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Care-sector property
Property for refugee resettlement.
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 are looking for our first placement in this sector. Tell us the specification and we will look for it.
Resettlement is Home Office money delivered by councils. The council is the party that actually sources accommodation, which makes it the identifiable door — and it inspects the property rather than registering anybody.
Who buys it
Who buys it — Refugee Resettlement Housing
The Home Office holds the budget and the local authority delivers as recipient. So the money is central and the procurement is local, which is the reverse of the asylum dispersal position and much more open to an ordinary landlord.
Who is registered, and who is not
Who is registered, and who is not — Refugee Resettlement Housing
No registration regime for the operator or the property. The council inspects instead, against a stated standard, which means the qualifying test is the condition of the building rather than anyone's registration.
How it is paid for
How it is paid for — Refugee Resettlement Housing
The Home Office passes the money down to the council, and it is the council that goes looking for the accommodation. Rent is met out of that route rather than from a care budget.
What the property has to be
What the property has to be — 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.
What the lease looks like
What the lease looks like — Refugee Resettlement Housing
A six-month minimum commitment is the stated floor on the sponsor route. Short, by the standards of this lane — which cuts both ways for a landlord.
What the building has to carry
What the building has to carry — Refugee Resettlement Housing
The stated standard is concrete: a working smoke detector on each floor, a carbon monoxide detector where there are solid fuel appliances, an annual gas safety check and safe working electrics. Those are the things an inspection looks for.
Honest limits
What is not possible here
Being exempt accommodation does not exempt you from HMO licensing
The word exempt in exempt accommodation refers to housing benefit, not to licensing, and the two are routinely confused. Being exempt accommodation does not exempt a building from HMO licensing. Mandatory licensing is triggered by five or more people in two or more households; what kind of occupancy agreement people hold makes no difference to whether a building is an HMO; and the single care setting that regulations lift out of the HMO definition is a registered care home, which is not what any of this is. Additional and selective licensing schemes can catch a property below the mandatory threshold as well.
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.
The rest of the lane
Other care sectors we can source property for
Your Questions
Questions we get asked
Not covered here? Tell us the specification and we will answer for your situation.
Who would I actually be dealing with?
The local authority. The Home Office holds the budget but the council delivers and sources the accommodation, and it is the council that inspects.
Is a spare room enough?
On the sponsor route, yes — a spare room inside an occupied home works, and so does a self-contained unit standing empty. It is one of the few sectors here that does not need a whole building.
How long is the commitment?
A six-month minimum is the stated floor on the sponsor route.
Have you placed a property in this sector?
No. We are looking for our first placement in this sector. We would be sourcing and preparing property against a specification, not drawing on past placements.