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Care-sector property in Bedford.
Maine Property Solutions is a property company. We find, prepare and manage buildings — we do not provide care, support or supervision, and we are not registered with CQC or Ofsted. Care and support in any property we manage is provided by the registered provider, not by us.
We have not yet placed a property with a provider in Bedford. Tell us the specification and we will look for it.
The property side
Property for care providers in Bedford
The buildings this sector needs in Bedford are mostly ordinary residential stock — houses and flats, prepared properly, rather than purpose-built facilities.
We would take on the building and the paperwork that attaches to it, and leave every question about care, support and supervision where it belongs.
The brief we can work from is a written one: the building's purpose, its specification, and what has to be evidenced about it before it is used.
The East of England is well outside our Birmingham base. We hold no property in Bedford and no local presence there.
Three of the fourteen
What the property has to be, sector by sector
Each of these buys a different building for a different reason, and Bedfordshire is no exception. Three are set out here; the rest have their own pages.
Veterans' Supported Housing
Accommodation for one person at a time rather than for families. That is a clear brief and it points at studio and one-bedroom stock, or at shared houses with the HMO consequences that follow.
Emergency & Crisis Placement
The statutory suitability tests are about how much room there is, how the inside is arranged and where the building sits — not about fixtures and not about finish. Giving a household its own cooking and laundry is the single change that lifts a property out of the disfavoured category. And bed and breakfast is never suitable for a 16 or 17 year old, not even for one night.
Specialist & Adapted Housing
The numbers are specific and they drive the build. Putting in a level access shower means constructing a full wet room and a ceiling that can carry a 200kg hoist. At Category 3 the entrance storey has to be reachable without steps and the controls have to sit within a reduced reach range. Room-by-room turning space is set out too, including 1200mm by 1200mm inside every bedroom doorway. Wheelchair adaptable is the default; wheelchair accessible applies only where a planning condition says so.
All fourteen
Care sectors we can source property for
The line, drawn plainly
What we can do, and what we cannot
What we can do
- Find property against a written specification — size, layout, location, adaptation, tenure and the compliance set the building has to carry.
- Prepare it: works, furnishing, certificates and the paperwork a provider or a commissioner will want to see before it takes the building on.
- Manage the building afterwards, if that is what is wanted — repairs, contractors, certificate renewals and the landlord side of the relationship.
- Put the proposed terms, the works and the timetable in front of you in writing before anything is committed.
What we do not do
- We do not provide care, support or supervision, of any kind, to anyone.
- We are not registered with CQC and we are not registered with Ofsted. A landlord letting a building to a care provider is carrying on neither regulated activity and has nothing to register.
- We do not employ, supply or manage care or support staff, and we make no claim about the vetting of anyone else's.
- We hold no framework place, no contract and no position on any supplier list with any council, health body or government department.
- We hold no care-sector placement anywhere. Maine Property Solutions operates two properties, both in Coventry, and has no managed instruction in any sector.
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Your Questions
Questions we get asked
Not covered here? Tell us the specification and we will answer for your situation.
Do you have properties in Bedford?
No. Maine Property Solutions operates two properties, both in Coventry, and holds no managed instruction anywhere. We have not yet placed a property with a provider in Bedford. If you tell us the specification we will look for it.
Do you provide care or support in Bedford?
No. We do not provide care, support or supervision, and we are not registered with CQC or Ofsted. Care and support in any property we manage is provided by the registered provider, not by us.
Do you have a local team in Bedford?
No. We are a property company registered at Office 1, Izabella House, 24-26 Regent Place, Birmingham B1 3NJ, and we do not claim an office, a branch or staff in Bedford.
What would you actually do for a provider in Bedford?
Source property against a written specification, prepare it, and manage the building afterwards if that is wanted. Everything about care, support, supervision and staff stays with the provider.