IRVINE, CA—Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, Inc., has completed the acquisition of nine healthcare buildings in five states, the UK and Isle of Man, as well as a collateralized debt instrument, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $180 million during the third quarter. The acquisitions were comprised of six medical office buildings and three senior housing facilities.

“We continue to acquire accretive assets for the quickly growing portfolio of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III,” said Danny Prosky, president, chief operating officer, interim chief financial officer and one of the largest stockholders of the REIT. “With these latest acquisitions, our portfolio is valued in excess of $1.1 billion, based on purchase price, and we have more than $1.0 billion in additional pending acquisitions that we expect to close in the coming months.”

Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III's Third Quarter 2015 acquisitions include:

Southern Illinois Medical Office Building Portfolio - Waterloo, Illinois

Southern Illinois Medical Office Building Portfolio is a portfolio of three medical office buildings located adjacent to a 181- resident rehabilitation and nursing home and a 56-unit independent and assisted living facility in the St. Louis suburb of Waterloo, Illinois. Totaling approximately 41,000 square feet, the portfolio was 100 percent leased at the time of acquisition to 13 tenants, the largest of which are Fresenius Dialysis Center and Monroe County Surgical Center. The weighted average remaining lease term for Southern Illinois Medical Office Building Portfolio is approximately 7.4 years.

Southern Illinois Medical Office Building Portfolio was acquired from Southern Illinois Medical Development Corporation and Medical Development Company of America, unaffiliated third parties represented by Chris Stai of Brown Gibbons Lang.

Napa Medical Center - Napa, California

Napa Medical Center is a two-building medical office building portfolio located on the campus of the 191-bed Queen of the Valley Medical Center, the only full-service hospital in Napa, California. The approximately 65,000-square-foot portfolio was 88 percent leased at the time of acquisition to 20 tenants, the largest of which are St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare and Clinic Ole Community Health. The only institutional-quality medical office buildings on or near the hospital campus, Napa Medical Center has enjoyed $3.3 million in renovations since 2011 and provides the REIT with potential upside on new and renewal leasing.

Napa Medical Center was acquired from SP Real Estate NAPA LLC, an unaffiliated third party.

Tanglewood Trace Senior Living Community – Mishawaka, Indiana

Tanglewood Trace Senior Living Community is the final facility that comprises Mountain Crest Senior Housing Portfolio, which is comprised of six senior living communities in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan totaling 653 rental units and approximately 585,000 square feet. Griffin-American Healthcare RE III completed the acquisition of five of the facilities during the second quarter of 2015. The portfolio of six senior living communities is managed on behalf of the REIT by Ridgeline Management Company and is 100 percent private pay. At the time of acquisition, the average aggregate occupancy of the six senior living communities was approximately 86 percent.

Mountain Crest Senior Housing Portfolio was acquired from LaPorte Retirement LLC, Hobart Retirement LLC, Niles Retirement LLC, Elkhart Retirement LLC, CW LLC and Eastlake LLC, all unaffiliated third parties represented by Nick Glaisner of Ziegler. Mountain Crest Senior Housing Portfolio is operated utilizing a RIDEA structure, which allows for Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III to participate in both the rental and operational cash flow of each facility while relying on Ridgeline Management Company as the third-party manager.

Chesterfield Corporate Plaza – Chesterfield, Missouri

Chesterfield Corporate Plaza is an approximately 226,000-square-foot class A office building in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield, Missouri. The building was approximately 98 percent leased at the time of acquisition to three tenants, the largest of which is Mercy Health, which utilizes the property as its corporate headquarters. Mercy Health is a large hospital system serving residents in the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The weighted average remaining lease term for the building is 9.2 years.

Chesterfield Corporate Plaza was acquired from Corporate Plaza Property LLC, an unaffiliated third party represented by Gary Nussbaum of Transwestern.

Richmond VA Assisted Living Facility – North Chesterfield, Virginia

Richmond VA Assisted Living Facility is a four-story, approximately 210,000-square-foot assisted living facility located in the Richmond suburb of North Chesterfield, Virginia. Built in 2009, the property consists of 109 independent living units, 59 assisted living units and 18 memory care units. The facility was 93 percent leased at the time of acquisition and will continue to be operated by an affiliate of the seller, Harmony Senior Services LLC, on behalf of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III under a RIDEA structure, which allows for the REIT to participate in both the rental and operational cash flow of the facility.

Richmond VA Assisted Living Facility was acquired from Caba SH Investors, LLC, and Caba Operations, LLC, unaffiliated third parties represented by Tim Cobb of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors.

Crown Senior Care Portfolio – United Kingdom

Crown Senior Care Portfolio is comprised of six care homes located within the United Kingdom countries of England and Scotland, as well as Isle of Man, a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea. The portfolio consists of 317 beds, with an average occupancy of approximately 91%. Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III is acquiring the portfolio in multiple tranches, completing the acquisition of one of the care homes, representing 66 beds, during the third quarter of 2015. The REIT also provided a collateralized debt instrument secured by two of the care homes and the income from their operations. We anticipate acquiring the two care homes outright in the future. The portfolio is being purchased from five sellers and subsequently leased to and operated by Caring Homes Group under a 35-year absolute net lease. The lease will be cross-defaulted and cross-collateralized among all of the care homes and will be guaranteed by the parent company of Caring Homes Group.

The first care home of the Crown Senior Care Portfolio was acquired from Bettisfield Limited, an unaffiliated third party, and the borrower under the collateralized debt instrument provided by the REIT is Caring Homes (TFP) Group Limited, an unaffiliated third party.

Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, co-sponsored by American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Corporation, completed each of the third quarter acquisitions using cash-on-hand, as well as the assumption of existing loans totaling approximately $10 million and $38 million associated with the acquisition of Tanglewood Trace Senior Living Community and Richmond VA Assisted Living Facility, respectively. Including these acquisitions, the Griffin- American Healthcare REIT III portfolio is comprised of 69 medical office buildings, hospitals and senior housing facilities, as well as two collateralized debt instruments. The portfolio was valued in excess of $1.1 billion, based on aggregate purchase price, as of Sept. 30, 2015.

Griffin Capital is a privately-owned real estate company headquartered in Los Angeles. Led by senior executives, each with more than two decades of real estate experience who have collectively closed transactions representing over $25 billion in value, Griffin Capital and affiliates have acquired or constructed over 33.7 million square feet of space since 1995, and currently own, manage, sponsor and/or co-sponsor an institutional-quality portfolio of approximately 29 million square feet located in 33 states and 1 million square feet located in the United Kingdom, representing approximately $6.7 billion in asset value, based on purchase price.

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