Coverage
C’Estimate covers every care home registered with the Care Quality Commission in England and with Care Inspectorate Wales — residential and nursing, for older people and for adults with specialist needs. Each has its page; the figure is published wherever the recorded sales allow, and each page carries its catchment.
Not covered: Scotland and Northern Ireland, children’s homes, supported living, and hospices.
| Nation | Type | Homes | Figures published | From the home’s own sale | Freehold identified | Catchments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | Residential | 10,067 | 10,064 | 323 | 8,277 | 10,067 |
| England | Nursing | 4,121 | 4,119 | 106 | 3,631 | 4,121 |
| Wales | Residential | 798 | 795 | 31 | 654 | 798 |
| Wales | Nursing | 244 | 244 | 6 | 213 | 244 |
| All | 15,230 | 15,222 | 466 | 12,775 | 15,230 |
Catchments
Each home’s catchment is the area it draws on, every neighbourhood weighted by distance: a neighbourhood’s weight halves roughly every two and a quarter miles, and the drawn zone holds four in five of the people counted. The figures inside it — people, ages, other homes — are from the 2021 Census by neighbourhood.
Freehold identified
A home’s freehold is identified when it is matched to a title in HM Land Registry’s published ownership data, or when that data shows no company or other corporate body holds a title at its postcode — usually because the freehold is registered to individuals, as owners or as trustees, or the land is unregistered. The remainder are not yet matched; absence of a match is not absence of a title.
Sources
HM Land Registry, the Care Quality Commission, Care Inspectorate Wales, Companies House, the Office for National Statistics and Skills for Care. See the privacy notice.
Questions
What is a C’Estimate?
A C’Estimate is an indicative market value for a care home. It is produced by a proprietary model built on the relevant public record: recorded property sales, the regulators’ registers, and land-registry ownership. It is not a valuation and does not replace one: a care home is trade-related property, and its worth depends on occupancy, fee rates and payer mix.
How is it calculated?
The model is proprietary. Every figure is drawn from care home sales actually recorded and applied to the characteristics of each home — its type, its size and where it is. The figure is for the care home as a going concern with its freehold — what such homes fetch when they are sold — never for the company that runs it.
How accurate is it?
Tested against recorded sales, the figure is unbiased — it runs neither high nor low on average — and lands within a third of the price about half the time. It is a scale, not a valuation: what separates two homes of the same size on the same street is their trading, which no public register holds.
Why is a range not always shown?
A range is shown only when at least eight comparable sales support it and their spread is tight enough to inform. With fewer sales, or a spread too wide to mean anything, only the figure is published — a wide interval would say nothing, and an artificially narrow one would suggest a precision the data does not support.
My home is part of a group. Which figure is this?
This home’s. Every figure on C’Estimate is for the individual care home as a going concern with its freehold, not for the operating company, so each home in a group has its own page and its own figure.
Is my occupancy or fee information shown?
No. C’Estimate publishes no trading figures, on the page or on request. Only the estimated value is shown.
Can I correct or refine it?
Yes, by confirming that you own the home or are authorised to act for its owner. What you send is never displayed on C’Estimate — it is used to update your C’Estimate and may be integrated into the professional information services of Corryk, the publisher, which are available to its professional clients.
Does a page mean the home is for sale?
No. Every care home in England and Wales has a page, regardless of its owner’s intentions. A page implies no plan to sell.
What is visible publicly?
The estimated value and information that is already public: the address, the type of home and what it is registered for, who holds the freehold according to the land register, and its catchment. Anything you send when confirming your home is never displayed.
Can I dispute a figure or ask for a page to be removed?
Yes. Every request for correction or removal sent to reception@corryk.com is reviewed and acted on.