Whitmore Vale House

Whitmore Vale House is a 20-bed residential care home in Farnham, operated by Whitmore Vale Housing Association Limited. It holds a CQC rating of Good, a solid CQC rating that supports mainstream lending appetite. For a buyer, operator or lender the numbers that matter are its 20 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.

Whitmore Vale House sits within a local market of 61 registered care homes and about 2,664 beds in Farnham. That competitive set, and the rating profile across it, is part of how an acquisition here is underwritten.

What determines the value of Whitmore Vale House

A trading care home like Whitmore Vale House 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: Good here, a direct input to both value and lender appetite
• Staffing: care-hours per resident and agency reliance
• 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 Farnham

Looking at other homes in the area? See care homes in Farnham and the wider Surrey care market or Whitmore Vale Housing Association Limited's full portfolio.