• 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 »
SLIB Handles CBRF Sale in Wisconsin

SLIB Handles CBRF Sale in Wisconsin

Ryan Saul and Patrick Burke of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of a 50-unit assisted living community in Racine, Wisconsin, five years after the community last sold. The buyer back then (and the current seller) was Meridian Senior Living and its joint venture partner Blue Vista Capital. They paid $6.5 million, or $130,000 per unit, for the community, although we do not know the 2020 sale price.  Originally built in the 1960s but gutted, renovated and converted to a Community-Based Residential Facility (assisted living community) in 2008, the community was around 94% occupied at the time of the November 2015 sale. The operating margin also stood at 25% at that time,... Read More »
Capital Health Group and AEW Capital Management Sell Florida Communities

Capital Health Group and AEW Capital Management Sell Florida Communities

We just learned of the sellers in Sino-Ocean Capital and Meridian Senior Living’s acquisition of two seniors housing communities in Florida. After funding the land acquisition and development of the two communities, Capital Health Group and AEW Capital Management are selling the properties for an undisclosed amount. The deal involved a 106-unit community in Fort Lauderdale built in 2016 and a 132-unit community in Boca Raton just opened last year, both operating under the “Symphony” brand. They were both well occupied. The buyers engaged Capital One to serve as administrative agent for a large multi-purpose financing package. The $108.9 million loan will be used to... Read More »
Sino-Ocean Capital and Meridian Senior Living Acquire Two More Properties

Sino-Ocean Capital and Meridian Senior Living Acquire Two More Properties

A joint venture between Sino-Ocean Capital and Meridian Senior Living engaged Capital One to serve as administrative agent for a large multi-purpose financing package. The $108.9 million loan will be used to both finance the purchase of two seniors housing communities in Florida and refinance a previous Capital One loan that the JV used to acquire three communities in California. All five assets are cross-collateralized and cross-defaulted (which helps provide for competitive pricing and terms), plus the transaction was structured to allow other assets to be added to the existing portfolio in the future. The Florida acquisition involved a 106-unit community in Fort Lauderdale and a... Read More »
Meridian-Operated California Community Gets a New Owner

Meridian-Operated California Community Gets a New Owner

Three years after acquiring a struggling assisted living/memory care community in Rancho Cucamonga, California, a Chicago-based private equity group is exiting the asset, and leaving the community in better shape. Originally built in 2002, the 86-unit community features 62 assisted living and 24 memory care units across four free-standing buildings. Occupancy was a solid 86%, but it was being mismanaged by an inexperienced operator prior to the PE takeover, which came at a price of $13.6 million, or $158,100 per unit. For the community’s vintage and location, that was certainly a low price. Meridian Senior Living took over the operations, and clearly did a good job turning the property... Read More »
Meridian Moves into Central California Communities

Meridian Moves into Central California Communities

Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV found a new operator in Meridian Senior Living for three of its northern California communities. Acquired as part of a five-property portfolio acquisition in June 2017 from Nazareth Healthcare, these communities were then leased to Colonial Oaks under a 15-year absolute net lease with annual rent escalators of 6.5% after the first year and 2.5% thereafter. They were 100% occupied at the time and featured a mix of assisted living and memory care services in Menlo Park (45 MC beds), Sacramento (160 AL and MC beds) and Fairfield (102 MC beds). Originally, there was a second tranche of facilities supposed to be acquired in the 2017 deal, but Griffin-American... Read More »