Tag: Healthcare Activos

Healthcare Activos: Jorge Guarner’s Investment Vehicle Continues its Spending Spree

8 October 2018 – Eje Prime

Jorge Guarner (pictured below), formerly the head of Sarquavitae, is raising his commitment to the purchase of healthcare real estate assets. Healthcare Activos, the investment fund that he manages, has an ambitious plan underway to compete with other residential care operators in the sector. The firm expects to conclude the year with more than 22 assets in its portfolio and will exceed the investment barrier of €205 million.

Last week, Healthcare Activos entered the Spanish hospital sector with the acquisition of Hospital Campo de Gibraltar in Palmones (Cadiz) from the Quirón group. In this way, it closed the purchase of its 18th asset in Spain.

In a statement to PlantaDoce, Guarner said, “the company’s objective is to exceed 22 assets this year”, whilst noting that, for the time being, “none of its purchases are going to be conducted beyond the Iberian Peninsula”. To date, Healthcare Activos has invested almost €110 million this year. Looking ahead to 2019, the firm will invest another €200 million.

Two weeks earlier, the company conquered the centre of Madrid with the opening of a commercial office on Paseo de la Castellana. That site, which is located at number 45, will respond to the expansion plans that the company is preparing for the whole of the domestic territory. The facility comes in addition to the central offices that the group has on Calle Pau Casals in Barcelona.

The next steps for Guarner’s company involve two projects in Cataluña. Healthcare Activos has already started to renovate two residential centres, one located in Cerdanyola del Vallès and the other in Igualada. Both will be fully operational as of next year.

After the Catalan centres, the company is going to launch the Amézola residence, during the second half of 2020, with capacity for 140 beds and with a surface area of 8,315 m2, which will be located in Bilbao.

Healthcare Activos has scheduled its debut on the stock market for 2020. The investment arm of the former Sarquavitae CEO plans to debut on the Alternative Investment Market (MAB) within two years (…).

In the words of Guarner, the sector for the care of the elderly has a lot of potential in Spain. “We need to focus on people aged over 85 years because 15% of them are having to be admitted to hospital or specialised care centres”, recognises the CEO of Healthcare Activos.

Original story: Eje Prime (by Alberto Escobar)

Translation: Carmel Drake

Resa’s Former CEO Creates 12 Investment Vehicles & Finalises the Purchase of Land for Tertiary Use

27 June 2018 – Eje Prime

Jorge Guarner (pictured below) used to be the boss of the student hall sector in Spain and now he is looking to do the same in the nursing home sector. The director, formerly the CEO of Resa from 1996 to 2002, is guiding the path of Healthcare Activos, a real estate asset manager operating in the healthcare segment, which is pushing ahead with financial support from the fund Oaktree and one aim: to debut on the stock market in 2020. In its process of becoming a Socimi, the company is going to create twelve vehicles to purchase tertiary land throughout Spain.

During the first half of the year, the company has constituted the seventh and eighth of its series of vehicles, whose aim is “the performance, both in Spain and overseas, of property development and construction activities for all kinds of real estate developments, urban planning and land development projects, be they for industrial, commercial or residential purposes”, as noted yesterday in the Official Gazette of the Mercantile Registry (Borme).

Guarner, as the sole representative of the company, has created the companies with the minimum required share capital (€3,000) and he has domiciled them all at the manager’s Madrilenian headquarters, number 26 Calle Raimundo Fernández Villaverde.

Over the next two years, until it debuts on the stock market, a priori, on the Alternative Investment Market (MAB), Healthcare Activos plans to invest almost €500 million in properties in Spain, primarily in nursing homes for the elderly.

The group’s first investment came in December 2016, when Guarner’s firm purchased four buildings that are today leased to the nursing home operator Amavir. Since the first acquisition to date, the group has invested €107 million in eleven assets, of which €62 million were disbursed in 2017 and the remaining €45 million have been spent since 1 January 2018.

The future Socimi also has €14 million committed for the creation of a portfolio of more than forty properties, in different degrees of progress, such as nursing homes, hospitals and clinics, be they fully operational, ready for renovation and launch, or as land development projects.

Guarnar has funds to invest up to €150 million per year until 2021 in the acquisition of assets and development of new nursing homes for the elderly across the country. The latest operation that the manager carried out was the purchase, a month ago, of a property in Vitoria from the specialist operator Abertia-Etxea, for which it paid €5 million.

In addition, in April, Healthcare Activos spent €40 million on three nursing homes in Gijón, Burgos and Valladolid. For that project, the company joined forces with La Saleta Care, owner of the buildings until then, which will continue to manage the properties for the next 25 years.

Guarnar, who was also the CEO of Sarquavitae for twelve years, the main Spanish company in the nursing home sector, has his company central headquarters in Barcelona, where last summer, he invested €15.5 million in the purchase of the Los Tilos nursing home (…).

Original story: Eje Prime (by Jabier Izquierdo)

Translation: Carmel Drake

La Saleta Invests €60M in its Expansion Across Spain

2 May 2018 – Eje Prime

La Saleta is committed to becoming one of the leading operators of nursing homes in Spain. The Valencian company, which has been owned by the Belgian firm Armonea for the last two years, has completed the acquisition of six nursing homes so far this year in operations worth €60 million.

La Saleta already owns its first centres in Valladolid, Burgos and Asturias, which it integrated with the purchase of the company Bau Gestión at the beginning of the year. To that, it has added the acquisition of a new property in Álava, the Albertiaetxea home, and it is now negotiating new purchases in the País Vasco. La Saleta has also added two centres in the province of Alicante, one in El Vergel and the other in the capital, with a management agreement, according to Expansión.

These six additions contain 935 beds and increase La Saleta’s total capacity to 4,500 beds. Moreover, the firm has started work on the construction of two new nursing homes in Tomares (Sevilla) and Lugo, which involve €16 million of investment and 310 additional beds.

La Saleta transferred the ownership of three properties acquired from Bau Gestión to the fund Healthcare Activos and also sold another six properties in the Community of Valencia to the French fund Primonial Reim for €35 million. “The aim of La Saleta is to expand (capacity) by 2,000 beds and so we are already halfway there”, said Fernando Ruiz Castillo, CEO of the group. La Saleta closed 2017 with turnover of €58.1 million.

Original story: Eje Prime

Translation: Carmel Drake