{"id":27130,"date":"2014-07-09T09:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/?p=27130"},"modified":"2014-07-09T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:23:42","slug":"northstar-realty-finance-corp-nysenrf-in-talks-for-4-billion-acquisition-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/northstar-realty-finance-corp-nysenrf-in-talks-for-4-billion-acquisition-deal-27130","title":{"rendered":"Northstar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE:NRF) In Talks For $4 Billion Acquisition Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boston, MA 07\/09\/2014 (wallstreetpr) \u2013 <b>Northstar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE:NRF)<\/b> is reportedly in talks to buy Griffin-America Healthcare REIT II, according to people with insider knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Griffin-America is an Irvine, California-based company that was founded in 2009, but its shares don&#8217;t trade in the stock exchange. The company had $3 billion worth of assets at the end of 1Q. The company owns 286 properties in 31 states in the U.S. and U.K. the business generated about $2.8 billion in equity fundraiser last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Talks collapse<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Griffin-American would have been sold in May for $3.7 billion to American Realty Capital <strong>Healthcare Trust, Inc. (NASDAQ:HCT)<\/strong>. However, the talks collapsed last month when HTC agreed to $2.6 billion stock and cash deal to join <strong>Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to sources, a cash and stock deal is being pursued between Northstar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE:NRF) and Griffin-America in what could value the transaction at $4 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The talks are exclusive, and sources say they are scheduled to expire on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Northstar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE:NRF) is a New York-based company that has recently become aggressive in healthcare real estate deals. Earlier this year it purchased skilled-nursing and senior housing facilities for about $1.05 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The discussions with Griffin-American are the latest in a broad scheme by the company to take advantage of the big demand for senior housing and medical services properties because of the growing old population in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company spun off its asset management business into a separate company this month. The business was separated as <strong>NorthStar Asset Management Group, Inc. (NYSE:NSAM)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Healthcare REITs<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Publicly traded healthcare REITs were the poor performers in the property-trust market in the past 12 months. However, they are rebounding amid reduced borrowing costs that enable companies to cheaply obtain money for acquisitions. 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