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Royal London Asset Management launches £1bn UK care home REIT

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), a UK investment firm that invests across a variety of types of assets including securities and real estate, has launched a dedicated healthcare REIT with £1 billion (~€1.15 billion) of committed capital. 

emeis to reduce net debt by €700m through real estate vehicle

Europe’s largest nursing home group emeis plans to raise hundreds of millions of euros to help pay down its huge pile of debt by partially divesting 68 properties it still owns. Rather than simply doing full sale-and-leasebacks of these properties, the group is creating a special real estate investment vehicle to hold the assets, which it will retain a stake in.

Gimv buys Novicare from Gilde Healthcare

Belgian PE firm Gimv has bought a majority stake in Novicare, a Dutch healthcare staffing company, from Dutch specialist healthcare PE investor Gilde Healthcare. Rune Aresvik, an expert on the Dutch healthcare market, tells us Novicare’s relatively unique business model has potential to be scaled within the Netherlands and possibly exported to other European countries.

Aedifica shareholders back merger with Cofinimmo

Aedifica and Cofinimmo, two of Europe’s biggest listed healthcare-focused REITs, are one step closer to merging and becoming Europe’s largest healthcare real estate investor, after a majority of Aedifica’s shareholders gave their approval to the board’s proposal to acquire Cofinimmo.

Omega confirms it acquired 45 Four Seasons care homes

US healthcare REIT Omega Healthcare Investors has confirmed it was the acquirer of 45 of the final batch of 47 UK care homes that were sold earlier this year in the final stage of the years-long liquidation of Four Seasons, formerly the UK’s largest for-profit elderly care group.

Aedifica and Cofinimmo boards back merger

Aedifica and Cofinimmo, two of Europe’s largest listed healthcare REITs, look set to merge. The boards of both companies have reached an agreement over terms for a share swap, which will now be put to shareholders. HBI spoke to Aedifica’s Chief Investment Officer, Charles-Antoine van Aelst, and Cofinimmo’s Head of External Communications, Philippe Etienne, to understand the motivations behind a deal that, if completed, will create Europe’s largest specialist healthcare real estate investor with ~€11 billion healthcare assets under management.

Top 5 UK elderly care providers with US investors

This week’s infographic uses HBI’s provider database to look at the top 5 elderly care providers in the UK with US investors in 2023. US capital in the UK elderly care market skyrocketed in 2024 and shows an upward trend as a growing dominant force in the UK market contributing to 68% of the total […]

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