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National Healthcare Properties agreed to sell 40 outpatient medical facilities for approximately $531 million, with estimated cash proceeds of $511 million before transaction expenses and property operating prorations. A separate $11 million transaction for its final four facilities remains a non-binding letter of intent.
National Healthcare Properties has agreed to sell 40 outpatient medical facilities for approximately $531 million, advancing a broader plan to exit the outpatient medical business and concentrate the publicly traded REIT on senior housing.
The definitive sale agreement announced Monday carries a 6.9% nominal capitalization rate based on trailing 12-month in-place cash net operating income. After recurring capital expenditures and customary closing adjustments, NHP expects an economic cap rate of 6.5%.
The transaction has not closed. NHP expects it to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to customary conditions.
About $511 million of expected cash proceeds
NHP said it recently retired all secured debt tied to the 40-property portfolio and expects approximately $511 million in cash proceeds before transaction expenses and property operating prorations, but after capital expenditure and other customary adjustments.
The company plans to use the money to repay its revolving credit facility, fund acquisitions in its senior housing operating portfolio, or SHOP, and for general corporate purposes.
NHP also signed a non-binding letter of intent covering its final four outpatient medical facilities for $11 million in gross proceeds. Because that document is an LOI rather than a definitive sale agreement, there is no assurance those four properties will be sold on the proposed terms.
The outpatient exit is already underway
The new agreement follows NHP’s previously announced $528 million sale of 86 outpatient medical facilities. On Sept. 10, the company reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had closed the first tranche of that earlier transaction: 30 properties, producing approximately $79 million in net cash proceeds before transaction expenses, property prorations and other adjustments.
Taken together, the earlier 86-property transaction, Monday’s 40-property agreement and the proposed sale of the final four properties would complete NHP’s exit from the outpatient medical segment, according to the company.
The shift would leave NHP focused on senior housing. As of March 31, the company owned 37 senior housing communities containing 3,615 units and 130 outpatient medical facilities totaling roughly 3.7 million square feet, according to its first-quarter SEC filing.
Capital is moving toward senior housing
NHP said it currently has signed purchase agreements or non-binding letters of intent for approximately $244 million of senior housing acquisitions encompassing 724 primarily assisted-living and memory-care units. It estimates weighted-average capitalization rates of approximately 7.2% in year one and 8.4% in year three.
Those acquisitions remain subject to due diligence, closing conditions and, where applicable, regulatory approvals. The cap-rate estimates are forward-looking and depend on operating performance.
Chief Executive Michael Anderson said the expected transactions would complete the company’s move toward a “pure-play SHOP platform.” NHP projects that, after announced dispositions and capital-markets transactions and closed SHOP acquisitions, net debt to its further-adjusted EBITDA measure would be approximately zero based on second-quarter 2026 financials.
That does not mean NHP expects to have no debt. The company said the scenario would leave cash and cash equivalents approximately equal to total debt, which would consist primarily of $300 million in unsecured term loans.
The repositioning changes both NHP’s property mix and its operating exposure. Outpatient medical buildings generally produce lease-based real estate income. In the SHOP structure, a REIT owns senior housing real estate while participating more directly in the operating economics of communities run through eligible operators. That can provide greater upside when occupancy and rates rise, but it also leaves owners more exposed to labor costs, operating performance and local senior-housing conditions.
NHP completed its Nasdaq public offering in April, raising approximately $531.3 million in gross proceeds, according to an August SEC registration filing. Monday’s transaction is another major step in reshaping the balance sheet and portfolio only months after that listing.
