NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Union Funding and Greystone & Co. have arranged a $105 million loan for a New York-based owner-operator. The loan will be used to partially fund the $120 million acquisition of 12 skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in eastern Kentucky. The portfolio totals 1,239 beds and was 95 percent occupied at the time of sale. The seller was not disclosed. Phil Krispin and C.J. Danziger of Eastern Union, along with Greystone’s Jonathan Coven, secured the financing from several regional banks in the eastern United States. The loan includes flexible prepayment terms to allow for an FHA exit.
Seniors Housing
NEWNAN, GA. — Westminster Memory Care has planned a new, $10 million memory care community in the Atlanta suburb of Newnan. The Coweta Community Board of Commissioners approved a rezoning of the plot to allow the memory care development to proceed. Developer James Deupree plans to break ground on the community in early 2017 for completion in early 2018. Deupree, of Birmingham, Ala., recently opened a Westminster Memory Care community in nearby Dallas, Ga. He is planning eight more communities for Georgia and South Carolina. Riverwood Retirement Management, a Florida-based operator, will manage all Westminster communities.
Summit Healthcare REIT Buys Interest in Seniors Housing Communities in Oregon, California for $23M
by Nellie Day
CITRUS HEIGHTS, CALIF., AND CORVALLIS, ORE. — Summit Healthcare REIT has acquired 20 percent interest in two seniors housing communities — Sun Oak Senior Living and Regent Court Senior Living— for $23 million. Summit, a non-traded REIT based in Lake Forest, Calif., acquired the interest from an undisclosed, publicly traded REIT. The two properties are leased to Compass Senior Living, an Oregon-based operator. Sun Oak Senior Living is a 78-bed assisted living and memory care community in the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights. Regent Court is a 48-bed memory care community in Corvallis, approximately midway between Portland and Eugene. Capital One – Healthcare Financial Solutions LLC provided financing for the transaction. Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, a brokerage firm based in Chicago, arranged the deal. Tim Cobb led the Blueprint team.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Kindred Healthcare Inc. (NYSE: KND) plans to buy the 36 skilled nursing facilities it currently operates for Ventas for $700 million. The move is the latest step in Kindred’s plan to fully exit the skilled nursing business. The company will presumably try to sell the facilities that it will now both own and operate. Kindred announced its plan to leave skilled nursing last week on its third-quarter earnings call, which revealed a quarterly loss of $671.3 million. The company will focus instead on home healthcare and post-acute care hospitals. Ventas (NYSE: VTR), one of the largest healthcare REITs in the country, sent out its own statement the next day, noting that Kindred could not sell or lease the 36 Ventas-owned facilities without Ventas’ consent. By buying those 36 facilities, Kindred is now free to sell or lease the properties. As part of the deal, Ventas has extended its lease with Kindred for all the Ventas-owned acute-care hospitals in Kindred’s operational portfolio. The leases were set to expire between 2018 and 2020, but have all been extended to 2025. Ventas itself is attempting to exit the skilled nursing business as well. The company created a separate spinoff company …
NORTH BRANFORD, CONN. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of Evergreen Woods, a continuing care retirement community located in North Branford. National Health Investors Inc. purchased the 299-bed property from Shoreline Life Care LLC for an undisclosed price. After acquiring the property, the buyer leased the property to Charlotte, N.C.-based Senior Living Communities. The community offers residents a full continuum of care with independent living, assisted living/supportive care and skilled nursing care. Richard Swartz, Jay Wagner and Aaron Rosenzweig of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal.
BATON ROUGE, LA. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has brokered the $11.5 million sale of Oakwood Village, a 77-unit independent living, assisted living and memory care community in Baton Rouge. Blueprint represented the seller, a regional owner-operator divesting its only seniors housing asset. The buyer was a subsidiary of Florida-based specialty insurer Fortegra Financial Corp., an affiliate of Tiptree Financial Inc. New York City-based Care Investment Trust LLC will serve as asset manager of Oakwood Village, and Traditions Senior Management of Clearwater, Fla., will provide management services. Jacob Gehl was the lead Blueprint advisor on the transaction, supported by Michael Segal. Clint Parker and Jeremy Joiner from Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. Real Estate Partners assisted in the transaction.
NEW BEDFORD, MASS. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, a Chicago-based brokerage, has arranged the sale of Southeast Massachusetts Health & Rehabilitation Center for $4 million. The 123-bed skilled nursing facility is located in New Bedford, approximately 60 miles south of Boston. A New York-based national owner sold the facility to a regional owner-operator with an existing presence in that part of the state. The facility was 79 percent occupied at the time of sale. Steve Thomes and Christopher Hyldahl of Blueprint were lead advisors on the transaction.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — Kindred Healthcare Inc. (NYSE: KND) plans to fully exit the skilled nursing business, the Louisville-based healthcare owner-operator announced Monday afternoon during a third-quarter earnings call. Kindred posted a $671.3 million loss in the third quarter. The company was already in the process of reducing the number of skilled nursing facilities in its portfolio. At its peak the company owned and/or operated more than 300 skilled nursing facilities across the country. Kindred will instead focus the bulk of its efforts on Kindred at Home, the country’s largest provider of home healthcare and hospice services, according to Kindred. The company expects half its earnings to come from Kindred at Home, while long-term acute care hospitals will account for 25 percent of its earnings and rehabilitation services will account for the remainder. By divesting its entire skilled nursing portfolio, Kindred expects to reduce annual rent obligations by $90 million, capital expenditures by $30 million and corporate overhead by between $70 million and $100 million. “We are taking proactive strategic steps to position Kindred for long-term success against the backdrop of dynamic changes in the healthcare services industry,” says Benjamin Brier, president and CEO of Kindred. “Our plan to exit the …
BOISE, IDAHO — IRET, a REIT based in Minot, N.D., has sold a portfolio of eight seniors housing communities totaling 313 units, all located in Idaho. The current tenants, all affiliates of Edgewood Senior Living, purchased the properties for $43.9 million. After retiring mortgage debt and paying other closing costs, IRET will receive net cash proceeds of approximately $31.2 million. Additionally, IRET intends to redeem all 1.2 million outstanding shares of its 8.25 percent Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares (NYSE: IRET PR). The moves are part of what the company calls its “strategic transformation.” As of July 31, IRET owned interests in 146 properties, consisting of 100 multifamily properties totaling 13,012 units, and 47 commercial properties, including 31 healthcare properties, containing a total of approximately 2.8 million square feet of leasable space.
Senior Living Investment Brokerage Arranges $2.6M Sale of Memory Care Facility Near Houston
by Jeff Shaw
TOMBALL, TEXAS — Senior Living Investment Brokerage Inc., an Illinois-based brokerage firm, has arranged the sale of an undisclosed memory care facility in Tomball, a suburb of Houston, for $2.6 million. The facility was built in 2010 and features 16 units. An independent real estate owner bought the property and immediately leased it to a regional operator. Matthew Alley and Jason Punzel of Senior Living Investment Brokerage arranged the transaction.