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Research by international real estate advisor Savills shows that European care home investment volumes have recovered in H2 2024 and into 2025.
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Morrison Community Care Reilly Ventures has secured £48 million in development funding for two new care homes in Enfield and Epping Forest, London.
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The Salvation Army today announced it will be offloading its care homes as it transitions from providing residential care for older people to grow its community-based support model.
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There is projected to be a huge shortage in elderly care home beds in the south west by 2035, according to a report by Christie & Co.
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Barchester Healthcare has promoted the managing director of its South division, Natasha Lazovic, to the executive board as chief operating officer.
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Franklin Real Asset Advisors has purchased 32 care homes from LDC Care Homes, a real estate property portfolio advised by Elevation Advisors.
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Construction has been completed at Coronation Court, a 33-bedroom care home in Cannock, Staffordshire.
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Parklands Care Homes has opened Pittyvaich Care Home in Inverness, an £11 million 58 en suite bed purpose-built care facility.
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Omega has released a statement following its acquisition of Four Seasons’ remaining care homes.
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Fortava, the new dementia care provider led by industry giants Johann van Zyl and Jamie Stuart, has officially been launched by Downing.
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Signature Senior Lifestyle, a provider of luxury assisted living, nursing, respite and dementia care, has appointed Rob Martin as its new chief executive.
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Motion, a care tech platform, has secured £250,000 of funding to accelerate its expansion across UK care homes.
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London luxury home care provider Venelle has appointed Stephanie Blenkinsop as deputy manager.
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Greensleeves Care has appointed Chris Poole as its next chief executive, effective from August.
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Cygnet Health Care has acquired a former nursing home in Hyde, Greater Manchester.
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Construction works at £17 million extra care housing scheme in Stirchley, Shropshire have been completed and will soon welcome its first residents.
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The Aurora Group, a Gloucester, UK-based provider of specialist education and care services, has appointed Kelvin Donald as its new chief executive.
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Care home developer and provider MACC Care Group has secured £14 million to fund the development of a new-build care home in Codsall, Staffordshire.
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Specialist care provider iBC Healthcare has appointed Amanda Raine as its head of business development.
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Downing-backed specialist care provider Mysa Care has acquired Safe Haven, as it continues its growth journey.
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HealthInvestor sits down with Antony Brister, chief financial officer at Aria Care, to find out more about the social care market, Aria’s acquisition of Future Care Group and its growth plans for 2025 and beyond.
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Optimo Care Group has acquired Spectra Care, taking on a portfolio of supported living units across Ilford and Chigford.
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Good Day Care Homes has acquired the Heights Care Home, which closed in November 2022.
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Dementia specialist Church Farm Care has acquired Wren Hall Nursing Home, strengthening its presence in the region.
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Potens, a specialist care provider, has acquired Regents Park T/A The Lodge learning disability care home in Exeter.
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Worries that a crackdown on private provision of SEND care is imminent seem to be overstated.
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Yorkshire-based residential and nursing care home provider Constantia Healthcare has completed a refinancing geared towards growth and acquisitions.
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Social care charity We Change Lives (WCL) has acquired East Midlands-based residential care business PSA Care Services and its subsidiaries.
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St Bernard’s residential home in Solihull has sold to an undisclosed multi-care home operator.
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Braid Hills, a former nursing home for 119 residents, will be re-opened in the next few years following its acquisition by Crown Care Group.
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BIRA Group Limited, which has a portfolio of seven homes in South Wales, has acquired Filed Farm House Residential Home in Hampton Bishop.
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Downing has acquired Inspire Neurocare and Hamberely Neurocare, its first acquisitions in the neuro-rehabilitation sector.
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Developers and operators are being urged to build more care homes across the country as a new report reveals a growing shortfall in bed numbers and issues with existing buildings.
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HealthInvestor understands supported living firm Consensus is up for sale.
