ACQUISITIONS OF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2021

Business Combination and Asset Acquisition [Abstract]

ACQUISITIONS OF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY

NOTE 4—ACQUISITIONS OF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY

We acquire and invest in senior housing, medical office buildings, life science, research and innovation centers and other healthcare properties primarily to achieve an expected yield on our investment, to grow and diversify our portfolio and revenue base, and to reduce our dependence on any single tenant, operator or manager, geographic location, asset type, business model or revenue source.

2021 Acquisitions

On September 21, 2021, we acquired New Senior Investment Group Inc. (“New Senior”) for a purchase price of $2.3 billion in an all-stock transaction pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of June 28, 2021 (the “Merger Agreement”) by and among Ventas, Cadence Merger Sub LLC, our wholly owned subsidiary (“Merger Sub”), and New Senior. Under the Merger Agreement, on the acquisition date, Merger Sub merged with and into New Senior, with New Senior surviving the merger as our wholly owned subsidiary (the “New Senior Acquisition”). The New Senior Acquisition was valued at approximately $2.4 billion. We funded the transaction through the issuance of approximately 13.3 million shares of our common stock, with each New Senior stockholder receiving 0.1561 shares of Ventas common stock for each share of New Senior common stock that they owned immediately prior to the acquisition. In addition to the equity issuance, we funded the acquisition through the assumption of $482.5 million of New Senior mortgage debt and $1.1 billion of cash paid at closing. We accounted for this transaction as an asset acquisition and the financial results of New Senior have been included in our consolidated financial statements from the acquisition date.

Fourth Quarter Acquisitions

In November, we completed the approximately $180 million acquisition of six Canadian senior housing communities that will be operated under a management contract and the $58 million acquisition of a behavioral health center in Plano, Texas.