• 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 »
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 »