Emeritus Branches Into Home Healthcare With $102 Million Purchase

Last week, Emeritus Corporation (NYSE:ESC) agreed to purchase Nurse on Call, Inc., the largest Medicare-licensed home healthcare provider in Florida. Emeritus, the nation’s largest assisted living and memory care provider, will pay $102 million in cash for 91% of Nurse on Call’s parent company. The remaining equity will be owned by certain members of Nurse […]

Brookdale Loses $12 Million in Q3 Despite Record Number of CCRC Sales

Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE:BKD) reported a net loss of $12 million, or $(0.10) per diluted common share, in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2012, despite the company’s entrance fee CCRCs producing a record number of independent living sales. “We were pleased with our overall performance in the third quarter,” said Bill Sheriff, Brookdale’s CEO, […]

Age Creep in Senior Housing Indicates “Major Shift” in Consumer Preference

The most troublesome issue facing the senior housing industry is the upward trend of incoming residents’ ages, said Aaron Conley, president of healthcare real estate development and capital advisory firm Third Act Solutions, during an Urban Land Institute webinar on the 65+ housing industry. Currently at 85, the incoming age is increasing at an average […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Ziegler, Walker & Dunlop, More

Walker & Dunlop Secures $381.8 Million Refinance for REIT SNF Portfolio Walker & Dunlop recently secured a $381.8 million refinance for healthcare REIT Extendicare Health Services’s 51-property portfolio of skilled nursing facilities, reports Globe St. The deal was complex due to its structure as separately obtaining refinancing each property using the Department of Housing and […]

HCP Profits Up 18% Following $1.73 Billion Emeritus/Blackstone JV Acquisition

HCP Inc.’s (NYSE:HCP) $1.73 billion acquisition of the Blackstone-Emeritus joint venture was the pitch the largest healthcare REIT was waiting for—”a fastball, right down the middle of the plate,” according to chairman and CEO Jay Flaherty on the third quarter earnings call. During a first quarter earnings call, an analyst had mentioned HCP’s “relatively low […]

In the Pipeline: Senior Housing Construction Projects (10/31/2012)

Construction: Planned SRP Medical, Frontier Management to Build McKinney, Tex. Community SRP Medical and Frontier Management are planning an 80,000-square-foot McKinney, Tex. senior living community. The new development will offer 75 assisted living and 32 memory care units in studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments. Amenities will include a theater room, dining and activity areas, and […]