Suppliers Directory

Gowling WLG

Gowling WLG is an international law firm with over 1,400 legal professionals in 19 cities worldwide. Offering an all-encompassing legal service we advise owners, operators, investors, suppliers and regulators operating in the care, housing and healthcare sectors. Understanding more than just the legal issues our experts cut through the jargon to deliver succinct, accessible advice helping clients to navigate the complexities of the health and social care system and achieve their objectives.

Consultancy, Legal Services, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management

ProMatura International

Data-driven market intelligence specialist retirement housing for 35 years. Operating: UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, Hungary, Costa Rica, Honduras, Japan, China, Australia. Concept development and testing to full sales forecast. Consumer preferences and purchase decision criteria. Much more.

Advisory, Consultancy, Marketing and Sales, Real Estate, Retirement Communities

Acuity Law

Acuity Law is a dynamic and forward-thinking commercial law firm, with an entrepreneurial spirit, operating throughout the UK. Acuity offers a partner-led service and has a strong track record in providing advice, transactional services and business support to organisations operating in the housing and healthcare sectors, including retirement community and care home operators.

Legal Services

Aging2.0

Aging2.0 strives to accelerate innovation to address the biggest challenges and opportunities in ageing. Aging2.0’s international, interdisciplinary and intergenerational community has grown to 30k+ innovators across 20+ countries. Our volunteer-run chapter network, which spans over 125 cities, has hosted more than 1000 events around the world. We are now building out the world's first collective intelligence platform for innovation in ageing, The Collective.

Consultancy, Data Solutions, Marketing and Sales, Retirement Communities, Technology

Archadia Architects

A South West London based chartered architectural and planning services practice with expertise in providing specialist housing for older people and people with disabilities and special needs. We offer a personal and professional service with an emphasis on high quality sustainable buildings meeting our clients’ brief in terms of budget, building function and timescales.

Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Planning

Assael Architecture

Assael Architecture is an award-winning practice providing urban design, architectural, landscape and interior design services to a range of developers, institutional investors and local authorities across the UK.

With a contextual and research-led approach, our designs respond to people’s needs to create attractive developments that foster strong communities over the long term.

Architecture, Design, Retirement Communities

Bernard Interiors

Bernard Interiors is an award winning interior architecture and design studio specialising in luxury commercial and residential projects throughout the UK and abroad. The practice provides turnkey solutions, architectural services, consultancy and procurement services for a variety of sectors, with specialist knowledge and a wealth of experience in later living, healthcare for the elderly and dementia care.

Architecture, Construction, Design, Project Management, Retirement Communities

BNP Paribas Real Estate UK

BNP Paribas Real Estate is formed of six business lines covering the entire property lifecycle. Property Development, Transaction, Consulting, Valuation, Property Management and Investment Management. Our Alternative Capital Markets team have over 10 years’ experience providing consultancy/ agency across the spectrum of healthcare real-estate sectors including: Care Homes; Retirement Living; Assisted Living; Supported living; Mental health; GP Surgeries; Hospitals.

Advisory, Consultancy, Property Services

Cain International

Cain International provides secured real estate debt financing for construction and redevelopment projects. Our debt team executes loans providing bespoke solutions to capital constrained developers seeking to bring their projects to fruition.

Guided by our relationship-driven approach, we partner with reputable sponsors with clear business plans in growing urban centres.

Advisory, Financial Services, Healthcare Specialist, Real Estate, Retirement Communities

Carterwood

Carterwood offers market leading advice by incorporating high quality data with expert sector-specialist knowledge in health & social care to help improve their clients’ decision making.
Carterwood provide solution-focused commercial due diligence in the health & social care sector, as well as handling the sale and acquisition of elderly specialist care and retirement living property and businesses throughout the UK.
Carterwood has a reputation for innovation and has recently added Carterwood Analytics to its family. Carterwood Analytics is a new online platform to assess elderly care home markets in England, Scotland and Wales and sits alongside Carterwood’s advisory offerings.

