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Industries & Sectors

Healthcare

Real estate that keeps healthcare moving
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Better care, better returns.

Healthcare real estate requires specialist knowledge. Whether you're expanding a care home portfolio or acquiring private hospitals, we offer strategic advice grounded in sector expertise and market insights. Our teams blend operational understanding with transactional excellence to help occupiers, investors, and developers make confident decisions. We provide complete support across the asset lifecycle, integrating valuation, capital markets know-how, and technical due diligence to help you navigate regulations, optimise performance, and unlock value.

What Sets Us Apart

End-to-end lifecycle support

We guide clients through every asset stage, from site selection and portfolio strategy to capital transactions and facilities management. Whether you're a health system or an investor, we provide integrated advice that aligns real estate decisions with your organisational goals.

Healthcare-focused expertise

Our specialists include former healthcare executives, operators, and investors. This deep sector knowledge enables us to anticipate challenges and identify opportunities, structuring real estate solutions that serve both clinical and commercial goals in the UK's unique healthcare environment.

Data-driven decision making

Our recommendations are grounded in proprietary research and real-time market intelligence. We leverage purpose-built analytics tools to deliver evidence-based strategies that reduce risk and strengthen outcomes for investors and occupiers.

Investor intelligence

We work with institutional investors, REITs, and private capital, providing insight into asset performance and capital markets dynamics. Our experience spans complex deal structures, helping clients deploy capital with confidence in the UK healthcare sector.

Optimised for operational performance

We help providers reduce occupancy costs, improve access, and enhance facility performance through strategic planning and lease restructuring. Our approach balances clinical needs with financial discipline, ensuring real estate supports service delivery.

Navigating complexity with confidence

Healthcare is highly regulated. We partner with clients to anticipate regulatory changes, manage compliance risk, and align real estate strategy with long-term missions. Our experience across public and private models provides pragmatic advice for today's needs and future uncertainties.

Services

Investor Services

Capital Markets


We advise on acquiring, disposing, and financing UK healthcare assets. Our team connects clients with capital for care homes, GP surgeries, and hospitals, driving superior returns through creative solutions like sale and leasebacks, forward funding, and portfolio restructuring.

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Agency Leasing


Our specialists deliver results for healthcare occupiers and landlords. We understand clinical needs, from infection control to patient access, and negotiate terms that support operational success while maximising asset value for medical properties.

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Asset Services


We enhance healthcare property performance through proactive management and cost optimisation. Our tailored programmes improve occupancy, reduce risk, and create environments that support quality care, boosting operational and financial results.

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Valuation & Advisory


Our specialists provide trusted valuations for complex assets like care homes, hospitals, and life science facilities. We account for all regulatory, operational, and market factors, supporting due diligence, portfolio reviews, and strategic planning.

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Project & Development Services


We manage healthcare developments from feasibility to delivery. Our expertise ensures new-build hospitals, primary care hubs, and care homes are completed on time, on budget, and to the required clinical and operational specifications.

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Sustainability Services


We help create sustainable healthcare estates to meet NHS net-zero goals. Our advice on energy efficiency and ESG strategies improves environmental performance, reduces operational costs, and ensures regulatory compliance.

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Occupier Services

Tenant Representation


We represent healthcare providers to secure clinical and administrative space. Our services include site selection, lease negotiation, and portfolio optimisation. We ensure real estate decisions align with care pathways, workforce needs, and financial constraints.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Advisory


Efficient distribution of medical supplies is critical. We advise on logistics real estate strategy, from warehouse location to last-mile delivery optimisation. Our goal is to support resilient, cost-effective supply chains for your healthcare operations.

Labour Analytics and Location Strategy


Workforce shortages reshape location strategy. We analyse labour data, commute patterns, and talent availability to inform site selection. This ensures your real estate supports recruitment, retention, and service sustainability.

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Project & Development Services


Fitting out a clinic or developing a new facility? Our project management team delivers your vision on time and on budget. We manage the process from design to handover, minimising disruption to your operations.

