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At what age is a Senior Living Facility Obsolete?

July 6, 2016/in assisted living, assisted living price, assisted living sale, cap rate, Capitalization Rate, cash flow, independent living, independent living facility, Independent Senior Housing Sales, internal rate of return, Jason Punzel, nursing home, sell memory care, sell seniors housing, Senior Living Investment Brokerage, Washington, what is my property worth/by ryanmsaul

At a certain age, virtually any type property will become obsolete. Thus, at what age is it for Senior Living and Skilled Nursing Facilities? I believe it is more a matter of functionality than age.

In today’s competitive world, Assisted Living Communities that are older converted Skilled Nursing Facilities tend to have challenges in keeping stabilized occupancy. Often times they have shared bathrooms, small one-room units and limited common areas. With lower acuity residents, private bathrooms are a must when marketing a facility. Larger units with multiple rooms that can function as an Independent or Assisted Living unit have great appeal to allow residents to age in a place as additional care becomes necessary.

Skilled Nursing Facilities that have 3 and 4 bed wards (rooms) are very difficult to fill and often times the total bed count needs to be reduced to allow for mostly private or 2 bed rooms. Even if the facility is accepting mostly Medicaid residents, two residents per room tends to be the maximum that is acceptable.

Other facility challenges include long narrow hallways, low ceilings, lack of elevators, and poor lighting. Depending on the structure, these challenges can be very difficult to rectify. While it tends to be the older Skilled Nursing Facilities that were built in the 1960s and 1970s, some Assisted Living Communities built in the 1980s and 1990s can also have a functionally obsolete design and layout.

If lack of private bathrooms and small rooms are the challenge, sometimes a solution is to focus on higher acuity Assisted Living and/or Memory Care where residents have higher acuity needs and can use a bathroom or kitchen on their own. Unfortunately, there are some communities that have too many design and layout issues to overcome and possibly the best solution is to build a new facility on the existing ground.

To discuss the age, functionality and sale ability of your Senior Living or Skilled Nursing Facility please contact Jason Punzel at 630-858-2501 x 233 or [email protected] or Joy Goebbert at 630-858-2501 x 230 or [email protected].

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Matthew Alley Sells Two Texas Skilled Nursing Facilities

October 20, 2015/in Matthew Alley, nursing home, REIT, Senior Living Brokerage, Skilled Nursing Facility, SLIB/by ryanmsaul

Senior Living investment Brokerage sold two Skilled Nursing Facilities in Texas recently. One property has 66 beds on 1.46 acres while the other is 80 beds on 4.29 acres. Both were built in 1968 and the overall census at the time of the sale was 49%. The Seller was a Texas based owner/operator. The Buyer is also a Texas based owner/operator that will utilize a publicly traded REIT for one the properties. The operations have been breakeven since 2014. For additional information, please contact Matt Alley at 630/858-2501 or [email protected]

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When is the best time to list a seniors housing or nursing home community?

September 17, 2015/in Alzheimer, Alzheimer's, assisted living, assisted living community, assisted living price, assisted living sale, buy assisted living, buy nursing home, cap rate, Capitalization Rate, CCRC, closing costs, confidentiality, development, due diligence, exclusive listing, independent living, independent living facility, Lesley Arlasky, long term care, market, Matthew Alley, new construction, not-for-profit seniors housing, nursing home, nursing home price, operating margin, prepare to sell assisted living, prepare to sell nursing home, private equity, proposal, residential care facility, sales process, sell assisted living, sell CCRC, sell long term care, sell memory care, sell nursing home, sell portfolio, sell retirement community, sell seniors housing, sell skilled nursing, sell to REIT, senior housing, senior housing brokerage, Senior Housing community, senior housing sales, senior living, Senior Living Investment Brokerage, seniors housing, seniors housing brokerage, Skilled Nursing Facility, SLIB, Texas, valuation, what is my assisting living worth, what is my nursing home worth/by ryanmsaul

I’m often asked when is the best time of year to list a seniors housing or nursing home asset? We are all used to residential real estate agents telling us to list in the Spring while the weather is starting to change (at least for us Northerners).

