Property type: Healthcare
Healthcare Property Bridging Loans Hampshire
We arrange bridging finance against healthcare property across Hampshire's healthcare-property market. Loan sizes run £400,000 to £20 million, terms 6 to 24 months, completions in 14 to 28 days. Healthcare bridging is specialist underwriting; pricing sits 0.85 to 1.35% per month depending on operator covenant, regulatory position and the credibility of the exit.
- Decisions in hours
- Completion in days
- £100k to £25m
- Hampshire specialists
Hampshire · Hampshire
Bridge to your next move.
The asset class
What healthcare property looks like in Hampshire.
Healthcare property covers residential care homes, nursing homes, specialist learning-disability and mental-health units, GP surgeries, dental practices and standalone clinics. Each sub-segment carries its own valuation methodology, regulatory framework and lender appetite. Care homes are CQC-regulated and value tracks operator trading, occupancy and the local fee mix between self-funded and local-authority residents. GP surgeries trade on the lease structure with NHS Property Services or the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board sitting behind. Dental practices split between NHS-contract value and private goodwill, with the building forming part of the underlying security.
Use cases
Bridging use cases for healthcare assets.
Healthcare bridging cases in this market cluster around four use cases. The first is purchase of a care home or nursing home from a retiring operator, where the buyer is a regional operator group running a roll-up strategy and bridging is used because term commercial debt cannot complete fast enough or because there is a CQC-registration transition that lenders want to see resolved before they will price term debt. The second is purchase of GP surgeries and dental practices coming out of partnership dissolution, where speed is required and the building is bought separately from the trading business. The third is refurbishment-and-re-registration cases where an older care home is bought, brought up to current CQC standards, and the bridge funds both the purchase and the works programme. The fourth is capital-raise against an unencumbered healthcare freehold, typically held by an operator looking to fund the next acquisition. Across all four, lenders care about the operator's CQC record, the trading evidence and the realism of the exit at stabilised operation.
Hampshire context
Healthcare Property Across the Hampshire Care Market
Hampshire carries an older demographic profile than the regional average across large parts of the county, particularly in the New Forest, the Test Valley, the Solent coastal villages around Lymington and Ringwood, and the rural belts around Winchester, Petersfield and Alton. That demographic supports a steady demand for residential and nursing care across a mid-sized healthcare-property market. The acute health geography centres on University Hospital Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, the Queen Alexandra Hospital in the south of the county, the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, and the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust footprint. The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board commissions primary-care services that flow through GP surgeries across the county. Dental practices in Southampton, Winchester, Basingstoke, Fareham and Fleet trade on a mix of NHS contract and private revenue, with building values stable. Care-home stock is concentrated around Winchester, Eastleigh, Basingstoke, Andover, Romsey, Fleet, Lymington and the New Forest fringe, with regional and national operator presence across each. Lenders comfortable on healthcare in this market typically have a dedicated specialist desk. Generalist bridging lenders rarely take healthcare at competitive pricing.
Valuation and lenders
Valuation and lender considerations.
Healthcare valuations come back on a trading-business basis for going-concern care homes, on an investment basis for tenanted clinics with a strong lease covenant, and on a vacant-possession-with-alternative-use basis where trading is interrupted or the operator is changing. Lenders lend on the lower of the relevant figures with an additional haircut for regulatory transition risk. LTV caps sit at 60 to 70% on tenanted clinics, 55 to 65% on going-concern care homes, and 50 to 60% on transition cases. United Trust Bank, Hope Capital, Shawbrook, Cambridge & Counties and OakNorth all take healthcare on bridging, with the dedicated healthcare desks at Allica Bank and HTB stronger at the larger end. CQC reports, trading accounts and operator covenant evidence drive the case.
What we arrange
What we typically arrange.
A typical healthcare bridge sits at £600,000 to £5 million, 55 to 70% LTV, 9 to 18 months term, 0.85 to 1.25% per month, arrangement fee 1.5 to 2%. Operator transition cases run longer and price higher. Refurbishment-and-re-registration cases include a monitored works tranche. Exit is typically refinance to term commercial debt with a healthcare-specialist lender, sale to a regional operator group, or sale-and-leaseback to a healthcare REIT. Completion in 21 to 28 days is normal given the CQC and operator due-diligence work.
FAQs
Healthcare bridging questions
Can we bridge a care home purchase in Hampshire pending CQC registration transfer?
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Yes, and this is one of the more common healthcare cases. Lenders price for the regulatory transition risk and the period during which the new operator is awaiting full CQC registration. LTV typically caps at 55 to 60% during the transition, moving up to 65% once registration is confirmed and trading is rebased. The exit is usually refinance to term commercial debt with a healthcare-specialist lender at 12 to 18 months. We work with healthcare-property specialists from valuation through to legal completion.
How do bridging lenders view GP surgery purchases across Hampshire?
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GP surgeries with a long lease to NHS Property Services or to a GP partnership backed by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board read as relatively low-risk investment assets. Lenders price at 65 to 70% LTV on the investment value, with rate at 0.85 to 1.05% per month for clean cases. The exit is usually refinance to term commercial debt at a healthcare-specialist lender. Partnership-dissolution cases where speed is required sit firmly in the bridging space.
What does a refurbishment-and-re-registration case look like for a care home?
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The buyer acquires an older care home that needs material works to meet current CQC standards. The bridge funds the purchase at 60% LTV on vacant-possession value plus a works tranche released against monitoring sign-off. Once the works are complete and the new operator is registered with CQC, trading is rebased over six to nine months, and the exit is refinance to term commercial debt with a healthcare-specialist lender. Total term 15 to 24 months is typical.
Tell us about the deal
Indicative terms within 24 hours.
A short triage call, then a sized indicative offer against a named lender for your healthcare property in Hampshire or across Hampshire.
Regulated bridging on owner-occupied residential property falls under FCA regulation. Unregulated bridging on commercial and investment property does not. We are not directly regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, and we introduce regulated cases to authorised partners who carry out the regulated activity.
Next step
Talk to a Hampshire healthcare bridging specialist.
We arrange short-term finance on healthcare property across Hampshire, covering Hampshire County Council and the Portsmouth and Southampton unitary areas. Indicative terms in 24 hours.