The successful retirement arm of Becton has had to shelve further development plans given the financial strain its parent Becton Property Group is under. They have sold a long held development site in eastern Melbourne for $7.1M to retire debt to Bendigo & Adelaide bank. They also have a Suncorp facility that has to be refinanced by end July valued at $73M. About 50% of Becton Retirement is owned by the Oman governments Oman Investment Fund which invested originally because of the Becton village development pipeline. That no longer seems to exist.
ATO plans to charge GST on manufactured home parks scrapped
A concerted effort by the Residents Association of manufactured home parks has headed off the ATO which had planned to impose GST in mobile homes. This would have added 10% to the cost of the purchase of a home