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Buy a supported living provider in the UK
The smallest care market here, and the one most often held alongside something else: most supported living providers also run domiciliary care.
- 1,949companies on the Care Quality Commission register
- 45%trade from premises traceable to HM Land Registry
- 122employees on average
- 14years trading on average
- 34%have a charge outstanding
- 369publish a bed count
Figures read from the register data as at 20 August 2026.
What the Care Quality Commission registration means
Supported living is registered with the Care Quality Commission as personal care delivered to people living in their own accommodation. The registration is separate from a care home registration and does not carry a bed count, because the accommodation is the client’s.
Why buyers look here
Long-term local authority placements make revenue unusually durable. A third own property, which is high for a service where the accommodation is not theirs, and those are worth looking at first.
What to check
- A supported living registration is not a care home registration, and the two are valued differently.
- Bed counts are mostly absent, because CQC does not record them for this service. Scale has to be established directly.
- Most providers hold more than one CQC registration; look at the whole provider, not one entry.
- A third own premises, which for this service usually means an office rather than the housing itself.
How to search
Choose Supported living on the search screen and narrow by town, how long the business has traded, how ownership is held, and whether the premises are traceable. Searching is free and shows the shape of each company without naming it. A report on one company costs from £4.90.
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