NOW Closed – Now closed to investment.
Fund facts
Spire has again partnered with US based Bridge Investment Group LLC, to provide Australian investors with the ability to access income and growth via an investment in the US Senior Housing and Medical Properties market.
Spire USA ROC Senior Housing and Medical Properties Fund II, will operate as a feeder fund to the underlying US investments sourced and managed by Spire’s US real estate partner, Bridge Investment Group LLC.
The Fund acts as an Australian feeder fund into the assets of Bridge Seniors Housing and Medical Properties Fund II, LP (“Bridge Seniors II”). Bridge Seniors II is a “buy, fix, sell” private equity real estate fund, investing in income producing and value-add US seniors housing and medical office properties.
The Fund intends to provide investors with meaningful and consistent Current Income paid on an annual basis and the potential for strong capital appreciation and attractive risk-adjusted returns by investing in select Seniors Housing properties located throughout the US. The Fund will focus on independent living (“IL”), assisted living (“AL”) and memory care (“MC”) facilities, although the portfolio may also include skilled nursing facilities (“SNF”) and continuing care retirement communities (“CCRC”). The Fund also intends to opportunistically invest in select medical office and other healthcare-related properties which represent exceptional value.
Following the Investment Period, an exit strategy will be executed, which may include an IPO or trade sale of the portfolio.
Bridge Seniors II will acquire assets that will benefit from what is being called the “Silver Tsunami’ – the US ageing population demographic, in which over 10,000 people per day are turning 65.
Each asset acquired will have a value-add strategy which will be implemented to increase the property’s cash flow and total return. In many cases this will involve increasing the number of Memory Care beds in a facility. Memory Care is a relatively new specialist sector and asset class within the US senior housing market, which provides specialist accommodation and care programs for residents afflicted with dementia; the leading cause of which is Alzheimer’s disease.
Currently in the US, there are over 5 million people living with Alzheimer’s and someone develops Alzheimer’s every 68 seconds. Yet there are only 35,000 Memory Care beds available. Accordingly, most Memory Care facilities are 100% occupied – with waiting lists.
Following the amalgamation of the portfolio during the Fund’s Investment Period, Bridge will asses the method and timing of the most profitable exit strategy for the portfolio. It is expected that this exit strategy will seek to exploit the pricing differences between the private markets and the public markets, via a portfolio or portfolio sales to publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), or via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the portfolio as a new REIT. Alternatively, individual assets may be sold when the value has been maximised.
The Bridge team behind the underlying Bridge Seniors II program, concluded a similar strategy in 2006 via the sale of a US$5 Billion portfolio of US Senior Housing properties to a publicly traded REIT, generating a portfolio Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 33% (p.a.).
Ordinary Units
| Performance as at 30 September 2024 | Net Returns* |
|---|---|
| 1 month | -2.27% |
| 3 months | -5.70% |
| 6 months | -10.43% |
| 1 year | -21.16% |
| Performance Since inception ** | 0.19% |
*Past performance is not an indicator of future performance. Performance Since Inception – Inception date (29 November 2017) occurred from the commencement of NAV based unit pricing, following the completion of capital raising in November 2017. Please note, however, that each investor’s performance numbers are calculated on an individual basis from their time of application and may differ from the above. “Performance since inception” is measured as the Internal Rate of Return since inception. The IRR is the annualised rate of return that equates the amount and timing of irregular cashflows since inception with the period end value. For the purposes of the monthly report, the IRR replaces the time weighted return since inception effective 30 June 2023.
| Date | Unit Price | Net Monthly Return |
|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2024 | $1.0926 | -2.27% |
| Period | Distribution Amount (cents per unit) | EX Price | Distribution Component |
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| 30 June 2024 | Nil CPU cash; Nil CPU FITOs | $1.1586 | |
| 30 June 2023 | Nil CPU cash; 0.3122 CPU FITOs | $1.4079 | |
| 30 June 2022 | 9.2378 CPU cash; 1.1798 CPU FITOs | $1.4321 |
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| 30 June 2021 | 4.7153 CPU cash; 0.4992 CPU FITOs | $1.2780 |
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| 30 June 2020 | 4.2413 CPU cash; 0.6594 CPU FITOs | $1.3236 |
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| 30 June 2019 | 0.3098 CPU cash; 0.1571 CPU FITOs | $1.3268 |
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| 30 June 2018 | 0.6764 CPU cash | $1.2961 |
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