018 Developing social and supported housing with Carole Neales

In this episode Carole Neales discusses why she is determined to deliver high quality property for the social housing sector and how having the right approach to developing supported living property is so important. She talks about developing property for tenants with a range of support needs. Carole shares some differences to consider when developing property for supported living rather than open market rental. She discusses the importance of location and having alternate exits when selecting a property for supported living. 

Carole has over 15 years’ experience in the property arena, initially with RE/MAX in Worcestershire during which time she built relationships  with various corporate clients trading multimillion pound properties in the UK and Europe. After the downturn in 2008 the focus changed and Carole subsequently moved to Greater Manchester where her company began  offering complete turn-key, investment and portfolio building services  to clients from around the globe. After many years Clearwater have found their niche  developing smaller commercial conversions for their own portfolio and that of their investors ensuring clients are given every possible advantage to succeed in their personal  investment journey. In the past 3 years Clearwater have completed 22 projects with a GDV of £6.16m. and as of December  2020  have a new   project which is an office being converted to 12 flats currently under construction. 

Clearwater are also heavily involved in the social housing sector with 50 units under contract and many more projects in flow helping to provide great housing and support to vulnerable adults across mainly Yorkshire and Greater Manchester, the most recent project being a pub conversion to 10 individual units with a support office on site , Clearwater now have approximately 35% of their projects allocated to the social housing sector to facilitate and   ensure more investment is made into helping  homeless and vulnerable adults both physically and mentally. Carole is also Co-Founder of Homies Property Community, a physical monthly meeting  and online mastermind group designed to work with new investors. 

Carole can be contacted carole@clearwaterpropertypartners.com www.clearwaterpropertypartners.com www.homiespropertycommunity.com instagram cpp_carole facebook @clearwaterpropertypartners 

Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need.

Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group. 

 

Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference.

To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network⁠

Lisa has written a free guide for you:

If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors⁠

 

If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers⁠ 

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