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Eager retirees offer cash so they don’t miss out at Calvary retirement living event

Around 80 prospective residents last Friday attended Calvary Health Care’s inaugural Transition into Retirement Living Education Session at Ryde Calvary, Sydney. It led to some residents trying unsuccessfully to hand over $1000 in cash to reserve a unit. Occupancy is now 98%.

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Development

Gladstone Regional Council victorious over change to approved land lease community

Queensland’s Planning and Environment Court has dismissed an appeal by Brades Property Agnes Water, upholding Gladstone Regional Council’s refusal of a proposal to swap an approved 360-lot manufactured housing estate (land lease community) for a 158-home conventional residential subdivision at Agnes Water.

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Topic - Acquisitions

Can Aveo’s owner Scape Australia take over retirement village operator Keyton?

It is understood that Scape Australia – now rebranded as The Living Company – is the only bidder still seriously pursuing Keyton, Australia’s largest retirement village operator, whose minority stake held by Lendlease is up for sale. As...

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Retirement and Community Living

Retirement by Moran’s surprise aged care operator for proposed village

Sally Taylor, Managing Director of Retirement by Moran, used the latest Westpac Conversation at the Wharf luncheon to outline the State Significant Development Application for “Indigo by Moran” at Narrabeen.

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Retirement and Community Living

65 ILUs filled as $400M Hyegrove Willoughby, Sydney’s Lower North Shore, opens

The Abolakian family’s first venture in the ageing sector, Hyegrove Willoughby, an integrated development, 8km north of Sydney’s CBD, has opened with more than 65 of the 111 apartments filled within days. Patrick Abolakian, Director, Property...

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Redevelopments

“That’s why this redevelopment matters”: Uniting on NSW Northern Rivers seniors living proposal

A packed public meeting in Kingscliff on 28 October marked the next step in the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) review of Uniting’s State Significant Development Application (SSDA) to redevelop its residential aged care home in the town.

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Community Living

Barossa Villages’ promise to retirement village residents

Not For Profit Barossa Village – 60km north-east of Adelaide and operating independent living, residential, respite and home care – will soon begin building its next generation of Independent Living Units, embedding dementia-supportive design from the ground up.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

SA fund manager ICAM extends seniors living portfolio into NSW

Adelaide-based fund manager ICAM has expanded its seniors living footprint into New South Wales with the acquisition of Signature Gardens Retirement Resort in Rutherford, in the Hunter region.

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Community Living

Lester Group’s EdenLife Communities lines up a third land lease estate – with more to follow

Western Australian family-owned developer Lester Group is expanding its land lease platform, EdenLife Communities, steadily growing its footprint across the state’s south-west – with sold-out stages, an active project, and a third site now in planning.

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Government Policy

Shared Care in villages: Canberra cracks the door open

A major step forward for the Shared Care model. The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing will convene online workshops with Support at Home providers to help design a pooled funding trial, slated for 2026, backed by $5.2 million in funding over three years announced by the Federal Government in December 2024.

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31 Oct 2025

Development

Lincoln Place hits $44M in development acquisitions in nine months

Land lease community operator Lincoln Place, founded in 2019 by Ben Hindmarsh and Nicholas Collishaw, has added another major project to its pipeline, acquiring a 16.3-hectare greenfield site in Wangaratta, 98km from Shepparton, Victoria.

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31 Oct 2025

Living with Dementia

Dementia specialists HammondCare win tender for Canberra first

The aged care provider has been selected to lead the transformation of the former Curtin Primary School, 8km southwest of Canberra’s CBD, into a best-practice dementia care village following a competitive tender process.

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