Welcome to the ARCO Suppliers Directory. Please find below a list of specialist suppliers to the Integrated Retirement Community sector.
Bevan Brittan
Bevan Brittan LLP is a multi-award-winning commercial law firm. Ranked in the top tier for healthcare by both Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500, winners of the HealthInvestor Transactional Awards in 2020, 2021, 2022 and the HealthInvestor Private Legal Advisor in 2022, our specialist health, social care and life sciences team of more than 200 lawyers passionately and proactively advise 350+ health and social care companies, developers, funders, investors and their portfolio companies on the full range of operational and transactional legal and regulatory matters across all of the major sub-markets of independent health and social care.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management
CBRE Limited
Our team of senior living specialists provide a fully integrated service that draws on extensive market insight. We specialise in funding and development consultancy, land acquisition, planning, valuation, project management and research. Combined with CBRE’s multi-sector expertise and connections within its global network, our understanding of the market is deeper than that of any other advisory firm.
Advisory, Consultancy, Financial Services, Project Management, Real Estate
Gowling WLG
Gowling WLG is an international law firm with more than 1,400 legal professionals and a presence in Canada, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America. Whether you’re an operator, contractor, developer, funder or an investor in the senior living sector, we can help you. We’re proud to have some of the sector’s best technical lawyers operating in the UK, including some of the leading residential living lawyers and healthcare regulatory experts. We help to create operating structures and delivery models, and advise on emerging legal and regulatory sector trends and requirements, helping our clients to structure and execute their business plans.
Advisory, Consultancy, Legal Services, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management
Savills
Savills Healthcare and Senior Living provide a comprehensive range of services in the rapidly expanding senior living and healthcare sectors. Our team of multi-disciplinary experts specialise in transaction advisory, structuring, equity and debt financing, development, consultancy, valuation and research, across the UK and Europe. The assets and portfolios we have advised on range in size from £1 million to over £1.5 billion, with a broad cross-section of clients that includes institutional investors, private equity, annuity funds, banks and non-bank lenders, developers, operators, landowners, house builders, charities and NHS Trusts. We combine our sector-specialism with UK and Europe wide coverage, bringing in local market expertise from our colleagues across the vast Savills office network.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Planning, Property Services, Real Estate
Whiteley Consulting Ltd
With now 26 customers in the sector, Whiteley Consulting is considered sector leading in helping those who wish to achieve a leading and valuable retirement living strategy and in executing it. We are here for those developer/operators and/or investors: - The UK RC sector is experiencing much change and Whiteley Consulting is at the leading edge (in its areas) of helping you make sense of it; including considering the latest thinking in the mature overseas markets.
• who truly wish to understand all aspects of the event fee/DMF business model and its role in building a valuable and compelling proposition
• seek guidance in moving from the headline proposition and into the detailed operating implications
• understanding a possible valuation of your proposition
• shareholders who wish to assure their investment and understand their options
• looking to understand the impact of different tenure choices
• seeking bank or equity funding search or support
• those requiring investor level modelling appraisals and presentations
• seeking a steer regarding the structures, accounting/tax, reporting, leases, and the overall UK environment associated with the sector.
Advisory, Consultancy, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Ageing Asia Alliance
Ageing Asia is Asia Pacific’s first industry network on the business of ageing. We are an independent business network that seeks to unite business, government, not-for-profits and mainstream media in Asia Pacific together to address opportunities to support the ageing baby boomer population by nurturing partnerships and curating development of solutions. The principal goal of the Alliance is to establish a network that will be the most recognised platform for Asia Pacific’s ageing market intelligence, and to champion higher excellence in both eldercare and industry standards. It represents members with a shared vision on changing the future of ageing in the region. To date, the Alliance has over 1,700 professional members. Three Pillars of Ageing Asia:
- Facilitate knowledge transfer of best practices, concepts and innovations in health and eldercare between countries and sectors
- Research and identify market intelligence on Asia Pacific’s ageing market business opportunities
- Improve quality of eldercare in Asia Pacific
Advisory, Consultancy, Planning, Project Management, Technology
ARC Engineers Ltd
Arc Engineers are an established Civil and Structural Engineering Consultancy, based in West Yorkshire and serving the entire UK. Our principal focus is the Specialist Living sector, including care homes, extra-care, retirement villages, supported and assisted living. Working alongside care-focused architects, developers and clients, we take enormous pride in the work we do within this sector, knowing the difference the outcomes can make to those who live and work in the completed developments.
