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Government Policy

Will Retirement Living Council’s calls for reform be heard tonight?

The Federal Budget is released tonight and with the Labor government leaking several major announcements, it appears helping retirees is off the list. The Retirement Living Council (RLC) last Tuesday released a new report “Removing Rightsizing...

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Retirement and Community Living

25 Mar 2025

Despite village operators’ lobbying, future senior housing development in NSW is ‘road kill’

Retirement by Moran Managing Director Sally Taylor voiced the disappointment of the sector at LEADERS SUMMIT 2025 after the State Government released a housekeeping amendment to the Housing State Environmental Planning Policy. “Myself and quite...

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Community Living

Still time to be part of the StewartBrown Retirement Living Performance Survey

Stuart Hutcheon, Managing Partner at the business and tax accountants, who have a seat at the table with the Department of Health and Aged Care, told LEADERS SUMMIT 2025 its inaugural retirement living performance survey is powering forward. With...

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Technology

300,000+ homes power cut by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred but not this over 50s land lease community

More than 44,000 homes on the Gold Coast still remained without power when Prospecta Utilities CEO Mark Langdon spoke at the LEADERS SUMMIT in Sydney last Wednesday. He told how Prospecta Utilities’ private wireless 5G network at GemLife Gold...

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Startup Hyegrove Willoughby on track to sell 111 integrated aged care village apartments before it opens

For a new entrant to the retirement living sector, Patrick Abolakian impressed with an expansive vision for the RV sector at the sold-out LEADERS SUMMIT last Wednesday. Over 80% of the 111 apartments, at an average price of $2.8 million ($28,000 per...

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Community Living

Anglicare releases documentary ‘Unashamedly Old... But Won’t Be Told’ as Woolooware Shores’ final stage launches

The final release of 78 premium residences across two buildings, completes the $263 million luxury retirement village with a total of 441-apartments, constructed by Growthbuilt. The release of the one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments, suites...

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Aveo decides to keep its two Tasmanian retirement villages as part of sale

In April 2024, the Brookfield-owned retirement village operator announced it was selling its 15 retirement villages in South Australia and its two villages in Tasmania to become an East Coast operator. In August last year, Aveo announced it had sold...

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Work begins on Noble family’s $75M over 50s gated lifestyle resort in southeastern Tasmania

Stage One of the Noble Life’s resort in New Norfolk, a riverside town 20km from Hobart, will see 26 two- and three-bedroom homes built. Civil works began earlier this month on the 186-homes New Norfolk Resort land lease community on 9.5ha of land...

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Only 13 of 51 new apartments launched at Levande Pine Lake retirement village on Gold Coast remain for sale

Chief Executive Officer Kevin McCoy opened the new apartments in a ceremony in Elanora last Wednesday. The new apartments - $695,000 to $765,000 (one-bedroom, one bathroom) and $775,000 to $1.2 million (two-bedroom, two bathroom) - mean the village...

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Strong demand for second LLC in Toowoomba: GemLife Highfield Heights stage one, with 72% of homes under contract

The launch of the land lease communities’ developer’s second over-50s land lease community in Highfields, 15km north of Toowoomba, has seen strong buyer interest within just two-and-a-half weeks. Located near GemLife Highfields, which launched...

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Community Living

Catholic Care in partnership to provide housing for women 55+

The Diocese of Parramatta’s social welfare agency is working with the Older Women’s Network Blue Mountains to address the plight of housing insecurity and homelessness for women aged 55 and over in the region on the outskirts of western Sydney...

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Legal Issues

Adder Holdings, owner of Harbour Pines retirement village, Geraldton, WA, taken to court over signed and paid contract

The son of a woman who had paid to live in a retirement village, 424km north of Perth, which operates under the state’s strata laws, has lodged a claim in the District Court of Western Australia against the operator. Retired nurse Barbara Allen...

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