• 2nd Quarter Investor Call: The Great Debates of Senior Care

    On Thursday, July 17, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor Ben Swett hosted SCI’s latest webinar, dubbed The Great Debates of Senior Care, with panelists ​​Dan Revie of Ziegler, Scott Hougham of Sage, and Michael Feinstein of Focus Healthcare Partners. Issues such as the chances of having a unit shortfall, whether cap rates are too low, the... Read More »
  • Ventas Acquires in Washington State

    Ventas expanded its portfolio through a recent acquisition of a seniors housing community in Washington State. Built in 2003, MorningStar at Silver Lake is in Everett, Washington, with 113 independent living and 35 assisted living units. The in-place operator will continue to manage the community going forward. MorningStar Senior Living has been... Read More »
  • Chicago Pacific Founders Acquires Class-A Communities

    Berkadia handled the sale and financing of two Class-A independent living, assisted living, and memory care communities: Grand Living at Citrus Hills and Grand Living at Bridgewater. The pair of seniors housing communities have a combined total of 337 units, and are located in Hernando, Florida, and Coralville, Iowa, respectively. Managing... Read More »
  • Blueprint Closes Lease-to-Purchase Transaction

    A large New York-based seniors housing owner engaged Blueprint to explore the sale of an 80-unit assisted living/memory care community in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kory Buzin and Steve Thomes handled the transaction. Ownership acquired the asset several years prior while in distress and brought on Viva Senior Living as manager to execute a... Read More »
  • BHI Provides Bridge Loan

    BHI, the U.S. branch of Bank Hapoalim B.M., provided $49 million in bridge-to-HUD financing for a portfolio of three seniors housing communities in the suburbs of Detroit. The portfolio consists of Hampton Manor of Dundee, Hampton Manor of Trenton and Hampton Manor of Hamburg. Together, the communities total 221 units, with 171 assisted living... Read More »
Private Equity Firm Buys High-Medicaid Assisted Living Community

Private Equity Firm Buys High-Medicaid Assisted Living Community

Despite having a nearly two-thirds Medicaid census, an assisted living community in Bellingham, Washington still maintained a healthy profit margin and sold to a California-based private equity firm. Built 40 years ago, the 66-unit community features mostly studio units, with 10 one-bedroom units, and was 93% occupied. Private pay residents only made up 30% of the total census, and yet, the community posted a 27% EBITDAR margin on approximately $2.22 million of revenues. That’s impressive from the previous independent owner/operator, who sold the community for $7.025 million, or about $106,400 per unit, with an 8.5% cap rate. There is still room for improvement for the incoming private... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Southern Illinois Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments Sells Southern Illinois Portfolio

Evans Senior Investments is on a tear in 2018, having just closed a portfolio sale in southern Illinois on behalf of the independent owner/operator seller after already closing three other deals earlier this month. The “Legacy Place” portfolio consists of four assisted living/memory care communities and 200 total units (149 AL and 51 MC) spread out across southern Illinois. Each community was purpose-built in the last eight years and operated well, with a combined 95% occupancy, 100% private pay census and 34.3% EBITDAR margin on approximately $7.72 million of trailing revenues, portfolio-wide. A regional owner/operator stepped in as the buyer, paying $32.63 million, or about $163,000 per... Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Lands A Triple

Evans Senior Investments Lands A Triple

Evans Senior Investments (ESI) showed its range in closing three transactions across the country, totaling over $20 million. First, in its home state of Illinois, ESI represented the seller, an independent owner/operator, in the sale/leaseback of its 30-unit assisted living community in Winnebago (near Rockford, Illinois) for $4 million, or $133,300 per unit. Just 10 years old, the community was operating well, with 97% occupancy, 100% private pay census, and a 33% operating margin on about $1.225 million of revenues. A publicly traded REIT added the property into a master lease in which the seller already managed other communities on behalf of the REIT. Moving South, ESI handled the sale... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Facility Receivership Ends With Sale

Skilled Nursing Facility Receivership Ends With Sale

A Kansas skilled nursing facility in receivership recently sold with the help of Evans Senior Investments, for an undisclosed price. Built in 1977, the facility has 67 skilled nursing beds and 15 residential care units, and it was 81% occupied. However, despite its location five blocks away from the area’s only community hospital, it was in receivership at the time of listing. ESI represented the court-appointed receiver in the facility’s sale to an experienced operator that plans to use its economies of scale to increase revenues and improve the operating margin. Read More »
Evans Senior Investments Sells Value-Add Assisted Living

Evans Senior Investments Sells Value-Add Assisted Living

Evans Senior Investments (ESI) successfully sold a 92-unit assisted living/memory care community, for an undisclosed price, in Greendale, Wisconsin (about 10 miles south of Milwaukee). Built in 1998, with additions in 1999 and 2010, this three-building campus includes 92 units of assisted living and memory care, licensed as a Community-Based Residential Facility. Occupancy has been increasing since January 2016, and now sits in the low-90s, with a significant Medicaid census. Chicago-based SHA Capital Partners was the buyer and brought in Matthews Senior Living to operate the community, which is considered to be a value-add opportunity for them. ESI represented an independent owner in the... Read More »