• Grace Management Adds Five Ventas Communities

    Grace Management expanded its relationship with Ventas, adding five seniors housing communities owned by the REIT to its operating portfolio. The communities were previously managed under a triple-net lease structure. They include Brookdale Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, Brookdale Northbrook in Northbrook, Illinois, Brookdale Springs Mesa... Read More »
  • Seller Boosts Census Ahead of Sale to JV

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors sold Rose Hill Retirement Community, a 66-unit, 87-bed assisted living community in Marion, North Carolina. Originally built as a hospital, Rose Hill has been transformed by the seller over the past two decades into a senior care community. After a previous attempt to sell the community was unsuccessful,... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Buys Orange County Community

    A high-end seniors housing community in Orange County sold with the help of CBRE National Senior Housing. Aron Will and John Sweeny represented the joint venture seller in the deal, while Will and Matthew Kuronen arranged acquisition financing from a national bank. The loan came with a four-year term, a full term of interest only and a floating... Read More »
  • Developer Secures Construction Financing

    JLL Capital Markets arranged a $47 million construction financing for The Arbella at Blue Hills, a 164-unit, active adult community to be developed in Bloomfield, Connecticut. JLL worked on behalf of the developer, The United Group of Companies, Inc. (United Group) to secure the construction loan through Liberty Bank of Middletown, Connecticut.... Read More »
  • Midwest-Based Operator Refinances AL/MC Communities

    MONTICELLOAM, LLC, along with firm affiliates, provided a $28.5 million senior bridge financing for two Midwest seniors housing communities. The financing was originated by Karina Davydov, Senior Managing Director, Originations. The sponsor, a Midwest-based operator with a portfolio of over 40 seniors housing and healthcare properties and a... Read More »
Lancaster Pollard Closes HUD LEAN Loans

Lancaster Pollard Closes HUD LEAN Loans

The transactions keep on coming from Lancaster Pollard. After being revealed last month as the top HUD LEAN lender once again (with 79 transactions and nearly $770 million in volume during HUD’s fiscal year 2017), the firm has closed another two transactions on behalf of California-based borrowers. First, for Summit Healthcare REIT, Jason Dopoulos of LP refinanced four senior care facilities for a total loan amount of $55.1 million. The portfolio features a 181-bed skilled nursing facility in Millsboro, Delaware, a 151-bed SNF in Smyrna, DE, a 69-unit independent living community in Salem, Oregon, and a 66-unit IL/assisted living/skilled nursing facility in Portland, OR. The latter two... Read More »

California-Based Summit Healthcare REIT Heads Northeast

Summit Healthcare REIT just expanded its holdings in the Northeast, adding nine skilled nursing facilities with 1,285 licensed beds. Along with joint venture partner Fantasia Investment III LLC, a U.S.-based affiliate of Fantasia Holdings Group Co., Ltd., Summit acquired an interest in these facilities out of receivership. They were previously owned by a Colorado-based private investment group, but the existing operator will stay on to manage the portfolio. Quality of care is high, with each facility reporting at least a four-star rating from CMS. The joint venture ended up paying $60 million, or $46,700 per bed. Steve Thomes, Chris Hyldahl, and Gideon Orion of Blueprint Healthcare Real... Read More »

Heavenrich Closes Sale To Summit Healthcare REIT

Brian Clark of Heavenrich & Company just sold a 77-unit assisted living/memory care community in Chandler, Arizona (Phoenix MSA) for $13.4 million, or about $174,000 per unit. Mr. Clark represented the stand-alone not-for-profit seller, Pennington Gardens, in the community’s sale to Summit Healthcare REIT, a public non-traded REIT. Built in 2000, the community was 87% occupied at the time of the sale. We imagine operations could improve somewhat, as despite its good location and age, it sold for nearly $40,000 per unit less than the national average price of $217,000 per unit, for the 12 months ended June 30, 2017. Summit leased the community to Compass Senior Living, which already... Read More »
Public REITs can sell seniors housing assets too

Public REITs can sell seniors housing assets too

We’ve read a lot about public REITs shedding their skilled nursing assets, but that’s not all they’re selling. A publicly traded REIT sold a pair of West Coast assisted living communities for $23 million, or $365,079 per unit. There is a 48-bed/24-unit assisted living/memory care community in Corvallis, Oregon, and a 78-bed/39-unit AL community in Citrus Heights, California. Over 93% occupied, the communities earned around $6.5 million in annualized revenues. The buyer, Summit Healthcare REIT, triple-net leased the properties for a term of 10 years to an affiliate of Compass Senior Living. Acquisition financing was arranged by Capital One, and Tim Cobb of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate... Read More »

The Blueprint Buzz

We hope the team at Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has found some time this NIC to celebrate their busy end to the summer, having announced four deals during the Fall conference. First up, with the help of Steve Thomes, Christopher Hyldahl, and Gideon Orion of Blueprint, as well as acquisition financing provided by Private Bank, Brick, New Jersey-based Tryko Partners LLC added to its already-strong eastern Massachusetts skilled nursing facility portfolio with the acquisition of a 107-bed facility in Methuen for $7.5 million, or $70,093 per bed. It was built in 1960 and renovated in 1995, but Tryko is planning, through its affiliate, Marquis Health Services, a $2.5 million... Read More »