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29 Aug 2025

Government Policy

RLC: Govt must set up ‘real-time home care wait times’

The Retirement Living Council (RLC) is calling on the Australian Government to urgently introduce real-time reporting for wait times and release a schedule for additional Home Care Packages, warning older Australians and providers are being left in limbo.

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29 Aug 2025

Community Living

Adrian Puljich’s remarkable acumen with GemLife laid bare in 1H FY25 result

The Gold Coast-based Over 50s lifestyle resorts operator GemLife, which listed on the ASX in July, has told everyone interested how it makes money developing homes in its land lease homes communities in its 1H FY25 Results Presentation on 28 August.

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28 Aug 2025

Scalabrini’s Harbourside development in Sydney’s Inner West approved in just 10 months

Harbourside, a $60 million retirement living and aged care project on Sydney’s Parramatta River, has been approved in record time by the Independent Planning Commission. The Drummoyne development, 6km west of the CBD, will deliver 54 independent...

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27 Aug 2025

OneCare gets green light to build retirement village at Rubicon Grove in Port Sorell, TAS

The $45 million project by the Tasmanian Not For Profit will see 84 independent living units, 34 new beds at Rubicon Grove, a new community hub, staff accommodation, and car park built around the existing aged care home.

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27 Aug 2025

Community Living

Ingenia Communities FY25 results show strength of land lease and rental sectors

Ingenia Communities Group has reported a strong FY25 result, with underlying profit rising 33% to $126.1 million as development activity ramps up in line with growth targets.

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26 Aug 2025

Opinion

The guru of aged care: retirement living’s future is private aged care

The retirement sector is going to have to move into assisted living and ultimately private aged care. Baby Boomers, now aged 61-79 now, will demand it. With the funnelling of older Australians into residential aged care already hitting full...

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26 Aug 2025

Government Policy

Retirement living leaders head to Canberra to push politicians on sector reform

The executive of the Retirement Living Council (RLC) and 27 member CEOs are descending on the nation’s capital city for a series of talks with politicians tomorrow (Wednesday, 27 August). “Leaders from Australia’s retirement living...

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26 Aug 2025

Cheers! Vivacity’s 514-home Natrium Coral Cove land lease community in Bundaberg to feature a tavern

Vivacity Property has received approval from Bundaberg Regional Council for its latest land lease community, Natrium Coral Cove – a 514-home project set against the southern Great Barrier Reef that will include its own tavern.

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Community Living

Triguboff bullish on land lease communities as apartment sales slump

Australia’s second-richest man, Meriton founder and Managing Director Harry Triguboff AO, said he is now looking closely at land lease communities as a solution to the housing affordability crisis.

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Final expansion of Uniting Westmead retirement village on track for 2027 opening

Taylor Construction is pushing ahead with the 153 independent living unit expansion at Uniting Westmead, with the redevelopment scheduled to open in the first half of 2027.

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Housing

Build to Rent booms on Govt largesse, while retirement living left behind

Retirement villages remain “all intent and purposes” full – yet the sector continues to face massive hurdles with redevelopment and access to land for new projects.

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Living with Dementia

“Distressing to see”: families moving retirement village residents with dementia into aged care

In the latest issue of SATURDAY, Judy Mayfield, President of the Association of Residents of Queensland Retirement Villages (ARQRV), highlighted growing resident concerns about living alongside fellow residents with dementia.

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