• Ensign Acquires Iowa Skilled Nursing Facility

    Nick Cacciabando and Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage helped an industry veteran in Iowa sell his last solely-owned senior care facility, finding a publicly traded buyer in the process. The facility in question was Crystal Heights Care Center, a 72-bed skilled nursing facility in Oskaloosa, Iowa, about one hour southeast of Des... Read More »
  • Investor Group Enters the Seniors Sector Through Idaho Purchase

    An assisted living/memory care community in Twin Falls, Idaho, traded with the help of Chad Mundy and Nick Stahler of The Knapp-Stahler Group at Marcus & Millichap. The campus opened in 1989 with an eight-unit building, and added two 15-unit buildings in 2009 and 2015, respectively. Some units were added to each building in 2023 and 2024, and... Read More »
  • Value-Add Owner/Operator Grows in Texas

    Amy Sitzman, Giancarlo Riso, Connor Doherty and Ryan Kelly of Blueprint got a seniors housing deal across the finish line in Odessa, Texas. Built in 2013 as part of an expansion to an adjacent CCRC, the building has 67 assisted living and memory care units. It had gone through multiple operator changes over the years. The deal was marketed as an... Read More »
  • Seller Divests Its Only Out-Of-State Asset

    Senwell Senior Investment Advisors facilitated the successful sale of a 100-bed skilled nursing facility in Pennsylvania. Built in 1987, the facility was developed by an Ohio-based operator as part of a broader growth initiative. Its occupancy rate was consistently strong, often exceeding 95%. It was the seller’s only out-of-state asset, leading... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Adds to Its Seniors Housing Footprint 

    Foundry Commercial and funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group acquired the RoseWood Village Assisted Living and Memory Care communities in Charlottesville, Virginia. The two communities, RoseWood Village at Greenbrier and RoseWood Village at Hollymead, will be operated by Foundry Commercial’s management company, Allegro Living,... Read More »
Quality Care Properties Getting Ready To Deal

Quality Care Properties Getting Ready To Deal

Timing is everything. In the April issue of The SeniorCare Investor, we wrote about what the decline in financial performance at HCR ManorCare (HCRMC) from the 12-month period ending September 30, 2016 to the 12-month period ending December 31, 2016. Annualized EBITDAR dropped by $5.5 million which, although not a big number, was enough to cause fixed coverage to drop a little to 1.10x for the December 31 full-year period. At the property level, however, the coverage increased to 0.84x, a ratio that is still unacceptable and not sustainable. The company’s skilled nursing facilities are at 82.6% occupancy, which is also low for a company of its quality, and the 60 assisted living/memory... Read More »

Quality Care Properties Cuts Rent

Within weeks of being spun out of HCP, Inc. (NYSE: HCP), Quality Care Properties (NYSE: QCP) announced that it had agreed to a two-month temporary rent reduction for its major client, HCR ManorCare. December’s rent was reduced by $15.0 million, or nearly 40% below what it should have been, and January 2017’s rent will be reduced by $10.0 million, or 25% below what it should have been. Quality Care Properties agreed to these reductions in response to a request from HCR ManorCare because of the “continuing financial deterioration” at the company. QCP believes this partial and temporary relief with give it time to “perform due diligence and gather information about the Lessee in advance of a... Read More »
Financing the future

Financing the future

We wrote earlier this month of Capitol Seniors Housing’s large acquisition in the Seattle area, which involved four communities and some 368 units of assisted and independent living for a purchase price of $78 million, or $211,957 per unit. It turns out Aron Will of CBRE financed the transaction on behalf of the joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and The Carlyle Group. Mr. Will secured more than $60 million in non-recourse, floating-rate financing, with a five-year term and 36 months of interest only. Approximately $51.9 million of the loan will go towards financing the acquisition, and another $8 million will be allocated for planned capital improvements. The properties were... Read More »

Back in the game

The Carlyle Group is jumping back into the seniors housing acquisition market with the announcement of two deals. First, the private equity firm purchased a 226-unit seniors housing community in Tampa, Florida with the help of a $28.7 million loan arranged by Jay Wagner and Timothy Hosmer of Cushman & Wakefield and procured from a regional bank. Carlyle plans to use some of those funds to also significantly renovate the property, enhance its amenities and reposition the independent living, assisted living and memory care into separate buildings. The company, teaming with Greystar, also acquired a 101-unit independent living community in Fort Worth, Texas for $22 million, or $217,822... Read More »
American Realty Capital still in the big leagues

American Realty Capital still in the big leagues

We wrote a few months ago that American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust appeared to be going strategic in their deal making, meaning they were purchasing smaller one-off communities rather than the larger portfolio sales they were known for. In fact, in all of their deals before 2015 (going back to their first transaction in 2012), ARC averaged $52 million per transaction, but in the first 10 months of 2015, they averaged $13 million each. That is not to say the quality of the deals changed (they didn’t), just the size. However, ARC finished 2015 by announcing three transactions averaging $67.7 million per deal. First, ARC-II purchased a portfolio of three assisted living/memory care... Read More »