The dismantling of Four Seasons Health Care Group has passed another milestone with the sale of 29 care homes in Northern Ireland.

Belgium-headquartered healthcare real estate investment trust Aedifica is investing approximately £10 million in a care home to be constructed in Port Erin in the Isle of Man

East Suffolk Council has approved plans for a Kingsley Healthcare care home development in Oulton Broad.

Retirement community provider Rangeford Villages has appointed David Kanarens as head of operations, effective 25 July.

HealthInvestor catches up with the Civitas Investment Management (CIM) team, the investment manager to CSH, to find out more about the fund manager’s forward strategies.

Birchgrove, a developer of rental retirement properties, has purchased sites in Chiswick, West London and in Leatherhead in Surrey

Planning permission has been secured for Housing 21 to provide 65 new affordable homes in Oundle in Northamptonshire.

Envivo Group has appointed Phil Andrews as property and development director to ensure the properties in its portfolio are maintained to a high quality.

An ARCO Conference panel titled “Expanding the Contract” focused on the leasehold system which is currently undergoing fundamental reform. Speakers of the panel discussed how alternative tenure models will redefine the relationship between operators and customers and shape the future of the sector.

Primary Health Properties, a real estate investment trust which invests in modern primary healthcare, has sold a portfolio of 13 smaller medical centres.

A new later-living developer and operator, backed by real estate funds managed by ActivumSG Capital Management, has launched as Opus.

Building work has begun on a £30.5 million cancer diagnostic and treatment centre in Guildford.

Adlington Retirement Living has appointed James Heyworth as land director, responsible for reviewing new sites, new opportunities and appraising their potential.

Millstream Management Services, a property management firm specialising in retirement housing has changed its name to Churchill Estates Management.

Research by property consultancy Knight Frank and law firm Irwin Mitchell reveals that over a third (36%) of local authorities in England don’t have clear policies in place to support housing for seniors.

Civitas Social Housing, a care-based and healthcare real estate investment trust, has reported its full-year results for the year ended 31 March 2022.

London-based investment management group Henley Investment Management has launched its second fund focused on UK social housing.

Retirement living provider Riverstone has opened its first residence in Kensington with a 24/7 concierge service and “the feel of a private members club”.

Healthcare properties investor Impact Healthcare REIT is equity fundraise via placing of shares and offer for subscription, both at 117p per share, for the acquisition of an identified pipeline of care homes.

Following the quarterly FTSE index series review, Target Healthcare REIT has entered the FTSE 250, a capitalisation-weighted index consisting of the 101st to the 350th largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. HealthInvestor caught up with Kenneth MacKenzie, Target’s founder and chief executive, to find out more.

Care home development company Aspire has obtained planning consent for the construction of a 72-bedroom care home on a 1.2-acre site in the market town of Downham Market in Norfolk.

Riverstone, a provider of London living for over 65s, has appointed Martin Earp as its chief executive.

Kingsley Healthcare has completed on a deal to take over the operation of Gower Gardens care home in Halesowen, near Birmingham.

Adlington Retirement Living has sold all 48 luxury apartments at The Chimes, its retirement community in Cheadle, Greater Manchester.

Triton Construction has secured contracts to deliver two new £8 million care homes for Liberty Care Developments. 

Modular healthcare building firm MTX has been awarded two projects in the Northwest, at the Royal Bolton Hospital and Clatterbridge Hospital to expand their facilities and capacity, including new theatres will help to reduce the backlog of appointments from the pandemic.

LNT Care Developments has purchased a care home site with full planning consent in the market town of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, from Linden Homes.

Senior living developer Charterpoint has sold its care home development near Leicester to care homes operator Cinnamon for an undisclosed amount.

An Aspire LPP care home development site in Tenterden, Kent has been sold to care home provider Barchester Healthcare.

Liquidity in the private care market is giving options that did not exist in the past, speakers in a Freeths webinar unanimously agreed.

Healthcare, design and build modern methods of construction (MMC) main contractor, Darwin Group, has handed over a 1,198m2 modular mental health ward for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust on the St. Peter’s Hospital campus in Chertsey, Surrey.

Sanders Senior Living, a senior living provider and sister company to Runwood Homes, has acquired a 60-bedroom care home development in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

Specialist dementia care provider Belong has begun enabling works at its site at Peel L&P’s Wirral Waters, appointing Caddick Construction to carry out the work on its £20 million care village in Merseyside.

