• Senex Foundation Divests SNFs to Owner/Operator

    Vince Viverito, Jason Punzel, Jake Anderson and Taylor Graham of Senior Living Investment Brokerage were engaged by Senex Foundation, a Denver, Colorado-based owner/operator, to help with the disposition of a four-property portfolio and recently closed the second tranche involving two skilled nursing facilities in Nebraska. The deal included the... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: The REITs’ Acquisition Appetite

    With most of the Q1 earnings results in, we’ve been sifting through a lot of good news on occupancy growth, resident rate increases, expanding NOI margins and the phenomenal long-term outlooks. But our main takeaway had to be the major M&A plans that almost every publicly traded company has completed so far this year and plans to close... Read More »
  • Sonida Senior Living Reports Q1 as CNL Deal Reshapes Portfolio

    Sonida Senior Living reported its first quarter results after becoming the eighth largest seniors housing owner toward the close of the quarter. The company completed its acquisition of CNL Healthcare Properties, a public, non-traded REIT that owned 69 seniors housing communities, bringing Sonida’s owned portfolio to 153 owned properties and... Read More »
  • Alta Senior Living Secures Refinance

    At the end of 2021, Alta Senior Living acquired Tequesta Terrace Senior Living (at that time, Village of Tequesta, Tequesta Terrace), a 106-unit assisted living/memory care community in Palm Beach County, Florida. After executing its value-add capex, operational turnaround and lease-up plan, Alta engaged Blueprint to run a full debt process. A... Read More »
  • All-Cash Skilled Nursing Deal Closes

    An undisclosed buyer acquired a 99-bed skilled nursing facility in Ohio through an all-cash transaction after the seller’s senior lender pushed for an exit. Stan Klos III of 3G Healthcare Real Estate handled the deal. An initial buyer walked away from the deal after a conversion from a lease-only structure was declined by the lender. Another... Read More »

CareTrust’s California buying spree

California-based CareTrust REIT didn’t travel far to close its last couple of deals, adding five in-state senior care facilities to its portfolio in just a week. First, the REIT acquired a 59-bed skilled nursing facility in Petaluma for $6.9 million, or $116,949 per bed, bringing in a new tenant in West Harbor Healthcare to operate. CareTrust expects the acquisition will generate initial annual rental revenue of approximately $670,000, under an initial 15-year lease, with two five-year extension options and CPI-based rent escalators. Then, CareTrust bought a senior care portfolio in Northern California, with a skilled nursing facility and an assisted living community each in the towns of... Read More »
Minnesota SNF/ALF

Minnesota SNF/ALF

In another sale involving skilled nursing beds and assisted living, Ray Giannini of Marcus & Millichap sold a nursing facility in Duluth, Minnesota for $10.0 million, or about $53,000 per bed. Occupancy was solid and there were more than 180 total beds involved in the sale. Read More »
California SNF/ALF Sells

California SNF/ALF Sells

Krone Weidler of Weidler Integrated Healthcare Investment Properties, in affiliation with Marcus & Millichap, sold a skilled nursing and assisted living facility in California to a local private equity investor. Built in 1991, the property has 120 skilled nursing beds and 85 assisted living beds with occupancy that has been around 94%. The sales price was $15.6 million, or $76,100 per bed, and the buyer may have to turn the operations around a bit. Read More »

Legacy in Montgomery

Already the second deal closed in the Montgomery, Alabama area in recent weeks (following Birchwood Health Care Properties’ purchase of a 64-unit memory care community for $4.75 million), Legacy Senior Living spent $3.3 million, or $113,793 per unit, to acquire a 29-unit memory care community in Prattville. Built in 1999 with an addition in 2005, the property was 94% occupied and operated at a 23% margin on approximately $1.3 million of revenues. Plus, with limited competition in the area and a consistently high census, there is an expansion opportunity. Mike Pardoll of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a group of private investors, in the transaction. Read More »
Dialed in

Dialed in

Mark Myers, Joshua Jandris, and Matthew Andriano of Marcus & Millichap arranged the sale of a 188-unit senior living community in Crest Hill, Illinois, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. The property, consisting of 112 assisted living/memory care units and 76 independent living units, was acquired by a joint venture between Dial Retirement Communities and a private equity fund. The sellers were two entities controlled by Greg and Renee Wolf, a couple who had developed the facility over the past 15 years. Dial will take over operations and add new programming in the process. The purchase price was not disclosed. Read More »