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Adrian Puljich, GemLife CEO, a disrupter in land lease communities: LEADERS SUMMIT 2025 presentation videos now available on YouTube

The private operator spoke about the “insatiable demand” for affordable and a premium product and how he is continually reviewing his product, with lifestyle resorts to be launched in South Australia and the Northern Territory. He also spoke...

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Retirement and Community Living

“This is a cruel cash grab at the worst possible time”

The Retirement Living Council (RLC) is calling on Cairns Regional Council to abandon its “cash grab plan” to increase rates for retirement village residents during the cost-of-living crisis, with fixed income pensioners the worst hit if the move...

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LDK Seniors’ Living achieves its highest NPS score: +66

Chief Executive Officer Byron Cannon, who told the sold-out audience at LEADERS SUMMIT 2025 his business is a home care operator within a retirement village setting and invited retirement living executives to get in touch if they want to find out...

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Redevelopments

Anglicare Sydney lodges State Significant Development plan to redevelop part of its 43ha site in Castle Hill

The Concept Master Plan & Stage 1 DA for part of the site, 34km northwest of Sydney’s CBD, which currently houses seven retirement villages and five residential aged care homes, has been lodged with the NSW Government. Laurie Boxwell...

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Retirement and Community Living

SunLife’s first freehold venture for Over 55s has just one of 56 homes left

Developer Tim Wright is adamant he is not a retirement village operator or aged care provider. He is targeting the middle to upper affluent market (such as 60+) with freehold, quality facility and community, plus utilise the power of the “invest retire” financial model.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Exclusive: Levande buys four new sites for retirement villages

Levande adds four new sites to its $2B growth plan, including major developments in Sydney, Melbourne, and Geelong.

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Mbark “not disheartened” after its DA approval for Federal Golf Club retirement village set aside as nine-year saga continues

Friends of Federal Fairways were successful in having their application to ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal to set aside the Territory Planning Authority’s approval of the upmarket operator’s development approval to reconfigure the golf...

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Development

Von Slater kicks off Serenitas’ 28th land lease community, the 193-home Thyme Lifestyle Resort Rothwell in Moreton Bay, QLD

Von Slater, Serenitas’ Chief Executive Officer, said the land lease operator is building more than a development; it aims to help residents create a community in the coastal suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, 33km north of Brisbane. “We’re...

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Opinion

Why 20 May is more important to the retirement living sector than Election Day

The Baby Boomer generation is being ignored by the Labor and Liberal-National Coalition parties as the Gen Y and Gen Z become the increasingly dominant generations and this will not change.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Sid Gupta buys his third retirement village in regional NSW

Shane Nicholson, Director and Principal of ACSL Property, in conjunction with Colliers, announced last Thursday he sold the retirement village with 32 independent living units, with approval for a further 27 units, in the town of Cootamundra, in the...

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Stockland research shows 50% of its Halcyon residents move in from within 15km

Stockland has officially welcomed its first homeowners to Halcyon Vista, a boutique over 50s land lease community of 161 homes, in the semi-rural town, 43.5km south of Brisbane. “We loved that it’s a smaller, boutique community – it felt more...

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Development

Aware Super owned Oak Tree seeks second extension to its Mackay retirement village development approved in 2015

The retirement village operator has applied to Mackay Regional council for a second extension to its approval to build 98 independent living duplexes on a site in Rural View, 11.7km north of Mackay on Queensland’s east coast. Oak Tree was given...

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