• 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 »

Solana sets sights on San Francisco

A California real estate investment company growing its senior living portfolio recently added its third property, a 61-unit assisted living community in Castro Valley, California for $8 million, or $131,100 per unit, with a 9% cap rate. The Solana Company, which also specializes in acquiring hospitality properties, was founded by Steve Barklis and Gary Elam, both with decades of experience in sourcing, developing and asset managing commercial real estate investment properties. Earlier this year, Solana acquired a 72-unit independent/assisted living community in Sacramento, California for $6.85 million, or $120,100 per unit, in a joint venture with Brickstar Capital. The company also... Read More »

Historic deal in Washington State

The state of Washington saw its most expensive (on a per-unit basis) seniors housing transaction ever (according to our data going back to 1991), when a portfolio of three assisted living/memory care communities with 161 units sold for $58.5 million, or $363,000 per unit. The next closest deal value we have seen in Washington was the $298,600 per unit price for a portfolio of four assisted living communities bought by American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust back in June 2014. The Seattle properties were 84% occupied, and have the potential to expand their memory care programs. That is what the publicly traded REIT buyer plans to do at least, with the help of a national seniors housing... 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 »

Three high-priced acquisitions in PA

In a sale-manageback transaction, a non-traded REIT purchased three senior living communities with 328 total units in Pennsylvania from Heritage Senior Living for $87.5 million, or $266,800 per unit. Compared to the average price paid for AL/IL communities of $198,800 in the trailing-12 months ending Q1:2015 (according a supplemental report for the Senior Care Acquisition Report), this represents a significant premium. The properties, located in York, Bethlehem and Harleysville, Pennsylvania, offered independent living, assisted living and memory care services, and were well occupied at the time of the sale. Mark Myers of Marcus & Millichap handled the transaction. Read More »

Seven sales in North Carolina

Mike Pardoll of Marcus & Millichap burst out of the gate in July, arranging the sale of seven senior care properties (six assisted living and one skilled nursing facility) in North Carolina in three separate transactions, totaling almost $43 million. The first was the sale by a not-for-profit foundation of five assisted living properties with 300 units (there are 60 units at each) for $22.3 million, or about $74,300 per unit. Meridian Senior Living was the buyer. Second, a group of private investors sold their 60-unit assisted living community in Wadesboro, North Carolina to Meridian Senior Living for $4 million, or $66,700 per unit. Finally, Mr. Pardoll, together with Mark Myers also... Read More »