Advisory, Construction, Consultancy, Design, Property Services
Arcadis
Arcadis is an award winning, multidisciplinary consultancy. Our integrated services include project and cost management, employer’s agent, planning, building surveying, clerk of works, principal designers.
Advisory, Consultancy, Planning, Project Management, Retirement Communities
Autumna
Autumna provides an easy-to-navigate, easy-to-compare online directory and free advice line for people looking at retirement living options throughout the UK. It is a unique and invaluable resource as consumers research their later-life living options. Autumna also supports retirement operators by providing a unique way of promoting their developments, focusing on the development as a whole rather than individual property sales.
Advertising, Advisory, Health and Wellbeing, Marketing and Sales, Retirement Communities
Blake Morgan LLP
Blake Morgan has a strong reputation in the private and public health and care sectors including later living. Our specialist legal advisers act for a wide range of clients, including retirement community and care home operators, developers, funders, investors, housing associations and not-for-profit and act for many of the largest providers of health and social care. We deploy a multi-disciplinary approach including real estate, planning, construction, banking and finance, tax, regulatory compliance, corporate structuring, employment, dispute resolution and commercial contracts. This breadth of expertise allows us to deliver commercially focused advice at every stage of our clients’ projects. Our in-depth understanding of the legal and regulatory landscape enables us to offer tailored market-led advice supporting our clients across the integrated retirement community sector, navigating the challenges of developing, operating and managing high-quality retirement communities. We use our unique blend of technical expertise, experience and commercialism to deliver the best results possible for our clients. Blake Morgan is a leading full-service UK law firm with offices in London, Thames Valley, Cardiff, Southampton and Manchester and are proud to support ARCO and its members in shaping the future of integrated retiring living.
Advisory, Legal Services
Browne Jacobson LLP
Our experienced team of care home lawyers has an in-depth understanding of the issues that providers are facing and the residential care regulations that these operators must follow. We work with our clients collaboratively and take time to understand and respect their requirements in this difficult climate. In addition, we draw on a wide range of experience gained from acting for many public, private and third-sector health and social care clients, including regulators and over 150 local authorities across England and Wales. Our dedicated healthcare practice works across the NHS and independent healthcare sector. We believe we are unique in being able to offer heavyweight corporate, commercial and banking practices (which include healthcare specialists) combined with a wealth of expertise in the public sector in all aspects of health law.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services, Property Services, Real Estate
Cast Consultancy
“Here at Cast we are proud of our expert construction consultancy services, with a focus on the IRC sector over the last 8 years. We are equipped to provide our clients with tailored later living insights coupled with expert cost and project management services to deliver better project outcomes.” Michael Hughes, Later Living Lead at Cast Consultancy Cast Consultancy is a market leading project and cost management consultancy focused on delivering great homes and places viably whilst also addressing bigger economic, societal and environmental challenges. We have established ourselves as one of the primary construction consultancies across the IRC sector, being involved in developments covering over 2,500 later living units. At Cast we champion the IRC model and share a joint vision with our clients to provide housing options for older people to meet the housing, lifestyle, health, and social care needs of our ageing population effectively. #DrivingIndustryChange #DeliveringBetterOutcomes #CreatingFuturePlaces
Advisory, Construction, Consultancy, Planning, Project Management
Christie & Co
Christie & Co has the largest team of advisory and transactional professionals advising on all aspects of healthcare properties and operational real estate. Our consultancy and valuation advisory capability leverage off our market leading data analytics system. We have been actively involved in the development arena providing advice on a wide range of new care home, extra care and care village development schemes.
Advisory, Consultancy, Property Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
We have been advising our clients to invest in, finance, develop, regulate and manage effectively in this growing market for over 20 years. Our multi-disciplinary team advise on structuring and acquisition, planning, financing, development, and the ongoing asset management of retirement communities.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Commercial Acceleration
An award-winning commercial consultancy in the later living section helping operators to fill up faster. Commercial Acceleration specialises in increasing sales velocity and IRR through optimising sales and marketing. Led by Ali Powell who has over 10 years experience in the sector working for operators and investors as Chief Commercial Offer. Company has recently won Best Senior Living Consultancy - UK 2023. Get in touch to maximise your sales rates.
