• Owner/Operator Acquires Its Second Community

    Unbridled Living, an owner/operator of independent living, assisted living and memory care communities across the United States, acquired its second seniors housing community, The Reserve at North Dallas. The Class-A community is in Dallas, Texas, with 247 independent living and 26 assisted living units.  The building was in good shape, as... Read More »
  • Not-For-Profit Sells Distressed SNF to Regional Owner/Operator

    A not-for-profit seniors housing provider with a century-long legacy of serving seniors divested an underperforming skilled nursing facility in Marietta, Ohio. The non-core asset no longer aligned with the seller’s strategy.  After a confidential marketing process, Connor Doherty, Ryan Kelly and Michael Segal of Blueprint identified a... Read More »
  • Public REIT Closes Out Multi-Transaction Portfolio Divestment

    Blueprint advised a public REIT on the sale of a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities across California, Florida and Virginia. The transactions were trifurcated by state, with the final closing in California. This SNF serves San Bernardino County, which has significant barriers to new development.  At the time of marketing, the facility... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Acquires Revived Assisted Living Community

    Helios Healthcare Advisors represented Investcor in its divestment of an assisted living community that it acquired in 2019. The community had sat vacant after its closure in 2007 until Investcor’s purchase. Post-acquisition, the company invested more than $8 million in renovations, with the building reopening in 2020.  Fairhaven Denton... Read More »
  • VIUM’s Slew of Financings

    We have written about the uptick of liquidity in the seniors housing and care market, and the willingness among lenders to write bigger and bigger checks to finance larger portfolios. Well, VIUM Capital just announced a slew of financings totaling more than $180 million for four senior care portfolios.  The largest was arranged for three... Read More »
Two REITs Close Couple of Loans

Two REITs Close Couple of Loans

A couple of REITs in good financial shape (and still open to making new investments) announced a couple of loans closed for senior care facilities. CareTrust REIT completed a $15 million secured mezzanine loan for Next Healthcare’s acquisition of a nine-property skilled nursing portfolio with approximately 1,000 beds in Virginia. The loan came with a five-year term and annual interest rate of 12%, with CareTrust funding it from its $600 million unsecured revolving credit facility. White Oak Healthcare Finance was the senior lender on the deal. Then, National Health Investors funded a $22.2 million construction loan for the development of a 110-unit senior living community in Sussex,... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Adds Skilled Nursing Portfolio

CareTrust REIT Adds Skilled Nursing Portfolio

The skilled nursing portfolio deals keep on coming, this time from a familiar source. CareTrust REIT announced its acquisition of four skilled nursing facilities in Texas, around the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. Totaling 554 skilled nursing beds and 24 assisted living beds, they are currently leased to operating affiliates of The Ensign Group, and have been since Ensign took over operations more than a year ago from Senior Care Centers, which was going through bankruptcy proceedings at the time.  The facilities include Beacon Harbor Healthcare & Rehabilitation in Rockwall, Rowlett Health & Rehabilitation Center in Rowlett, Crestwood Health & Rehabilitation in Wills Point and... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Arranges Montana SNF Sale

Walker & Dunlop Arranges Montana SNF Sale

Walker & Dunlop announced its involvement in the sale of two skilled nursing facilities in Montana to CareTrust REIT. We recently covered the transaction, which represented CareTrust’s first since the pandemic began earlier this year.   The facilities include Apple Rehab Cooney, an 80-bed facility located on the campus of the St. Peter’s Health Regional Medical Center in Helena, and Elkhorn Healthcare & Rehabilitation, a 70-bed facility in nearby Clancy. Eduro Healthcare took over operations.  Using cash on hand, CareTrust paid around $16 million, or $106,700 per bed, for the facilities, inclusive of transaction costs. Tony Cassie and Sam Thompson of Walker & Dunlop... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Adds Two Montana SNFs

CareTrust REIT Adds Two Montana SNFs

One of the more consistently active acquirers in the skilled nursing market is back. CareTrust REIT just made its first post-COVID acquisitions for two skilled nursing facilities in Montana. The off-market transaction consisted of Apple Rehab Cooney, an 80-bed facility located on the campus of the St. Peter’s Health Regional Medical Center in Helena, and Elkhorn Healthcare & Rehabilitation, a 70-bed facility in nearby Clancy. Eduro Healthcare took over operations.  CareTrust paid around $16 million, or $106,700 per bed, for the facilities, inclusive of transaction costs. In addition, the REIT will provide around $500,000 for Eduro to improve the properties, which are... Read More »
CareTrust REIT Adds Two Montana SNFs

Capital Senior Living Returns 18 Properties to Fannie Mae

It’s been quite a week of earnings announcements from the publicly traded senior care companies, with Healthpeak Properties, Welltower, CareTrust REIT, Sabra Health Care REIT, Omega Healthcare Investors, Five Star Senior Living, Diversified Healthcare Trust and The Ensign Group all reporting. Capital Senior Living Corporation also came out with its second quarter results, and surprised some by revealing it was turning 18 properties in forbearance with Fannie Mae back to the agency lender. We have never heard of a company basically handing the keys over to Fannie Mae for that many communities. It is safe to say we are in unchartered territory that does not fail to surprise us, to say the... Read More »