2025 saw highest ever residential elderly care real estate investment in Europe
2025 was a record year for investment into European care real estate, with a total of over €14 billion invested across care homes and senior living, according to data from real estate broker Cushman and Wakefield.
However, about half of this came from a single US REIT, Welltower, buying up a large chunk of the UK’s care infrastructure. If you exclude this, 2025 looks like a continuation of the trend of steady recovery in investment activity after the big drop-off in 2023, but still not quite a return to the boom years of 2021 and 2022.
The below infographic is taken from HBI’s 2026 Healthcare Property Special Report, which is out now. The full report can be downloaded here by HBI Intelligence members. For everyone else there is an Executive Summary which can be downloaded here.
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