PROPERTY agent Christie and Co has sold a third care home to a local operator.

George Dixon snapped up Saltwell View residential care home, in Gateshead, from owner Steve Potts.

He previously bought Highfield care home in Haswell, County Durham and Loxley Chase home in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough.

Julie Hewitt, of Christie, said: "Mr Dixon started out just over a year ago as a first-time buyer to the care home sector and is steadily building his portfolio of regional residential care homes."