• 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 »
  • MIG Announces Two Closings

    Montgomery Intermediary Group announced a couple of transactions at the end of October. First, Andrew Montgomery sold a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in southern Illinois in a value-add deal. Built in the 1960s and 1970s, the facility had a roughly 50% Medicaid census, with between 30% and 35% private pay and 5% to 10% Medicare. It was losing... Read More »
Genesis Exits Idaho

Genesis Exits Idaho

Genesis HealthCare decided to exit the Idaho market, prompting its REIT landlord, National Health Investors, to divest its senior care property in Nampa (Boise MSA). The single-story community, which features 107 independent living units, 18 assisted living units and 42 licensed skilled nursing beds, was Genesis’ only asset in the state.   Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ Michael Segal, Blake Bozett and Lauren Nagle positioned the property as a value-add opportunity, with the potential to realign the different care levels. Cascades Healthcare, a skilled nursing operator started by four healthcare clinicians in 2014 that has now grown to 15 SNFs in Utah and Idaho, emerged as the... Read More »
Genesis HealthCare Makes Changes

Genesis HealthCare Makes Changes

Just after announcing that its CEO would be stepping down, Genesis HealthCare revealed more changes. The current COO, Paul Bach, the Chief Nursing Officer, JoAnne Reifsnyder, and the CFO, Tom DiVittorio, have all announced they will be leaving the company. They have spent the past 38 years, 10 years and 25 years, respectively, at the company, so a lot of institutional knowledge will be walking out the door.   The new COO will be Melissa Powell, who most recently was the President and COO of The Allure Group, a New York City-based nursing home operator. Orrin Feingold joins Genesis as the new CFO. He has had similar positions... Read More »
Genesis HealthCare Sells SNF in Indianapolis

Genesis HealthCare Sells SNF in Indianapolis

Decatur Township Center, a skilled nursing facility, has changed ownership. Formerly owned and operated by Genesis HealthCare, the 88-bed subacute and skilled nursing facility, renamed Chalet Rehabilitation and Healthcare, offers a wide range of services, including long- and short-term care, rehabilitation and more. It was built in 1975 on five acres and was acquired by Genesis from Sabra Health Care REIT in 2017 for an undisclosed price. The new ownership team is a group of skilled nursing facility managers and operators based in Indiana and the Midwest. The group has extensive expertise running similar-sized facilities in rural and suburban areas throughout the region. The change in... Read More »
The Ups and Downs of Genesis Healthcare

The Ups and Downs of Genesis Healthcare

Two weeks ago, we reported on the restructuring that is taking place at Genesis Healthcare, with the infusion of new capital that will eventually take this new investor to a fully diluted ownership interest in excess of 40%. That news sent the share price tumbling 47% to a low of $0.43 per share. Trading volume over two days was more than 59 million shares, or more than 53% of the total float.  Then, a week later, the share price jumped by 48% mid-day to a high of $0.74 per share, ending the day at an increase of “just” 20%. Trading volume on that day? A mere 73 million shares, or about two-thirds of the float. The day before and the day after that momentous day, another 26... Read More »
Genesis to be Delisted After Welltower Split

Genesis to be Delisted After Welltower Split

When Genesis HealthCare announced last year that it may not make it in the following 12 months, you knew something had to be done. And then at the beginning of this year when its longstanding CEO, George Hager, departed, you knew that replacing one person with another was just not going to cut it. But perhaps it enabled the Board to move on what had to be done to salvage a desperate situation.  Late on Tuesday, Welltower announced that it has substantially exited its 10-year operating relationship with Genesis HealthCare. The move cannot be seen as much of a surprise considering Genesis’ “going concern” notice last year, multiple major write downs associated with... Read More »