Luxury Care Home Guide and Awards

The Knight Frank Luxury Care Home Guide is the go-to publication for the sector's top operators and investors. The guide aims to showcase the UK’s top 100 best-in-class care homes, offering the highest quality in luxury settings, hospitality and design.

For the 2024 guide, we received 215 submissions from over 60 operators with a total value of c.£3.5bn – our largest yet.

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Knight Frank Care Home Awards

How to enter?

All submissions for the 2025 Luxury Care Home Guide will be considered for the Knight Frank care home awards, including:

  • Luxury Care Home Award: To recognise the highest quality hospitality and care services in a prestigious setting.
  • Care Home Design Award: To recognise innovation, design, sustainability and the environment.
  • Care Home Renovation Award: To recognise heritage, redesign and repositioning.

Applications have now closed for the 2025 Luxury Care Home Guide and Awards. Submissions will open for the 2026 awards and guide in spring 2025.

Who can enter?

Operators, interior designers and architects can enter. You’ll need to have permission from the care home owner to submit a home. The operator will receive all communication, and if their care home is selected as the winner, they will receive the award.

Judging process and criteria

Entries will be judged initially on the content and images received during submission. Award finalists will be notified by email and may need to accommodate a visit from our judging panel. Judges must have access to all areas of the home, which can be done in smaller groups if needed.

Judges will consider several different criteria during their visits, including accessibility, how luxury elements benefit residents and their wellbeing, a nutritious food menu, the design and use of outdoor space and sustainability factors.

Finalists will be carefully chosen for each category and our independent judging panel will decide who wins. The winners of the Knight Frank Care Home Awards will be presented at the Healthcare Property Lunch.

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Previous winners of The Knight Frank Care Home Awards:

2025
  • Luxury Care Home Award: Signature Senior Lifestyle Limited for Signature at Highgate, London
  • Care Home Design Award: Hallmark Luxury Care Homes for Hallmark Willingdon Park Manor, Eastbourne
  • Care Home Renovation Award: KYN for KYN Hurlingham, London
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Gordon Sanders, Chief Executive Officer, Runwood Homes
2024
  • Luxury Care Home Award: The Mill House (Anchor)
  • Care Home Design Award: Angmering Grange (Hallmark Care Homes)
  • Care Home Renovation Award: Loveday Abbey Road (Loveday & Co)
2023
  • Luxury Care Home Award: Signature at Barnet (Signature)
  • Care Home Design Award: Eden Grange (Cinnamon Care Collection)
  • Renovation Award: Signature at Hendon Hall (Signature)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Abdul Kachra, Country Court Care
2022
  • Luxury Care Home Award: Signature at Beckenham (Signature)
  • Renovation Award: Avery Park Care Home (Avery Healthcare)
  • Care Home Design Award: Kitwood House (L&M Healthcare)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Peter Van Herrewege, PrimeLife