• Another Senior Care REIT Files for IPO

    Another senior care REIT is eyeing the public markets after filing a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed offering of Class A common stock. National Healthcare Properties’ offering remains subject to market conditions and other customary conditions, and the number of shares and pricing range have not yet been determined. And if... Read More »
  • SLIB Handles High-Quality SNF Sale in Texas

    Matthew Alley of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the sale of a high-quality skilled nursing facility in Lubbock, Texas. Built in 2010 and 2013, Crown Point Health Suites features 108 beds and is well maintained. It also performed strongly, with a 20% margin on nearly $14.5 million of revenues, and an 86% occupancy rate. Its independent... Read More »
  • Jaybird Senior Living Acquires Multi-State Portfolio

    An affiliate of Jaybird Senior Living, Jaybird Capital, acquired five senior living communities across Utah, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Jaybird assumed management of the communities in October and stabilized them before executing on the purchase. The company is currently targeting the addition of 15 more communities to its portfolio throughout the... Read More »
  • Newly Formed Investment Firm Enters Senior Care

    An 84-unit assisted living/memory care community in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, recently traded with the help of Continuum Advisors, which represented the institutional joint venture seller. Built in 2014, Beach House has 64 assisted living and 20 memory care units, with 100 licensed beds. It is situated on a barrier island near some of the most... Read More »
  • Seller Divests Geographic Outlier to Large Owner/Operator

    Senior Living Investment Brokerage announced that it sold a well-occupied seniors housing community in Oregon. The building is on an acre in Sheridan, and comprises 44,805 square feet. It was developed in 1996 and features 53 assisted living units. The community was 94% occupied at the time of closing.  Jason Punzel, Vince Viverito, Jake... Read More »
Slowest Q4 For Senior Care M&A Since 2014

Slowest Q4 For Senior Care M&A Since 2014

Despite a strong December, when we recorded 30 long-term care transactions, the fourth quarter of 2017 was slow by all recent standards. These are preliminary numbers and may be revised upward in the coming weeks, but with just 69 announced acquisitions, Q4:17 was the least active quarter in terms of number of transactions since Q2:14, when we recorded just 63 deal announcements. Compared to the previous years’ fourth quarters, 2017 fell short significantly, down from the 93 deals recorded in Q4:16 and from the 108 deals recorded in Q4:15 (the all-time high for a quarter). There were few high-priced deals, as well, with the largest of the quarter (Mainstreet’s $425 million acquisition of... Read More »
Home Health Care vs. Seniors Housing

Home Health Care vs. Seniors Housing

We are faced with a question that affects, and will affect, a senior’s choice in care. When is care at home both appropriate and cost effective, and at what point is it time to move into seniors housing? On January 19th, we hosted a webinar called “Home Health vs. Seniors Housing,” where a panel including moderator Steve Monroe of The SeniorCare Investor, Rita Altman of Sunrise Senior Living, William Dombi of The National Association of Home Care & Hospice and Debbie Reilly of Belmont Village Senior Living discussed the competing and complementary roles these two levels of care provide in the health care continuum. If you are interested in hearing the conversation, here’s the 90-minute... Read More »
Welcome to NIC

Welcome to NIC

As we all descend upon D.C., please take some time to stop and chat with us at the conference. So, the 26th annual NIC Conference is upon us. I wonder what the big topic will be this year, if any. In years past there have been exciting developments right before or during the conference, such as Sunrise Senior Living’s share price plunging, or Formation Capital’s billion dollar plus sale of SNFs to GE, or last year the spin-off of skilled nursing assets by Ventas into a new REIT. Will people be talking about Welltower’s billion-dollar acquisition of Vintage Senior Living? Or will it be the upcoming skilled nursing spin-off by HCP? Whatever it is, we will be listening and trying to discern... Read More »

Summer of the Big Deal

We had been talking about how 2016 was the “year of the small deal,” with near-record transaction levels but few mega deals. That changed at the end of July and certainly at the start of August, when several large deals were announced. Welltower caused the biggest stir in acquiring 19 seniors housing properties operated by Vintage Senior Living for a total of $1.15 billion, making it the largest long-term care transaction in 2016 by more than double (Welltower’s February acquisition of the Aston Gardens portfolio for $569 million came in second). The portfolio, which includes independent living, assisted living and memory care, is concentrated in high income markets in Southern and... Read More »

Partner in post-acute

To finance its recent acquisition of Spectrum Professional Services, an investor group led by healthcare M&A investor Beecken Petty O’Keefe and Company recently received a $110.5 million senior secured credit facility arranged by Capital One Healthcare, which served as administrative agent and lead book-runner. Spectrum is a rehabilitative therapy management consulting business catering its services to post-acute care, skilled nursing and assisted/independent living providers. It was acquired in December 2015 by a joint venture headed by Beecken Petty O’Keefe and including Sunrise Senior Living plus existing investors at Spectrum. Cain Brothers had served as Spectrum’s exclusive... Read More »