Nursing and Care Homes: Values and Trends

There are real challenges in running care-based businesses. Care must be central to the service, but equally, if you don't run as a business, you won't survive to provide the care. Profitability ensures sustainability. Profitability also underpins the value of the business when the time comes to raise finance or sell. Profit is that thin layer between revenue and costs.

Topics of discussion include:

• The implications for nursing and care homes of an ageing population
• The demands of ageing property assets 
• The consequences for employment costs of Brexit and the increasing minimum/living wage
• Market activity:
  - Who’s buying and where's the most activity?
  - Who’s developing and where are the major opportunities? 
  - Who’s investing? 
  - Who’s funding? 
• Are we seeing both an increase in land values and an increase in construction costs?
• What to do to protect and increase value