Community Living

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Masterclass in the future demand for retirement living – invest in assisted living!

I am on holidays, which has given me some quiet time to go back over the presentations at the LEADERS SUMMIT, and the graph above and below jumped out at me from Cam Ansell’s presentation. Check the growth in Assisted Living. Cam is the Founder...

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Chris Baynes

28 Apr 2025

Home Care

Support at Home: six strategies every home care provider needs now

With the new Support at Home program launching on 1 July, home care providers have just weeks left to overhaul their systems, staffing, and service delivery – or risk falling behind. In a recent DCM Group webinar, sector leaders laid out six key strategies to succeed in this new era.

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Development

Third.i announces strategic joint venture with Dexus to deliver The Merewether retirement village in Newcastle

The property developer has revealed that it will partner with the Australasian real assets group to deliver the $300 million, 178-unit luxury retirement community at the Merewether Golf Club in Newcastle.

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Government Policy

The Retirement Living Council has been on a media blitz calling for ‘the right policy at the right time’ – to support seniors downsizing to retirement villages

RLC Executive Director Daniel Gannon has been featured across all medias spruiking the community benefit of raising the Age Pension Asset Cap from $315,00 to $550,000 and raising the Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) from $252,000. The Age Pension...

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Chris Baynes

28 Apr 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

In just six years Vivacity Property and capital partner RF Corval have now built a portfolio of eight land lease community projects

Owner/operator Vivacity has conditionally acquired with their capital partner RF Corval three contiguous sites located in Berkeley, a suburb of Wollongong, 85km south of Sydndey’s CBD, for the proposed development of a new land lease community.

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Ian Horswill

15 Apr 2025

Development

ICAM targets expansion to 10-15 villages as Adelaide village undergoes major revamp

The Adelaide investment firm is set to significantly grow its retirement living portfolio over the next few years as the company continues to enhance its existing three retirement villages, such as its latest project at Kings Park Retirement Village in Adelaide.

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Community Living

Cranbrook Care to focus on retirement living as it quits residential aged care

The Sydney-based private operator, which owns the 50-apartment Cranbrook Residences and the adjacent older Golf Shore Retirement Village in Norwest, 35km northwest of the Sydney CBD, has announced its intention to expand its retirement living business.

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Caroline Egan

28 Apr 2025

Development

Levande tops out Sydney vertical village, marking major milestone in $3B growth plan

The village operator has officially topped out its landmark 28-storey vertical village, The Cambridge, in Epping, NSW, 28km northwest of the Sydney CBD – the tallest retirement living development in the state and a centrepiece in Levande’s $3 billion national expansion strategy.

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Sector Moves & People

Calvary Health Care announces McKinsey & Co’s Damien Bruce to become National CEO

McKinsey & Company consultant Damien Bruce has been appointed National CEO of Calvary Health Care, the Catholic health, home, and aged care provider, following the retirement of current National CEO Martin Bowles earlier this year.

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Caroline Egan

29 Apr 2025

Development

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Development

Third.i announces strategic joint venture with Dexus to deliver The Merewether retirement village in Newcastle

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Development

ICAM targets expansion to 10-15 villages as Adelaide village undergoes major revamp

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Redevelopments

800 Forestville RSL members object to redevelopment with retirement village units to replace declining gambling income

With the Board looking to the future of less poker machine income and submitting a new clubhouse and 55 village apartments, a petition with 800 member signatures and counting is being submitted to Council as a DA objection to the $77 million...

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Chris Baynes

28 Apr 2025

Development

Levande tops out Sydney vertical village, marking major milestone in $3B growth plan

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Development

Arcare opens latest facility in Melbourne’s east – with five more homes to come online in 2025

The private operator, owned by the Knowles family, continues to be one of the most prolific builders in the residential aged care sector. Pictured (left to right): Kate Garvey, Client Services Manager at Arcare Ringwood, DCM Group Editor Lauren...

