88.7%
Sector occupancy (Knight Frank)
Greater London
Care Home Finance in Croydon
Commercial mortgages, development, bridging, refinance and going-concern operator finance for care homes in Croydon. This is finance for the home as a business, not help with care fees.
Written and reviewed by Matt Lenzie Founder & Principal Broker · 25 years arranging care home finance · Reviewed June 2026
£1,450/wk
London avg weekly fee
12.9%
Fee growth, year on year
4.5%
Prime yield (Knight Frank)
If you are buying, building or refinancing a care home in Croydon, the right facility is rarely the cheapest headline rate. It is the one that reflects the operator covenant, the CQC rating and the occupancy, and that funds the home through to stabilised trading. We arrange care home finance across Croydon and the wider Greater London market, from commercial mortgages to going-concern operator finance.
A Croydon home is assessed as a going concern: its operator, registration, occupancy and the balance of private, self-funded and local-authority fees. Average weekly fees in the London run at about £1,450/wk (Knight Frank, 2025), and national occupancy held at 88.7% (Knight Frank, FY2024/25), the backdrop a lender reads when sizing a facility here.
Care home finance structures for Croydon homes
We arrange the full range of care home finance for Croydon operators and buyers. A commercial mortgage funds the purchase of a trading home, typically to 70 to 75 percent of value over a 15 to 25 year term, with the loan sized on the home's stabilised trading profit. Development finance funds a ground-up build, extension or conversion, usually to 60 to 70 percent of cost. Bridging moves at auction or pre-CQC pace. Refinance lowers a rate, raises capital or exits a bridge. Going-concern operator finance is sized on EBITDARM and the going-concern value rather than the property alone, and sale-and-leaseback releases capital from a freehold while the operator keeps running the home. We match each case to the lenders that back this kind of home across Greater London.
Care homes we finance across Croydon
Each care setting is registered, run and underwritten differently, and we arrange finance for all of them in Croydon and across Greater London. That covers elderly residential and nursing homes, dementia and memory care, specialist and high-acuity care, supported living, learning disability and mental health settings, children's homes, and retirement and extra-care schemes. A nursing home turns on clinical staffing and acuity. A children's home turns on Ofsted standing and local-authority commissioning. Knowing which lender backs which setting here, and at what leverage, is the work we do before a case ever reaches a credit committee. Local planning records show recent care-related activity in the Croydon area, a read on demand for modern bed stock locally.
Finance we arrange for Croydon homes
The London care market and your Croydon home
High fees and one of the strongest fee uplifts, against the highest property costs per bed and historically lower occupancy. A high-value but high-cost market; well-located stock commands premium fees. Average weekly fees in the London run at about £1,450/wk, up 12.9% year on year (Knight Frank, 2025). Lenders read these regional fee and occupancy trends, alongside the home's own trading record, when they size a facility for a Croydon home.
- High fees and strong fee growth
- Highest property costs per bed in the UK
- Land scarcity constrains new supply
The local property market in Croydon
Local house prices are a useful proxy for the strength of the self-funder catchment a care home draws on. Croydon recorded around 3,124 residential sales over the past year at a median of £412,750, which makes the local market active and liquid. A deeper, higher-value residential market tends to support a larger private and self-funded fee base, one input among the operator covenant, CQC rating and occupancy that drive a lending decision.
This residential data is local catchment context. It is not a care home valuation, which turns on the home's trading profit and going-concern value, assessed by a specialist healthcare valuer.
Residential sold price by type (Croydon)
| Detached | £715,000 |
| Semi-detached | £535,000 |
| Terraced | £425,000 |
| Flat / apartment | £265,000 |
Source: HM Land Registry residential price-paid data, last 12 months. Local catchment context, not a care home valuation.
Recent price trend
| Quarter | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q2 | £390k | 1199 |
| 2024-Q3 | £408k | 1341 |
| 2024-Q4 | £400k | 1281 |
| 2025-Q1 | £410k | 1645 |
| 2025-Q2 | £390k | 902 |
| 2025-Q3 | £425k | 1110 |
| 2025-Q4 | £416k | 937 |
| 2026-Q1 | £400k | 555 |
Pipeline
Care-related planning near Croydon
Recent care-related planning activity recorded by London Borough of Croydon, a read on local demand for modern bed stock.
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160 Melfort Road Thornton Heath CR7 7RQ
CHANGE OF USE FROM RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME (USE CLASS C2) TO DWELLINGHOUSE (USE CLASS C3)
View on the planning portal → -
41 Bramley Hill South Croydon CR2 6NW
Change of use of single dwellinghouse (C3) to a Family Assessment Centre (C2) for up to 3 parent-child placements with associated cycle storage and refuse storage
View on the planning portal →
FAQ
Care home finance in Croydon: common questions
How much can I borrow to buy a care home in Croydon?
Most lenders fund up to 70 to 75 percent of value on a trading care home, with the loan sized on the home's stabilised trading profit (EBITDARM) rather than the bricks alone. Leverage reflects the operator covenant, the CQC rating, occupancy and the fee mix. We hold more than one hundred lender relationships and shortlist the desks most likely to back a Croydon home.
Which lenders provide care home finance in Croydon?
We work across high-street and challenger banks, specialist healthcare lenders and debt funds, including names such as Shawbrook, OakNorth, Allica Bank and Assetz Capital. The right lender for a Croydon home depends on the setting, the operator's track record and the leverage you need, and we match the case to the desks that actively back it across Greater London.
What are care home fees and occupancy like around Croydon?
Care figures are reported regionally rather than town by town. In the London, the average weekly fee runs at about £1,450/wk and has risen 12.9% year on year (Knight Frank, 2025), while occupancy across mature homes nationally held at 88.7% (Knight Frank, FY2024/25). We read these regional and national figures alongside the individual home's trading record.
Do you only arrange finance in Croydon?
No. We arrange care home finance across the whole of Greater London and the wider UK, with the same approach: read the home and the operator, match the case to the lenders that back the setting, and negotiate terms on the borrower's behalf.
Funding a care home in Croydon?
Send us the home and the operator and we will come back with a view on fundability and likely terms within one working day.