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As the House of Commons rejects the amendment which would have exempted social care providers from the employer’s national insurance rise, we gather some reactions from the sector.
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Regional care home group Holmwood House Holdings has acquired Norwood House, a 59-bedroom specialist dementia care home in Saxmundham, Suffolk,
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HealthInvestor understands that supported living firm Lifeways is in a process led by Rothschild & Co.
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Mental health company Cygnet has acquired three specialist care homes previously operated by Oakview Care Services.
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Welltower looks to be close to buying north-west based care home group Athena Healthcare Group.
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A new care home is set to open in Doncaster next month, supporting adults with complex mental health needs, dementia, neuro-disabilities and physical disabilities.
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Bankhouse Nursing Home, a nursing care facility local to Blaenau Gwent in South Wales has sold to the manager of Oxford Care Homes and BIRA Care Homes.
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Yorkshire-based care home company Strong Life Care has acquired Cooper House in Bradford for a seven-figure sum.
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Parklands Care Homes is launching a £4m expansion of its care facilities in Tain and Grantown-on-Spey to increase its capacity.
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London-based Care REIT¸ which invests in a portfolio of healthcare real estate assets, has agreed terms on a deal to be acquired by the New York-listed CareTrust REIT.
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North west-based care home group Athena Healthcare Group is up for sale, according to sources.
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Eleanor Healthcare Group has acquired the Close Care Home.
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Sovereign Capital Partners-backed Eden Futures, a provider of supported living services has acquired Care Wish based in Dudley and Sandwell in the West Midlands.
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Hartford Care has acquired a residential care home site in Eastleigh, Hampshire to be developed by Highwood Group.
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Scottish care home group Meallmore is reportedly preparing for an exit with an advisor ready to take the firm to market.
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Affinity Care Consortium has purchased Asquith Hall Care Home in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
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Several expert sources have suggested a regional Scotland-based care home group is up for sale. The group has denied it.
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Elevation Development Partners has completed the development and sale of three new-build care homes to Pierval Santé, a real estate fund of Euryale, a European asset manager.
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Boutique Care Homes secured planning permission from Dover District Council yesterday to build Catherine Grove care home in Deal, Kent.
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The Schoen Clinic Group has opened Wellen Court, Schoen Clinic York, a nursing home with 24/7 care for people with complex dementia and its associated behaviours.
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Preferred Homes has completed its £16.3 million Hunslet Moor House development in Leeds, comprising 63 self-contained apartments.
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Kara Healthcare has acquired six care homes in the Northeast from administrators and lender ThinCats, alongside another from family-run operator Peterborough Care.
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Care England CEO Martin Green says the way in which local authorities commission care makes them “complicit with modern slavery”. Multiple sources on and off the record say tens of thousands of international care workers are stranded in the UK.
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Zephyr X has taken out an £8.8 million bridging loan to support a purpose-built 70-bed care home and seven supported living apartments in Blackburn, Lancashire.
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Luxury care home provider North Bay has sold a portfolio of six homes across the north of England for £100m.
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Elevation Healthcare Properties has acquired land and agreed forward funding to support the development of a care home in Otley, Yorkshire,
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Specialist support service Consensus has acquired residential care and support provider Creative Care.
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Athena Care Homes has appointed Lorna Rose as its new chief executive.
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Social care experts widely see the Casey Review’s 2028 release date as a delay tactic and wonder if some businesses will even survive to see its conclusion.
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Angela Rippon is the celebrity ambassador for Care UK’s campaign “the Big Dementia Conversation”.
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Neil Eastwood is looking to tackle the care sector’s workforce crisis. Not only does his app offer a novel solution, but his experience as a former carer and care group director gives him a fascinating perspective on where employers are going wrong.
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Swanton Care and Community has acquired Alina Disability Support which provides care and support for children and adults with learning disabilities.
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Elevation Healthcare Properties has acquired land and agreed forward-funding to support the development of three new purpose-built care homes.