Consultancy, Data Solutions, Healthcare Specialist, Real Estate, Retirement Communities

Centrus

Centrus specialises in corporate finance and we support a wide range of organisations including providers of retirement housing in their funding and financial strategy needs. Our team of professionals specialise in banking, debt capital markets, derivatives, financing strategy and risk management.

Advisory, Financial Services, Project Management

Christie & Co

Christie & Co has the largest team of advisory and transactional professionals advising on all aspects of healthcare properties and operational real estate. Our consultancy and valuation advisory capability leverage off our market leading data analytics system. We have been actively involved in the development arena providing advice on a wide range of new care home, extra care and care village development schemes.

Advisory, Consultancy

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

We have been advising our clients to invest in, finance, develop, regulate and manage effectively in this growing market for over 20 years. Our multi-disciplinary team advise on structuring & acquisition, planning, financing, development, and ongoing asset management of retirement communities.

Advisory, Legal Services, Real Estate

Colliers International

Colliers International is one of the UK’s top real estate advisory organisations, employing around 830 people in 16 offices throughout the UK and Ireland. Our specialist healthcare team of chartered surveyors, agents and consultants are active in all aspects of healthcare, retirement communities and medical properties, from individual units to UK-wide and European portfolios.

Health and Wellbeing, Healthcare Specialist, Property Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities

DAC Beachcroft LLP

DAC Beachcroft is an international law firm, with one of the largest UK networks. The combination of our experience in Real Estate, particularly residential, and both public and private Health expertise provides a strong context for the full range of legal services that we provide to our clients in the retirement homes sector. We deliver customised advice in areas that include: regulatory; acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures; real estate development and construction, contracts and procurement, technology and insurance.

Legal Services

EAC

EAC runs the website www.HousingCare.org which profiles all retirement housing developments in the UK and underpins its unique and independent housing options advisory service to the public. HousingCare.org also provides a marketing platform for providers wishing to increase their visibility and/or advertise currently available properties.

Access to EAC’s database of information on 25,000 UK retirement developments is available on a subscription basis to developers, strategic planners and investors. The database also informs the Housing LIN’s SHOP@ consultancy services.

Advertising, Advisory, Data Solutions, Marketing and Sales, Retirement Communities

Eversheds Sutherland

As a global top 15 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides legal advice and solutions to a global client base ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to the largest multinationals.

Our teams of lawyers around the world operate seamlessly to deliver the legal know-how and strategic alignment that clients need from their advisors to help further their business interests. Clients describe us as creative and well-versed in cutting edge legal work – we listen well in order to understand how and where we can be most effective and add the greatest value.

We shape our advice to the unique circumstances and challenges of each project, and ensure the right people are in the right places to offer insight and certainty – from the day-to-day to the most complex, multijurisdictional matters.

Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate

FNTC

With over £2.5 billion of property assets under management, FNTC can assist in developing the best legal infrastrucure for your retirement community. Are you looking for an alternative to leasehold? Beneficial ownership of a retirement property has many advantages for both the operator and consumer. No two businesses are the same - our team takes pride in creating unique legal structures for each client.

Advisory, Legal Services

Gerald Eve

Our expertise in the healthcare sector is unparalleled. We advise on valuation, forward funding, acquisitions and disposals, planning and condition surveys. With a diverse client-base, our healthcare team works on retirement villages, extra care, assisted living, supported living and care homes.

Advisory, Consultancy, Healthcare Specialist, Property Services, Real Estate

Glide

Glide are specialists in desiging, installing and managing market-leading, super-fast, reliable and future-proof broadband, data and smart building solutions for residential developers and their customers.

Data Solutions, Technology

Harris Irwin Associates

Harris Irwin Associates is one of the UK's leading specialist care, extra care and dementia housing architectural practices.

Our repeat clients rely upon our experience and depth of knowledge to regularly assess the potential of new sites and provide design solutions which are deliverable, profitable and beautiful – buildings and communities which we are proud to be a part of.

We are focused on constructing later living buildings which are completed to the highest standards. Our expertise within the sector allows us to continually improve and innovate the care environment, enhancing the experience of the residents and their guests whilst being practical and efficient to operate.

