SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — CareTrust REIT Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRE) has acquired Buena Vista Care Center, a 150-bed skilled nursing facility in the Southern California community of Santa Barbara. California-based Covenant Care Inc. will continue to operate the property under a long-term lease that CareTrust assumed in the off-market transaction. It represents the eighth property that CareTrust owns and Covenant operates. CareTrust’s total investment was approximately $15.9 million, inclusive of transaction costs. The acquisition was funded using CareTrust’s $600 million unsecured revolving credit facility. Covenant Care has approximately four years left on its existing lease term, with two five-year renewal options. The lease currently carries approximately $1.5 million in annual cash rent with 3 percent annual escalators.
SALEM, ORE. — Live Oak Bank has provided a $28.5 million loan for the construction of a 142-unit independent living expansion in Salem, approximately 45 miles south of Portland. The borrower is Mosaic Management. The project will be Phase II of a larger campus, which already includes a 138-unit assisted living and memory care building that was completed in May 2019. The expansion will total 147,000 square feet on an 8.9-acre plot.
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NorthMarq: 2021 Capital Markets Environment
NorthMarq executives recently connected with nearly 50 correspondent lenders and more than 150 debt experts in an effort to better understand the capital markets environment in 2021 and to share information about opportunities within the market. Jeff Erxleben, executive vice president and executive managing director, Debt & Equity, with NorthMarq, shares some of the insights from those conversations, and he discusses changes in the market, ranging from new loan programs by life companies to the impact of FHA/HUD’s new MAP guide implemented this month. He also talks about the growing interest in single-family rental and build-for-rent properties, and he mentions trends in affordable housing development and value-add strategy for buyers of affordable and workforce housing. “Overall, we’ve seen strong volume at the beginning of 2021, and I would expect that to continue throughout the year as the liquidity in the debt and equity markets remains strong,” Erxleben notes. “Transaction volume is up; there is a large sentiment that there is pent-up demand to get deals done.” He adds, “We’re seeing the fastest rebound and largest amount of activity in high-growth, business-friendly Sunbelt states — Texas, Florida, Arizona and the Carolinas. Other states, like California, where activity has been more …
GILBERT, ARIZ. — McCarthy Building Cos. has broken ground on the $243 million expansion and renovation of Banner Gateway Medical Center Tower and Emergency Department in Gilbert. The 351,000-square-foot expansion nearly doubles the size of the medical center campus, which is located at 1900 N. Higley Road. The expansion includes a five-story, 208,500-square-foot patient tower offering 109 patient beds with the ability to increase capacity by an additional 72 to 358 total beds once the shell space is built out. The project also includes a three-level, 85,000-square-foot expansion to the diagnostics and treatment building on the campus’ west side, including an expansion to the Emergency Department, as well as a two-level expansion to the existing diagnostics and treatment building on the campus’ east side. The expansion addresses the need for women and infant care, including labor, delivery, postpartum and new neonatal intensive care unit, as well as creating additional space for inpatient cancer care by Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center. Additionally, the project includes the construction of two surface parking lots, adding approximately 690 new parking spaces for visitor and staff use, as well as upgrades to the existing Central Utility Plant. Also, approximately 40,000 square feet of additional renovation …
DENVER — Ryan Cos. US Inc. and Cadence Living have unveiled plans for Acoya Cherry Creek, a seniors housing community in the Cherry Creek neighborhood of Denver. Totaling 156,622 square feet and 137 units, the project will be the first Acoya-branded community in the Denver market and the third in Colorado. The types of care were not disclosed. According to Moore Diversified Services, the senior population in the Denver area is expected to increase by more than 26 percent over the next five years. “Not only is there a need for this type of housing near Cherry Creek, but there is also high demand for age-in-place living where a resident can remain within their home and receive services over time as needs change,” says Daniel Raimer, director of real estate development for Ryan Cos. Cadence, Harrison Street and Ryan will co-own the community, and have closed on financing for the development. Bank of the West acted as lender, administrative agent and lead arranger alongside Stifel Bank as lender and syndication agent. MOA Architecture designed the community’s exterior while StudioSIX5 handled the interiors. Groundbreaking is scheduled for February 2021, with pre-leasing beginning in spring 2022 for completion in fall 2022.
