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Care-sector property in Durham.
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.
Tell us the specification you need in Durham — the number of bedrooms, the access, the planning position and the lease length — and we will look for a property that meets it.
The property side
Property for care providers in Durham
A care placement in Durham needs two separate things to exist at once: an operator with a registration, and a property that fits the specification.
If you instruct us, we would source against your written specification, prepare the property to it, and hand the operational side to you entirely.
We would ask for the specification and the timescale before anything else, because in this sector both of them change which buildings are even candidates.
We look for property in Durham from our Birmingham office, working to the specification the provider and the commissioner set.
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 County Durham is no exception. Three are set out here; the rest have their own pages.
Temporary Accommodation
Self-contained nightly paid accommodation is now the dominant form and bed and breakfast use is falling sharply. The disfavoured category is defined by shared toilet, washing or cooking facilities between households — so a unit with its own bathroom and kitchen sits on the right side of the line. There is also a statutory pull toward accommodation inside the authority's own district, which makes local stock worth more than distant stock.
Refugee Resettlement Housing
A spare room inside an occupied home, or a self-contained unit standing empty. Ordinary stock, and a genuinely low barrier to entry compared with the rest of this lane.
Rough Sleeper Accommodation
What gets priority is self-contained accommodation spread out and gathered into small groups rather than concentrated on one site. Sharing is tolerated, but only with en-suite facilities and an operating history behind it. The Decent Homes Standard and the nationally described space standard sit underneath all of it as a hard floor, not an aspiration.
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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What else we do in Durham
Your Questions
Questions we get asked
Not covered here? Tell us the specification and we will answer for your situation.
How do you find a property in Durham?
Against the provider's specification: the number of bedrooms, the access and adaptation needs, the planning position and the lease length. Tell us the specification and we will look for a property that meets it.
Do you provide care or support in Durham?
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.
Who would the provider's landlord be in Durham?
Maine Property Solutions Ltd, Company No. 16187542, registered at Office 1, Izabella House, 24-26 Regent Place, Birmingham B1 3NJ. We hold the lease with the provider, handle repairs and keep the compliance certificates current.
What would you actually do for a provider in Durham?
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.