Mergers & Acquisitions

Will The Living Company buy Lendlease’s Keyton stake as bids close October 2?

The Living Company – owner of Scape Australia, XO Living (Build to Rent), and the recently acquired Aveo retirement portfolio – is reportedly among three bidders for Lendlease’s 25.1% stake in Keyton, with bids due by 2 October.

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Ian Horswill

8 hours ago

In the Headlines

Lifestyle Communities sells Ocean Grove land to pay down debt

ASX-listed land lease operator Lifestyle Communities has finalised the first of four land sales as part of a $114 million divestment program to cut debt.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

LDK Seniors’ Living enters QLD with Brisbane bayside acquisition

LDK Seniors’ Living has secured its first Queensland site, purchasing a 2.1ha landholding in the bayside suburb of Brighton, 27.9km north of Brisbane’s CBD, from the Uniting Church.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Brookfield offloads Aveo, targets US$10B American seniors housing giant

Fresh from selling Aveo for $3.85 billion, Brookfield Asset Management is looking to spend more than US$10 billion (A$15 billion) acquiring Yes! Communities, a major US manufactured home operator owned by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Land lease operator Lincoln Place gears up for ASX listing or $1B sale

In just six years, Nick Collishaw and Ben Hindmarsh have built Lincoln Place into one of the fastest-growing land lease operators, with 24 lifestyle communities across NSW, Victoria, Queensland and the ACT, housing 2,000 residents and a pipeline of around 4,500 dwellings.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Opal HealthCare powers ahead with triple Victorian acquisition

Australia’s largest aged care operator, Opal HealthCare, has added three more homes to its Victorian footprint after completing the acquisition of Australian Aged Care Group (AACG) on 1 September 2025.

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Caroline Egan

09 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Scape’s Craig Carracher: Aveo deal cost closer to $4.5B, not $3.85B

Brookfield Asset Management hailed the sale of Aveo as the largest direct real estate transaction in Australian history, quoting a price tag of $3.85 billion.

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Ian Horswill

08 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Estia Health expands in Queensland with Vacenti Aged Care buy

Bain Capital-owned Estia Health has struck a deal to acquire Brisbane-based Vacenti Aged Care, adding six established homes and a new development nearing completion in Cleveland to its portfolio.

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Ian Horswill

10 Sep 2025

Not for Profit

National peak body Baptist Care Australia swallowed by BaptistCare

The peak body of the Not For Profit faith-based organisation is no more. Baptist Care Australia (BCA) team has joined the newly merged BaptistCare organisation after the national peak body representing Baptist community service organisations...

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Ian Horswill

05 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Medical and Aged Care Group acquires two aged care homes in Melbourne for $200K per bed

The Melbourne-based family-owned operator has acquired Cheltenham Manor, in the suburb 18km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD, and Greenwood Manor in Dingley Village, 23km southeast of the state capital. The purchase adds 207 beds to its portfolio. The...

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Ian Horswill

04 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Curtin Heritage Living expands WA footprint with acquisition of home care provider Carealot

Not For Profit Perth-based aged care provider Curtin Heritage Living has expanded its reach across Western Australia with the acquisition of family-run home care provider, Carealot. Curtin Heritage CEO David Cox said Carealot operates in Perth, South West, and the Great Southern region, and has operated for 30 years.

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Caroline Egan

03 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

SATURDAY is essential reading: The (second) great village land grab

Retirement living assets are back in hot demand. Colliers’ Justin Hazell and Bruce Message, along with Ansell Strategic’s Amber Cartwright, tell SATURDAY why portfolios are in play – and why competition for stock hasn’t been this fierce in 20 years.

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Ian Horswill

01 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Land lease operator Lincoln Place buys site in Yeppoon, QLD, for its biggest estate

In July 2023, Lincoln Place founders Nicholas Collishaw and Ben Hindmarsh told The Weekly SOURCE they expected to build in scale to be in the “top three in the (land lease) sector” Their latest acquisition - a 31.25ha site in the Yeppoon suburb...

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Ian Horswill

21 Aug 2025