Brookdale Turns Attention to Entry-Fee CCRC Sales in 2014

Brookdale Senior Living, Inc. (NYSE:BKD) is looking to build upon the success of its entry fee continuing care retirement community sales in 2014 after reporting strong fourth quarter and full-year 2013 results. BKD reported its cash from facility operations (CFFO) increased 29% in the fourth quarter to $88.5 million, or $0.71 per share, compared to […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Capital One Bank; Cambridge; Newcastle

Capital One Bank Announces $115 Million in Financial Transactions Capital One Bank recently announced it acted as a joint bookrunner for an $85 million, seven-year senior secured term loan to subsidiaries of Parkwood Properties, Inc. and a $30 million revolver loan to Palm Garden Healthcare Holdings, LLC. Parkwood Properties will use the term loan to refinance […]

Senior Housing Finance Activity: Grandbridge, Cambridge, Cushman & Wakefield

Grandbridge Seniors Housing Group Facilitates Acquisition Financing Grandbridge’s Seniors Housing and Healthcare Finance Team facilitated bridge financing for the joint venture between Focus Healthcare Partners and Artemis Real Estate Partners on the 192-unit Skagit Valley Senior Village in Burlington, Wash.  As the project had been purchased without debt, the loan allowed the joint venture to […]

Ventas Profits Skyrocket 85% in Q1 Boosted by Acquisitions

Ventas Inc. (NYSE:VTR) saw its net income balloon in the first quarter ended March 31, 2012 to $90.6 million, an 85% increase over the previous year’s $49 million, thanks to pumped up revenue from favorable acquisitions. “Ventas continues to reap the benefits from executing on our strategy of growing and diversifying our portfolio, increasing private […]

ELS Sees 68% Rise in Q4 FFO, Wants to Grow RV Business

Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (NYSE:ELS) reported a net loss of $0.2 million, translating to $0.00 per share, available to common stockholders on a fully-diluted basis for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2011, as the company continues to encounter costs associated with an acquisition made in May 2011. Overall net income for the year was […]

Ventas Earnings Surge On Acquisition, Company Raises Outlook

Ventas Inc. (NYSE: VTR) reported an increase in normalized funds from operations (FFO) to $255.1 million, or $0.88 per diluted share, for the third quarter ended September 30, up 20.5% from the previous year’s $115.4 million, or $0.73 per diluted share during the third quarter of 2010. Net income attributable to common stockholders for the […]

Ready for Medi-(Don’t)-Care?

By Sally C. Pipes Bad news continues to plague the Obama Administration’s signature achievement — health reform. Medicare’s Chief Actuary recently projected that the nation’s healthcare bill will increase — not decrease — as a result of the new law. And a separate study from private research firm Avalere Health estimates that more than three […]