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Ian
Horswill

New owner for Kenilworth Gardens Retirement Village in Bowral, NSW

Situated on 4.8ha of Old English Gardens, the 40-year-old luxury village, which operates 67 independent living villas of large two-bedroom villas and one-bedroom units with 15 serviced apartments and one respite room, has been sold through Justin Hazell...

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Ian Horswill

16 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

The best advertisement a retirement village could have

Residents are a retirement village operator’s greatest asset. Gloria Heward, a resident at Alino Living’s Adelene Independent Living Village in Wyoming, 4km from Gosford, wrote a letter to Community Coast News capturing what retirement living is all about. Its contents are a great advertisement for the operator.

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Ian Horswill

15 Jan 2025

Aged Care

Southern Cross Care (WA) puts homeless seniors into one of its aged care homes

The Not For Profit has a 97% occupancy rate, well above the Government’s national average of 86.1%, with 476 residents in its eight residential aged care homes in Perth’s Metropolitan area, Kalgoorlie and Broome.

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Ian Horswill

15 Jan 2025

Developments

UnitingCare Queensland devising new retirement community at Bokarina Beach, Sunshine Coast

UnitingCare Queensland’s BlueCare Retirement Living General Manager, Natalie Smith, said it is progressing development plans for a new community on the eastern half of its 6.4 ha site at Bokarina Beach in the coastal suburb in Queensland’s Sunshine...

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Ian Horswill

15 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

Housing News

Bethanie Housing chosen by WA Government to build and operate new seniors social housing development

The registered charity, which provides subsidised accommodation and services to seniors in need, has been chosen as the preferred operator to develop and operate a new 90-dwelling community housing development in Mount Lawley, an inner northern suburb of Perth.

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Ian Horswill

15 Jan 2025

Community Living

Ingenia Communities upgrades its FY25 EBIT and underlying EPS Guidance

The good health of the land lease sector is evident in today’s announcement to the ASX by the owner and operator of the third largest number of land lease communities, the second largest rental village portfolio and significant tourism park...

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Ian Horswill

14 Jan 2025

News & Headlines

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

This will be Australia’s first vertical land lease community. GemLife Currumbin Waters will have six three-level buildings and one four-level building, allowing for 205 three-bedroom homes and a multi-million dollar three-level country club, with...

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Ian Horswill

14 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

Lifestyle Communities announce pay for Chair David Blight’s role as Executive Chair

David, who was appointed Chair in July last year, will assume the role as Executive Chair until a new CEO is appointed. Co-Founder and Managing Director James Kelly retired on 31 December, 2024. He co-founded the land lease community business over...

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Ian Horswill

14 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

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

Government Policy

South Australia considering allowing six-storey retirement villages

Consultation is now open for the proposed amendment proposing changes to the planning rules to enable a wider variety of housing and more flexibility for building apartment-style homes and retirement living across the state, states a state...

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Ian Horswill

10 Jan 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Estia Health buys seven homes from David Di Pilla’s Aurrum Aged Care

The two businesses have announced Bain Capital-owned Estia Health will buy Aurrum Aged Care’s three homes on the NSW Central Coast in Erina, Norah Head, and Wyoming and the four homes in Melbourne - Brunswick, Healesville, Plenty, and Reservoir -...

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Ian Horswill

10 Jan 2025