Matt Kean: “Absolutely vital your (RV) industry succeeds”
The NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation, Matt Kean, was the keynote speaker at the Property Council Annual Retirement…
Browsing: Chris Baynes
RV compliance blitz “did not find much technical non-compliance”
Rose Webb, the Commissioner for NSW Fair Trading, followed Matt Kean as a keynote speaker at the NSW Forum. She…
Kathryn Greiner promotes ‘name and shame’ retirement village register
In a gently provocative speech, Kathryn Greiner put forward some colourful thoughts to the Property Council audience which was perhaps…
Clarification: Alison Quinn and Stephen Bull – “Conversations never about property”
In a later panel Alison Quinn, CEO of RetireAustralia and President of the Retirement Living Council, explained that in her…
“We need a crisis to get a solution”: Government support essential for village sector challenges
The ‘View from the Top’ CEO panel (plus RVRA representative Jim Gibbons), identified redevelopment of old stock and the planning…
Other points of interest from the forum
Ben Myers, Retirement Living Council Executive Director, reported that the 8 Point Plan has generated 44 action points and over…
Matthew Chun and Steve Leckie launch second boutique village: Moorabbin
Melbourne property and retirement village veteran Matthew Chun has teamed up again with Steve Leckie, announcing their next project, The…
Norah Barlow hands over leadership of Estia 18 months ahead of schedule
The Estia CEO had given herself three years to stabilise the troubled aged care operator when she stepped in to…
Record price: over-55s Sydney penthouse sold for $13M+
A ‘boutique’ development in Vaucluse (Sydney) called Nangara, and comprising of just five apartments which will only be available to…
Freemasons SA struggle with $50M cash from retirement village sale
Following the sale of its eight Masonic homes’ retirement villages to Stockland in 2015 for $75.8 million, Freemasons SA has…