News & Headlines

Growing Not For Profit Resthaven celebrates its 90th birthday

‘Rest Haven’ was officially opened on 11 May 1935, by Lady Isabel Kidman, wife of the prominent pastoralist, Sir Sidney Kidman. Providing aged care for just a handful of residents, demand for Resthaven’s services grew quickly. Today, Resthaven...

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Ian Horswill

24 Feb 2025

In the Headlines

Villages.com.au website traffic soars 16.7% this month alone

The traditional spike in interest in retirement villages and land lease communities at the start of the year shows no signs of stopping. From the analytics, January 2025 saw a 6% increase in users Year On Year and February has seen a continuation of...

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Ian Horswill

17 Feb 2025

News & Headlines

Ingenia now building land lease homes to Green Star designed standards

All 262 homes in the master-planned community Ingenia Lifestyle Springside in Beveridge, 37km north of Melbourne, will meet the Green Star designed assessment from the Green Building Council of Australia. “Our Beveridge community offers retirees...

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Ian Horswill

03 Feb 2025

In the Headlines

Calvary Health Care turns retirement village into its first rental village

The Catholic provider’s Sydney Williams retirement village in Doncaster East, 20km east of Melbourne’s CBD, will operate as a seniors’ rental site due to community need as cost-of-living pressures impact seniors. The...

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Ian Horswill

29 Jan 2025

News & Headlines

Another week, another alarm for village operators and residents

We will be investigating solutions at our LEADERS SUMMIT 18 & 19 March in Sydney, plus presenting how Denmark overcame this problem. There are good lessons to be learnt. Register here

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Chris Baynes

03 Feb 2025

News & Headlines

GemLife CEO Adrian Puljich provides inspirational leadership in retirement living

At 37 years of age, Adrian Puljich has built a remarkable land lease empire and an equally remarkable team to implement his visions. Check out his latest quarterly video HERE which has had 1,100 views in just 3 days. The volume of new projects...

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Ian Horswill

03 Feb 2025

Out of the Ordinary

$1.7M for a manufactured home with the suburb’s median price $868k - is the $10.5M clubhouse a winning factor?

Operators are continually improving its high-end amenities, NSW Land Lease Living Industry Association CEO, Lyndel Gray says. “Developers are raising the bar with resort-style facilities to meet the desires of discerning home buyers who want...

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Ian Horswill

27 Jan 2025

Out of the Ordinary

RFBI planning two new retirement villages as it reinvests $6.9M surplus

The Not For Profit is a success story increasing its workforce by 5% in the past year, with 75 workers brought in from overseas, and its annual report revealing it has turned a deficit into a profit. RFBI has a turnover of $226 million, with revenue...

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Ian Horswill

27 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

News & Headlines

Meet the sector’s innovators in the final issue of SATURDAY magazine for 2024

Every day, leaders across the retirement living, land lease and aged care sectors are on the frontline, driving new approaches and solving the challenges facing the sector – so what are the names you need to know? In the final issue of SATURDAY...

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Lauren Broomham

03 Dec 2024

Out of the Ordinary

2024 DCM Institute VILLAGE SUMMIT tops 630 attendees across five cities

Attendance at the VILLAGE SUMMIT has jumped 32% in 2024, from 470 last November to 630 this year. The third professional development day for the year for Institute Members plus other village leaders, the program is being embraced by more than 150...

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Chris Baynes

26 Nov 2024

Out of the Ordinary

Issue 89 of SATURDAY magazine: Pioneers never stop innovating

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Ian Horswill

26 Nov 2024

Chris Baynes

New Aged Care Act – and Plan B co-contribution funding – was achieved just three years to the day from when the sector was called to mobilise

In November 2021, the editorial team here at DCM/The SOURCE sat down and discussed what is the future for aged care. To be blunt, there was no optimism in the sector as operators racked up month after month of financial losses.

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Chris Baynes

22 Nov 2024