• WOW! Sonida Senior Living Goes BIG

    Sonida Senior Living just announced what can only be described as a transformational acquisition. Since new management came in, CEO Brandon Ribar and CFO Kevin Detz, Sonida has been on an upward path of improved operations and a balance sheet that has grown stronger. Occupancy has been increasing (87.7% in Q3) and NOI and EBITDA are rising. Spot... Read More »
  • 60 Seconds with Swett: October Smashes M&A Record

    We were predicting a record-breaking end to the year in terms of M&A activity, but we are not sure we expected a 100+ deal month, with 110 transactions and counting. Just to put that in perspective, the previous record for any month was 77 deals in October of last year, and only four months had previously broken the 70-deal barrier. So this... Read More »
  • Newmark Ends October with Portfolio Closings

    Newmark announced a flurry of transactions at the end of October involving various institutional firms. The largest was a portfolio of seniors housing communities in the Northeast known as “Stars and Stripes.” Word on the street is that the portfolio sold for north of $800 million, and that a sub-portfolio was valued at more than $1 million per... Read More »
  • Stacked Stone Acquires Missouri Portfolio

    Stacked Stone Ventures announced the purchase of a seven-community assisted living/memory care portfolio in Missouri for $71 million, or $212,600 per unit. Totaling 334 units and 405 beds, the Oak Pointe portfolio was developed between 2015 and 2020 by an investor group called ClearPath Senior Housing, which included Jeff Binder of Senior Living... Read More »
  • Blueprint Sells Georgia Community to LTC Properties

    LTC Properties divested seven skilled nursing facilities through two separate deals for $122 million in October. In those transaction announcements, the publicly traded REIT noted that it intended to redeploy proceeds for the acquisition of newer, stabilized SHOP assets. It looks like that’s what the publicly traded REIT did in Georgia at the... Read More »
MedCore Partners Divests Washington State Community

MedCore Partners Divests Washington State Community

After purchasing a portfolio of seven seniors housing properties from Ventas in July 2020, MedCore Partners is divesting one of the properties in Sedro-Woolley, Washington (about 75 miles north of Seattle). The 2020 acquisition comprised six other communities in Washington (Sequim, Olympia, Centralia and Tacoma) and California (San Juan Capistrano and Westminster), and in total sold for $52 million, or $89,300 per unit. Still operated by Senior Services of America, there are 582 total units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. MedCore made the acquisition with The National Realty Group and Kong Capital, originally agreeing to a purchase price of $70 million but lowering... Read More »
Bloom Senior Living Blossoms Again

Bloom Senior Living Blossoms Again

Last week we disclosed that Bloom Senior Living and its affiliate Kandu Capital hit a home run with its sale of a 94-unit assisted living and memory care community in St. Petersburg, Florida. They purchased it for $5.5 million in 2017 and just sold it for $12.5 million. Not too shabby.  Well, it looks like they did it again, this time selling a 91-unit assisted living community in Lakewood, Ohio for $11.8 million, or nearly $130,000 per unit. While that price per unit will not be breaking any records, Bloom had purchased the community in 2010 for just $3.1 million out of the Sunwest Management bankruptcy.   Do the math, and that is a 380% return... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Originates Financings for Four Communities

Walker & Dunlop Originates Financings for Four Communities

Walker & Dunlop Managing Director Kevin Giusti and Senior Analyst Brian Neal recently originated $37.47 million in financing for four assisted living and memory care facilities: Bloom at Bluffton in Bluffton, South Carolina; Bloom at Hilton Head in Hilton Head, South Carolina; Cascades of Tucson, in Tucson, Arizona; and Regency Jackson in Jackson, Tennessee. The Bloom Portfolio consists of two assisted living and memory care homes in South Carolina with 117 total units that sold in May for $12.25 million to WindRiver Companies for a cap rate around 5.7%. Built around 20 years ago, the communities had seen occupancy decline to 70% due to the pandemic and several new communities opening... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Lands HUD Financing For Two Senior Care Properties

Walker & Dunlop Lands HUD Financing For Two Senior Care Properties

Two senior care properties obtained permanent HUD financing courtesy of Walker & Dunlop to replace their original acquisition debt. Joshua Rosen led the origination team on the transactions.  Cascade Capital Group acquired the 136-bed supportive living facility in Aurora, Illinois earlier this year, thanks in part to an $11.03 million nine-month bridge loan arranged by Mr. Rosen from W&D’s balance sheet, which covered 100% of the acquisition costs. Built in 1964, the community is located adjacent to a 156-bed skilled nursing facility. It is being refinanced by a $14.65 million HUD loan, so Cascade must have added some significant value to the... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Refinances Two Senior Care Facilities

Walker & Dunlop Refinances Two Senior Care Facilities

Walker & Dunlop refinanced two balance sheet loans it had provided over three years ago to two senior care facilities in Texas and Alabama. Kevin Giusti and Michael Vaughn had arranged the prior short-term loans, which came with terms up to three years, interest-only payments throughout the life of the loans and floating interest rates. Built in 2011, the Lubbock, Texas skilled nursing facility was expanded in 2013 and now features 96 private units. In 2016, it received a $15.5 million loan, which represented a 75% loan-to-value. The Huntsville, Alabama property is a CCRC that was built in 1980, with a skilled nursing facility added in 2015. It features 312 units with independent... Read More »