In November 2007 the grandfather of the modern retirement village industry, Melbournes Mr. Zig Inge, sold his 17 villages and 8 development sites at the top of the market for $641 million to Macquarie Banks Retirement Villages Group (part owned by FKP/Aveo). Because of the sale he cant build villages for some time (he is also in his late 70s) so now his group has purchased for $15m the famous Baillieu mansion in Toorak for a residential development.
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