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Top 5 Elderly Care Pure Players in the UK 2025

This week’s infographic covers the top five elderly care pure players in the UK, ranked by their 2025 revenue. The data has been sourced from the HBI Intelligence database. The UK’s largest for-profit care home operators are dominated by private equity and US REIT ownership. Barchester Healthcare leads the rankings with €1,233 million in revenue […]

CMA accepts Welltower’s offer to offload certain UK care homes

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally accepted US healthcare REIT Welltower’s offer to divest certain care homes out of the 600+ it bought last year. The CMA had raised concerns about the impact on local competition dynamics in certain areas where a large portion of the care homes would now be owned by Welltower.

CMA issues ultimatum to Welltower over UK care home acquisitions

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given US healthcare REIT Welltower a deadline of Thursday May 14th to come up with remedies to allay concerns it has about the effect of its acquisition of UK care homes on competition in certain local UK care markets.

HBI 2026: Relieving the pressure; Investment, innovation and value creation in elderly and social care

Europe’s elderly care sector is in recovery mode after a difficult few years. Investment into the sector surged in 2025, particularly on the real estate investment side in the UK market. Looking ahead, panellists speaking at the ‘Relieving the Pressure: Investment, innovation and value creation in elderly and social care’ session at HBI’s 2026 conference seemed to paint a bright-looking future, given the increase in demand as baby boomers age combined with promising innovations in technology and care delivery models.

HBI 2026: Healthcare Property Summit

Speakers at the ‘Healthcare Property Summit’ at HBI 2026 expressed qualified optimism about the state of Europe’s healthcare real estate market. The record €21 billion inflow the continent saw in 2025, boosted by US healthcare REIT Welltower’s ~€8 billion investment into the UK’s care sector, “clearly shows confidence that the market is back,” as Nicolas Sannier, EMEA Healthcare Lead - Valuation & Risk at real estate services firm JLL, put it.

HBI 2026: Age concerns; Redesigning healthcare to cope with the demands of an ageing population

Speakers on the ‘Age concerns: Redesigning healthcare to cope with the demands of an ageing population’ panel at HBI 2026 painted a rough outline of how healthcare systems need to evolve to cope with ageing populations. Broad areas of focus included: better integration between different types of care, aided by better use of data and tracking of outcomes; more holistic treatment of patients, many of whom have comorbidities, including focusing on and measuring what matters to them; and making full use of the automation capabilities provided by new tech.

HBI 2026: Why now is the time to invest in DACH

Across Europe, the DACH region stands out for its scale, stability, and potential for consolidation.  At HBI 2026, a panel of senior investors and operators highlighted why the region is increasingly seen as an attractive and underappreciated market for healthcare consolidation.

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