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Broadlands appeals NSW South Coast land lease rejection

NSW land lease operator Broadlands will appeal to the Land and Environment Court after Eurobodalla Shire Council rejected its development application (DA) in May. Consultants Urbis told a public meeting that a revised plan is now on exhibition as part of the process. The meeting formed part of a social impact assessment by Urbis, which may be used in the appeal. The proposal was first presented to council officers in February 2023, with the DA lodged in March 2024.

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Ian Horswill

5 hours ago

Community Living

Land lease operator Serenitas shines in Mirvac FY25 result

Sydney-based property group Mirvac has posted a softer residential performance for the year to 30 June 2025, with a fall in settlements and lower gross profit margins seeing operating profit after tax slip to $474 million, down from $552 million in FY24.

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Ian Horswill

5 hours ago

Community Living

Embattled Lifestyle Communities delays FY25 financial results

Victorian land lease community operator Lifestyle Communities, which is appealing a tribunal ruling that struck out its Deferred Management Fee (DMF) clause, has pushed back the release of its FY25 financial results. Lifestyle Communities said the delay is to allow time to reassess the carrying value of its investment properties in light of the recent VCAT decision.

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Aged care providers turning away seniors with high dementia care needs

With demand for ageing services hitting new heights and the regulator rightly seeking quality care for people living with dementia in residential aged care, operators are acting. This is a scenario playing out weekly in aged care homes across...

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Ian Horswill

10 hours ago

Development

AVID Property Group unveils plans for new Vantage land lease community in NSW

AVID Property Group has revealed its vision for the former Stockland master planned community project at Huntley, 18km from Wollongong, which it acquired in May. The site – now named Forest Reach – will deliver 530 residential land lots, 108 townhomes, and a proposed 236-home Vantage land lease community, AVID CEO Cameron Holt announced this morning.

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Ian Horswill

12 Aug 2025

Developments

Ingenia lodges plans for land lease community on Brisbane site purchased in 2021

Town planners Saunders Havill Group has lodged a development application with Brisbane City Council to build a 166 two- and three-bedroom Over 50s land lease community with ancillary community facilities for Ingenia Lifestyle in Rochedale, an outer southern suburb of Brisbane.

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Ian Horswill

12 Aug 2025

Opinion

Retirement villages overcome loneliness – good news in Loneliness Awareness Week but more to do

Newly published research from the Bolton Clarke Research Institute and Monash University reveals moving to a retirement village halves loneliness within 12 months. As the average stay in retirement living is now nine years, this appears to be great...

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Ian Horswill

12 Aug 2025

Community Living

Active Utilities powers Living Choice’s retirement villages with new community battery rollout

Living Choice Australia has partnered with energy solutions provider Active Utilities to deliver large-scale community batteries at its Fullarton and Flagstaff Hill retirement villages in Adelaide – part of a push to give residents cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy.

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Ian Horswill

11 Aug 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Infratil confirms “loss” on sale of RetireAustralia to new owner

RetireAustralia – long seen as one of the sector’s most innovative operators under CEO Brett Robinson – has changed hands, with co-owner Infratil confirming on Friday (8 August) it will exit with a flat return.

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Ian Horswill

11 Aug 2025

Development

$66M SummitCare Penrith overhaul to deliver 93 seniors units and new care rooms

Family-owned aged care operator SummitCare has lodged a State Significant Development Application to transform its Jamisontown site in Penrith, 55km west of Sydney’s CBD, into a mixed seniors housing and care facility.

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Ian Horswill

11 Aug 2025

Development

$77M Forestville RSL redevelopment with seniors housing approved in Sydney’s North

The Sydney North Planning Panel has unanimously approved the $77 million redevelopment of the registered Club built in 1959 in Forestville, 12km north of Sydney’s CBD. Northern Beaches Council recommended the development application to the Panel for approval, covering the construction of a single-level new Club and Garraway – a boutique retirement village with 52 independent living apartments.

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Ian Horswill

11 Aug 2025

Legal Issues

WA’s amended Retirement Villages Act signals major shift in operators’ obligations

Amber Crosthwaite, Partner specialising in Care and Living at WA legal firm Lavan, says the amendments to the Retirement Villages Act 1992 (WA) formally separate capital maintenance from capital replacement – a change that significantly alters operators’ financial and governance responsibilities.

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Ian Horswill

11 Aug 2025

Housing

Older women targeted for affordable housing plan in Melbourne’s southeast

Community Housing Ltd has proposed a 13-storey apartment tower in Dandenong, 29km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD, offering 86 homes for vulnerable groups. The application, prepared by Squareback Planning and designed by Cera Stribley, for a Ministerial Permit states the proposed development would target older women experiencing homelessness, veterans at risk of homelessness, victims of family and domestic violence, and frontline workers employed locally.

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Ian Horswill

11 Aug 2025