Artemis Recapitalizes Six Properties With Rendina To Seed New Joint Venture For Development And Acquisition Of MOBs Nationwide

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Newmark announced that it has arranged a strategic joint venture seeded by a national MOB portfolio recapitalization.

Rendina Healthcare Real Estate  is a leading, national medical office development and acquisition platform, fully integrated with development, ownership, management and leasing capabilities. A pioneer in the healthcare real estate development sector, Rendina has developed more than 8.5 million square feet during its 35-year history.

This transaction marks an inflection point in the growth of the company as the firm partners with Artemis Real Estate Partners, an institutional investment manager that focuses on equity and debt investments in healthcare real estate across the United States.

Rendina and Artemis have entered into a joint venture to develop and acquire a national portfolio of healthcare properties. The venture was seeded with the recapitalization of six properties developed by Rendina. The nearly 230,000 square foot portfolio spans four states, with concentration in the Northeast, and is leased to some of the leading healthcare systems and physician group practices in the country. The joint venture will immediately invest in an additional 140,000 square foot medical office development, followed by a near-term development and acquisition pipeline.

Newmark’s Healthcare Capital Markets Group represented Rendina on the portfolio recapitalization, advised Rendina and Artemis on establishing the joint venture, and secured the acquisition and development financing. The transaction was led by Newmark Executive Managing Director Ben Appel, Senior Managing Directors Jay Miele and Michael Greeley, Managing Director John Nero, and associates Ron Ott and Adam Goss of the firm’s National Healthcare Capital Markets Group.

“Like-minded investment philosophy, culture-fit, sophisticated understanding of the healthcare real estate market and appetite for portfolio growth were key criteria in our selection process. Artemis checked all the boxes we were looking for in a programmatic equity partner, said Richard Rendina, Chairman & CEO of Rendina.

“Artemis is excited to partner with a best-in-class sponsor like Rendina to grow a high quality portfolio of healthcare real estate assets. Rendina has the relationships and proven track record that we were looking for in a partner” stated Kevin Nishimura, Principal of Artemis Real Estate Partners.

“Rendina has seen tremendous success having developed for many of the Nation’s largest and most highly-regarded health systems, and dominant physician networks,” said Appel.

“This programmatic venture further supports Rendina’s growth, providing the firm additional resources to meet the evolving needs of healthcare providers across country,” added Miele.

“This joint venture will make Rendina even more competitive on development opportunities and will also provide us the acquisition platform and portfolio growth we have long-desired”, said Richard Rendina. “We believe the combination of Rendina’s expertise with Artemis’ capital will be a winning recipe not just for us, but for our healthcare provider clients as well. Rendina believes our health system relationships are our most valuable assets. Artemis understands this nuance to our business, and has shown us that they value relationship-based business and decision-making the same way Rendina does.”

 

Source: HREI

Demand For Senior Housing Ticks Up As Sector Continues COVID Recovery

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Demand for senior housing properties began recovering this quarter as vacancies dropped nationally and rent growth picked up across all four major care types.

According to a new report from Moody’s, Q2 vacancy for the asset class came in at 16.9%, still worse than the pre-COVID five-year average but 10 basis points below the peak of 17% earlier this year.

“It may be too early to say the stress has bottomed out, especially given the recent resurgence of the virus, but second quarter data did prompt a bit of optimism for the senior housing sector,” Moody’s economist Lu Chen writes, noting that the second quarter vacancy rate for independent living, memory care, and assisted living facilities all declined between 10 and 30 basis points, while the vacancy rate for skilled nursing properties remained flat.

Memory care facilities, which have been hardest hit by the pandemic, showed a vacancy decrease of 8.8%, ending the quarter at 19.9%. Assisted living and skilled nursing facilities vacancies ticked up 6.9% over the same period to 18.2% and 16.5% respectively, while the vacancy rate at independent living facilities ticked up 6.1% from 9.5% pre-pandemic to 15.9% in the second quarter of this year.

Rent growth has softened year-over-year, Chen says, since most senior housing properties post rent changes at the beginning of the year, but Moody’s data suggests that rent growth picked up across all care types. The assisted living sector posted the fastest year-over-year rent growth, followed by independent living facilities.

Meanwhile, net absorption increased into positive terrain for the first time since 2020. Memory care is back to Q1 2020 levels, while skilled nursing showed the biggest gains with 8,000 units absorbed so far this year.

“As a result of the weakness in sector fundamentals since the public health crisis, extended slowdown of new facilities coming to market is consistent with the increase in investor’s caution for senior housing,” Chen writes.

Moody’s is “cautiously optimistic” in its outlook for the sector, Chen says, citing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service data indicating that more than 83% of the nursing home residents are fully vaccinated. However, he notes just 26% of nursing home facilities across the US have hit the industry target of vaccinating 75% of their staff.

“Low vaccine rates among staff and residents in states such as Florida leaves the senior housing industry more vulnerable to the resurgence of the virus. Starting in the first week of July, there has been a noticeable uptick of confirmed cases among senior housing residents and staff,” Chen says. “With new mask and vaccination mandates starting to take place in many places, we will closely monitor how that’s shaping the industry demand and supply in the coming months.”

An analysis from JLL earlier this spring indicated the need to serve the middle-income population will increase, leading to opportunities for investors.

“Investors remain bullish on seniors housing and care investments,” said JLL Managing Director Zach Bowyer, MAI, head of Alternatives Asset Sectors, Valuation Advisory. “We anticipate market fundamentals to steadily improve and the market to re-stabilize between two and four years, depending on the location.”

 

Source: GlobeSt.

Ventas Inc. Completes $2.3 Billion Acquisition Of The New Senior Investment Group Inc.

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Ventas, Inc. and New Senior Investment Group Inc. announced that Ventas has completed its acquisition of New Senior in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $2.3 billion, including New Senior debt assumed or repaid by Ventas.

Under the terms of the merger agreement, New Senior stockholders are entitled to receive 0.1561 shares of newly issued Ventas common stock for each share of New Senior common stock that they owned immediately prior to the effective time of the merger.

“The acquisition of the New Senior portfolio positions Ventas to capture the powerful senior housing upside at a cyclical inflection point, adds a high quality independent living portfolio in advantaged markets with positive supply and demand fundamentals, and builds on existing relationships with leading operators and our deep experience in independent living at an attractive valuation that is accretive to Ventas,” said Debra A. Cafaro, Ventas Chairman and CEO. “I commend Susan Givens and her excellent team for their professionalism and accomplishments.”

Ventas’s third quarter 2021 guidance issued on August 6, 2021 excluded any contribution or impact from the Transaction.

Effective today, shares of New Senior common stock will no longer be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Ventas, an S&P 500 company, operates at the intersection of two powerful and dynamic industries – healthcare and real estate. As one of the world’s foremost Real Estate Investment Trusts, Ventas’s portfolio of approximately 1,300 properties is buoyed by the demographic tailwind of a large and growing aging population. Ventas uses the power of capital to unlock the value of senior living communities, life science, research & innovation properties, medical office & outpatient facilities and other healthcare real estate, working with leading care providers, developers, research, educational and medical institutions, innovators and healthcare organizations. Ventas has followed a successful strategy that endures: combining a high-quality diversified portfolio of properties and capital sources to manage through cycles, working with industry leading partners, and a collaborative and experienced team focused on producing consistent growing cash flows and superior returns on a strong balance sheet, ultimately rewarding Ventas stakeholders.

New Senior Investment Group Inc. is a real estate investment trust with a diversified portfolio of senior housing properties located across the United States. New Senior is one of the largest owners of senior housing properties, with 103 properties across 36 states.

 

Source: yahoo! finance