Advisory, Consultancy, Healthcare Specialist, Hospitality, Marketing and Sales
Deverell Smith
deverellsmith are an award-winning global recruitment, executive search and talent solutions firm for the property and real estate industry with a specialist team focusing solely on the Later Living and Retirement sectors.
Advisory, Consultancy, Marketing and Sales, People Services
Elderly Accommodation Council (EAC)
EAC runs the website www.HousingCare.org which profiles all retirement housing developments in the UK and underpins its unique and independent housing options advisory service to the public. HousingCare.org also provides a marketing platform for providers wishing to increase their visibility and/or advertise currently available properties. Access to EAC’s database of information on 25,000 UK retirement developments is available on a subscription basis to developers, strategic planners and investors. The database also informs the Housing LIN’s SHOP@ consultancy services.
Advertising, Advisory, Data Solutions, Marketing and Sales, Retirement Communities
Forsters LLP
Forsters is a leading London law firm which delivers exceptional legal advice to clients in the real estate world. Forsters advise a number of clients in the Later Living sector in relation to development projects, acquisitions, disposals and management of real estate assets as well as financing these assets and developments. Forsters are live to the nuances and particularities of the Later Living sector and the commercial considerations for those operating in this sphere, and are therefore able to provide pragmatic and common sense advice to clients.
Advisory, Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate
Gardiner & Theobald LLP
Gardiner & Theobald is an independent construction and property consultancy delivering Cost Management, Project Management and Specialist Consultancy for the built environment. We are passionate about three things: delivering a truly world class service for our clients, investing in the best people to deliver that service and remaining financially strong and independent. These are the pillars of our success and what sets us apart from the rest. We care about the impact we have on the world and the legacy we leave behind – from championing the next generation of built environment professionals to our commitment to working to the highest ethical standards - we are proud to set the benchmark for quality in our field.
Advisory, Construction, Consultancy, Project Management, Real Estate
Lester Aldridge
Lester Aldridge offers more than just legal services; LA is a trusted legal advisor to a number of the key players in the seniors housing industry and has advised on thousands of seniors housing schemes over the last 20 years. There is a fundamental overlap between the seniors housing and healthcare sectors, and LA is a market leader in its expertise in housing with care and health and social care, particularly regulation. LA provides advice across the whole health and social care sectors. We also offer a “cradle to grave” service to seniors housing developers and promoters, advising on land promotion through to plot sales. Our clients are at the heart of everything we do. We are recognised for our innovative, practical approach, providing solutions tailored to meet the individual circumstances and the needs of our clients. As one client put it recently, LA is “a business focussed on delivery and collaboration.” We are recognised by The Law Society for our high-quality service. The Lexcel accreditation is the legal quality mark for client care, compliance and practice management, which we have held since 2007.
Advisory, Legal Services
Life3a
Life3A provide expert architectural services dedicated to the later living sector with over two decades of experience. Our knowledge also enables us to support our clients in a strategic and commercial way. We provide a full service from feasibility study to completion. Our aim is to find the best outcomes for our clients in terms of their commercial success and to improve the lives of the older people who will become the residents of the buildings we design. We participate in and carry out research for our clients and continually feed this back into our work. We aim to create environments that are high quality and that support older people in living their best lives. We have experienced staff in international offices who also work in the later living sector which enables us to learn about new trends and different models of housing and care in other contexts. This liberates our thinking as we work within the UK market. We believe in building relationships for success and sharing our knowledge to support the development of this vital sector.
Advisory, Architecture, Consultancy, Design, Retirement Communities
Montagu Evans
Montagu Evans is an independent property consultancy, owned and run by a group of partners that are leaders in their respective fields and who are committed to leaving a legacy of quality work that benefits clients, the built environment and society as a whole. Our work in the later living sector encompasses planning and development, land agency and viability assessments. We have worked with a range of landowners and developers across the retirement and care sectors and take a collaborative approach to solving complex planning and development problems for our clients in the sector.
