Healthcare and wellbeing infrastructure executive
Anton Palmer works across supported living and domiciliary care, and owns the property those services are delivered in. He has spent two decades on both the operating and the property side of regulated care, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, across England and Scotland.
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His current focus is how owners, operators, commissioners and long-term capital work together: clear responsibilities, sustainable leases, planned maintenance, and property management that supports a care team rather than adding to its workload. Quality, location and stability shape the care delivered inside a home.
Anton Palmer founded a regulated supported-living operator from a standing start and grew it over roughly six years into a business running more than twenty specialised properties, supporting around one hundred people with high-acuity needs. It maintained consistently high occupancy and achieved zero CQC "Inadequate" ratings. It operated inside the frameworks set by the CQC and the Care Inspectorate, and shaped everything he has built since.
In 2012 he sold the operating company and retained every freehold beneath it. The operating business passed to a private equity buyer; the properties did not. That structure, with the operating business and the real estate in separate hands, set up the decade that followed and the property work that has occupied him since.
The retained buildings became an institutional long-income portfolio. He restructured the leases on long, inflation-linked, fully repairing terms with institutional tenants, turning individual care properties into an asset an institution could hold. The portfolio was sold in 2016-17, completing the second half of the same cycle.
He built the operating business, then the property base beneath it, and realised each separately, on the terms and to the buyer that suited it.
Property is too often treated as separate from care, when the home environment, maintenance standard, location and stability can materially affect outcomes.
Anton Alexander Palmer
He is acquiring a group of CQC-regulated care businesses. The plan applies the model he has run before: moving service users out of rented accommodation and into freeholds held in a dedicated property company, with the operating and property sides aligned from the outset.
