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Care-sector property in March.
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 March. Tell us the specification and we will look for it.
The property side
Property for care providers in March
What a commissioner needs in March is a building that can be registered, licensed or inspected without an argument. That is a property job before it is a care job.
Our service is designed to take the property work off a provider's desk — sourcing, works, certificates and the landlord relationship — and nothing beyond it.
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 March 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 Cambridgeshire is no exception. Three are set out here; the rest have their own pages.
Supported Living (Mental Health)
What is wanted is ordinary housing that works for someone leaving a long hospital stay: self-contained where possible, in a location that supports rather than isolates, and available on a timescale that matches a discharge date rather than a development programme. Published examples of this sector working describe people moving out of long inpatient stays into housing, which is the outcome the buying is measured against.
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.
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 March?
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 March. If you tell us the specification we will look for it.
Do you provide care or support in March?
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 March?
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 March.
What would you actually do for a provider in March?
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.