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Lauren Broomham

23 Apr 2025

Development

Estia Health breaks ground on new 124-bed aged care home in Adelaide

The private operator has held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction on its latest residential aged care facility in Findon, 9km northwest of Adelaide. As we have reported, Estia Health lodged the plans for the site, which was...

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Lauren Broomham

23 Apr 2025

Development

Gold Coast site approved for 130-bed aged care home for sale through receivers

The nearly 9,000sqm site in Parkwood, 5km from the heart of the Gold Coast, is owned by SDA Property’s No 4 Pty Ltd, which has gone into administration.

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Caroline Egan

23 Apr 2025

Housing News

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Housing News

15 new social homes planned for senior co-housing community in WA’s South West

“Whilst the project does not offer assisted living or nursing facilities, and each member is responsible for themselves, it is common in cohousing communities that if someone is sick, neighbours will help with activities like bringing them meals...

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Funding

Mareeba Community Housing Co granted extension to management of Community Housing for Seniors

The community at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland has more than 300 locals, including seniors, currently vulnerable to homelessness. Mareeba Community Housing Company (MCHC), which was given a three-year extension to its...

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Ian Horswill

31 Mar 2025

Housing

Barossa Village revitalises underutilised land for the Buna/Kokoda housing project in Nuriootpa

Each of the five homes, which replaced two houses on the 2,400msq site in the town of Nuriootpa, the commercial centre of South Australia’s Barossa Valley, has been individually designed. “These are not one-size-fits-all units — they are...

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Ian Horswill

14 Apr 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

‘Affordable’ Aspen Group adds to portfolio with second WA land buy in six weeks

The ASX-listed affordable housing group announced last Wednesday it has entered a conditional contract to buy a new 18ha accommodation complex in Australind, a town 12km northeast of Bunbury’s CBD. Aspen Group, which serves the 40% of Australian...

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Ian Horswill

07 Apr 2025

Topic - Housing News

Sydney Anglican Property lodging DAs to renew two sites with housing for women over 55 included

Social and affordable housing is much-needed in Sydney’s southwest and two projects delivering almost 260 such homes have been successful under Round 1 of the Albanese Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF). However, as the Coalition...

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Ian Horswill

31 Mar 2025

Community Living

Catholic Care in partnership to provide housing for women 55+

The Diocese of Parramatta’s social welfare agency is working with the Older Women’s Network Blue Mountains to address the plight of housing insecurity and homelessness for women aged 55 and over in the region on the outskirts of western Sydney...

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Ian Horswill

24 Mar 2025

Sector Moves & People

Former Ingenia Communities executive Kate Melrose appointed Non Executive Director of community housing provider Evolve Housing

Kate was a lead in the growth of the ASX-listed Ingenia Communities for 10 years, almost solely as Executive & General Manager Project Sales. She spent the final 10 months in a part-time role as Principal Advisor Stakeholder Engagement and...

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Ian Horswill

17 Mar 2025

Government Policy

Vasey RSL Care secures $5.7M for acute housing for veterans

The leading provider of ex-service accommodation, care and support is creating The V Satellite, in Geelong, Victoria, to provide transitional accommodation and support services to veterans in need after securing $4.3 million from the Australian...

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Ian Horswill

17 Mar 2025

Housing News

Albanese’s $10B housing fund announced in June 2023 has not seen a new home built

Housing Australia said last week it has entered into 29 funding agreements with preferred applicants, supporting the delivery of 2,107 social and affordable homes, but none have commenced construction. Under Round One of the Housing Australia Future...

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Ian Horswill

10 Mar 2025

Opinion

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Opinion

Masterclass in the future demand for retirement living – invest in assisted living!

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Chris Baynes

28 Apr 2025

Opinion

Aged care isn’t fixed – so why are we not talking about it?

If you tuned into yesterday’s National Press Club debate between Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler, and Shadow Minister, Anne Ruston, hoping for a meaningful discussion on aged care – you would have been sorely disappointed.