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Facilities Management


We deliver IFM services for safe, efficient, and compliant healthcare environments. From maintenance to energy management, our solutions let providers focus on care while we optimise the built environment.

Sustainability Services


We help healthcare occupiers reduce operational costs and meet sustainability goals. Our experts advise on energy efficiency, ESG strategy, and wellness initiatives to create healthier environments for staff and patients.

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Specialisation

Industry Expertise

Care Homes


The elderly care market is the largest UK healthcare real estate segment. We provide valuation, transactional, and strategic advisory services across the full care home spectrum, helping investors and operators navigate a market with strong fundamentals and regulatory scrutiny.

Specialist Care


This sector includes facilities for learning disabilities, mental health, and complex needs. We advise on large specialist care transactions, providing valuation, due diligence, and portfolio optimisation services to help investors assess risk and operators access growth capital.

Retirement Living


Retirement communities are a dynamic living sector. We support clients through the full development cycle, from site acquisition to exit strategy. Our advice helps developers and investors succeed in a market with significant long-term growth potential.

Private Hospitals


Private hospitals are vital to the UK's healthcare system. We advise on hospital portfolio transactions, asset sales, and development funding for acute care, diagnostics, and day surgery facilities, providing valuation expertise and market intelligence.

Medical Real Estate


This includes GP surgeries, diagnostic centres, and outpatient clinics. We provide occupier services, lease advisory, and investment advice, helping clients optimise their real estate footprint and navigate NHS commissioning structures.

Wellness


The wellness sector is expanding rapidly. We advise global brands and regional operators on site selection, lease negotiation, portfolio strategy, and capital transactions, helping clients capture growing consumer demand for health and wellbeing services.

Team

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Sophia Sham

Head of Healthcare V&A (EMEA Grade - Partner)
Bristol, United Kingdom

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Peter Farnes

Head of Capital Markets Healthcare
London, United Kingdom

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Jack Kelleher

Associate
Auckland, New Zealand

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Craig Lygate
Craig Lygate

Partner (EMEA Grade - Partner)
Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Henry Harris - London
Henry Harris

Partner
London, United Kingdom

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Adam Lowe
Adam Lowe

Partner
Manchester, United Kingdom

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Research

Sustainability
Article • Sustainability / ESG

Sustainable Dilapidations – Shifting Trends in The Green Agenda

The real estate industry is slowly shifting more towards retaining and repairing as opposed to demolishing and replacing. Whilst financial pressures continue to drive dilapidations, the real estate industry is on the journey to ensure sustainability is at the forefront of dilapidations.
Alex Charlesworth • 26/02/2024
ESG
Research • Sustainability / ESG

Unlocking Sustainable Success: The Rise of ESG Benchmarks in Real Estate

With benchmarks becoming increasingly prominent, it’s essential to understand what exactly they are and why they’re becoming an integral part of the decision-making process for organisations.
Emily Oldfield • 08/12/2023
Changing Attitudes Towards Greener Homes
Article • Sustainability / ESG

Changing Attitudes Towards Greener Homes in the Face of the 'Cost of Living Crisis'

The residential sector accounted for approximately 17% of all carbon dioxide emissions in the UK in 2021, meaning our homes are key to cutting emissions and reducing our chance of hitting the 1.5℃ global warming threshold. 
Ellie Healy • 04/10/2023
London-Skyline
Insights • Workplace

The Sensible ‘Option’: Building In Growth Flexibility In Offices

Between 2020 and the end of H1 2023, Cushman & Wakefield recorded 85 examples of occupiers signing to take more than 50,000 sq ft of office space in Central London.
Heena Gadhavi • 22/08/2023
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Article • Sustainability / ESG

Taking Responsibility for our Waste

Waste plays a sizeable part of the UK’s Net Zero goals, disposal and treatment of waste alone (including wastewater) represented 6% of UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, so there is a clear interest in reducing the UK’s waste output and improving the processes in place to handle waste that is unavoidable.
Giles Flaxton • 16/08/2023
20 things to know about sustainability (image)
Article • Sustainability / ESG