Does it matter for seniors housing communities?

Yes and no. While there is not the seasonality in the seniors housing market as there is in the residential market, there are good and less optimal times for getting buyers’ (even institutional buyers’) attention.

I would argue that we are entering into one of those sweet spots as we get into the middle of September. Typically, Senior Living Investment Brokerage, Inc. has its highest volume of listings in September and early October.

Why is that?

During the Labor Day / beginning of October time frame, Buyers have made it through the Summer and are looking to deploy capital before the end of the year. They are hoping to make one last push to meet their aggressive beginning of the year expansion goals.

With a typical 3-4 month closing period, now is as good of a time as any to consider listing your property with Senior Living Investment Brokerage, Inc. We can help you procure the right Buyer, who can close the transaction prior to year-end. Many Buyers are looking to “get money out the door” by December 31st and this may give you an advantage in coercing those groups into making a more aggressive bid than they would in the middle of the year.

If you have any questions on the topic of this post or would like a confidential valuation of part or all of your seniors housing portfolio, please contact Matthew Alley at 630-858-2501 ext. 225 or [email protected].

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How additional sources of funds are impacting the seniors housing market

June 12, 2015/in Alzheimer, Alzheimer's, assisted living, assisted living community, assisted living price, assisted living sale, buy, buy assisted living, buy nursing home, cap rate, Capitalization Rate, cash flow, CCRC, Dementia, financing, hud, independent living, independent living facility, interest rate, Lesley Arlasky, long term care, market, Matthew Alley, memory care, nursing home, nursing home price, prepare to sell assisted living, prepare to sell nursing home, private equity, proposal, sell, sell assisted living, sell CCRC, sell long term care, sell memory care, sell nursing home, sell portfolio, sell retirement community, sell seniors housing, sell skilled nursing, sell to REIT, senior housing, senior housing brokerage, Senior Housing community, senior housing sales, senior living, Senior Living Investment Brokerage, seniors housing, seniors housing brokerage, Skilled Nursing Facility, SLIB, Texas, valuation, what is my assisting living worth, what is my nursing home worth/by ryanmsaul

Over the past couple of years, we have seen capitalization rates (defined as Net Operating Income divided by Purchase Price) drop steadily to historically low levels, which in turn has led to purchase prices being driven upwards.

Now is the time to take advantage of this market and either exit the business through a sale entirely or divest of a few properties from your portfolio that do not fit with your current strategy.

Why is the market so strong right now? More so than any other factor, the market has been impacted by the increased availability of capital (both debt and equity) and the low cost nature of said capital. Interest rates are still at historically low levels, and while rates may creep up a bit, most analysts expect a measured increase.

During the Great Recession, transactions were mainly financed by three different methods: (1) all cash; (2) HUD financing; or (3) mostly public REIT financing. Community banks were only lending to their best clients on the most conservative of terms, and there were not a great deal of smaller, private REITs or private equity firms willing to support the acquisition of seniors housing facilities.

Over the past couple of years, community banks have become more aggressive as they are sitting on a large reserve of cash that they need to deploy and there has been a growth in the private REIT space. According to investment banking firm , Robert A. Stanger & Co., and reported by Seniors Housing Business, a handful of non-traded REITs devoted to seniors housing have amassed $6.4 billion in equity over the past few years. The availability of these capital sources has had a huge impact on the seniors housing acquisition market in the form of increased pricing.

The most recent example of this was a $30M nursing home portfolio that Senior Living completed in Texas. It was purchased by an independent, regional owner-operator and financed by a community bank out of Louisiana. Until recently, that size of transaction would have been almost certainly REIT financed or purchased by a large, national owner-operator.

If you have any questions on the topic of this post or would like a confidential valuation of part or all of your seniors housing portfolio, please contact Matthew Alley at 630-858-2501 ext. 225 or [email protected].

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