All Retirement living articles
-
Professional
An age-old problem
An additional 50,000 homes for older people are required each year to keep pace with housing needs. So what’s holding developers back?
-
Online
Silbury provides £66.5m loan for Surrey retirement development
Silbury Finance has provided a joint venture between Audley Group and Senior Living Investment Partners (SLIP) with a £66.5m loan to fund a retirement home scheme in Surrey.
-
News
Deutsche Bank refinances chunk of Lifestory’s UK portfolio
Deutsche Bank has provided an inventory facility to refinance part of Lifestory’s UK portfolio in a £150m deal, Property Week understands.
-
News
Colliers appointed to sell £17.2m Aberdeen care home
Colliers has been instructed to sell Aberdeen care home Tor Na Dee and Craig Court for an unnamed private client with a guide price of £17.2m, which would reflect a 6% net initial yield if achieved.
-
News
Q&A with Wallacea Living's co-founders: ‘Retirement living is all about giving people purpose’
Wallacea Living’s co-founders Paul Morgan and Paul Coles discuss the firm’s upmarket approach to later living.
-
News
Audley Group forms multi-site joint venture with Octopus and PIC
Audley Group, provider of integrated retirement communities (IRCs), has formed a joint venture with a partnership between Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) and Octopus Real Estate.
-
News
Churchill Retirement Living buys clutch of sites with £139m GDV
Specialist housebuilder Churchill Retirement Living has exchanged contracts on seven new sites with a total gross development value of £139m in the past month to support its growth plans.
-
Insight
Make later-living homes a priority
As the Older People’s Housing Taskforce finally gets under way, it will attempt to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing the UK – how can suitable housing options be provided for later life?
-
News
Later living faces planning and perception challenges
Speakers at Property Week’s Later Living conference discussed challenges and opportunities in UK’s older people’s housing sector.
-
Insight
The outlook for UK later living
Property Week and Dentons brought together an expert panel from across the later-living sector to discuss the need to educate investors, occupiers and council planning teams about the sector’s key role.
-
Online
Silbury passes £500m lending milestone
Silbury Finance has passed half a billion of committed lending in the UK Living sector in under two years.
-
News
Only Care buys Bucks care home site
Only Care, the family-run operator of six care homes, has bought an 85-bed care home development site in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire for an undisclosed price.
-
Online
Elevation raises £330m for care home investments
Elevation Advisors has raised £330m in equity commitments for Elevation Healthcare Properties (EHP), its open-ended healthcare real estate investment vehicle that targets prime UK elderly-care real estate.
-
Insight
McBains’ Michael Lytrides on how senior living BTR can help fill the retirement home void
Over the next two decades, the UKs older population is projected to grow substantially, with people aged 65 and over making up almost a quarter of the population by 2043 – 17.4 million people in total – and the number of over 85s expected to double to 2.6 million.
-
News
Retirement Villages Group gets nod for Tunbridge Wells cinema redevelopment
Retirement Villages Group (RVG), owned by AXA IM Alts, has received planning permission to redevelop the ABC cinema site in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
-
News
Government must support later-living developers
Editor: Given the UK’s housing shortage, many will be pleased to hear Michael Gove’s recommitment to building 300,000 new homes by the mid-2020s.
-
News
Mayhew Review calls for 50,000 new homes for older people each year
The government needs to build 50,000 new homes per year for older people to tackle the housing and care crisis, according to a report from the International Longevity Centre (ILC), supported by The Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO).
-
News
Q&A: Inspired Villages’ Jamie Bunce on the later living firm’s ambitions
The chief executive of the later-living developer outlines the business’s targets and reacts to the mini-Budget.
-
Online
Retirement group Audley secures £59m loan from Silbury
Silbury Finance has provided retirement home developer Audley Group with a £59m investment loan, secured against four retirement villages located across Greater London and the Midlands.
-
Professional
Q&A: Five minutes with Jamie Bunce, CEO of retirement living operator Inspired Villages
Jamie Bunce, CEO of retirement living operator Inspired Villages, on how he got started in property, his top book and song picks, the historical figure he’d like to befriend and his number-one travel destination.