planning a substantial renovation and rebranding of the property. Built in 1988, the community consists of 79 assisted living and memory care units. Welltower previously owned the property, with Brookdale Senior Living operating it.   However, Inspirit will take over management going forward, bolstering its presence in the Southeast. In early 2020, Inspirit and Venue Capital also acquired a portfolio of four... Read More »
Is Brookdale Bottoming Out

Is Brookdale Bottoming Out

Even though Brookdale Senior Living reported its lowest census levels ever in February, the month-to-month declines were low and may signal a bottom soon. As most of you know, I have been pretty negative about where things were going last year, and how long it might take for the industry to dig out of its hole. But my gut tells me things are beginning to turn around. Brookdale Senior Living just reported on its February occupancy, and I believe it is the first major seniors housing company to report average occupancy for the month below 70%. It hit 69.4%. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the monthly decline of 60 basis points was the smallest since last March. And the month-end... Read More »
SLIB Starts March With Six Closings

SLIB Starts March With Six Closings

What a month it has been for Senior Living Investment Brokerage, and it’s only been a few days. After a stellar start to February when the firm announced five transactions comprising eight seniors housing properties across the country, SLIB brokers announced six closings on the first two days of March. Four deals closed in the Southeast, starting with the sale of a 46-unit assisted living/memory care community in Gainesville, Georgia, north of Atlanta. Daniel Geraghty and Bradley Clousing handled the deal on behalf of a group of five TIC investors that originally bought the property in 2006. The TIC sponsor had since filed for bankruptcy and subsequently took control of the... Read More »
Brookdale Selling Home Health & Hospice Business

Brookdale Selling Home Health & Hospice Business

While not a surprise, since rumors had been floating around for a while, Brookdale Senior Living announced with its fourth quarter earnings that it has agreed to sell an 80% interest in its home health and hospice business (including its outpatient therapy business) to HCA Healthcare, the hospital giant. The sales price is $400 million, implying a $500 million valuation for 100% interest. This comes to about 1.36x revenues for the trailing four quarters ended December 30, 2020, and perhaps 18x to 20x 2021 normalized EBITDA. Last year, we wrote that it would be a home run if they could get any price north of $400 million, so maybe this is a grand slam since they got that... Read More »