• Newmark Closes Class-A Deal in Denver

    by | Apr 24, 2024 8:44 am | Acquisitions

    A new seniors housing community traded in the Denver, Colorado MSA, with the help of the team at Newmark. Developed in 2017, MorningStar at RidgeGate is located in the suburb of Lone Tree within the Ridgegate master plan that features retail, cultural amenities and a 284-bed hospital nearby. The property comprises five stories over subterranean... Read More »

  • Public REIT Purchases Texas Class-A Seniors Housing

    by | Apr 23, 2024 3:56 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint was engaged in the divestment of a Class-A seniors housing community in San Antonio, Texas. Built in two phases in 2011 and 2017, Franklin Park TPC Parkway comprises 269 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Following the completion of a six-year freeway expansion project that affected leasing, access to the... Read More »

  • Eads Sells Its 24th & 25th Missouri Community

    by | Apr 23, 2024 3:54 pm | Acquisitions

    Patrick Byrne of Eads Investment Brokerage facilitated the divestment of two seniors housing communities in Missouri. This marks the 24th and 25th communities sold in Missouri for Eads. The Moberly community (which we believe to be Mark Twain Assisted Living) comprises 35 assisted living/independent living units and sold for $2.57 million, or... Read More »

  • 60 Seconds with Swett: CMS Raises the Minimum Staffing Mandate

    by | Apr 23, 2024 3:48 pm | 60 Seconds

    On Monday, CMS came out with its final minimum staffing standards for nursing homes, but the eventual outcome is anything but final. Despite the outcry from nursing home providers from the previous proposed mandate of three hours per resident per day, asking simple questions like how can we pay for this and where will this newly needed staff come... Read More »

  • More Shareholder Activism

    by | Apr 22, 2024 9:04 am | Opinion

    Fresh from its success in getting two people voted onto the Ventas Board of Directors, Land & Buildings is at it again, this time with National Health Investors. Like all the REITs, NHI’s managers and tenants had their share of problems during the pandemic. Who didn’t? Most of these issues are behind it, but the REIT could be in even stronger... Read More »
Welltower Acquires Two Virginia Memory Care Communities

Welltower Acquires Two Virginia Memory Care Communities

by | Jul 13, 2021 4:03 pm | Acquisitions

Brooks Blackmon and Ben Firestone of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors arranged the sale of two memory care communities in Virginia. The communities are in the enviable position of being stabilized with high occupancy and above-market rates. The Richmond location opened in 2015, and the Virginia Beach property was completed in 2008. Both feature 48 units and 35,000 square feet. A local developer/operator built and managed the communities, which command the top rates in their respective markets, but is now exiting the assets. Welltower, in partnership with ProMedica, paid $31 million, or $322,900 per unit, for the communities. That is right below the average price for Virginia... Read More »
The Gold Standard A Bit Tarnished

The Gold Standard A Bit Tarnished

by | Nov 28, 2018 7:02 am | 60 Seconds, Opinion

A scathing article from The Washington Post discloses quality problems at HCR ManorCare before its sale to Welltower and ProMedica Health System. For those of you who missed the Thanksgiving weekend article from the Washington Post about poor care at HCR ManorCare’s nursing facilities in Pennsylvania, well, why ruin a great weekend? All kidding aside, it did not portray HCR ManorCare in a very good light, citing numerous cases of poor care and lack of staffing. But I am not sure if they were attacking HCR ManorCare itself, or The Carlyle Group, which owned the company at the time and did the $6 billion sale/leaseback which financially strangled them. Granted, most of the events cited in... Read More »
Sale of Quality Care Properties Approved

Sale of Quality Care Properties Approved

by | Jul 27, 2018 7:02 am | Opinion

By a margin of 26-1, shareholders approved the sale of Quality Care Properties to Welltower for $20.75 per share in cash, with Welltower teaming up with ProMedica Health System, which will own the HCR ManorCare operating business, lease the facilities from Welltower, and also own the home health and hospice business. Shareholders also approved the compensation packages for QCP’s executives but at a much smaller margin of 1.14-1.0. Although we have not seen a closing date, we expect all the transactions to close in the next few weeks. We are sure Welltower would like to have it all wrapped up in time for the August 3 second quarter earnings calls. It will be interesting to see how the HCR... Read More »
The Gold Standard A Bit Tarnished

HCR ManorCare Deal The Future Or A Risk?

by | May 23, 2018 7:02 am | 60 Seconds, Opinion

Hospitals and post-acute providers have not mixed well in the past, but ProMedica Health System hopes that changes. I keep thinking about the Welltower and ProMedica Health System acquisition of Quality Care Properties and HCR ManorCare. Given today’s valuations, ProMedica may have gotten a bit of a deal with ManorCare’s home health and hospice business. But we are still not convinced that a basically two-state hospital system will benefit from owning skilled nursing and assisted living all over the country. Will the tail wag the dog? Yes, there are a lot of unusual alliances going on in healthcare services today, with pharmacies buying insurers, and insurers buying anything they can get... Read More »