We have completed 23 major residential care projects since we began 6 years ago and currently have 16 major residential care projects on site. The office is overseeing 19 care homes or care villages currently in the planning process with a further 16 instructed to planning. Last year we received in the region of 200 enquiries from the sector leading to in excess of 30 planning applications.

Architecture, Construction, Design, Healthcare Specialist, Planning

HEWI

HEWI are world leaders in the manufacture of bathroom accessibility solutions. Our multi award winning products focus on beautiful, contemporary design coupled with unique functionality. Our aim is to work with our clients to create tailored accessible spaces which blend seamlessly with their overall project requirements.

Design, Property Services

Ian Willams

Ian Williams is one of the UK’s leading property services companies. It is at the forefront of providing services to the built environment with particular expertise in senior living, care facilities and housing.

Property Services, Real Estate

Invisible Creations®

Invisible Creations® design inclusive, attractive and dual-purpose products to support people to live more independently and well for longer. Our initial focus has been to design home adaptations that provide all the function of a grab rail but with style and dignity at the heart.

Design, Health and Wellbeing

JLL

At JLL our aim is to shape the future of Real Estate for a better world. We help our client achieve their ambitions in the healthcare sector by providing market-leading research and consultancy advice on demographics and sector performance. We assist clients with access to funding through providing Red Book valuations and others to enter the sector through raising finance and acquiring developments or sites. We are also the market leader when it comes to the sale of operational businesses in the Retirement Community sector.

Consultancy, Real Estate

Lexington Communications

Lexington Communications is the UK’s leading strategy and communications consultancy. Specialising in planning communications, Lexington has supported clients navigate the politics of planning across the UK from our offices in London, Manchester, Leeds and Cambridge, as well as through a new partnership with Pentland Communications in Scotland.

Adopting an intelligence based approach to stakeholder engagement and community consultation, we have a strong track record of securing positive planning outcomes for our clients – with over 14,000 new homes, and new commercial space more than fifteen times the size of the pitch at Wembley Stadium, consented in just the last five years.

In recent years Lexington has established a specialism in C2 later living development because we recognise that a different Use Class needs a different approach to planning communications. That is why, from doormat to mousemat, we engage constructively with communities to ensure local residents and elected representatives understand the compelling benefits of our sector and why its growth should be supported, its applications consented at committee, and delivered to fill an identified and growing need.

Advisory, Consultancy, Healthcare Specialist, Planning, Retirement Communities

Motionspot

Motionspot is a RIBA award winning industry leader in accessible design helping to transform spaces and lives through beautifully designed, accessible environments that deliver independence for anyone with a disability. Motionspot has extensive experience providing design advice and innovative accessible products to the leading retirement developments across the UK

Design, Planning, Property Services

One Fell Swoop

New to the UK, but not to the sector, One Fell Swoop have designed, marketed and sold more than A $6 billion of retirement living developments in Australia. Now open for business in London, their experienced Chief Executive is available to showcase their services and discuss how they can grow your business.

Advertising, Consultancy, Marketing and Sales, Project Management, Retirement Communities

Pinsent Masons LLP

Pinsent Masons is a full-service international law firm. We respond to the pressures and opportunities facing businesses globally with legal excellence and innovation.
With 25 offices on four continents, wherever your commercial interests take you, we have the footprint and expertise to provide support. We recognise that giving a first class service goes beyond just legal excellence. A deep understanding of local cultural and commercial issues, and an innovative approach, underpins all of our advice. We understand the key political, economic, commercial and regulatory issues, helping to minimise risk and maximise opportunities.
We have market-leading expertise in five key global sectors:
• Technology, Science & Industry
• Energy
• Financial Services
• Infrastructure
• Real Estate.
We provide a strong local presence with an excellent understanding of the local market, backed up by our innovative technologies and global resources.

Legal Services, Property Services, Real Estate

Pozzoni

Pozzoni is an innovative architectural practice, established in 1983. From our offices in Manchester and London we deliver projects across the UK. Our award winning designs have given us a breadth of experience across the full range of senior living: retirement villages, assisted living and a recognised expertise in dementia design.

