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“Doing dad proud”: Peter Inge announces IP Living, a new $300M retirement living operator

Investment business Palisade Impact has agreed to set up a $300 million retirement living platform in partnership with the family-owned Zig Inge Group, whose late founder is credited with pioneering retirement living assets starting in 1979. Peter...

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SA Government proposes four to six-storey retirement villages targeting single occupants

“The aim of the Accommodation Diversity Code Amendment is to increase the number of well-designed, diverse, and affordable housing supply options across the entire state, to respond to these population projections and growth in single person...

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Retirement and Community Living

Westpac Leading Conversations: Will Baby Boomers pay for additional village care beyond Home Care Packages?

The third video from the Westpac/DCM Group lunch in Adelaide gives great insight into where retirement living is heading as the need for care services in retirement villages rises. The question: Will Baby Boomers pay for additional village care...

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Limited advance release for Paul Slijderink’s unique Balinese-inspired Ipswich continuum of care retirement village

32 villas and 14 apartments are now open to expressions of interest for Abadi Gaia retirement village, which will be built in Ipswich, 43km southwest of Brisbane, with construction starting in 2026. “Abadi Gaia will not only deliver the highest...

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Building of Summerset’s third continuum of care retirement village in Victoria to begin early 2025

One of New Zealand’s largest retirement and aged care operators, which last Thursday announced it had bought four new land sites, has turned the sod on its third Victorian site. Summerset’s planned new retirement village was approved as part of...

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Housing News

First women aged 55 and over move into social housing in Melbourne as Margot Robbie Netflix doco highlights older women’s homelessness

Construction of the 96 social housing homes, a partnership between National Affordable Housing and Pace Development Group with $50 million provided by the Victorian Government, began in May 2023. The “missing middle” a term used by the...

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Uniting NSW.ACT lodges new plans for a second retirement village in Shellharbour, south of Sydney

The seniors’ community will be built on a vacant parcel of land the Not For Profit owns in Shellharbour City Centre, 100km south of Sydney’s CBD. As part of Stage 1 planning, Uniting NSW. ACT has submitted two applications to Shellharbour City...

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Housing News

Apollo Care and The Shelter Collective provide 10 homes for women aged over 55 in Rockhampton

The aged care provider is partnering with the Central Queensland-based community-driven group of organisations to provide 10 affordable homes in Rockhampton. The Shelter Collective identifies underutilised or unused property to repurpose as housing...

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Hyecorp Willoughby integrated care village in Sydney tops out with 75% of apartments sold

Hyecorp Property Group expects to complete and settle its first venture into retirement living, Hyegrove Willoughby, mid-next year after topping out its six buildings this month in the suburb, 8km north of Sydney’s CBD.

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Belmont Golf Club latest to have independent retirement living approved

Lake Macquarie Council has approved the 18-hole Championship-quality golf club’s development application to build 32 independent living units, communal spaces, and 43 car parking spaces in Belmont South, 134km north-northeast of Sydney’s CBD. There...

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VMCH holds topping out ceremony for $250M flagship retirement village St. Clare

The For Purpose organisation has celebrated builder Hacer Group’s completion of the frame for all four residential buildings that will be St Clare in Kew, 5km east of the Melbourne CBD. The $250 million Woods Bagot project, which broke ground in...

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EUREKA VILLAGES: Simon Owen seeks to repeat his success

While the number of Baby Boomers turning 70 is accelerating, the same can not be said for the supply of affordable seniors’ living in Australia. With demand for rentals set to skyrocket, former Ingenia CEO Simon Owen is taking Eureka vertical as...

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