National Health Investors’ Latest Purchase Option

National Health Investors’ Latest Purchase Option

Executing on a purchase option, National Health Investors acquired a 32-unit assisted living/memory care community in Durham, North Carolina, for $7.6 million, or $237,500 per unit. The impetus for the deal goes back to February 2017, when NHI purchased two adjacent AL/MC communities in Hendersonville, NC (about 20 miles south of Asheville) and entered into a new operating relationship with Ravn Senior Solutions at the same time. Ravn, which stepped in to operate the two communities under a new 15-year lease (with an annual lease rate of 7.35% and annual fixed escalators), was founded by a group of industry veterans, including Steve Morton (co-founder of Southern Assisted Living, Inc. and... Read More »
HHHunt Heads North

HHHunt Heads North

A Virginia real estate developer is making its second move north across the Potomac, though unlike the Army of Northern Virginia, it is stopping short of Pennsylvania. The company, HHHunt, already has 12 senior living communities in North Carolina, six in Virginia, and one in Severna Park, Maryland, which it opened in late-2015. Now, HHHunt has just broken ground on a development in nearby Crofton (located between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore), at a cost of $29.4 million, or $309,500 per unit. The property is situated on about 10 acres next to the Walden Country Club and will feature 95 assisted living and memory care units under the “Spring Arbor” brand. Other HHHunt developments (most... Read More »