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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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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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Mergers & Acquisitions

In June 2023 Lendlease said it wanted to sell remaining stake in Keyton, but still waiting

On Friday, the former leader of the retirement sector announced it had made two sales. Lendlease announced the sale of Sydney-based infrastructure investor Capella Capital to Sojitz Corporation, a diversified Japanese trading company, for $235...

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Legal Issues

Victorian retirement living operators need to consider financial and operating models under new laws: Rosemary Southgate, Russell Kennedy

Rosemary Southgate, Principal, Property and Development, Russell Kennedy, said the full extent of Victoria’s Retirement Villages Amendment Bill 2024, expected to be passed in early 2025, is still unknown. “Changes to the pre contract disclosure...

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Second attempt: Helping Hand resurrect redevelopment of retirement village five years after rejection

The Not For Profit provider had a $4 million plan to redevelop its retirement village in North Adelaide rejected by Adelaide City Council’s planning panel in February 2020. It had sought to demolish two buildings and build nine, two-storey...

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Lewis Land enters the land lease market, lodging DA for $20M 133-home manufactured housing estate on NSW Mid-North Coast

The proposed land lease community will be part of the Sovereign Hills masterplan site at Thrumster, a suburb of Port Macquarie, 390km north-northeast of Sydney’s CBD. Port Macquarie Hastings Council has put the development application for Barton...

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Sector Moves & People

Uniting Vic.Tas CEO Bronwyn Pike AM to depart after six years in role

Bronwyn Pike AM has decided not to renew her contract that expires later this year, the workforce was informed on Friday. The former Victorian Health Minister became Uniting’s inaugural Board Chair in 2016 when Wesley Mission Victoria merged with...

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Plans lodged for Catholic Healthcare’s vision for an integrated community at St Hedwig Village Blacktown

Two development applications have been lodged for the continued redevelopment of the village in the city, 34km west of Sydney’s CBD. The applications build on an earlier stage of the redevelopment, which created 72 new retirement living...

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Community Living

Serenitas’ Anchorage Lifestyle Resort selling its final homes after launching three years ago

There are 95 homes in this over 50s land lease community in the retirement hot spot Hervey Bay, the coastal city in southern Queensland, with the final three-bedroom, two-bathroom homes selling from around $700,000. RAW Developments and Construction...

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Housing News

50 off-the-plan affordable apartments “earmarked for seniors” in latest WA Govt initiative

The studio, one and two-bedroom apartments will be in Inglewood, 4km northeast of Perth’s CBD. Designed by Klopper & Davis Architects, with the build managed by Spinnaker Developments, the apartment complex has been procured through the state...

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Ingenia Lifestyle seeks to triple the size of its Millers Glen Scenic Rim land lease community in QLD

The over 50s lifestyle resort division of Ingenia Communities applied to Scenic Rim Regional Council last month to add 211 homes and community facilities to its resort in Beaudesert, a rural town, 70km south of Brisbane. Ingenia Lifestyle Millers...

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Community Living

New branding for Harbourside Port Stephens as Board Chair Raad Richards promises expansion

The Not For Profit operator of retirement living, aged care and home care in NSW’s Port Stephens and Hunter Valley has markedly improved its financial performance. Treasurer Max Pride said in its 2023/2024 financial report: “It is very pleasing...

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