• Pacific Companies Acquires National Portfolio

    Pacific Companies, LLC, a privately owned real estate private equity firm based in San Diego, California, acquired the majority of the not-for-profit Retirement Housing Foundations market-rate seniors housing and skilled nursing assets. Ziegler served as exclusive sell-side advisor to RHF on the transaction, which closed in phases throughout late... Read More »
  • Owner/Operator Chooses Refinance Over Sale

    A national owner/operator faced with an underperforming seniors housing property in Missouri and maturing debt on the property secured a refinance thanks to JD Stettin of Carnegie Capital. The borrower, which has over 30 properties in its portfolio, acquired the 45-unit assisted living community in late 2017.  Occupancy and cash flow... Read More »
  • Two Seniors Housing Communities in Indiana Trade Hands

    Blueprint facilitated the divestment of two seniors housing communities in northwest Indiana. The value-add communities are in Michigan City and Merrillville and comprise 119 assisted living and memory care units. They had strong pre-pandemic financial performance but more recently benefited from a substantial Medicaid Waiver reimbursement rate... Read More »
  • Artemis/Bridgewood Acquire Texas Portfolio

    CBRE was engaged in the sale of four seniors housing communities in the Dallas, Texas MSA: Village on the Park Plano (Plano), Village on the Park Denton (Denton), Village on the Park Stonebridge Ranch (McKinney) and Village on the Park McKinney (McKinney). The communities comprise 366 total units of assisted living and memory care and were built... Read More »
  • Oklahoma Deal Overcomes Last-Minute Obstacles

    Plains Commercial Real Estate facilitated the sale of a skilled nursing facility in Oklahoma. The SNF was under legacy ownership and management, but the seller opted to divest to enter retirement and effectively exit the sector. Built in the 1960s, Latimer Nursing Home in Wilburton features 48 beds and occupancy hovered around 63% at the time of... Read More »

Bankruptcy breeds opportunity

After an exceptionally busy month for Texas M&A (details included in the upcoming issue of The SeniorCare Investor), we have one more. Highland Capital Management’s Cornerstone Healthcare Group was the stalking horse and ultimate buyer of a bankrupt not-for-profit senior care company with two senior living communities in Texas and one in Tennessee. The target, UGHS Senior Living, was actually profitable but filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2015 after its not-for-profit parent University General Health System filed for bankruptcy protection in February 2015 and its creditors were seeking repayment through various UGHS subsidiaries, including UGHS Senior Living. The... Read More »