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Lauren Broomham

24 Apr 2025

Opinion

Why 20 May is more important to the retirement living sector than Election Day

The Baby Boomer generation is being ignored by the Labor and Liberal-National Coalition parties as the Gen Y and Gen Z become the increasingly dominant generations and this will not change.

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Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2025

Funding

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Funding

Mareeba Community Housing Co granted extension to management of Community Housing for Seniors

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Ian Horswill

31 Mar 2025

Funding

Macquarie Bank reduces its substantial stake in Ingenia Communities

The global financial services group has continued to reduce its stake in the owner/operator of land lease and rental communities and holiday parks. Macquarie Bank had a significant voting power of 10.92% in April last year, but the substantial...

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Ian Horswill

15 Apr 2025

Sector Moves/People

John Innes departs club/retirement living JV group Pariter with Tom Roche assuming CEO position

After five years establishing Pariter and creating a pipeline of joint ventures with community and golf clubs, John Innes has handed the CEO role to Tom Roche. John Innes Tom has led numerous large real estate and infrastructure transactions for...

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Ian Horswill

07 Apr 2025

Funding

GemLife’s owners look at becoming a public company for second time

Adrian Puljich and Singapore’s Thakral Corporation have reached out to JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley to set up introductory meetings with listed equities investors to see if there is sufficient interest in an Initial Public Offering for GemLife...

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Ian Horswill

08 Apr 2025

The Economy

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Government Policy

“Development pipeline across sector not going to be sufficient for ageing population”

“The development pipeline across the industry is not going to be sufficient for the ageing population,” Tony told the Property Council

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Ian Horswill

20 Nov 2023

Aged Care

Opinion: the next aged care crisis is here

Read more about Australia’s ‘true’ occupancy rate – and the consolidation taking place in the residential care sector in SATURDAY – subscribe here

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Lauren Broomham

26 Oct 2023

Development

Only in SATURDAY – the real reason aged care beds are hard to find

The Department of Health and Aged Care puts occupancy at 86.2%. Our investigations differ To find out why, subscribe to our premium digital magazine SATURDAY HERE

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Caroline Egan

26 Oct 2023

Home Care

Fiji PM hints at reducing PALM worker numbers

The Prime Minister of Fiji, Sitiveni Rabuka, has indicated that the number of unskilled or semi-skilled workers that come to Australia through the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme could be cut, which could limit an important source of...

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Caroline Egan

26 Oct 2023

Community Living

New Zealand needs more retirement villages to meet the demand

A new report by real estate firm JLL on the sector across the Tasman Sea has found demand for places is outstripping supply. A total of 36 new villages were added to the development pipeline last year with 452 villages currently providing homes for...

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Ian Horswill

28 Aug 2023

The Weekly SOURCE

Will retirement living operators heed the call in Western Australia?

The state government has said it seeks to collaborate with the property and construction industry to “increase the supply and diversity of social housing”. The Department of Communities states it is particularly interested in submissions that...

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Ian Horswill

01 Aug 2023

Aged Care

IHACPA releases Consultation Paper for aged care funding in 2024–25

The Independent Hospital and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) has released its Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2024–25 and asking for submissions from relevant stakeholders. The report...

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Caroline Egan

26 Jul 2023

The Economy

ONLY IN SATURDAY: Aveo Group CEO on making serviced apartments profitable

Serviced apartments, or assisted living options in retirement villages, have been a challenge for the retirement living sector. Ageing village serviced apartments with relatively high weekly fees to cover the mandated meals and other services are...

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Caroline Egan

25 Jul 2023

DCM Research

DCM Institute survey: How long Village Managers think they will stay in the role

The DCM Institute survey of 186 retirement village and community managers across Australia asked how long Village Managers intend to stay in the role and why they intend to leave. The survey found that 78% of Village Managers were generally...

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Section Editor

13 Jun 2023