The Valuation Committee and the Board reviewed the Valuation Report and considered the material assumptions and valuation methodologies applied and described therein. Upon due consideration, on March 10, 2021, the Valuation Committee determined that the range of per share values for the Company’s common stock was reasonable as of the Valuation Date and recommended the Board approve $7.38 per share as the estimated NAV as of the Valuation Date. Thereafter, at a meeting of the Board, which was also held on March 10, 2021, the Board accepted the recommendation of the Valuation Committee and unanimously approved $7.38 per share as the Company’s estimated NAV as of the Valuation Date. The 2020 NAV is the midpoint of the range of per share net asset values, adjusted for estimated transaction costs, for the Company’s common stock that Stanger provided in the Valuation Report.
Other than the adjustment for estimated transaction costs, the Board’s determination of the 2020 NAV was undertaken in accordance with the Company’s valuation policy and the recommendations and methodologies of the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives, a trade association for non-listed direct investment vehicles (“IPA”), as set forth in the Investment Program Association Practice Guideline 2013-01 “Valuations of Publicly Registered Non-Listed REITs” dated April 29, 2013 (“IPA Practice Guideline”).
The 2020 NAV represents a snapshot in time as of December 31, 2020, will likely change, and does not necessarily represent the amount a stockholder would receive now or in the future for his or her shares of the Company’s common stock. The 2020 NAV is based on a number of assumptions, estimates and data that are inherently imprecise and susceptible to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Please see “Valuation Methodologies and Major Assumptions,” “Valuation Summary,” and “Additional Information Regarding the Valuation, Limitations of the 2020 NAV and Stanger” in this Current Report, below.
Valuation Methodologies and Major Assumptions
As of the Valuation Date, the Company’s real estate portfolio consisted of interests in 74 properties, including 72 seniors housing communities and two acute-care facilities. Of the Company’s properties held as of the Valuation Date, five of our seniors housing communities were owned through an unconsolidated joint venture and one was comprised of unimproved land.
For purposes of the valuation analysis, the Company’s assets were classified into two categories: the appraised properties which consist of 69 seniors housing properties, one undeveloped land parcel and one acute care facility (the “Appraised Properties”), and the sale properties which consist of two seniors housing properties and one acute care facility owned by the Company and under agreements for purchase and sale (the “Sale Agreements”) as of the Valuation Date and subsequently sold or remaining to be sold to unrelated third parties subject to the terms of the Sale Agreements (the “Sale Properties”). The acute care property was sold on January 28, 2021 for the price set forth in the Sale Agreement. The Appraised Properties were valued using valuation and appraisal methodologies consistent with real estate industry standards and practices further described below. The Sale Properties were valued based on the prices set forth in the Sale Agreements. The valuation methodologies applied to each category are summarized below.
Appraised Properties: As of the Valuation Date, the aggregate estimated value of the Appraised Properties was approximately $1.86 billion. To estimate the value of the Appraised Properties, Stanger conducted an appraisal of each asset. In determining the value of each Appraised Property, Stanger utilized all information that it deemed relevant, including information from the Company’s advisor CNL Healthcare Corp. (the “Advisor”) and its own data sources, which data sources included trends in capitalization rates, leasing rates and other economic factors. In conducting its appraisals of the Appraised Properties, and pursuant to its engagement, Stanger utilized the income approach to valuation, which included a discounted cash flow (“DCF”) analysis and/or direct capitalization analysis to determine value (other than the vacant land parcel). Given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (“COVID-19”) on the senior housing industry and markets, in determining the appraised value of the 54 RIDEA seniors housing properties Stanger primarily relied on the DCF analysis in the 2020 NAV. In prior years, Stanger solely utilized direct capitalization analysis to determine the value of these properties, which was consistent with methods used by investors at that time.
For those properties for which a DCF analysis was utilized, pro forma statements of operations for such properties including revenues, expenses and capital expenditures, were analyzed and projected over a multi-year period (typically ten years). Projected operating expenses in the DCF analysis included COVID-19 expenses. These expenses are present for up to two years of the DCF analysis, dependent upon the severity of the pandemic impact in specific locations, with a downward trending estimate that anticipates a general recovery from the pandemic. A