Transactions & Financings: Capital Senior Living Sells Ohio Community; NHI’s $22M Development Loan

Sales and operator transitions Capital Senior Living completes $18M sale of Ohio community Capital Senior Living (NYSE: CSU) completed the sale of a senior living community in Canton, Ohio. The sale price was $18 million, and provided $6.4 million in net cash proceeds to the operator. Additionally, Capital Senior Living was retained by the new […]

REIT Leaders Say Senior Living Must Start To Evolve Faster

The details of what a post-coronavirus senior living landscape resembles remain cloudy, but the pandemic laid bare the need for the space to evolve faster than it has been. This is according to executives from real estate investment trusts National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI), Ventas (NYSE: VTR), and ReNew REIT, who shared their industry prognoses […]

NHI Weighs Rent Relief, Notes Value of Triple-Net Leases in Accessing PPP

National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) was not immune to the Covid-related pressures that other health care real estate investment trusts (REIT) have grappled with since mid-March. Occupancy rates decreased significantly in April, leads are in decline, tours are at a standstill and move-ins have slowed across its roster of senior housing operators. And while rent […]

Brookdale Acquires 8 Properties from NHI for $39 Million

Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) dealmaking tendencies in late 2019 have carried over into 2020. The Brentwood, Tennessee-based senior housing owner and operator exercised its option to acquire eight assisted living communities in three states from National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) for $39.26 million. The acquisition is the latest in a steady stream of deals […]

Transactions & Financings: ORIX-Hunt Real Estate Capital Merger; Diversified’s $103M Portfolio Sale

ORIX USA acquires Hunt Real Estate Capital ORIX Corporation USA completed its acquisition of Hunt Real Estate Capital, creating a commercial real estate finance platform with annual loan production in excess of $9 billion and a servicing portfolio of more than $40 billion. ORIX will combine Hunt into its existing brands, Lancaster Pollard and RED […]

LCS, NHI Team Up to Buy Washington CCRC for $133 Million

LCS and National Health Investors (NYSE:NHI) have joined forces to buy a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) in Washington. The Des Moines, Iowa-based senior living company and the Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based real estate investment trust (REIT) on Tuesday agreed to form a new joint venture to own and operate Timber Ridge at Talus, a “Type A,” […]

Senior Living Executive Forecast 2020: Workforce Crisis Just In First Inning

Though the year is new, the top issues worrying the industry’s leaders are not — particularly the workforce crisis. Staffing is still top-of-mind for executives at companies such as Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) and Senior Star. Labor expenses are climbing for many senior living companies across the U.S., and […]

‘Hard to Believe’: NHI, Operators Pick Up Pieces After East Lake Debacle

Unpaid food and utility vendors. Lapsed registration and insurance. Uninhabitable rooms. Employee payroll issues. Rent checks left undeposited. National Health Investors (NYSE: NHI) CEO Eric Mendelsohn started hearing these kind of complaints from residents and employees at three of the company’s communities last year. “It was just hard to believe,” Mendelsohn recalled in an interview […]