• 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 »

Behavioral Health Provider Buys Hometown Senior Living

A national behavioral health provider acquired a Minnesota-based assisted living/memory care provider and its seven locations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. Yet again, we are seeing a combination of these healthcare service sectors, as several of the senior care REITs announced plans to grow their behavioral health holdings in their recent earnings announcements.  The target was Hometown Senior Living, a family-owned and operated provider that has grown over the past 10 years to be one of the largest memory care operators in the Minneapolis area. It was acquired by Beacon Specialized Living, one of the biggest behavioral health providers in the country with over 190 locations.... Read More »

Helios Arranges Sale in Massachusetts

A family-run organization is getting out of the skilled nursing business (along with many other mom & pops across the country) and sold its 63-bed facility in northwest Massachusetts. Built in the mid-1960s, the facility was also operated by the seller but recently experienced a census decline from the mid-80s to the high-60s. That is because the Massachusetts Department of Public Health recently proposed and implemented a removal of all three- and four-bed wards at SNFs in the state. The industry has been moving past wards for a while now, but some operators of older, mostly Medicaid facilities rely on them to fill beds and cover their overhead costs. With Medicaid reimbursement rates... Read More »
Helios Healthcare Advisors Arranges Two Transactions

Helios Healthcare Advisors Arranges Two Transactions

Helios Healthcare Advisors started 2022 by announcing a couple of transactions in the southern United States. First, Helios procured a Dallas-based owner/operator to operate an assisted living community in northern Texas. The prior operator was located out of state and experienced logistical difficulties operating this community. So, Helios arranged the third-party management transition on behalf of the owner, an investment firm based in San Francisco, California.  Next, Helios arranged the sale of an 82-bed skilled nursing facility on behalf of Tri-State Health Services in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. A new regional owner/operator was selected to take over the real estate and... Read More »
Helios Healthcare Advisors Facilitates Acquisition in Oregon

Helios Healthcare Advisors Facilitates Acquisition in Oregon

Samaritan Health Services, an Oregon-based not-for-profit integrated health system, sold a seniors housing community in Sweet Home, Oregon that it had picked up in a merger but has since deemed to be non-core. Samaritan engaged Helios Healthcare Advisors to market the property and procure a buyer, which ended up being Mosaic Management, a regional operator with a presence in the local market. Mosaic paid $4.2 million, or $65,600 per unit. There was no cap rate on the deal, since the community was losing about $350,000 in EBITDAR.  Built in the late 1990s, it includes 44 assisted living units in one building and 20 independent living units between five buildings. Occupancy was around 70%.... Read More »
Texas-Based Operator Acquires Dallas-Area SNF

Texas-Based Operator Acquires Dallas-Area SNF

Jeff Rhodes, Bill Janis and Mario Wilson of Helios Healthcare Advisors arranged acquisition financing for a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in the Dallas metro area. This was the only operation for the current Texas-based operator, which is acquiring the facility from the out-of-state landlord.   Newly built in 2014, the facility maintained above average occupancy at the time of the sale. Helping its operations was its location in an affluent suburb near a handful of major hospitals. It also consistently achieves strong clinical ratings.  The Helios team arranged a $12.53 million bridge loan from a regional lender to help cover the $13.06 million, or $108,800 per... Read More »