• CIBC Completes Several Financings

    CIBC Bank USA announced a handful of senior care financings across multiple states. First, the company closed a $17.5 million cash-out refinancing for a regional operator’s portfolio of three skilled nursing facilities with 235 total beds in northeast and southeast Massachusetts, and southern New Hampshire. The facilities have an effective age of... Read More »
  • Blueprint Adding HUD Lending Platform

    Fresh off another record-setting year for investment sales activity, Blueprint announced a major expansion of its capital markets services to now include FHA/HUD lending and servicing capabilities. The firm is acquiring the existing FHA/HUD lending platform of MidCap Financial Services, and hiring Tony Marino, formerly of Cambridge Realty Capital... Read More »
  • More New Capital Enters Seniors Housing

    A fully-integrated real estate firm that is well known in the student housing world announced its foray into the seniors housing industry. Landmark Properties focuses on the development, construction, acquisition, investment management, and operation of high-quality residential communities, but the company’s intent is to invest in ground-up... Read More »
  • Berkadia’s Recent Financing Activity

    In the past 30 days, Berkadia’s Jay Healy and Andrew Lanzaro have closed $111.5 million across four financings for four separate sponsors, encompassing eleven properties in six states. The activity included three bridge financings totaling $69.6 million from Berkadia’s proprietary balance sheet and a $41.9 million HUD refinance. The first... Read More »
  • Inspirit Senior Living Appoints New President

    Torey Riso is heading back to the operating world, joining Inspirit Senior Living as President as of March 16. He joins Dave McHarg, who is the CEO of Inspirit and Founding Partner of the company. Since its founding in 2015, Inspirit has grown to 37 properties under management, with Inspirit holding an equity interest in around half of those. ... Read More »
Dissecting the Jump in Average Assisted Living Values

Dissecting the Jump in Average Assisted Living Values

It’s amazing the difference that one deal can make. We are talking about Welltower’s $1.76 billion sale of its entire Benchmark Senior Living portfolio to KKR and its impact on the average private per assisted living unit sold in the most recent four quarters. That sale, which came in at $425,400 per unit across the 48 properties, pushed the sector’s weighted average up to $252,900 per unit, a 23% increase from the most recent four-quarter period ($205,900 per unit) and 36% from calendar year 2018 ($186,400 per unit), according to The Seniors Housing Acquisition & Investment Report. We should note that this average is likely to change as more deals from 2019 float to the surface, and... Read More »
Deals Down So Far in 2017

Deals Down So Far in 2017

Long-term care has experienced a dip in M&A, but after nearly three straight years of 80+ transactions per quarter (starting in Q3:2014 with 83), with a couple exceptions, it is about time the M&A juggernaut slows down a bit. The first quarter’s volume fell to 76 deals, down from 93 in the previous quarter and from 84 in the year-ago quarter. And as of May 23, 2017, deal volume has so far not kept pace compared with the same period in 2016 with just 118 long-term care transactions recorded compared with 145 in 2016, a 19% difference. However, spending has nearly doubled (to $7.52 billion so far in 2017 from $4.37 billion in 2016), thanks to a few large deals that were announced in... Read More »

Sentio Healthcare Properties Agrees To Sell

In breaking news, Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors announced that it entered into a definitive merger agreement to buy Sentio Healthcare Properties, which is partly owned by KKR (NYSE: KKR), in a transaction valued at $825 million.  Kayne is paying $14.37 per Sentio share in cash about 11.5 million shares) with some upward adjustments that will most likely take the price to $14.65, with the deal expected to close in the third quarter. Sentio is a public, non-traded REIT that owns a mix of seniors housing properties and MOBs. Citigroup Global Markets and Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (nice month they are having) were the financial advisors to Kayne, and Robert A. Stanger & Co. and UBS... Read More »

Decker joins Board of Directors

Brookdale Senior Living announced that its Board of Directors appointed Daniel Decker as a Class I director and as the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, effective October 1. Mr. Decker previously served on the boards of several REITs and other seniors housing companies, including Omega Healthcare Investors, Sentio Healthcare Properties, Health Care REIT (now Welltower) and Forum Group. Recently, he joined with KKR and Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company to acquire the operations of Sunrise Senior Living in 2013. Mr. Decker will succeed Jeffrey Leeds in his position as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board. Read More »