Care Market Review 2025: the key highlights

Richard Lunn, managing director – care at Christie & Co, gives us a timely overview of the current state of the UK care market

We recently launched our annual Care Market Review 2025 report, which analyses a range of topics relating to the UK healthcare business market, including capital markets, land and development, the transactional market, shifts in local authority fee rates, operator sentiment, and the finance landscape.

Here are some of the key highlights from the report and what you need to know about the UK care market.

Overall, we saw extremely positive market activity throughout 2025, as many operators looked to grow their portfolios. By the end of August, we had already transacted more deals than in 2024, and our forward pipeline is the highest ever, reflecting the investor and operator desire to acquire care services. On a recent trip to the USA, investors called this a 'Goldilocks period' for senior care providers and investors, with the much-heralded arrival of the huge demographic wave of elderly people requiring care and support and limited quality supply to meet this demand in future years.

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