• Omega Invests in Saber Healthcare Joint Venture

    Omega Healthcare Investors released its third quarter earnings and made some news when it disclosed the acquisition of a 49% equity interest in a joint venture with Saber Healthcare. The JV will own and lease 64 skilled nursing facilities that were previously wholly owned by affiliates of Saber, which will retain a 51% equity interest in the JV... Read More »
  • Health Systems as Sellers in Three Transactions

    Cain Brothers advised on a trio of senior care transactions involving health systems as sellers, which could be a growing trend, particularly among any resource-constrained systems. Conversely, other systems may see the need to own skilled nursing beds in the future in order to control the transfer of their post-acute patients to SNFs and free up... Read More »
  • Large Ohio Operator Takes on Vacant SNF Beds

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated the sale of 26 skilled nursing beds from a facility in Ohio and coordinated the repurposing of the real estate for future behavioral health services. The owners made the decision to close the facility after determining that the small size of the building prevented it from achieving the operational... Read More »
  • Not-For-Profits Secure Bond Financings

    Ziegler announced the successful pricing of $34.0 million Series 2025 bonds for The Chapel Hill Residential Retirement Center, Inc. d/b/a Carol Woods. Carol Woods is a North Carolina not-for-profit organization incorporated in July 1972 by a group of local citizens to develop, own and operate a CCRC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Currently,... Read More »
  • 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 »
Atrium Health Suffers

Atrium Health Suffers

The New Jersey-based skilled nursing and assisted living operator puts 33 of its properties into receivership. Not good for the lenders. I am sure you have heard by now about Atrium Health and Senior Living placing 33 of its properties into receivership this week. This includes all their Wisconsin properties and one Michigan facility, but appears to leave out its 12 buildings in New Jersey. Atrium operates both skilled nursing and assisted living, and only nine assisted living communities in Wisconsin were placed in receivership; the remainder were SNFs. The receiver has hired Health Dimensions Consulting to operate them during the receivership until it is decided whether to split them up... Read More »
Oregon Operator Refinances Bond Debt

Oregon Operator Refinances Bond Debt

The long-term owner of an assisted living/memory care community in Oregon went to MidCap Financial to help recapture equity for its other development projects and to fund property improvements. Caring Places, an operator of 11 communities in Washington and Oregon, secured a $4.65 million floating-rate loan, with a three-year term, to refinance bond debt on its 66-unit community in Forest Grove (Portland MSA). Featuring 44 assisted living and 22 memory care units, the property was originally developed by Caring Places in 1991. That long-term vision will continue, as Caring Places looks to eventually refinance this first mortgage through HUD. Read More »
MidCap Financial Arranges Acquisition Financing For Southwest Senior Living

MidCap Financial Arranges Acquisition Financing For Southwest Senior Living

MidCap Financial worked on behalf of Palatine Capital Partners Management to arrange financing for the purchase of a senior living community in the Southwest. Palatine, an investment firm focused on small- and mid-cap real estate assets, acquired a 145-unit senior living community that is roughly split evenly between independent living and assisted living. Well-located and purpose-built in the late 1990s, the community was in need of significant renovations. So, in addition to funding the acquisition, the $9.0 million floating rate loan will enable Palatine to implement a $2.5 million capital improvement plan at the community to renovate the exteriors, common areas and unit... Read More »
MidCap Financial Finances Georgia Portfolio Acquisition

MidCap Financial Finances Georgia Portfolio Acquisition

Lawrence “Lory” Brin of MidCap Financial recently helped facilitate Artemis Real Estate Partners and Allegro Senior Living’s acquisition of three Atlanta-area assisted living communities by arranging an $18.25 million loan. The floating rate first mortgage will also enable the buyers to reposition the communities and invest $7 million of capital improvements to renovate the exteriors, common areas and unit interiors. Built from 1998 to 2000, the communities are located in Buckhead (46 assisted living and 22 memory care units), Alpharetta (48 AL and 24 MC units) and Marietta (28 AL and 27 MC units). The deal marks Allegro Senior Living’s entry into the state, and the company will also... Read More »

MidCap Financial’s On A Mission

MidCap Financial is back in the news, having provided a $17.5 million bridge-to-HUD loan to an assisted living/memory care community in Reno, Nevada. The three-year, floating-rate loan will take out construction debt and recapture equity in the property, which was developed in 2016 with 116 total units. Lease-up was quick, reaching 88% occupancy within a year of opening. Mission Senior Living, based in nearby Carson City, owns and operates the community, along with four others in Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, and a couple more in the development pipeline. Read More »