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Recent Senior Care M&A Deals
Long-Term Care
Acquirer
Target
Price
Aviv REIT
Four SNF’s in TX
$53.7 million
Aviv REIT
Three SNF’s in CA
$13.4 million
Aviv REIT
One SNF in TX
$3.6 million
The Ensign Group, Inc.
One SNF in AZ
N/A
The Ensign Group, Inc.
One ALF and one SNF in CA
N/A
The Ensign Group, Inc.
Mt. Ogden Health & Rehabilitation
N/A
Regional Owner/Operator
St. James Manor and Villas
$23 million
Focus Healthcare Partners LLC
The Montecito
$35.5 million
Deal of the Week
Sometimes when you buy a portfolio, there is a property (or two) that is either an outlier or you had plans for it that maybe didn’t work out as intended. Such was the case five years ago when Trilogy Health Services bought a portfolio of properties in Indiana and Kentucky, two states it already operated in, plus a one-off senior living property in Illinois. The company had plans to expand in Illinois, but the right opportunities never materialized. Consequently, Trilogy finally decided to divest the community, which includes 110 skilled nursing beds (built in 1989), 34 assisted living units (built in 1999) and 26 memory care units (built in 2009). Overall occupancy was just over 80%, but the memory care portion was at 95%. The community was very profitable, but it was the right time to sell. The purchase price was $23.0 million, or $135,300 per bed/unit, and the cap rate was 11.2%, an appropriate blend of skilled nursing and assisted living cap rates. Ryan Saul of Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the transaction………… Want to read more news? Click here for a free trial to The SeniorCare Investor and download the current issue today
Financing of the Week
LCB Senior Living continues to expand in the Northeast. It just closed on the acquisition of an 86-unit assisted living community in Massachusetts that is housed within a converted school that is on the National Registry of historic buildings. It was converted to its present use in 1997. To close the acquisition, Cushman & Wakefield Equity, Debt & Structured Finance arranged both the debt and equity. The mortgage financing of $13.5 million was provided by M&T Bank, while Virtus Real Estate Capital put up about $6.1 million of equity. The total capital raised exceeds the approximate purchase price of just over $190,000 per unit because LCB plans to convert a portion of the units on the first floor to memory care, as well as complete interior upgrades and a repositioning of the entrance from the back of the building to the front where is was originally located when the school was built in 1927. We suspect that the licensed capacity will be increased once the changes have been made, and with the memory care addition, occupancy should jump from the high 80% area to 95% or higher…………….Want to read more news? Click here for a free trial to The SeniorCare Investor and download the current issue today
Stat of the Week
One of the constants in the acquisition market for a few decades has been the average cap rate for skilled nursing facilities. Regardless of interest rates, the average cap rate has been between 12% and 14%, but usually between 12.5% and 13.5%. We can dig down further by looking at the spread between the SNF cap rate and the 10-year Treasury rate. In the last six years, that spread has ranged from 920 basis points (2008) to 1070 basis points (2012). But the recent consistency has been unusual, with a spread of 1070 basis points in 2012 and 1060 basis points in 2013, when interest rates had the sudden spike up in the middle of the year. The only time when the spread has been significantly outside the normal range was in both 2006 (770 basis points) and in 2007 (750 basis points), which was the last acquisition market peak before the Great Recession…………Want to read more news? Click here for a free trial to The SeniorCare Investor and download the current issue today
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