The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG) was already contending with transitional headwinds related to its spinoff from the Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG) when the coronavirus pandemic added further pressures to operations and liquidity. Compared to other operators, however, the Eagle, Idaho-based provider was able to ride out occupancy declines in the outbreak’s early weeks and reported […]
As with other publicly traded owners, The Pennant Group (Nasdaq: PNTG) has been under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic since mid-March. The Eagle, Idaho-based owner is now seeing an uptick in home health census this month, as well as stabilization in its senior housing occupancy, and believes these trends can continue throughout the second quarter, […]
CareTrust REIT (Nasdaq: CTRE) has spent most of 2019 doing some “spring cleaning” of its portfolio of long-term care facilities — including its senior housing assets — and focused on restructuring its portfolio and transitioning operators in the third quarter with an eye toward future growth in 2020 and beyond. “After five years, a lot […]
CareTrust expands memory care portfolio with $12.5M California acquisition CareTrust REIT (Nasdaq: CTRE) added to its portfolio of memory care communities with the $12.5 million acquisition of Vista del Lago, a 42-unit/96-bed community in San Diego. The seller was Torrey Pines Development Group. The Cushman & Wakefield Senior Housing Capital Markets team of Vice Chairman […]
The Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG) hired a new chief financial officer for its coming senior living, home health and hospice spinoff. The Mission Viejo, California-based owner and operator on Tuesday named Jennifer Freeman as CFO of The Pennant Group. She was previously in the same role at Cornerstone Healthcare, Ensign’s home health and hospice arm, […]
The Ensign Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENSG) is separating its home health, hospice and nearly all of its senior living businesses into a separate publicly-traded company called The Pennant Group. After the spinoff is finalized, it’s expected that Pennant — which is itself currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Mission Viejo, California-based Ensign — will consist […]
The top executives behind some of the largest publicly traded senior living owners and operators in the U.S. took home a pretty penny last year. In 2017, leaders at real estate investment trusts Ventas (NYSE: VTR), Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL), and HCP, Inc. (NYSE: HCP) earned the most in total compensation, a catch-all term that includes base […]
Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust’s IPO Declared Effective by the SEC Maryland-based Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust, Inc., a public non-traded real estate investment trust (REIT) sponsored by SmartStop Asset Management, LLC, announced that its registration statement pertaining to an initial public offering of about $1.1 billion in shares of common stock was […]
CareTrust REIT (Nasdaq: CTRE) had its best-ever year last year despite some operational woes with two of its smaller tenants. The San Clemente, California-based real estate investment trust (REIT) reported a normalized funds from operations (FFO) of $23.6 million, or 31 cents per share, which was roughly in line with analysts’ expectations for the fourth quarter of […]
South Carolina Assisted Living Community Sells for $1.9 Million Dave Balow, Patrick Burke and Brad Clousing of Glen Ellyn, Illinois-based Senior Living Investment Brokerage handled the recent $1.9 million sale of The Magnolias of Santee in Santee, South Carolina. The 31-unit, 22,046-square-foot assisted living and memory care community was sold by an owner/operator looking to […]