• Ventas Posts Healthy Q3 With Robust Acquisition Activity

    Among the earnings results trickling out this month, it will be impossible to overshadow Welltower’s announcement with $14 billion in new investment activity and another great quarter of seniors housing operating portfolio (SHOP) performance improvements. But Ventas reported healthy results, too, and some significant acquisition volume.  Ventas... Read More »
  • Senior Care Campus Components Sell to Separate Buyers

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated two separate transactions involving the assisted living and skilled nursing components of a senior care campus in Mansfield, Ohio. The seller, a local not-for-profit, faced significant operational and financial challenges, prompting an urgent need for a transition. Senwell was engaged to identify... Read More »
  • Skilled Nursing Portfolio Secures Funds

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC announced that the firm, along with firm affiliates, funded $48.10 million in combined bridge and working capital funding for a three-facility skilled nursing portfolio in North Carolina. The transaction included a $45.6 million bridge financing and a $2.5 million working capital line of credit. The borrower, a returning client,... Read More »
  • Autumn Lake Healthcare Acquires Maryland SNFs

    First Citizens Bank’s Healthcare Finance business provided $338 million in financing to affiliates of Autumn Lake Healthcare for the acquisition of 12 Maryland skilled nursing facilities with over 1,500 beds. Based in Howell, New Jersey, Autumn Lake Healthcare’s portfolio includes 66 skilled nursing facilities totaling more than 8,200 beds... Read More »
  • Central Florida Portfolio Secures Financing

    Grace Hill Capital, a seniors housing capital advisory firm founded by Adam Shealy, closed a refinance and recapitalization of a four-community independent living, assisted living and memory care portfolio in Central Florida. The portfolio comprises five buildings totaling 257 units, operated by a regional provider with a proven record of... Read More »
LTC Properties Announces Another Mezzanine Loan

LTC Properties Announces Another Mezzanine Loan

LTC Properties revealed in its fourth quarter earnings call that it originated a $25 million mezzanine loan for the recapitalization of five seniors housing properties in Oregon and Montana. The transaction is a continuation of LTC’s strategy focused on higher yield structured finance investments.   Coming with a term of five years and two months, with two one-year extension options, the loan bears an 8% interest rate and an IRR of 11%. The properties, which include independent living, assisted living and memory care, total 621 units and will be managed by The Springs Living, a new operator for LTC.   LTC revealed a few other investments and dispositions in its earnings. So far in... Read More »
Portfolio Sale in the Carolinas Receives Financing

Portfolio Sale in the Carolinas Receives Financing

LTC Properties has more than doubled its loan origination volume for the year with a unitranche loan provided to fund the purchase of 13 seniors housing communities in the Carolinas. The $52.5 million loan bears interest at 7.25% for a term of four years, with an IRR of 8%. It also provides for additional commitments of $6.1 million for capital improvements and $650,000 for working capital needs, bringing the total investment commitment to approximately $60 million.   We learned that Patrick Burke of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the portfolio sale. Totaling 523 units and 967 beds, the properties include a mix of independent living (2%), assisted... Read More »
LTC Properties Announces Third Quarter Financings

LTC Properties Announces Third Quarter Financings

LTC Properties has announced a number of financings it originated over the third quarter totaling $46 million across four separate investments, including a unitranche loan, a senior loan, a mezzanine loan and a land loan. The investments are believed to generate a future annual interest income of approximately $3.5 million over a combined weighted average term of 3.2 years. First, a $27 million unitranche loan was originated for a regional operator to purchase a skilled nursing facility in Louisiana. The operator was given a loan term of three years with one 12-month extension option.  The second loan was a $12.5 million senior loan for a regional operator to purchase an assisted... Read More »
LTC Properties Divests Three ALFs in Wisconsin

LTC Properties Divests Three ALFs in Wisconsin

In the ongoing plan to reposition its relationship with Senior Lifestyle Corporation, LTC Properties has sold three assisted living communities in Wisconsin. The sales price was $35.0 million, or about $133,100 per unit.   The three communities had a combined net book value of $28.3 million, and the estimated gain for LTC on the sale is approximately $5.6 million. There was no debt on the communities, so the net sales proceeds of $34.0 million were used to pay down the REIT’s unsecured revolving line of credit.   In the first quarter this year, LTC had transitioned 11 Senior Lifestyle assisted living communities in Wisconsin, Ohio and Illinois to two... Read More »
LTC Properties Divests Three ALFs in Wisconsin

SLIB Sells Wisconsin Assisted Living Portfolio

As if their end-of-April activity wasn’t enough, the Senior Living Investment Brokerage team of Bradley Clousing and Ryan Saul kicked off May with a portfolio sale of three assisted living communities in Wisconsin. Located in the towns of Waukesha and Oshkosh, they total 255 units and were built between 2005 and 2009. The Waukesha community consists of 85 units, while the two Oshkosh properties (located one mile apart) feature 134 units and 36 units, respectively. Occupancy averaged around 80%, and the facilities wer estimated to have operated at a roughly 25% margin on over $12.84 million of combined revenues.   Local public filings revealed LTC Properties as the previous owner, and... Read More »