• Sabra Trims Forecast, Tempering a Solid Quarter

    Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. announced several acquisitions in its third quarter results. The REIT acquired six managed seniors housing properties for $217.5 million with an estimated initial cash yield of 7.8%, three of which were acquired through a consolidated joint venture in which Sabra has a 95% equity interest. The company also purchased... Read More »
  • CareTrust’s Flurry of Acquisitions

    CareTrust REIT, Inc. closed a series of transactions totaling approximately $437 million in late October. In two separate deals, the REIT acquired 12 skilled nursing facilities and one skilled nursing campus located across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. The combined portfolio includes approximately 1,760 licensed skilled nursing beds and... Read More »
  • Ensign Adds to Its Utah and Alabama Footprint

    The Ensign Group, Inc. kicked off November with a couple of new deals. The publicly traded company acquired the real estate and operations of the following seven Stonehedge skilled nursing facilities in Utah: Stonehenge of American Fork (90 beds in American Fork) Stonehenge of Cedar City (50 beds in Cedar City) Stonehenge of Ogden (52 beds in... Read More »
  • Joint Venture Makes Its First Acquisition

    A joint venture between Capitol Seniors Housing and a global alternative asset manager with over $55 billion in assets under management worldwide acquired The Woods at Merrimack, a 140-unit seniors housing community in Methuen, Massachusetts. This is the first deal between CSH and the asset manager but marks the beginning of a long-term... Read More »
  • Michigan-Based Owner/Operator Buys Lansing Campus

    A public REIT engaged Blueprint in the confidential divestiture of a 53-unit assisted living and memory care campus in Lansing, Michigan. The campus features two standalone buildings separately catering to assisted living residents and those requiring memory care. The well-maintained campus was originally built in 1997 and consisted of 19... Read More »
Hats Off to Capital Funding

Hats Off to Capital Funding

About three years after it acquired a 140-bed skilled nursing facility in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, Vita Healthcare Group decided to refinance the property with a HUD loan provided by Capital Funding. Craig Casagrande originated the $16.1 million mortgage, which takes out the original $13.36 million bridge loan and $1.5 million working capital loan provided by the firm to support the 2016 acquisition. That original financing included a turnaround component that increased the loan amount based on projected improvements to the facility’s performance. So, assuming a roughly 90% loan-to-cost, the 2016 purchase price can be estimated just below $15 million, or $106,100 per bed. In early 2016, the... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Portfolios Sell in the Northeast

Skilled Nursing Portfolios Sell in the Northeast

Halfway through 2018, Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has so far announced 34 closings, making the prospect of breaking their 2017 record of 53 deals even closer. The firm closed June out with two more transactions featuring skilled nursing divestments in the Northeast. First, in New Jersey, Ben Firestone, Chris Hyldahl, Michael Segal and Gideon Orion sold four skilled nursing facilities totaling 654 beds for an undisclosed price. Located in high-barrier-to-entry markets near New York City and along the Jersey Shore, the facilities have undergone several extensive renovations, including adding new memory care units, ventilator units and outpatient therapy space. The buyer is an... Read More »

No rest for the weary

Capital Funding Group recently announced the closing of four transactions for three different skilled nursing facilities across the country. First up, Capital Funding provided an undisclosed amount of subordinated debt to finance the acquisition of a 175-bed SNF in Modesto, California. A group of private real estate investors was the buyer, which brought on an affiliate of Windsor Healthcare to operate. Next up, in a deal that may sound familiar to our readers, CFG financed Vita Healthcare Group’s acquisition of a 140-bed skilled nursing facility in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. There were three parts to the transaction. Capital Funding arranged a $13.36 bridge-to-HUD loan funded through a... Read More »
Hats Off to Capital Funding

Hats off to Vita

Already with three skilled nursing facilities in the state of New York, Vita Healthcare Group (which is based in New Jersey) has in the past seven months worked to grow its presence in the Mid-Atlantic region. Back in June 2015, the company purchased two facilities with 256 total beds in the towns of Columbia and Elizabeth, Pennsylvania for $18.3 million, or $71,445 per bed. Now, Vita has acquired a 140-bed facility in Hatboro (Philadelphia MSA) for an undisclosed price. Both transactions featured strikingly similar facilities. The Columbia and Elizabeth facilities were built in 1978 and 1968, respectively, and were 86% and 79% occupied, respectively. Meanwhile, the Hatboro facility was... Read More »

Capital Funding Group funds two SNF acquisitions

Capital Funding Group recently completed two bridge-to-HUD loans for the acquisition of three skilled nursing facilities. The first, an $18.29 million loan arranged by Craig Casagrande, financed the acquisition of two SNFs in Pennsylvania, totaling 256 beds. If this sounds familiar, you would be right, as the transaction, between buyer, Vita Healthcare Group and seller, a regional senior living operator, was featured in the June issue of The SeniorCare Investor. The two facilities, a 173-bed SNF (90% occupied) built in 1978 and a facility with 45 skilled nursing beds (75% occupied) and 38 personal care beds (85% occupied) built in 1968, with the skilled nursing beds added in 1996, were the... Read More »