The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS): a key step towards Net Zero

ESOS (the Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme) is the UK variant of the EU-wide application of Article 8 (4 to 6) of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU). ESOS was formalised in 2014, is administered by the Environment Agency and is now in its third phase as the scheme renews every four years (2014, 2019 and 2023). 
30/05/2023
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Research • Economy

​​10 Critical Questions for 2023​ EMEA

10 critical questions we’re asking as we look out at the horizon at 2023. 
Sukhdeep Dhillon • 31/01/2023
The New EPC Methodology Calculation
Article • Sustainability / ESG

The New EPC Methodology Calculation: Do you need to re-assess to plan for the new MEES requirements in April 2023?

Accurate Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings will be critical for companies to be able to understand their risk and plan mitigation measures for the next phase of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) in April 2023. This phase will expand the minimum requirement of EPC to E for all leases. 
Thomas Vazakas • 15/12/2022
Business rates reform could be the early Christmas present our industry needs
Article • Economy

Business rates reform could be the early Christmas present our industry needs

With energy prices skyrocketing, record inflation and dampened consumer spending, many occupiers would benefit from business rates reform ahead of the forthcoming Revaluation in April 2023.
Mike Flecknoe • 16/11/2022
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Research • Workplace

European Commercial Real Estate Versus Inflation: A Close Look at Past Performance

This part of our inflation series focuses on CRE across countries in Europe. Our report, Perspectives on European Inflation, explores causes of the current bout of inflation and how it differs by region.
Rebecca Rockey • 05/07/2022
CPO
Insights • Economy

Levelling up

Compulsory purchase has become a term which elicits dread in anyone affected by the potential acquisition of their property. 
21/06/2022
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

We deliver comprehensive services across the healthcare real estate spectrum, including Red Book valuations, capital markets execution, strategic advisory, technical due diligence, and occupier services. Our expertise spans care homes, private hospitals, GP surgeries, specialist care facilities, and retirement housing. We serve healthcare operators, institutional investors, REITs, developers, and public sector organisations throughout the UK.

We provide investors with transactional execution, portfolio strategy, valuation services, and market intelligence across all healthcare asset classes. Our specialists combine sector expertise with capital markets capabilities to advise on acquisitions, disposals, portfolio optimisation, and value creation strategies. We maintain proprietary data tracking tools and leverage extensive investor relationships to help clients deploy capital effectively in the UK healthcare sector.

Healthcare real estate benefits from demographic tailwinds, including an ageing population and increasing demand for specialist care services. The sector offers inflation-linked income streams, operational underpinning from essential services, and structural growth drivers. Regulatory oversight provides operational barriers to entry, while the mixed public-private healthcare delivery model creates diverse investment opportunities across care homes, hospitals, and medical facilities.

We assist operators through lease advisory, portfolio rationalisation, site selection, and facilities management services. Our approach integrates operational requirements with financial discipline, helping providers reduce occupancy costs, improve patient access, and enhance facility performance. We advise on lease restructuring, expansion planning, and strategic disposals, enabling healthcare organisations to align real estate with clinical and commercial objectives.

WholeCo transactions involve acquiring both the property and the operating business together. PropCo transactions focus solely on the real estate asset, typically with existing lease arrangements. OpCo transactions involve the operating business without the underlying property. Each structure has distinct valuation methodologies, risk profiles, and investor appeal. We advise on all three structures, helping clients determine the optimal approach based on their investment objectives and market conditions.

Our team includes professionals with backgrounds in healthcare operations, clinical delivery, property investment, and real estate advisory. This combination enables us to assess both the bricks-and-mortar value and the operational performance of healthcare assets. We understand regulatory frameworks, reimbursement structures, and care delivery models, allowing us to provide advice that addresses both real estate and business considerations in the UK healthcare sector.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

If you would like to find out more about our specific expertise, or discover how we could work with your company, please contact a member of our team – we’d be delighted to hear from you.
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