• 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 »
Values Surge Despite Persistent Worries

Values Surge Despite Persistent Worries

The 25th Edition of The Senior Care Acquisition Report is almost ready, but get your sneak preview and analysis in our upcoming webcast. We are diligently working on the 2020 edition of the Senior Care Acquisition Report, which we hope to have ready for publication by the end of the month. It will be the 25th edition of this market-leading report, and it has valuable M&A statistics that you will not find anywhere else, including trends over multi-year periods. Well, that is not exactly true. Next week we will be releasing some of those statistics in our annual webcast on the state of the seniors housing and care M&A market. Our panel will include brokers from Cushman &... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop Finances Another Cascade Capital Group Acquisition

Walker & Dunlop Finances Another Cascade Capital Group Acquisition

Walker & Dunlop’s Joshua Rosen arranged bridge financing for Cascade Capital Group’s acquisition of a 136-bed supportive living facility in Aurora, Illinois. Totaling over $11.0 million, the debt was structured and provided by W&D’s bridge lending program, which utilizes the company’s own balance sheet. It came with a nine-month term and full term of interest-only payments and allow Cascade to quickly execute on the acquisition. The loan also features flexible prepayment options, and Cascade expects to refinance through HUD later this year. If this sounds familiar, it’s because in August 2019, Walker & Dunlop provided a $12.8 million loan from its balance sheet to cover 100% of... Read More »
OREC Securities Leads Cape Cod Sale

OREC Securities Leads Cape Cod Sale

Late last month, we learned of Walker & Dunlop’s involvement in structuring acquisition financing for a senior care campus on Cape Cod. Now, it’s revealed that the OREC Securities team of Laca Wong-Hammond, Chad Elliott, Kevin Laidlaw and Aaron Becker led the sale on behalf of the seller. Located in the town of Brewster, Massachusetts, the property consists of a 135-bed skilled nursing facility built in 1995 and a 59-unit assisted living community that was added in 2007. Both were well occupied, but the owner/operator, Joshua Zuckerman, wanted to retire from the business. OREC, the investment banking affiliate of Lancaster Pollard, was originally brought on to sell the SNF and AL... Read More »
OREC Securities Leads Cape Cod Sale

Walker & Dunlop Announced Cape Cod Closing

Walker & Dunlop both structured and provided $28.3 million in acquisition financing for the new owner of a 194-bed senior care campus in the Cape Cod town of Brewster, Massachusetts. Coming with a two-year term and interest-only payments throughout the life of the loan, the financing covers about 90% of the acquisition costs, leaving the borrower with funds to execute on some renovations at the facility. That borrower was The Pointe Group, a private, family-owned and locally managed senior living and rehabilitation provider in Massachusetts. Previously owned and operated by Joshua Zuckerman, who wanted to retire from the business, the 135-bed SNF was built in 1995, while the 59-unit... Read More »
Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team

Walker & Dunlop’s New Seniors Housing Team

Walker & Dunlop expanded its senior care investment sales business in a big way, bringing in Managing Directors Mark Myers and Josh Jandris and Vice Presidents Jordyn Berger, Alex Vice and Mike Surak of IPA Seniors Housing, a division of Marcus & Millichap. The Chicago-based team will build on W&D’s existing multifamily property sales platform by bringing a new focus on seniors housing and skilled nursing property sales, building on W&D’s existing multifamily platform. They will also work closely with Walker & Dunlop’s senior housing financing group, which originated over $900 million in debt financing in 2018. Prior to making this move, the IPA team had closed over... Read More »