• Value-Add AL/MC Community Trades

    An institutional owner decided to divest a non-core asset, and engaged Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage to run the sale process. The asset is located in Hillsboro, Oregon (Portland MSA), and features 36 assisted living and memory care units, with 62 licensed beds. It was built in... Read More »
  • Brookdale Divests California Community to Public REIT

    Blueprint was engaged by an institutional, national owner/operator in the strategic disposition of a large rental CCRC in Bakersfield, California. The 20-acre campus was developed in 1999 and provides the whole continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing across three large buildings and... Read More »
  • Two Midwest Assets Trade

    A couple of seniors housing communities traded in the Midwest, selling to a couple of growing owner/operators. First, in the Indianapolis area, The Kiser Group’s Mark Myers and SVN | Senior Living Advisors’ John Klement led the sale of a 157-unit seniors housing community featuring a mix of independent living, assisted living and memory care... Read More »
  • Assisted Living Portfolio Closes in Wisconsin

    Bob Richards of Senior Care Realty recently completed the sale of a five-property assisted living portfolio in Wisconsin, closing the deal in multiple tranches. Richards had worked with the seller, AC Capital, for 15 years, helping them grow their portfolio over the years. AC Capital also has self-managed the communities for the last decade. Now,... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: Here We Go Again

    AARP just published a report on assisted living, and all I can say is, here we go again. It concludes that “the state of assisted living today is cause for concern for many stakeholders. The lack of national federal standards for care centers creates an underregulated space.” It continues on, stating that the “absence of national oversight,... Read More »

Griffin-American III acquires Trilogy Health Services

Nearly doubling its size in one fell swoop, Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III is acquiring Trilogy Health Services for approximately $1.125 billion (including the assumption of $205.1 million of debt) pursuant to a joint venture with NorthStar Healthcare Income. Griffin-American will own approximately two-thirds of the joint venture (bringing total real estate and related investments to approximately $2 billion) and will act as its manager, while NorthStar will own the other third. Also as part of the transaction, Trilogy’s founder and CEO, Randy Bufford, and other members of the company’s management will own a $24 million, or 3.6%, stake in Trilogy. Mr. Bufford will remain in place to... Read More »

Upside in Oregon

Dan Mahoney and Tony Cassie of Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of two assisted living/memory care communities in Oregon, both with operational upside. First, Focus Healthcare Partners saw potential in a 58-unit community in downtown Portland, which they snapped up for $10.8 million, or $186,200 per unit. Built in 2007, the community was the last acquisition of Sunwest Management and has been owned by a TIC of 17 different investors ever since who were all very hands off, hiring a management company in the area to operate (the buyer, in fact, uses the same manager for its buildings in Oregon and Washington). There were a small number of Medicaid residents in the building. By making... Read More »

Big HUD month for HHC

Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC) had a very busy August closing over $50 million of HUD financings. Three of the loans totaling $15.2 million were refinancings of existing HUD loans for three skilled nursing facilities with 428 beds in Connecticut.  The experienced borrower received low fixed rates for the next 25-30 years. HHC also closed 2 HUD 232/223(f) loans totaling close to $36 million. The first, a $22.2 million loan, will refinance a 240-bed skilled nursing facility in Brooklyn, New York, while the second, a $13.3 million loan, will refinance a 120-bed facility in Carmel, New York. All of the facilities are well occupied. Read More »

Pillar of financing

A skilled nursing owner/operator in Southern California turned to Pillar, a Guggenheim Partners affiliate, to arrange more than $35.6 million in HUD loans to refinance five facilities and some 403 beds. Pillar’s Joshua Hausfeld out of the company’s Bethesda office and Evan Hom of New York City, originated the five HUD loans, which refinanced existing HUD debt from 2011. Four of the loans came with fixed interest rates of 3.65% and fully amortizing 25-year terms: $5.5 million for a 75-bed facility in Spring Valley, $6.8 million for a 50-bed facility also in Spring Valley, $8.75 million for a 99-bed facility in San Diego, and $6.1 million for a 99-bed facility in Los Angeles. The fifth, an... Read More »

Financings from Capital Funding

Capital Funding Group announced a pair of HUD loans on two sides of the country. The first, originated by Patrick McGovern, totaled nearly $5.5 million and went towards refinancing a 53-bed assisted living community in Sacramento, California. Capital Funding provided the original bridge loan in 2012 for the community and recapitalized the borrowing entity with more than $1 million in cash. The second transaction, originated by Gary Sever, totaled $14 million and refinanced a bridge loan (that CFG had also previously provided) on a 180-bed skilled nursing facility in Palatka, Florida. The bridge loan helped fund the acquisition of the facility in September 2014. Capital Funding is the sole... Read More »