• 60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

    We were predicting a record-breaking end to the year in terms of M&A activity, but we are not sure we expected a 100+ deal month, with 110 transactions and counting. Just to put that in perspective, the previous record for any month was 77 deals in October of last year, and only four months had previously broken the 70-deal barrier. So this... Read More »
  • Newmark Ends October with Portfolio Closings

    Newmark announced a flurry of transactions at the end of October involving various institutional firms. The largest was a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Northeast known as “Stars and Stripes.” Word on the street is that the portfolio sold for north of $800 million, and that a sub-portfolio was valued at more than $1 million per... Read More »
  • Stacked Stone Acquires Missouri Portfolio

    Stacked Stone Ventures announced the purchase of a seven-community assisted living/memory care portfolio in Missouri for $71 million, or $212,600 per unit. Totaling 334 units and 405 beds, the Oak Pointe portfolio was developed between 2015 and 2020 by an investor group called ClearPath Senior Housing, which included Jeff Binder of Senior Living... Read More »
  • Blueprint Sells Georgia Community to LTC Properties

    LTC Properties divested seven skilled nursing facilities through two separate deals for $122 million in October. In those transaction announcements, the publicly traded REIT noted that it intended to redeploy proceeds for the acquisition of newer, stabilized SHOP assets. It looks like that’s what the publicly traded REIT did in Georgia at the... Read More »
  • MIG Announces Two Closings

    Montgomery Intermediary Group announced a couple of transactions at the end of October. First, Andrew Montgomery sold a 120-bed skilled nursing facility in southern Illinois in a value-add deal. Built in the 1960s and 1970s, the facility had a roughly 50% Medicaid census, with between 30% and 35% private pay and 5% to 10% Medicare. It was losing... Read More »
MonticelloAM Funds Large Virginia Acquisition

MonticelloAM Funds Large Virginia Acquisition

MonticelloAM and its affiliates just announced a large first lien debt financing to fund the acquisition of five skilled nursing facilities in Virginia. The borrower, an experienced owner/operator with an established relationship with Monticello (having received acquisition financing for several other facilities in 2019), obtained $97.2 million in debt, including an $8 million working capital loan provided to its operating companies. Monticello’s asset-based lending group, Monticello Commercial Capital, provided the working capital.   The acquisition featured 856 beds located primarily around Richmond, bringing the owner’s portfolio to a total of 1,155 licensed beds. The... Read More »
Owner/Operator Makes Big Purchase in North Carolina and Kentucky

Owner/Operator Makes Big Purchase in North Carolina and Kentucky

An experienced owner/operator just bought a large portfolio of skilled nursing facilities in North Carolina and Kentucky, thanks in part to first-lien debt financing provided by Monticello Asset Management and its affiliates. The acquisition involved 12 SNFs evenly split between the two states. The properties averaged a 1977 vintage, and the gross building area totaled 402,554 square feet.   There was also one skilled nursing facility already in the buyer’s portfolio that was refinanced in the deal. Altogether, there were 1,357 beds across the portfolio, bringing the buyer’s total to more than 8,750 licensed beds.  Monticello had worked... Read More »
Monticello Closes Two More First Lien Debt Financings

Monticello Closes Two More First Lien Debt Financings

The financings keep on flowing from Monticello Asset Management, which recently secured two more first lien debt packages for clients in the Mid-Atlantic. The Maryland transaction consisted of a $32 million loan provided to an experienced owner/operator with a portfolio of over 1,300 licensed beds to refinance its 177-bed skilled nursing facility in Cecil County (northwest Maryland). Built in 1994, the facility (through its operating company) also received a $2 million working capital loan. Then, in New Jersey, Monticello funded the acquisition of a rental CCRC in Camden County with $38 million in first lien debt. Consisting of 226 independent living units, 113 assisted living/memory care... Read More »
Monticello Finances Tennessee Transaction

Monticello Finances Tennessee Transaction

Monticello Asset Management and its affiliates provided $15.8 million in first lien debt to finance the acquisition of three assisted living/memory care communities in Tennessee. Totaling 126 units, the communities will also be renovated thanks to funds from this transaction. The borrower was an experienced owner/operator of seniors housing communities with a portfolio of more than 1,100 units, inclusive of recent acquisitions. This is the second Tennessee transaction closed by Monticello this month. The earlier deal consisted of $16.68 million of first lien debt for the refinance of two skilled nursing facilities and 303 total beds in the state. That transaction also included a $3 million... Read More »
Monticello Finances Two Tennessee SNFs

Monticello Finances Two Tennessee SNFs

Monticello Asset Management and its affiliates provided $16.7 million in first lien debt to refinance two skilled nursing facilities in Tennessee. Totaling 303 beds, the facilities are owned by an experienced owner/operator with a portfolio of more than 4,630 licensed beds. They were built in 1969 and 1977, respectively. Monticello also had an established relationship with the borrower, having financed its acquisition of a number of facilities in the past several years across multiple transactions. This transaction also included a $3 million working capital loan to the properties’ operating companies. Monticello’s asset-based lending group, Monticello Commercial Capital, provided that... Read More »