Property consultants of the year – property services

Carterwood

Carterwood is a property consultancy dedicated to social care. Advising on the majority of care home development in the UK, it works with financial institutions, investors, developers, and more than 85% of the top 20 care providers, as well as many smaller operators. Alongside its consultancy practice it has also launched a subscriptionbased online platform called Carterwood Analytics, which gives care home funders, developers, operators and advisors access to the best available market data and instant high-level analysis, helping them to save time and improve decision-making.

HealthCare Law

HealthCare Law has provided commercial advice to professionals in the health and care sector since 2015. With a nationwide presence across the UK, the firm was established with a vision to provide bespoke advice across several healthcare sectors, including dental, pharmacy, foster agencies, and GP practices to name a few. HealthCare Law has a 90% client retention rate and a wealth of expertise in the health and care sector, with its lawyers working seamlessly together to ensure clients receive commercially sound advice on all aspects of their businesses, whether that be buying, selling, or growing their business.

Knight Frank

Knight Frank is an independent global residential and commercial property consultancy. With a combined team of 34 operating across the residential and commercial sectors, the healthcare and senior living service lines based in London annually advise on approximately £20 billion of assets, acting for the majority of the UK’s largest care providers, developers and operators. Together, the healthcare team, headed by Julian Evans, and the senior living team, headed by Tom Scaife, offer clients an extensive range of services including land agency, valuations and lease advisory, landlord and tenant advice, development and building consultancy, sales and marketing, investment and research.

MESH Construction Consultancy

A specialist in the healthcare sector, MESH Construction Consultancy is an independent cost and project management company completing a range of healthcare projects across the UK. Examples of projects undertaken include MRI, CT and linac accelerator installations, digital theatre departments, new hospitals, phased refurbishment and primary care centres, which demonstrates the company is well equipped to ensure a robust budget and programme are adhered to. Multiple clients have described the MESH team as having exceptional attention to detail, asking relevant questions, and ensuring their involvement, which enhances the clients’ experience and contributes to the success of the project.

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Property consultants of the year – property services

AECOM

Aitchison Raffety

Carterwood

HealthCare Law

Knight Frank

MESH Construction Consultancy

Barchester Healthcare

Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK’s largest care providers supporting older people to live with dignity and respect. It supports almost 12,000 residents across 236 homes for short breaks or longterm stays. A care provider over the past 25 years, Barchester services include residential care, nursing care and dementia care, with dedicated services that provide specialist care for those who require neuro rehabilitation, or for those with Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. Barchester also has six independent mental health hospitals.

Care UK

Care UK is one of the largest UK providers of residential and nursing care for around 6,000 older people. Its services range from nursing and specialist dementia care to residential and respite care. Its new home development programme includes 44 care homes since 2013 and a further 21 due to open by 2023. Its ‘Fulfilling lives’ approach to care and quality has enabled it to drive significant improvements to employee engagement and regulator ratings and it has some of the strongest regulator ratings in the sector and operates more Outstanding-rated homes than any other provider.

Frontier Estates

Frontier Estates is a privatelyowned company that has continued to diversify into different emerging markets for 24 years. Frontier’s ability to identify new trends and opportunities has enabled it to become a leading developer in the healthcare market and it stands out as a true developer among operators with a development function. Over the past 10 years Frontier has established itself as one of the principal developers in the care industry, with a dedicated healthcare team purchasing more than 80 sites nationwide for care alone, working with numerous national and regional operators to assist them in reaching their expansion goals.