35
Registered care homes
Care home operator
Sense
35 registered care homes, about 219 beds across 13 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
219
Registered beds
13
Counties covered
91%
Rated Good or Outstanding
Sense operates 35 CQC-registered care homes with about 219 beds across 13 counties in England, a substantial regional group. Around 91% 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 Sense
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 Sense, 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 | 2 |
| Good | 30 |
| Requires improvement | 3 |
Geographic spread
Where Sense operates
The group's footprint by county, the operating geography a lender or acquirer underwrites.
| County | Homes | Beds | Towns |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Midlands | 11 | 70 | 2 |
| Cambridgeshire | 5 | 33 | 1 |
| Lincolnshire | 4 | 24 | 2 |
| West Yorkshire | 3 | 13 | 1 |
| Devon | 2 | 15 | 2 |
| Greater London | 2 | 23 | 2 |
| Kent | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| Hertfordshire | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| Lancashire | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Norfolk | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Northamptonshire | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Somerset | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Wiltshire | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Portfolio
Sense 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 Sense.
Acquiring, refinancing or competing with Sense?
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