CNL Healthcare Properties II, a non-traded real estate investment trust (REIT), has entered into its first senior housing acquisition agreement since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declared its initial public offering of up to $2 billion effective last spring.
The platform, as it turns out, will be senior housing-heavy, according to executives.
Approximately half of the eventual portfolio is expected to be “designed around seniors,” Kevin Maddron, the CFO and COO of Orlando, Florida-based CNL Healthcare Properties II, told Senior Housing News. The rest, he said, will be invested in medical office and health care facilities.
“It will be roughly a 50/50 split,” Maddron said.
The REIT recently made its first investment into the senior housing space with its agreement to acquire the Summer Vista Assisted Living Community in Pensacola, Florida. The acquisition of the two-story, 89-unit community is scheduled to close in the second quarter of 2017.
SRI Management, LLC, which has managed Summer Vista since it opened in February 2016, is expected to keep managing the community for CNL Healthcare Properties II pursuant to a five-year management deal.
Tallahassee, Florida-based SRI manages 15 additional seniors housing communities throughout Louisiana and Florida, and currently manages two seniors housing communities for CNL Healthcare Properties, Inc., an earlier REIT which closed to investors on Sept. 30, 2015.
In the future, CNL Healthcare Properties II expects to leverage its existing operator relationships to find senior housing investments.
“We rely on relationships to help identify opportunities,” Maddron said.
When it comes to senior housing investments, the fund seems pretty open in terms of geography.
“From a geographic perspective, we don’t have a map with a bunch of red dots on it saying we have to be in these markets,” Maddron said. “We look to partner with them on opportunities as they pop up.”
Overall, this is a good time to be in the senior housing space, Maddron said.
“What I like about the space right now is there’s a very healthy and diverse mix of buyers in the market,” Maddron said. The senior housing space isn’t overly dependent on public or private REITs because there’s plenty of private equity, he explained.
“That renewed and fairly healthy group of buyers out there validates the sector more so today than it’s ever been,” he said.
Written by Mary Kate Nelson
Companies featured in this article:
CNL Healthcare Properties, CNL Healthcare Properties II, SRI Management LLC
