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Houses for supported living providers, bought to your specification

Written by Morgan Nunns · Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin · August 2026

Why I ask first instead of sending you houses

Most approaches a provider gets come with a property already attached. Somebody bought a house, then went looking for a provider who would take it. The house came first and the service is being asked to fit around it.

That is backwards, and it is why so many of those approaches waste your time. Your service decides what the house has to be. How many people it supports, whether they live well together, whether somebody needs a bedroom on the ground floor, how much space staff need, how close it has to sit to transport and to the people already in your care. None of that can be worked out after the fact.

The house should be chosen to fit the service. Not the other way round.

The two ways this works

I buy it. Where the house is right and the numbers work, I buy it and lease it to you. That suits a house that needs work, or a longer commitment on your side.

Or I lease it, and lease it on to you. Plenty of good houses belong to landlords who will not sell but will take a long and reliable tenant. In that case I take the lease from the owner and lease it on to you. You deal with me throughout: one agreement, one point of contact, and the owner stays out of your way.

The second route is often quicker, because it does not wait on a purchase completing. The first gives more freedom to alter the house. Tell me what you need and I will tell you honestly which one fits.

Who pays for adaptations is part of the deal, not a given. Sometimes I fund them, sometimes the cost is shared or carried in the rent, and sometimes you would rather have your own people do the work. It depends on the house, on the rent, and on how long the agreement runs. I would rather put that on the table early than have it turn up as a surprise later.

What I need from you

Six things, and they take about ten minutes on the phone.

1. Whether you are taking on more properties at all right now

   If you are full, say so. It is genuinely useful to know, and I will ask again another time rather than keep ringing.

2. Who you support, and the sort of house that works for them

   The client group shapes everything else, so it comes before the bricks.

3. Bedrooms, and anything the layout has to have

   Ground floor bedroom, a second bathroom, a sleep-in room, separate access, wide doorways, a garden. The details that rule a house in or out on sight.

4. The areas you actually want to be in

   Not the county. The towns, and the parts of them, where a placement would work and where your staff can realistically get to.

5. The rent that works for that kind of house in that area

   This is the one providers are most careful about, and I understand why. I ask because without a figure I cannot justify viewing anything or making an offer. A range is enough.

6. The lease length you would normally take

   Agreements in this sector tend to run long, and the term changes what I can afford to pay for a house, so it belongs in the first conversation rather than the last.

What you get from me

A house chosen for your service, rather than a service fitted around a house somebody already owns. Somebody to organise the adaptations it needs and to run that job, so your team is not project managing a refurbishment on top of everything else, with an honest conversation about who carries the cost. An agreement for as long as you want to commit to. And somebody local: I am based in Oswestry, and Shropshire and Telford are half an hour apart on my own doorstep.

Where I am going to be straight with you

I do not currently own a supported living home. I am at the start of building this, and the honest position is that I am buying now rather than managing a portfolio I built years ago.

So if what you need is a landlord with twenty schemes already running and references from ten other providers, I am not that today, and I would rather tell you now than waste a meeting. What I do have is a company behind me, the local knowledge, and the willingness to go and find the specific house you describe instead of showing you what I happen to have.

When we get to a particular property I will be equally straight about the timescale and about how the purchase is funded, before you commit anything to it.

How to check I am who I say I am

PathForge is a trading name of PSE3 Ltd, company number 15845792, registered in England and Wales. I hold anti money laundering supervision with HMRC, membership of the Property Redress Scheme, ICO registration and professional indemnity cover, and I will hand over the numbers to check any of it without being asked.

I have written separately on how to check that anyone in this line of work is legitimate, including the checks that would catch me out if I were not. I would rather you ran them.

What happens next

Tell me your brief. That is the whole of the first step, and there is nothing to sign and nothing to commit to.

If I find something that fits it, I will send it to you and you can say yes or no. If I never find one, you have lost a ten minute phone call. If we do get as far as an agreement, that gets drawn up by solicitors on both sides before anybody signs anything.

This page is general information about how I work with supported living providers. It is not an offer, and it is not legal, financial or tax advice. Any lease or agreement must be drafted and explained by a qualified solicitor acting for you before you sign. Nothing here is a commitment to acquire, lease or fund any particular property.