THOUSAND OAKS, CALIF. — Irvine, Calif.-based Sares Regis Group has started construction of Conejo Spectrum Gateway, a two-building speculative industrial park at the intersection of Rancho Conejo Boulevard and Lawrence Drive in Thousand Oaks. The two new buildings will offer a total of 172,516 square feet of for-lease space between an 88,946-square-foot facility at 1515 Rancho Conejo Blvd. and an 83,570-square-foot building at 1489 Lawrence Drive. The 1515 Rancho Conejo building will offer a 5,554-square-foot office space, 17 dock-high doors, two ground-level doors, 30-foot clear heights, 1,200 amps (expandable), 277-480 volts, three-phase power, 201 parking stalls, 28 electric vehicle stalls and 17 bicycle parking stalls. The facility at 1489 Lawrence Drive will offer a 5,586-square-foot office area, 15 dock-high doors, two ground-level doors, 172 parking stalls, 11 electric vehicle stalls, 14 bicycle stalls, 1,200 amps, 299-480 volts and three-phase power. Grading is complete for the two buildings and vertical construction is underway. Both buildings are available for lease now and will be ready for tenant build-out in the third quarter. Tom Dwyer and Bennett Robison of CBRE represented Sares Regis Group.
LOS ANGELES — JLL Capital Markets has arranged a $140 million credit facility with the ability to expand up to $215 million for Los Angeles-based InSite Property Group. The facility will fund InSite’s development pipeline of Class A self-storage facilities across the nation. ACORE Capital provided the floating-rate loan, which was arranged by Bill Fishel, Matt Stewart and Chad Morgan of JLL Capital Markets, along with Brian Somoza, Steve Mellon and Griffin Guthneck of JLL’s national self-storage team. The financing is part of the InSite’s ongoing acquisition, development and repositioning strategy that includes a pipeline of 40 projects totaling nearly 5 million square feet of core, Class A product in infill markets across the United States. The company operates facilities under the Secure Space Self Storage brand.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Cushman & Wakefield’s Senior Housing Capital Markets team has arranged the off-market sale of a 99-unit,114-bed memory care community in a Portland for $25 million. This represents the second sale of the community within a 15-month period for the firm, with the first sale as part of a larger disposition of non-core assets for a public REIT. The seller was a privately owned, California-based national operator. The buyer is a growing regional owner-operator based in the Portland metro area. The Cushman & Wakefield team involved in the transaction was Rick Swartz, Jay Wagner, Aaron Rosenzweig and Dan Baker.
Student housing lending faces a number of uncertainties as 2021 begins: agency policies affecting available sources of lending, the availability of distressed properties, special considerations for Tier 2 and 3 schools and the difficulties of obtaining construction and permanent financing under certain circumstances. Timothy S. Bradley, founder of TSB Capital Advisors and a principal of TSB Realty, explains his outlook on 2021 for the student housing industry, including some of the intricacies in student housing finance versus conventional multifamily. While the two classes did not face vastly different outcomes before COVID, “Post-COVID is a completely different story. There is a significant delta when you are looking at permanent financing for student housing right now versus conventional. The agencies [have enacted] COVID reserves that have been instituted in new loan originations — and most new loan originations are for acquisitions versus refinancing right now. We are starting to see them reduce the reserves, but they were doing it for both multifamily and student.” Bradley explains, “However the interest rates that, over the past three to four months, you could get for conventional housing versus student ranged anywhere from 50 to 75 basis points better for conventional. This allows the conventional market cap rates to keep compressing …
HAWAII — A subsidiary of Realty Income Corp. has acquired a 21-property gas station/convenience store portfolio located throughout Hawaii. Par Pacific Holdings sold the portfolio in a fee-simple sale-leaseback transaction for $109.4 million. The portfolio includes 12 properties in O’ahu, two facilities in Kauai, four properties in Maui and three properties on the island of Hawaii. The transaction also included a new master lease agreement to lease back the sites on a triple-net basis. D. Andrew Ragsdale, Ken Hedrick, Jerry Hopkins, Kristian Neilson and John Curtis of Newmark’s Net Lease Capital Market, in cooperation with Jackson Nakasone of NAI CBI Hawaii, represented the seller in the transaction.