REITs sell off portfolios while other investors pursue distressed assets amid record-low occupancy. By Jeff Shaw When the COVID-19 outbreak hit the U.S. with full force last March, investors in the seniors housing sector had some difficult decisions to make. With the occupancy rate at private-pay seniors housing falling to a record-low 80.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, the question that quickly arose in the marketplace was whether it was better to sell off properties, buy assets …
Acquisitions
FOREST GROVE, Ore. — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has arranged the sale of The Grove and The Gardens, a 92-unit assisted living and memory care community in Forest Grove, approximately 25 miles west of Portland. A family retiring from the industry sold the property to a regional owner-operator for $15.7 million. The community was built in 1996, with memory care added in 2000. The facility is approximately 63,000 square feet and is situated on approximately 2.7 acres of land plus an additional one-acre lot. The buyer plans to remodel …
HOUSTON — Heavenrich & Co. has arranged the sale of Pathways Memory Care, a 60-unit skilled nursing memory care facility located in Northwest Houston. Pathways was built in 2014 on an 80-acre medical campus that includes the Kelsey Seybold Clinic and Villa Toscana, an 86-unit skilled nursing facility that Heavenrich sold in 2020. StoneGate Senior Living, a national owner-operator sold the property to an undisclosed buyer for an undisclosed price. In preparing for the sale, StoneGate converted the property to private pay, established a new operator and worked with a …
CARLSBAD and RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Bayshire Senior Communities, a boutique senior living owner and operator, has acquired Brookdale Carlsbad and Brookdale Rancho Mirage, renaming the two communities as Bayshire Carlsbad and Bayshire Rancho Mirage. Both properties are continuing care retirement communities, each featuring 90 independent and assisted living units, 24 memory care units and 45 skilled nursing units. Carlsbad is located north of San Diego, and Rancho Mirage is part of the Inland Empire Bayshire is an owner-operator headquartered in Escondido, a suburb of San Diego.
HUNT VALLEY, Md. — In a blockbuster transaction between publicly traded REITs, Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI) has acquired 24 seniors housing communities from Healthpeak Properties (NYSE: PEAK) for $510 million. Brookdale operates the entire portfolio, which is located across Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington. OHI is taking on the in-place master lease, with total rent in 2021 of $43.5 million and a 2.4 percent annual escalator. The announcement came through Omega’s fourth-quarter earnings report, released late on Thursday, Feb. 4. Further …
Oxford Finance Provides $23.5M Credit Facility to Prosper Life Care for Two Acquisitions in Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS — Oxford Finance LLC has provided a $23.5 million senior credit facility and revolving line of credit to Prosper Life Care Inc. The proceeds were used for the acquisition of two assisted living/memory care facilities located in Massachusetts totaling 214 units. Further details were not disclosed.
EL PASO, Texas — Senior Living Investment Brokerage (SLIB) has arranged the sale of three seniors housing communities — SunRidge of Cambria, Cielo Vista and Desert Springs — in El Paso totaling 167 units of assisted living and memory care. The communities were built in 1995, 1998 and 2000 and maintained 89 percent, 87 percent and 90 percent occupancy, respectively, at an early point of the onset of COVID-19. The seller is a debt and equity capital provider looking to divest of a non-core market, while the buyer is a …
KING CITY, Ore. — An affiliate of Livingston Street Capital has acquired King City Senior Village, an independent living community in the Portland suburb of King City, Oregon. This is the first West Coast addition to the firm’s active adult and independent living portfolio. The property was recently renovated. The number of units and other details were not disclosed. “We’re focused on identifying core, core-plus and light value-add communities throughout the country that facilitate the lifestyles today’s 55+ residents desire, based on our expertise in the active adult and independent …
HIGH SPRINGS, Fla. — Evans Senior Investments (ESI) has negotiated the sale of Plantation Oaks of High Springs, a 66-unit assisted living and memory care community in High Springs, approximately 20 miles northwest of Gainesville. An independent owner-operator sold the community to a regional owner-operator for $9.2 million, or $139,000 per unit. The buyer secured a loan from the in-place lender on the property. Originally built in 1988 with a 36-unit expansion in 2014, Plantation Oaks of High Springs is licensed for 52 assisted living beds and 20 memory care …
ELK GROVE and ROSEVILLE, Calif. — National operator Pegasus Senior Living has added two Brookdale communities, located in the Sacramento suburbs of Elk Grove and Roseville, to its portfolio of communities. The additions bring Pegasus’ total portfolio to 38 communities. Both offer assisted living and memory care services. Elk Grove Park totals 88 units while Sterling Court features 101 units.