Care property · For developers and investors
You can build it. Can you let it?
Land, capital and a contractor are the straightforward part of a care scheme. The demand evidence, a building the regulator will register, and an operator whose covenant a funder will accept are the parts that decide whether you have an asset or a liability.
We work for developers, investors, housing associations and CICs building for the care sector — residential and nursing homes, supported living, supported accommodation for young people, and extra care housing. We are not agents and we do not sell buildings. We are the care side of the table: what the commissioners will actually buy, what the regulator will actually register, and who will actually take the lease.
The three questions that decide the scheme
Almost every care development that goes wrong goes wrong on one of these, and nearly always before a brick is laid.
Will it fill?
Not whether there is need in the abstract. Whether this authority, for this client group, at this size, is placing and paying — and at what rate.
Will it register?
A building CQC or Ofsted will not register is not a care asset. Room sizes, layout, use class and occupancy decide this at drawing stage, not at handover.
Who takes the lease?
An empty care building is a cost. The same building let to a rated operator on a long lease is an investment. The difference is the operator, and their covenant.
The commonest expensive mistake is building the right thing in the wrong borough. Demand for supported living is not national, it is a commissioner's placement list. Two authorities forty minutes apart can be closed and desperate respectively, and no agent's report will tell you which is which.
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Will this scheme let?
Six questions on what you are proposing and where. It gives you a red, amber or green on whether there is a realistic operator market for it — and one of the answers is that it needs a conversation, which is a real answer rather than a failure of the tool.
What we do, and when
| Stage | What we do | Why it matters to you |
|---|---|---|
| Before you buy | Demand evidence, use class and registerability screen on the site | A go or no-go before the land is committed |
| At design | Care brief for the architect, regulator-tested layout and occupancy | Stops the redesign that arrives after planning |
| Before practical completion | Operator search, covenant review, heads of terms input | A tenant in place, not a marketing exercise |
| At funding | Rent cover, operator due diligence, evidence pack for the lender | The questions a funder asks, answered in advance |
| If you operate | Registration, registered manager, mobilisation, first-year compliance | Income from day one instead of an empty registered building |
How we charge
Site appraisals are a fixed fee. Pipelines are a monthly retainer, which is the sensible route if you are looking at more than two or three sites a year. Operator introductions carry a success fee against the first year's passing rent. Mobilisation is a fixed fee per scheme.
We tell you what everything costs before it starts, and we will tell you when a scheme is not worth appraising. Fees and engagement.
Where our fees come from, in writing. If we introduce an operator to your scheme and then act for that operator on registration or mobilisation, both engagements are disclosed to both parties before either starts. We are paid for work, not for introductions, and you will always know who else is paying us on the same building.
Start somewhere
Scheme viability
Demand evidence, use class, registerability. Two free tools.
Operator sourcing
Finding a tenant and checking they can hold the lease.
Forward funding and exit
Rent cover, tenure structures, what a funder will ask.
Mobilisation
If you would rather operate it than lease it out.
Tell us about the site
Thirty minutes, no charge, and nothing to buy at the end of it. If the scheme will not let, we would rather tell you now than take a fee to find out slowly.