Sabra Health Care REIT Grows Its Southern California Portfolio
Sabra Health Care REIT has teamed up with Scottsdale, Arizona-based owner/operator Cadence Living to grow its senior living portfolio with the purchase of an assisted living/memory care community in Poway, California (San Diego MSA). Located adjacent to a 149-bed skilled nursing facility and near the Palomar Hospital, the community is spread out on 32 acres with seven separate buildings. It is unique in that it offers a horticultural-therapy program that grows more than 20,000 pounds of organic fruits and vegetables on several fields and greenhouses located throughout the property. There are of course many benefits to this program, from the obvious farm-to-table meals to providing excess... Read More »
Sabra Health Care REIT Strengthens
Sabra Health Care REIT continues to defy the naysayers, posting a decent third quarter overall, with its skilled nursing portfolio holding the line and its seniors housing portfolio growing revenues, cash net operating income and cash operating margin. Investors sent the shares to a new 52-week high, 56% above its 52-week low, and the forward yield of 7.3% is the lowest it has been in a while. Sabra’s skilled nursing triple-net leased occupancy remained stable at 82.4%, and the EBITDAR coverage remained at 1.24x from the second quarter to the third. While we like to see at least a 1.4x lease coverage, if not higher, the coverage appears to have bottomed out. The seniors housing leased... Read More »
Blueprint and BlueMountain
Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors announced that it was involved in the Sabra Health Care REIT sale of 28 skilled nursing facilities in Texas and Louisiana to a joint venture of BlueMountain Capital Management, BM Eagle Holdings and Capital Funding Group for $282.5 million. Engaged by the joint venture buyer for their expertise on the Texas and Louisiana markets, Ben Firestone, Chris Hyldahl and Gideon Orion of Blueprint helped find local operating partners and tenants for the portfolio, which was previously operated by the now-bankrupt Senior Care Centers. Despite the bad news surrounding SCC’s financial troubles, these facilities were still operating decently well, particularly... Read More »
To Be Public Or Not
There are a lot of people who do not believe seniors housing and care companies should be publicly traded. It is not appropriate to try to manage quarterly revenues and profits when you are taking care of older, frail residents. And don’t forget the earnings disruptions that can be caused by new developments and the ongoing depreciation expense if you own your real estate. It is just difficult to please investors and analysts with all the variables, including external ones that you have no control over, or so the argument goes. And then there is the roller coaster of daily stock prices. Take Genesis Healthcare, as an example. This past Monday, its price plunged by as much as 19% on trading... Read More »Schedule a demo
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