Development

GreenFort’s Liven Communities’ third and fourth projects revealed as it nears its 1200 homes target

In June last year the financial backers behind Reside Communities’ five luxury retirement villages, announced it was embarking on an $800 million seniors living land lease portfolio of 1200 homes. GreenFort and Gaw Capital said it had bought...

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Ian Horswill

20 Jan 2025

News & Headlines

Adrian Puljich has approval for Australia’s first vertical land lease lifestyle resort

GemLife Director and CEO Adrian Puljich speaks about Australia’s first vertical land lease community. GemLife Currumbin Waters, and how he intends taking the model acorss Australia.

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Ian Horswill

14 Jan 2025

Government Policy

Great news for retirement village operators planning developments in NSW

The criteria for the NSW Government’s Housing Delivery Authority includes seniors housing specifically as a priority on its delivery. The Housing Delivery Authority (HDA) will lead a new streamlined State Significant Development (SSD) pathway and...

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Ian Horswill

06 Jan 2025

Legal Issues

After 10 tortuous years, Mbark’s proposed retirement village in Canberra held up again

In November last year, Mbark was given conditional approval of a lease variation by the ACT Government to build the retirement village of 125 dwellings (77 houses and 48 units in six three-storey blocks) on 6ha of the club’s golf course

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Ian Horswill

13 Jan 2025

Development

Stockland announce third new land lease community in Queensland in four weeks

The property developer’s latest development is on one of the four parcels of land, all with development approvals, which came as part of the $210 million deal Stockland paid the Puljich family’s Living Gems in July 2023. Stockland said at the...

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Ian Horswill

20 Jan 2025

Development

Third.i annouce Decode Construction as builder of The Merewether retirement village in Newcastle, NSW

More than seven years in the planning, the projected retirement village integrates the residential development, The Merewether Residences, and the existing 18-hole golf course in the suburb, 3km from the city of Newcastle.

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Ian Horswill

15 Jan 2025

Government Policy

New modular homes for seniors in West Australian town

Just three two-bedroom, one-bathroom homes will be available for seniors on the housing waitlist in Manjimup, a town 307km south of the state capital, Perth, in early 2025. The modular houses have been added to the 26-lot Cherry Glades development site...

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Ian Horswill

10 Jan 2025

Development

Aspen Group’s $70M affordable Build to Rent development lodged in Adelaide

The ASX-listed affordable accommodation provider has lodged a development application with Norwood, Payneham and St Peters Council to build a six-storey building with 78 fully furnished Build to Rent studio and one-bedroom apartments, 12...

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Ian Horswill

09 Jan 2025

Community Living

Stockland launches its first over 50s community in Ipswich, QLD

Halcyon Providence is the developer’s latest over 50s community within one of its masterplanned communities.

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Ian Horswill

08 Jan 2025

Development

Is Adrian Puljich the ageing sector’s most active operator?

The innovative and prominent over-50s land lease lifestyle resort operator launched Aliria, solely owned and directed by himself in September last year, which sits with the booming GemLife and Living Gems businesses, which he also heads as Director...

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Ian Horswill

08 Jan 2025

Development

Stockwell’s Solana Lifestyle Resorts lodge plans for fifth over 50s resort in QLD

Stockwell Development Group has applied to Bundaberg Regional Council to build a Solana Lifestyle Resort with 403 single-storey two-bedroom homes over eight stages on 17ha of land at Bargara, a popular location for retirement living communities.

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Ian Horswill

08 Jan 2025

Development

Construction of new aged care home at RFBI Cessnock Masonic Village to start soon

The Not For Profit owner and operator of residential aged care homes, retirement villages and home care in NSW and the ACT has appointed Planix Projects and Hines Constructions to build a modern home for residents in the Hunter Valley city, 154km...

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Ian Horswill

06 Jan 2025

Community Living

Aveo chosen by NSW Government as partner to turn Manly Hospital site in Sydney into seniors’ housing

First established in 1896, Manly Hospital on Sydney’s Northern Beaches was closed in 2018 following the relocation of services to the 488-bed Northern Beaches Hospital, operated and maintained by Healthscope, at Frenchs Forest, 13km north of...

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Ian Horswill

18 Dec 2024