Property investment and development business Derwent London has exchanged a conditional contract to acquire the freehold of City Road Island in London, the site of the Moorfields Eye Hospital and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

Real estate investment firm Rynda Healthcare has bought two care home developments from Reuben Brothers-owned care home provider Avery Healthcare in a sale and leaseback deal of more than £28 million, HealthInvestor UK can reveal.

HealthInvestor UK catches up with Mike Toft, head of care homes at real estate lender and investor Octopus Real Estate. He tells us investment competition in healthcare real estate today is “fierce” and will grow as investors look to diversify from traditional real estate sectors.

Cheltenham-based residential developer Lifestory has secured two development loans totalling £90 million to be used for six later-living developments.

Modular healthcare building firm MTX has secured a project to construct the multimillion-pound Dame Clare Marx Building at Colchester Hospital.

Care home developer New Care has opened Adel Manor, a care home in Adel, a suburb of Leeds, which will provide residential, nursing, dementia and respite care services.

McGoff Construction has begun work on a £9.5 million new build care home in Weybridge for Barchester Healthcare.

Kingston Council has approved planning permission for care home provider Signature Senior Lifestyle to build a care home with 86 luxurious suites.

The UK healthcare property market investment volumes in 2021 were 53% higher than the five-year average, totalling £2.34 billion,Knight Frank says adding that there is strong interest from overseas and private investors.

Work has begun on an Oakland Care's residential, nursing and dementia care home development in Wigmore in Kent.

Healthcare law firm Hill Dickinson has added to its Leeds team the hire of health property partner Emma Brecknock.

Impact Healthcare REIT is acquiring three purpose-built care homes in and around Glasgow for £8.1 million. The properties are let to Silverline, an existing tenant in the portfolio.

Patron Capital-backed care home developer and operator Hamberley Group has sold five of its care homes to real estate investment firm Rynda Healthcare for £100 million.

Build is under way on a new privately funded £11 million care facility in Grappenhall in Cheshire, with practical completion confirmed for March next year.

Newly established care operator Premium Care Group has acquired Churchfields care home in Cassington and Rosebank care home in Bampton, both located in Oxfordshire.

London-based Impact Healthcare REIT has reported 2021 pre-tax profit of £32 million, up from 2020 pre-tax profit of £28.8 million.

Healthcare, design and build modern methods of construction main contractor, Darwin Group, has begun work on two new operating theatres at Grantham and District Hospital in Lincolnshire.

New Care is entering a strategic funding partnership with Octopus Real Estate to finance the development of five care homes in North West England, with real estate firm Knight Frank advising, HealthInvestor UK can reveal.

Care UK has made a start on two new care homes, including the first it will have opened from scratch in Wales.

Santerre Health Investors, a joint venture between Highgate and Aurora Health Network, has acquired 49 Caring Homes Group care homes from DigitalBridge.

Darwin Group, the Shawbury, Shropshire-based provider of Modern Methods of Construction buildings for the healthcare and education sector, has secured significant funding from London-based investment company Kartesia.

Real estate advisor Savills has appointed Justin Scenna and Oliver Nield to its healthcare and senior living team.

Investment management firm Pollen Street Capital has formed a joint venture with real estate lender Beaufort Capital to fund various real-estate developments, including care homes, across the UK.

Retirement communities developer and manager McCarthy Stone has announced three new senior appointments to its land team.

Work has started on a new £7.95 million care facility in Bolton, which will be led by care home operator New Care. The new facility will provide residential, nursing, respite and dementia care.

Business property advisor Christie & Co has appointed Saoirse Duddy as a business agent in its healthcare team.

Jeremy Richardson, chief executive of Four Seasons Health Care, is stepping down from his role. He is expected to leave the business in April.

Rynda Healthcare, a specialist investor focused on care homes and senior living markets, has acquired Cairdean House, a 90-bed care home in Edinburgh, from Nuveen’s Janus Henderson UK Property PAIF.

Target Healthcare REIT has appointed Dr Amanda Thompsell as an independent non-executive director.

Barchester Healthcare has completed on the purchase of what was formerly The Old Hall care home in Send, Surrey.

Octopus Real Estate has provided an £11 million loan on a ground-up development of a 71-bed elderly care home in Bedhampton, Hampshire.

M&G Real Estate, part of M&G’s £65 billion private assets division, has acquired two developments managed by assisted living operator Birchgrove Holdings.

