• Genesis HealthCare’s Legacy Liabilities Lead to Bankruptcy Filing

    Genesis HealthCare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing its 298 affiliated holding companies, ancillary businesses and insurance vehicles in its submission to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division. It is one of the largest skilled nursing operators in the country and operates 218... Read More »
  • Cindat Capital Management Invests in Colorado Community

    Cindat Capital Management, a middle-market real estate private equity platform focused on seniors housing and opportunistic investments, announced its first investment from its Senior Housing Credit Platform. It was a unitranche debt investment in The Pearl at Boulder Creak, a 116-unit, Class-A independent living and assisted living community... Read More »
  • MedCore Divests to Publicly Traded Healthcare REIT

    Ziegler announced its role as exclusive sell-side financial advisor to MedCore on the sale of Parkview on Hollybrook, a 189-unit rental CCRC in Longview, Texas. The property has been on a long road to stabilization. It was originally bought in a bankruptcy auction in 2016 for $20.7 million by Thrive FP when it was in the middle of development. 12... Read More »
  • Forbright Bank’s H1 Activity

    Forbright Bank reported its activity for the first half of the year from its healthcare and HUD lending teams, announcing more than $500 million in loans closed for acquisitions, recapitalizations, working capital, and HUD financings for healthcare providers across the country. One of the largest transactions was a $60 million revolving loan to... Read More »
  • Large SNF Portfolio Secures Financing

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced the closing of $218.3 million in combined bridge, mezzanine, and working capital financing for 18 skilled nursing facilities across Kentucky. The transaction includes a $179.3 million senior bridge loan and a $29 million mezzanine loan, which the sponsor plans to use to restructure and upsize the existing debt on the... Read More »
Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Summer Surge

Senior Living Investment Brokerage’s Summer Surge

As the temperatures rose, the team at Senior Living Investment Brokerage heated up too, following up its portfolio closing in Florida with two deals in the Lone Star State. First, in east Texas, Matthew Alley worked with an independent owner/operator to sell their long-held skilled nursing facilities in Grand Saline and Athens. Built in the 1960s, the facilities were operating just above breakeven on approximately $3.5 million of combined revenues. The 76-bed facility in Grand Saline was 65% occupied, while the 82-bed Athens facility had run into some major regulatory issues and was just 52% occupied. Another independent owner/operator based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area stepped in as the... Read More »
Griffin-American Shows Its Strength In The Show-Me State

Griffin-American Shows Its Strength In The Show-Me State

After a busy Spring growing its medical office building portfolio, Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV jumped back into the senior care M&A market to acquire eight skilled nursing facilities in Missouri, at a price of $88.2 million, or $79,300 per bed. The portfolio, comprising 1,112 licensed beds, is well performing and will be leased under a 15-year absolute net lease with two 10-year renewal options and CPI-based rent escalators with a floor of 2% and a cap of 3%. Griffin-American also diversifies its geography and asset class with the deal. Its last senior care deal was on the small side (a $22.6 million acquisition of two Wisconsin properties announced in March 2018), but 2017 was... Read More »
Griffin American Goes To Wisconsin

Griffin American Goes To Wisconsin

Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV gained a foothold in the state of Wisconsin by acquiring two senior care facilities that include independent living, assisted living and also skilled nursing beds. Located in the Madison suburbs of Waunakee and Sun Prairie, the facilities total 254 beds, with the seniors housing portion featuring 100% private pay, and the skilled nursing portion having a 67% quality mix. In addition, nearly $10 million in renovations have been completed at the properties since 2006. Griffin-American purchased the facilities for $22.6 million, or about $89,000 per bed, and leased them to Integro Healthcare Consulting under an absolute net master lease structure through... Read More »
Griffin-American and Greystone

Griffin-American and Greystone

A month ago, we learned of a couple of large divestments by New Senior Investment Group, in a move to bring its share price up to where management believes it should be, by increasing the share of its independent living portfolio, decreasing its Holiday Retirement exposure, and reducing its concentration in the three states of Florida, Texas and California. We have also just learned that Cody Tremper and Mike Garbers of Greystone represented SNR in the transaction. Spread out across Central Florida, the portfolio consists of nine properties and were all formerly operated by Holiday Retirement. However, operations have dropped off since Holiday stopped having live-in managers at its... Read More »
Griffin-American Closes First Tranche of California Senior Portfolio Deal

Griffin-American Closes First Tranche of California Senior Portfolio Deal

Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV closed the first of two tranches for an eight-property seniors housing acquisition in Northern California, bringing the REIT’s total to 27 medical office and seniors housing properties since its first acquisition in June 2016. Located in high-barrier-to-entry markets in California, these communities were owned by affiliates of Nazareth Healthcare, Inc. and featured 327 units of assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing.The portfolio was fully occupied, certainly adding to its appeal. Built on average 43 years ago (although with renovations since), the first tranche of properties included a 22-unit memory care community in Menlo Park, a 65-unit... Read More »