Assisted living finance in the East Midlands

The East Midlands rises to 636 metres at Kinder Scout in the Peak District and was established as a Government Office region in 1994. We arrange the full range of assisted living finance across the East Midlands, from the acquisition finance and commercial mortgages that buy and hold a trading care home or a lease-backed supported living asset, to the bridging, development, mezzanine and equity behind a build, a conversion or a repositioning. Care and supported-housing market data is published nationally by Knight Frank, CBRE and the ONS, so the figures above are presented as clearly-labelled benchmarks, while the housing-transaction figure is genuinely local Land Registry data for the towns we track.

The East Midlands offers some of the most affordable residential stock in England, which is why supported living and specialist supported housing investors are active across its three cities and market towns. Lower entry prices translate into higher yields on registered-provider leases, and care home operators find a steady, ageing tenant base. With UK supported housing needing between 179,600 and 388,100 additional units on National Housing Federation research, regions with affordable stock and willing local authorities see the most conversion and development activity. Lender appetite for stabilised care and lease-backed schemes is solid.

On capital values, a modern, well-occupied purpose-built care home trades at an indicative £100,000 to £150,000 per bed on a going-concern basis (Knight Frank / care market commentary, 2025), with older and converted stock materially lower, while supported living is valued off the lease to the registered provider at yields around around 5 to 6% (Knight Frank UK Living Sectors Yield Guide / market commentary, 2025). Around around £12bn of UK healthcare property is forecast to transact in 2025 (Knight Frank, UK Healthcare, 2025 forecast), with investment into the wider UK Living sector reaching £3.2bn in a single quarter (CBRE UK Living, Q3 2025).

Benchmark figures from Knight Frank UK Care Homes Trading Performance Review 2025; Knight Frank UK Living Sectors Yield Guide, September 2025. Regional commentary draws on National Housing Federation (Supported housing research, 2023 to 2025).