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Ian
Horswill

East Coast sellouts as VILLAGE SUMMIT 2024 kicks off in Adelaide

Internationally recognised high performance expert and keynote speaker Lisa McInnes-Smith had the audience gripped as DCM Institute’s premier event began in the Crowne Plaza, Adelaide, this morning. High performance is the theme of DCM Instutute’s...

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Ian Horswill

12 Nov 2024

Government Policy

NSW Asset Management Plan regulation to be simplified: Natasha Mann, Fair Trading Commissioner and Deputy Secretary

It was music to the ears of Retirement Living Council (RLC) Executive Director Daniel Gannon and the President of the Retirement Village Residents Association (RVRA) Craig Bennett present. Natasha told about 200 people present at the NSW Property...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

News & Issues

Retirement Living Council to significantly cut price of Code of Conduct subscription to support operator sign up

Executive Director Daniel Gannon said it is time to engage all village operators to participate – it is simply not good enough that less than 40% of retirement villages are subscribers to its Code of Conduct launched six years ago. He states that...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Sector Expert Partners

Register now for the StewartBrown Retirement Living Performance Report

The widely respected aged care benchmarking accountant will now provide an independent survey and report for the retirement living sector advocacy. Operators can join the survey now. This is a significant new initiative in that StewartBrown is the...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Government Policy

WA Government pass 12 months exit entitlements and enforce public village comparison documents

The WA Cook Government is the latest to expand its Retirement Villages Act, following the lead of other states and in particular NSW. “Potential residents will benefit from clearer upfront information, and a 12-month exit entitlement payment...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Retirement and Community Living

Only in SATURDAY: “Village managers are deemed business critical”

The role of the Village Manager is paramount in today’s retirement living landscape. The issue is covered in depth in the latest SATURDAY subscription magazine. Read it and you will realise your business cannot do without the DCM Institute...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions

Not For Profit Resthaven moves in new direction after taking over 11 Aveo retirement villages in South Australia

The Not For Profit agency of the Uniting Church is now the fourth biggest retirement living provider in the state, with more than 1200 units after buying 11 villages from the Brookfield-owned operator. It acquired 799 units from Aveo, with Eldercare...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Development

92-unit retirement living development approved at Campbelltown Catholic Club in Sydney’s southwest

Studio. SC received notification last Tuesday it had development approval to build 92 retirement living dwellings, a diverse range of common facilities and landscape communal offers designed by NewScape Design at the club in the heart of the city...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Development

The Wests Group scale back from 262 to 125 village units in its seniors living plan for Wests Mayfield, Newcastle

The Newcastle Not For Profit membership-based recreation club organisation has resurrected but reduced its 2019 plan for part of the site of its Wests Mayfield club in the second most populous area of NSW. The Wests Group has prepared a scoping...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Mergers & Acquisitions

David Di Pilla’s HMC Capital responds on its significant investment in Lifestyle Communities

DCM Group CEO Chris Baynes’ Opinion Article last Tuesday on the move by HMC Capital to buy 2.69% voting power in the Victorian land lease communities provider sparked a response from HMC. “It’s early days in our investment into [the company]...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Development

Stockland Botanica, the property developer’s latest residential community of 2,000 plus homes in Ipswich, QLD, to fit in an over 50s land lease community

The masterplanned community will offer detached homes, terrace homes, townhomes, and a land lease community designed for over 50s and social housing, titled Halcyon Botanica. Stockland Botanica, in White Rock, 20 minutes’ drive from Ipswich and 30...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Housing News

Every apartment in RFBI’s affordable housing for women over 55 in NSW Mid North Coast snapped up

It is taken six years since the plan was first conceived and now CEO Frank Price is a happy man. The 23 one-bedroom affordable apartments for women over 55 facing homelessness in Watson Place, Bellingen, 547km north of Sydney, is through Belloran...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

Sector Moves & People

Scalabrini appoint Natasha Gerhardt to its Board

The Not For Profit has appointed Natasha as the newest member of its Board after the retirement of Jill Pretty, who had been a board member for 10 years. Natasha has held leadership roles across disability services, social housing, family services...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024