Pan-European care group Korian has signed a long-term joint venture partnership with BAE Systems Pension Funds covering a portfolio of 23 healthcare real estate assets across Europe.

Elevation Healthcare Properties (EHP), a real estate fund advised by Elevation Advisors, has secured the purchase of land and entered a funding agreement for the development of three new care homes across the UK.

Impact Healthcare REIT has backed the acquisition of 12 sites in Fife, Scotland in a deal worth up to £40 million. The homes will be operated by Holmes Care Group, an existing group tenant.

European healthcare REIT Aedifica has partnered with Spanish care home operator Neurocare Home to develop a portfolio of around 1,000 elderly care units in Spain for roughly €75 million.

UK-listed Target Healthcare REIT has completed the acquisition of 18 care homes, representing more than 1,200 beds.

Buy and build social care investment group, Tristone Healthcare, has received £20 million of funding from Duke Royalty to support its long-term growth ambitions.

London-based Primary Health Properties, which invests in modern primary healthcare facilities, has appointed Ivonne Cantu as an independent non-executive director

Property consultancy Aitchison Raffety has appointed Dom Rosenbaum as an associate director in its healthcare team.

BNP Paribas Real Estate has appointed Samantha Rowland as its new head of healthcare and Colin Rees-Smith a as a senior director in the healthcare team.

UK-listed Target Healthcare REIT, which invests in purpose-built UK care homes, has entered a new long-term £37 million debt facility with Phoenix Group, existing lending partner.

Preston-based property and construction company Eric Wright Group has appointed Lesley McGregor as new managing director of its health and care business and has also promoted Wayne Ashton to director.

Silbury Finance, a development lender backed by Oaktree Capital Management, has provided the UK Retirement Living Fund (ReLF) with a £39.3 million senior loan to fund the development of a retirement village in Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Property consultancy Aitchison Raffety has promoted Georgina Silk to associate director within its healthcare division.

Primary care property investor and developer Assura today announced its interim results for the six months ending 30 September 2021.

OakNorth Bank has provided a £20.2 million loan to care home provider Park Lane Healthcare, to create Lavender Fields Care Village, three miles from the market town of Pocklington in East Yorkshire.

Cardiff-based retirement and care homebuilder Castleoak has filed for administration, Construction News has reported.

Belgian-headquartered healthcare investment group Aedifica has agreed a deal to integrate its UK asset management partner, Layland Walker.

European healthcare real estate investment trust Aedifica has acquired the Uplands fully operational care home in Shrewsbury for around £11.5 million.

Target Healthcare REIT, which invests in purpose-built UK care homes, has announced its results for the year ending 30 June 2021.

Later-living communities operator and developer Inspired Villages has appointed Stephen Halliwell as chief financial officer, effective from January 2022.

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Savills: Caryn Donahue Estate agent Savills has appointed Caryn Donahue as a director in the operational capital markets division, as head of senior housing transactions.

Primary Health Properties, a real estate investment trust which invests in modern primary healthcare facilities, has acquired Sarak Group, whose sole asset is the Crwys Medical Centre in Cathays, Cardiff, for £4.5 million.

Global property consultancy Knight Frank has added three senior surveyors – Katrina Szinekova, Chris Barnes and Ty Turner – to its seniors housing team.

Elevation Healthcare Core Plus, a real estate fund advised by Elevation, has completed a sale and leaseback from Halcyon Care Homes of five care homes.

Healthcare real estate investment manager Elevation Advisors has launched a new strategy with funding provided by StepStone Real Estate to provide flexible debt financing to senior living developers and operators across the UK.

Commercial real estate firm Avison Young has appointed George Todrick to its national health team as an associate director.

Health and care property developer Prime has appointed Richard Powell to the newly created post of director of construction strategy.

London-based Civitas Investment Management has appointed Dipesh Devchand as group chief financial officer.

Retirement communities developer and manager McCarthy Stone is increasing its programme of land buying across England and Wales and is looking for health and social care sites for redevelopment.

Commercial real estate firm Avison Young has appointed Andrew Sutherland as an associate director in its national healthcare team.

Primary care real estate investment trust Assura has announced the pricing of its first sustainability bond, a sterling-denominated senior unsecured bond in an amount of £300 million with a tenor of 12 years.

Care home design and construction business Savista Developments has appointed Graham Hill as construction director.

OakNorth Bank has provided £7.5 million of funding to support the development of a new luxury care home in East Yorkshire.