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Capital Comes of Age: Why Global Investors Are Betting Big on the Full UK Later Living Continuum
Kevin Beirne
Director, Retirement Communities
Octopus Real Estate
Nick Short
Fund Manager
RLAM
Martin Robb
SVP, Investments
CareTrust REIT
Verity Knight
Director
JLL
Fireside Chat: Tenure Reform and the Rental Proposition
Paul Teverson
Chair
Retirement Housing Group
Sarah Walker
Partner
Travers Smith
Built to Last: Solving the Supply and Performance Crisis Defining the Future of UK Later Living
Chris Powell
COO
Pegasus Homes
Julie Fawcett
CEO
Auriens Group
Philippa Kellar
Managing Director
Richmond Villages
Lizzie Pillinger
Partner, Real Estate
Trowers & Hamlins
Keynote: Nick Sanderson, CEO, Audley Group
Nick Sanderson
CEO
Audley Group
Why you Can't Miss This Event
n 2025 alone, more than £10 billion changed hands across the full spectrum of UK later living, from care homes to retirement villages, nursing facilities to integrated retirement communities. US REITs deployed billions into Barchester, HC-One, and Care REIT, becoming overnight the largest owners of residential care beds in the country. Audley and Elysian merged to create the UK's largest retirement village group. Investors signalled plans to deploy £45 billion across living sectors by 2029. The conversation has moved -- from whether to invest, to how, how fast, and at what scale.
But UK later living is not one sector. It is two, with different regulators, different operating models, different capital structures, and different consumer needs. Care homes - registered and inspected by the CQC, delivering 24-hour nursing and personal care to residents with complex needs - operate under fundamentally different economics than retirement communities, where residents live independently in their own homes with optional support. Both are experiencing unprecedented capital inflows. Both are under intense operational pressure. And both are chronically short of the new supply that demography demands.
This event covers both.
The UK needs 50,000 new later living homes every year across the full continuum — from retirement apartments to purpose-built nursing facilities. It is building fewer than 8,000. More than 100,000 care roles sit vacant. Average nursing care fees reached £1,696 per week in Q3 2025, up over 8% year-on-year, improving viability but not resolving the workforce crisis. Planning reform is moving, but inconsistently, and not always in the right direction for either sector. Operators across both retirement and care are absorbing rising labour costs, new REIT ownership structures, and a consumer who is more demanding and more discerning than ever before.
This is a sector — two sectors — at their most exciting and most demanding moment simultaneously. The investors are here. The demographic case has never been stronger. The execution challenge has never been greater.
What You'll Learn:
Capital Markets
As US REITs consolidate ownership of thousands of UK care home beds -- through Barchester, HC-One, Care REIT, and beyond -- what does the new institutional landlord model mean for domestic investors, independent operators, and the competitive landscape? Is CMA scrutiny a speed bump or a structural constraint on further consolidation?
With investors planning to deploy £45bn across living sectors by 2029 and nearly 40% targeting seniors rental, how is capital appetite diverging between the care home and retirement community segments — and what does each asset type need to deliver to attract and sustain institutional backing?
Operations
Across both care homes and retirement communities, over 100,000 roles remain unfilled. But the operational pressures are different: care homes carry CQC registration obligations, nursing staff requirements, and 24-hour duty of care, while retirement operators face conversion challenges and consumer experience expectations. Where are the shared solutions, and where do the models fundamentally diverge?
As REIT ownership becomes the norm rather than the exception across both care homes and IRCs, how is the landlord-operator relationship evolving, and what does a high-performance partnership actually look like when institutional expectations meet the daily realities of regulated care delivery?
Development and Design
The revised NPPF explicitly names care homes, retirement housing, and housing-with-care as important typologies -- but each faces different planning, viability, and site selection challenges. How should the development community be thinking about the full later living continuum, from CQC-registered nursing facilities to large-scale retirement villages?
With purpose-built care homes registered since 2020 commanding fees materially above the sector average, and retirement rental product converting at twice the rate of for-sale, where is the best risk-adjusted development opportunity across the later living spectrum right now?
Who Attends
Senior executives from across the full UK later living ecosystem — care home operators and care home REITs, retirement village developers and IRC operators, institutional investors, fund managers, housing associations, planning professionals, and advisors — convening at a moment when the decisions made across both sectors will shape how a generation of older people live, whether they need independence, support, or intensive nursing care.
Why Now
The deals have been done. The capital has committed. The demographic clock is running across both sectors simultaneously. The question is no longer whether UK later living — in all its forms — has arrived as an asset class. It is who will build it, who will run it, and who will profit from getting it right.
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Agenda
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8:00 AM
8:50 AM
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Registration, Networking, and Breakfast
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8:50 AM
9:00 AM
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Welcome from Bisnow!
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9:00 AM
9:45 AM
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Capital Comes of Age: Why Global Investors Are Betting Big on the Full UK Later Living Continuum
From US REITs acquiring thousands of CQC-registered care home beds to domestic institutions forward-funding integrated retirement communities, the UK later living sector attracted record capital in 2025 — surpassing £10bn in M&A alone. This panel examines what is driving global conviction across both care homes and retirement communities, how the new institutional ownership landscape is reshaping each segment differently, and where the next wave of investment is headed. |
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9:45 AM
10:15 AM
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Fireside Chat: Tenure Reform and the Rental Proposition
The Right Product at the Right Price: Making the Rental Proposition Work for Residents, Operators, and Investors |
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10:15 AM
10:30 AM
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Networking Break!
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10:30 AM
11:15 AM
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Built to Last: Solving the Supply and Performance Crisis Defining the Future of UK Later Living
The UK needs 50,000 later living homes a year and is building 8,000. It has 100,000 unfilled care roles — spanning CQC-registered nursing facilities and retirement communities alike — and REIT landlords demanding institutional-grade returns across both. The supply problem and the operational problem are not separate: they are the same sector failing to scale at the pace demography demands, across two distinct but interconnected asset classes. This panel brings together developers, operators, and investors to ask what it will actually take to close both gaps simultaneously — in planning, design, workforce, tenure, and finance — across the full later living continuum. |
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11:15 AM
11:45 AM
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Keynote: Nick Sanderson, CEO, Audley Group
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11:45 AM
12:15 PM
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Closing Networking!
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