Care Quality Commission registered supported living provider?
I have been contacted by a Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered supported living provider seeking to enter a corporate lease.
As I am new to the concept, I wonder if anyone in the group has had such experiences.
Is it something worth considering?
What happens if there are antisocial behaviours in the property?
Will I be responsible for sorting out the problems?
What are my obligations?
Will the provider return the property in good condition when the lease ends?
Many thanks
SP
Editor’s note: In supported living, CQC regulates care services, not the accommodation. Registration does not guarantee the provider’s performance under your lease. Care Quality Commission Before signing, have a solicitor check responsibilities for antisocial behaviour, repairs, damage and the property’s condition at handback, and confirm mortgage, insurance and licensing requirements.
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12:49 AM, 31st October 2026, About 3 hours ago
Hi SP,
Before anything else in that lease, work out which register the provider’s actually on. CQC regulates the care, not the housing, and they’re two separate registers. The exemption people reach for is Schedule 14 of the Housing Act 2004, which covers buildings managed or controlled by bodies like local housing authorities and registered providers of social housing. CQC registration isn’t on that list, and supported living isn’t a care home, so your property can still be a licensable HMO.
That’s your problem too, not just theirs. Section 263 says the person having control is whoever receives a rack rent, meaning at least two thirds of full net annual value. On a corporate lease at market rent that could well be you, alongside the provider as person managing, so enforcement doesn’t stop at whoever runs the place day to day.
On the rest, your lease does all the work. A company can’t hold an assured shorthold tenancy, because section 1 of the Housing Act 1988 needs an individual occupying as their only or principal home. There’s no section 21, no section 8, and the Renters’ Rights Act doesn’t reach it. So antisocial behaviour, repair liability and the state it comes back in are whatever you’ve negotiated. Get nuisance allocated expressly with an indemnity, a full repairing and yield up obligation, and a photographic schedule of condition annexed.
Then check your lender and insurer allow it.
OJ