• Spotlight on Senior Care M&A, Seventh Edition

    The SeniorCare Investor is releasing a mid-year update of its key valuation statistics for the assisted living, independent living and skilled nursing sectors in its latest report: Spotlight on Senior Care M&A. Check out the average prices and cap rates, as well as analysis of industry headwinds and tailwinds. Read More »
  • PACS Gets Trading Period Extension

    PACS Group is trying to right the ship as it works to restate its prior financial statements amid an investigation into its Medicare billing practices, and return to providing regular quarterly earnings statements. The New York Stock Exchange Listing Operations Committee did agree to provide PACS with an additional trading period through November... Read More »
  • Outcome Healthcare Acquires Pennsylvania SNF

    Evans Senior Investments facilitated the sale of Mahoning Valley Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a 142-bed skilled nursing facility in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. The seller, an independent owner, faced increasing financial and operational pressures in today’s skilled nursing environment. The selected buyer was a regional operator with a... Read More »
  • Full Continuum Community Obtains Refinancing

    CBRE National Senior Housing refinanced The Pointe at Meridian, a 100-unit seniors housing community in Meridian, Idaho. Built in 2022, The Pointe at Meridian was built in 2022 and consists of 60 independent living units, including 14 townhome units, 30 assisted living units and 10 memory care units. Grace Management took over management of the... Read More »
  • Arizona Seniors Housing Development Secures Construction Financing

    Fifty Stones Capital Group closed a $39.3 million construction loan for a seniors housing community in Chandler, Arizona. The proposed development comprises 147 units with 150 beds. The opportunity came to Fifty Stones Capital Group through a local broker.  The sponsor, an experienced local developer with a focus on multifamily and senior... Read More »
Omega Healthcare Investors Snags Small REIT

Omega Healthcare Investors Snags Small REIT

Omega agrees to buy MedEquities Realty Trust in a cash and stock deal worth $632 million plus assumed debt. I hope everyone had a good break these past few days. Everyone, that is, except the folks at Omega Healthcare Investors and MedEquities Realty Trust (MRT). Omega announced today that it is buying MedEquities in a stock and cash transaction valued at about $633 million plus $265 million of net debt. Shareholders are receiving a very healthy 50% premium. MRT owns 34 facilities in seven states with 2,755 beds run by 10 different operators. About 75% of the beds are skilled nursing with some assisted living, and the remainder is a smattering of LTACs, IRFs, behavioral health and an MOB.... Read More »
Senior Care Stocks Swoon….Again

Senior Care Stocks Swoon….Again

The 2017 Trump rally has left senior care and healthcare REIT stocks behind. It looks like the so-called Trump stock market rally is continuing into 2018. Weirdly, several senior care stocks shot up in the first day of trading yesterday. Where were investors last year? Unfortunately, 2017 was about as bad as it gets for our sector. Only one company posted an increase in price, and that was Kindred Healthcare, which is actually exiting our sector with its last sales of its SNFs. So, everyone else declined, and almost all of them by double digits, in a year when the rest of the market posted extraordinary returns. The NASDAQ Composite was up 28.2%, the Dow was up 25.1% and the S&P 500... Read More »
And the vote is in…

And the vote is in…

On October 13, our editor Steve Monroe moderated a webinar called “Skilled Nursing: Buying, Selling & Valuing,” with panelists Ben Atkins, Chairman of Traditions Senior Management, Charles Bissell, Executive Director of Integra Realty Resources, Ben Firestone, Senior Managing Director & Founding Partner of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, and Stephen Graham, SVP/Director of Post-Acute Acquisition & Development of MedEquities Realty Trust. During the 90 minutes, we posed two poll questions to our listeners and got some interesting results. First, in response to “Should high acuity, subacute SNFs sell with a higher or lower cap rate than more traditional SNFs?,” 55% of... Read More »

A new public REIT

We have a new publicly traded healthcare REIT. MedEquities Realty Trust priced its 19.9 million share IPO at $12.00 per share, which was at the low end of the potential range of $12.00 to $14.00 per share. It opened at a slight discount of $11.50 per share yesterday in a day that the overall market tanked. The company invests in skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, LTACs and other healthcare real estate properties. It may be small now, but we are sure it will be out there scouting new acquisitions. The new shareholders are counting on it. FBR, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Raymond James and RBC Capital Markets served as joint book-running managers Read More »