Advisory, Consultancy, Planning, Property Services, Real Estate
NHBC
We understand that retirement community operators demand high-quality building design and construction to provide the best experience for their customers. We also know that investors need the assurance that their asset is protected in the event of structural defects. With over 1.5 million homes currently covered, we are the UK’s leading provider of warranty and insurance for the new homes industry. We’ve worked with contractors and developers for over 80 years to identify and manage technical risk in developments through NHBC Standards, helping to improve construction quality and protecting their assets from major defects. Our Retirement Living warranty and insurance policy offers comprehensive standard coverage for core protection against building or structural defects plus valuable optional benefits that protect your investment and revenue streams. We are so much more than just an insurance provider – our industry-leading technical and inspection teams offer a proactive and supportive approach across the UK, adding real value to your project team.
Advisory, Construction, Consultancy, Insurance
Porters Care
At Porters Care, we are dedicated to proving the value and returns on investment that customers expect when they engage with us. In the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, our technology solutions are not just nice to have; but are necessities. The need to reduce falls and pressure sores among elderly and vulnerable individuals is pressing, and our products provide a transformative, continuous automated remote monitoring solution. By combining innovative technology, advanced monitoring capabilities, and automated alerts, we not only enhance patient well-being but also reduce the burden on healthcare staff. Our solutions have proven real world benefits reducing falls, reducing the burden of manual turns, improving patient care with the potential to generate significant cost savings. Our products are not just a technological innovation, they are a testament to our commitment to providing the highest standard of care for those who need it most.
Advisory, Consultancy, Health and Wellbeing, Retirement Communities, Technology
SAY Property Consultants Ltd.
SAY Property Consultants is an award-winning advisory business specifically established to provide residential, commercial and mixed use management consultancy services to developers, investors and property owners. We are property management experts offering a diverse range of services ranging from property development consultancy, service charge and enfranchisement work, professional service work and bid support. Our expertise spans across various sectors including Build to Rent, Build for Sale, Estate Regeneration, Later Living, Co-Living, Affordable, and Mixed-Use.
Advisory, Consultancy, Design, Project Management, Property Services
Shoosmiths
The Shoosmiths Later Living Team comprises legal advisers with specialist knowledge of the market across all relevant disciplines, including core real estate, planning, construction, litigation, tax, environment and corporate matters, which allows us to pull together and deliver focussed, market-led advice on demand, whatever our client’s project. Our Later Living team has the specialist experience, capacity and knowledge of this market to tailor our advice for each of our developer, funder and operator clients. However, most importantly for us, is that we strive to forge strong relationships with our clients so that we can truly collaborate as a team in successfully delivering projects, time and time again, across the Later Living spectrum – be it retirement villages, traditional care homes, extra care or sheltered housing.
Advisory, Construction, Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate
Spring
Spring is the largest and most dependable Home-Buyer in the UK, giving home sellers certainty and confidence in the sale of their property. Our customer-centric approach provides an effortless home buying experience for our partners and their customers. Spring takes a unique and bespoke approach to our partnerships – whether acting as a full Part-Exchange provider with seamless end-to-end tailored support, a chain-repair specialist to fix broken property chains, or as a consultant that can advise on funding, customer experience and tailored marketing. Our home-buying solutions do the hard work, so you don't have to, we continue to innovate to that end, reducing the time and effort needed by our partners to implement successful PX, Home-Buying, Chain Repair and Managed Sale Services. Spring actively supports all sizes and types of developers to unlock sales and time-consuming chains, particularly during challenging market conditions. Our guaranteed level of funding provides the ability to complete on transactions quickly, injecting certainty and momentum into sales pipelines.
Advisory, Marketing and Sales, Property Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
TLT LLP
TLT is an award-winning law firm with offices in London, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow & Edinburgh. TLT provides a full range of legal services to businesses, organisations and the public sector involved in housing for older people and the care and support sector. We advise operators on social care issues, regulation, health and safety and employment as well as dealing with the sale, purchase and building of new housing with care. We understand the legal and regulatory challenges facing operators in this sector and the importance of the full integration of the supply of care and support alongside good quality housing.
Advisory, Legal Services, Regulatory Risk Management