109
Registered care homes
Care home operator
HC-One Limited
109 registered care homes, about 5,509 beds across 20 counties in England. Portfolio, ratings and the finance an acquisition or refinance would use.
Written and reviewed by Matt Lenzie Founder & Principal Broker · 25 years arranging care home finance · Reviewed June 2026
5,509
Registered beds
20
Counties covered
83%
Rated Good or Outstanding
HC-One Limited operates 109 CQC-registered care homes with about 5,509 beds across 20 counties in England, a large national operator. Around 83% of its rated homes are rated Good or Outstanding. For an acquirer, lender or investor the group's covenant rests on that trading base and bed stock, and its CQC rating profile is the clearest read on operational quality across the portfolio.
Financing a group like HC-One Limited
We arrange finance relevant to a group of this scale: portfolio acquisition and whole-company funding, refinancing of an existing facility, development capital for new beds, and sale-and-leaseback to release freehold value while the operator keeps trading. Whether you are acquiring HC-One Limited, competing with it locally, or benchmarking covenant and rating profile before lending, the portfolio below is the operating footprint a credit decision reads.
Finance we arrange for operators
CQC rating profile
| Outstanding | 3 |
| Good | 87 |
| Requires improvement | 18 |
| Not yet rated | 1 |
Geographic spread
Where HC-One Limited operates
The group's footprint by county, the operating geography a lender or acquirer underwrites.
| County | Homes | Beds | Towns |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Manchester | 30 | 1,523 | 10 |
| West Midlands | 12 | 571 | 5 |
| Cheshire | 8 | 402 | 4 |
| Merseyside | 8 | 406 | 4 |
| West Yorkshire | 8 | 472 | 4 |
| Leicestershire | 6 | 256 | 3 |
| Tyne and Wear | 6 | 255 | 2 |
| County Durham | 5 | 212 | 5 |
| South Yorkshire | 5 | 263 | 2 |
| Nottinghamshire | 4 | 250 | 3 |
| Greater London | 3 | 168 | 3 |
| Derbyshire | 2 | 79 | 2 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 2 | 131 | 2 |
| Essex | 2 | 119 | 2 |
| Lincolnshire | 2 | 106 | 2 |
| Staffordshire | 2 | 112 | 2 |
| Bedfordshire | 1 | 40 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 1 | 45 | 1 |
| Northamptonshire | 1 | 40 | 1 |
| Northumberland | 1 | 59 | 1 |
Portfolio
HC-One Limited care homes
Every registered home in the group, largest by bed count first.
Source: Care Quality Commission care directory, 03 June 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Registration and bed data only; not affiliated with or endorsed by HC-One Limited.
Acquiring, refinancing or competing with HC-One Limited?
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