Aaron Court Care Home

Aaron Court Care Home is a 73-bed nursing home in Ellesmere Port, operated by Aaroncare Limited. It holds a CQC rating of Inadequate, a CQC rating that most mainstream lenders will not fund against until it is resolved, though specialist turnaround funders exist. For a buyer, operator or lender the numbers that matter are its 73 registered beds, its rating and the strength of the operator behind it. We arrange the finance to buy, refinance or develop a home of this kind.

Aaron Court Care Home sits within a local market of 15 registered care homes and about 432 beds in Ellesmere Port. That competitive set, and the rating profile across it, is part of how an acquisition here is underwritten.

What determines the value of Aaron Court Care Home

A trading care home like Aaron Court Care Home is valued as a going concern, on its stabilised trading profit (EBITDARM) capitalised at a market multiple, rather than as bricks and mortar. A specialist healthcare valuer prepares the figure, and it can sit well above or below a simple per-bed estimate depending on how the home trades. The per-bed guide above is a starting point, not a valuation.

• Occupancy: how full the home runs, and how quickly empty beds refill
• Fee mix: the balance of private, self-funded and local-authority residents
• CQC rating: Inadequate here, a direct input to both value and lender appetite
• Clinical staffing: nurse cover, agency reliance and the wage bill
• The building: room sizes, the en-suite and single-room share, and any capital works needed
• Location and catchment: local demand, competition and the self-funder base around Ellesmere Port

Looking at other homes in the area? See care homes in Ellesmere Port and the wider Cheshire care market or Aaroncare Limited's full portfolio.