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Oakland Care’s purchase of a 70-bed care home development site last month highlights key trends in the elderly care market.
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PE firm Lonsdale has launched two build-and-buy platforms in homecare and dentistry. HealthInvestor speaks to an advisor on the homecare deal to find out more.
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Senior Living Investment Partners, a partnership between Pension Insurance Corporation and Octopus Real Estate, has announced an investment via its joint venture with Elysian Residences.
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Strong Life Care has purchased two purpose-built care homes: The Beeches in Armthorpe, South Yorkshire and Tenlands in Ferryhill, County Durham.
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Integrated retirement community operator Wallacea Living has appointed Nazish Shaikh into the newly-created role head of HR.
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Occupancy levels across UK private care homes returned to, and in some cases exceeded, the pre-pandemic long-term average to reach 88%.
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Elizabeth Finn Homes, which operates eight care homes across England, has appointed Ruth French and Julian Ide as non-executive directors.
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OakNorth Bank has provided funds to MPS Care Group, a provider of residential nursing and care homes for adults.
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Care home provider Oakland Care has purchased a 70-bedroom care home development site in Fleet, Hampshire.
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Property developer Zephyr X has acquired a site for a new senior living development in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
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A comprehensive survey from the Care Provider Alliance (CPA) displays the devastating impact the budget will have on care and support providers.
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Forbes Stuart, partner at Ignite Growth, which acquired supported living business Acorns Healthcare, talks bout Ignite’s regional growth strategy, his thoughts on UK political risk and more.
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Huge wage bills in the wake of changes to employers’ national insurance contributions could cripple some healthcare operators, market experts tell HealthInvestor.
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Elevation Healthcare Properties has completed the sale and leaseback of Henbrook House care home in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, which is let to Connaught Care.
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Care provider Barchester Healthcare has reported 2023 income of 22.5 million, up from £21.9 million reported for 2022.
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Smart Care Homes has acquired Mannamead Care, a group of four care homes and an independent living unit in Plymouth, Devon.
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Healthcare M&A has rebounded in a big way. Year-end figures should see at least £2.5bn worth of transactions completed in the UK. Elderly care has proved particularly attractive.
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Ignite Growth has acquired Acorns (Southern), a specialist supported living business based in Curdridge, Hampshire.
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A Qualia Care home, St Mary’s Nursing Home in Moston, Manchester, has been sold to Vriddhi Investments on behalf of the administrator Griffins.
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Christie & Co has appointed Andrew Fyfe as an associate director in its care team in Scotland, to handle key healthcare transactions across Scotland.
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Development finance lender Atelier has provided a £23.6 million facility to develop a vacant purpose-built 119-bed care home in London.
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Hartford Care has entered into a partnership with construction firm Highwood Group to develop a residential care home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire.
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Grosvenor Health and Social Care Group has acquired Lifted Care, the care services arm of Lifted, a social care technology platform.
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Alternative lender Broadwood Capital has secured backing from asset manager Aviva Investors for a dedicated sustainable later-living credit fund.
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Lovett Care has acquired luxury care home developer and operator New Care for an undisclosed sum.
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Buy and build residential care and supported living specialist Swanton Care has acquired Derbyshire-based supported living services provider Oaklands Support.
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Property developer Zephyr X has purchased and commenced groundworks for a senior living development in Bishop’s Waltham, Hampshire.
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International alternative asset fund management group Bridgepoint has sold care home provider Care UK which it bought in 2010.
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Signature Senior Lifestyle, in partnership with Elevation, has completed the debt financing and construction agreements to support the development of three wholly-owned sites.
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Nursing and care home operator Country Court has sold a portfolio of three care homes for around £50 million.
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Elevation and Anavo acquire Hampshire care home site Real estate fund Elevation Healthcare Properties, in partnership with care home operator Anavo, have acquired a site with planning consent for a care home in Havant, Hampshire.
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Care provider Loveday & Co has appointed Sian Hammer as managing director.
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