Architecture, Design, Retirement Communities

Royds Withy King

Royds Withy King are a dynamic and ambitious law firm and we are one of the leading and fastest growing law firms in the South of England. Our specialist Health and Social Care team has acquired an in depth knowledge of the retirement and health and social care sector and its changing trends and demands on operators. Our advice and services are tailored to suit the specific needs of our clients and cover a wide range of issues. We have significant experience in site acquisition, legal set up of developments, disposals of units together with ongoing management issues, construction procurement and disputes, buying and selling of care/retirement village businesses, employment law and HR issues, CQC registration and regulatory advice.

Construction, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services, Regulatory Risk Management, Retirement Communities

Saunders Partnership

Saunders has earned a reputation for excellent, award-winning architecture and urban design.
Our 70-strong national practice of architects, technologists and urban designers offer a full design service; from initial concept to delivery of projects of a variety of scales and sectors.

We ensure that senior living buildings and spaces are designed to maximise potential. Architectural services are our core activity and we are passionate about good design and solutions that add value. Working collaboratively to achieve the best results, we have long and successful relationships with a wide range of consultants and work proactively to overcome challenges and meet tight design criteria.

As the senior living sector develops, we continue to evolve to meet the challenges of delivering high quality assisted and independent living projects, often with integrated dementia care. Our long-standing relationships with many major clients are testament to successfully delivering planning approvals and completed projects within budget and programme.

Advisory, Architecture, Design, Planning, Retirement Communities

SAY Property Consulting LLP

SAY Property Consulting is an award-winning advisory business specifically established to provide residential, commercial and mixed use management consultancy services to developers, investors and property owners.
We are property management experts offering a diverse range of services ranging from property development consultancy, service charge and enfranchisement work, professional service work and bid support. Our expertise spans across various sectors including Build to Rent, Build for Sale, Estate Regeneration, Later Living, Co-Living, Affordable, and Mixed-Use.

Advisory, Consultancy

Stride Treglown Ltd

An employee-owned architectural practice of over 300 people, with a wealth of experience from high-dependency and dementia care facilities to retirement villages. Our approach is underpinned by knowledge of the research, alongside our fundamental belief in the importance of creating homes that people enjoy living in.
We think. We design. We deliver.

Architecture, Design, Health and Wellbeing, Retirement Communities

The Care Workers' Charity

The Care Workers’ Charity was first set up to help the UK’s almost 2 million care workers to get through financial crises. We provide crisis grants to care workers, signpost them to support services and work to raise the profile of their vital work.
We know this changes lives – every month the people we help tell us how a CWC grant has enabled them to face the future with renewed hope.
While financial help can be all that is needed in some cases, we also recognise that many issues faced by individuals working in care cannot be fixed by grants alone. We are working with care workers and care providers to tackle these issues, creating the support structures that people need whilst actively promoting the immense contribution that care workers make to our society.

Health and Wellbeing, Retirement Communities

TLT

TLT is an award-winning law firm with offices in London, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow & Edinburgh. TLT provides a full range of legal services to businesses, organisations and the public sector involved in housing for older people and the care and support sector. We advise operators on social care issues, regulation, health and safety and employment as well as dealing with the sale, purchase and building of new housing with care. We understand the legal and regulatory challenges facing operators in this sector and the importance of the full integration of the supply of care and support alongside good quality housing.

Advisory, Legal Services, Regulatory Risk Management

Whichelo Design Studio Ltd.

Whichelo Design Studio are interior, lighting and specialist spa designers currently working with some of the retirement sectors most respected operators. Our collaborative approach is based on working with clients and their design team at the early stages of a development. This allows us to fully understand the operator’s goals and operational requirements so the interior layout can be fully optimised. We believe a successful interior space is much more than simply having a nice colour scheme and that adopting a more strategic approach is fundamental to the success of any development.
It is our aim to create interior spaces that are aspirational and enriching places for people to live in their retirement years.

Design