• Eight Wisconsin Senior Care Assets Sell in Four Deals

    Senior Care Realty had an active October, with a handful of deals closed by Chad Wegner and Bob Richards. The four transactions involved senior care assets spread throughout Wisconsin. In one of the transactions, Chad Wegner of Senior Care Realty sold four assisted living and memory care communities across two campuses in Wisconsin. The... Read More »
  • Public REIT Offloads SNFs Following Lease Non-Renewal

    Blueprint started the fourth quarter well after selling a portfolio of skilled nursing facilities in Florida, California and Virginia, on behalf of a public REIT. The existing tenant elected not to renew its master lease, prompting the portfolio divesture. The first closing was completed in Florida for two high-quality SNFs. The two facilities... Read More »
  • Senior Care Owner/Operator Acquires AL Community

    Dan Mahoney and Dillon Rudy of Blueprint were engaged by a Louisiana-based not-for-profit owner/operator to market a 40-unit assisted living community in the Inland Northwest region of Idaho. The property maintained a steady resident base and in-place HUD financing. The organization was divesting because the asset no longer geographically aligned... Read More »
  • Developer Divests to Capital Group

    A Class-A seniors housing community near Wichita, Kansas, found a new owner thanks to Evans Senior Investments. The seller developed the community in 2014 and has operated it since then. There are 101 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. Occupancy was consistent around 90%, and the operating margin was in the high-20s,... Read More »
  • Stellar Senior Living Finances Arizona Community

    Marcus & Millichap arranged $22 million in financing for The Springs of Scottsdale, a 143-unit independent living community in Phoenix, Arizona. Paul Winterowd secured the financing with a national life insurance company on behalf of Stellar Senior Living. The sponsor secured a five-year loan at 60% loan-to-value, with a competitive interest... Read More »

Growth spurt

Sabra Health Care REIT announced a pair of acquisitions, totaling almost $85 million. First the REIT purchased four senior living communities, with 214 total units, in the Pacific Northwest for $65 million, or $303,700 per unit. Three of the properties are located in Oregon and one in Washington, with a total of 122 assisted living units, 74 memory care units and 18 independent living units. Built between 1989 and 1995, with various renovations between 2003 and 2011, the portfolio averaged 96.4% occupancy in 2014 and operated at a 33% margin on $13.9 million of revenues, resulting in a 7.1% cap rate. Sabra leased the properties to Radiant Senior Living, with an initial term of 10 years and... Read More »

Record-high SNF price

Have you ever seen a skilled nursing facility sell for over $300,000 per bed? Well, according to our data (which dates back to 1989), such a deal has not happened, until today. Sabra Health Care REIT, which recently acquired nine seniors housing properties in Canada (lowering its SNF exposure to approximately 50%), purchased four Maryland skilled nursing facilities with 678 beds for $234 million, or a whopping $345,100 per bed. When you look at the purchase price for three of the facilities (with 472 beds) at $175.2 million, the price per bed is an even higher $371,000. The fourth facility, which has a $10.8 million HUD loan with a 5.60% interest rate and sold for $58.8 million, was valued... Read More »

Sabra Collaborates with Leo Brown

Sabra Health Care REIT is getting more skin in the game in the development world, having announced a new pipeline agreement with Leo Brown Group (LBG) to help finance up to 10 new senior housing construction projects. Under the agreement, LBG will identify and secure construction financing for senior housing projects. Of those potential projects, Sabra will then have the right, through March 31, 2017, to provide a portion of the required equity financing for up to 10 projects through a preferred equity structure. Plus, at the time of the investment, Sabra will then obtain a purchase option for the community. The total purchase price for the projects is estimated to be approximately $250... Read More »

Another Holiday portfolio sells to a REIT

So goes another large portfolio of Holiday Retirement properties, with NorthStar Realty Finance’s acquisition of 32 independent living communities from affiliates of Harvest Facility Holdings, itself an affiliate of Holiday. The acquisition marks another step towards Holiday’s owner Fortress Investment Group’s goal of transforming Holiday into an operating company. In fact, since October 2013, Holiday has sold over 200 properties totaling about $5.1 billion. In that time, nearly all of those assets were sold to REITs, such as New Senior Investment Group, Sabra Health Care REIT, National Health Investors and Ventas, and that is no different in the most-recent transaction. NorthStar Realty... Read More »