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StewartBrown: Home care prices must rise further to be “investable”

Australia’s home care sector is heading for a pricing crunch under the new Support at Home (SaH) program, with fresh analysis from StewartBrown showing providers will need to lift service prices by at least 30% to stand still – and even higher to achieve a return that makes the sector “investable.”

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Opinion: Can operators survive? Only with Plan T

Aged care and retirement living are in the middle of a deal-making frenzy. From Regis’ $339 million Rockpool acquisition to Not For Profits quietly trading villages, mergers and acquisitions are no longer the exception – they’re the rule. The...

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Brownfield is the new gold

With just 6,500 beds built across the aged care sector in the last four years, investors are chasing existing homes as they look to build scale. Forget shiny new developments. In today’s aged care market, brownfield is the new gold. Deals are...

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Regis’ big bet on growth

Regis Managing Director and CEO Linda Mellors is steering Regis towards 10,000 beds by FY28. But with limited stock, soaring build costs and pressure on RADs, the path forward is as much about policy as strategy. Australia’s largest listed aged...

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Regis’ $339M Rockpool deal shows why acquisitions outpace builds

When Regis Aged Care agreed to acquire four Rockpool aged care homes for a gross price of $339 million, the deal turned heads across the sector. At $565,000 per bed, it underlined just how scarce premium facilities have become – and why the...

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Home care M&A: everyone wants to buy, no one wants to sell

Compliance, competition and razor-thin margins are forcing providers to think bigger – even as real acquisition opportunities remain scarce. The home care sector is on the cusp of a shake-up. Transactions are still small compared to aged care and...

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The (second) great village land grab

At the 2025 LEADERS SUMMIT, retirement village veteran Peter Inge stood up and declared he was ready to buy established villages – pitching to the audience to reach out. He’s not the only one. Capital is circling, portfolios are in play, and the...

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Is BaptistCare writing the roadmap for Not For Profit consolidation?

Is BaptistCare writing the roadmap for Not For Profit consolidation? BaptistCare’s merger has created a $1.3 billion giant. CEO Charles Moore believes it could set the template for how Not For Profits survive in a customer-driven market. With $1.3...

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Issue 106: Is BaptistCare writing the roadmap for Not For Profit consolidation?

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Lauren Broomham

29 Aug 2025

Opinion

Aged care isn’t “investable” until the numbers stack up

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler has been talking up aged care. In back-to-back ABC interviews last week, he dropped the word “investable” more times than a real estate agent at a Saturday auction. According to Butler, the Government has done...

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Lauren Broomham

28 Aug 2025

Community Living

Only in SATURDAY: Behind the great village land grab: retirement assets in hot demand

Scale, rollover cashflows and 9C-ready design are reshaping the retirement village market – and investors are circling like never before. Why is private equity, sovereign wealth and even Not For Profits rushing to secure villages? And what will...

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Lauren Broomham

26 Aug 2025

Opinion

Plan T or bust: care costs are drowning Australia

The Productivity Commission delivered a blunt warning in its fifth and final interim report ‘Delivering quality care efficiently: care costs are going to swamp Government budgets. Plan T – Transformation – must be seized as the system’s lifesaver: cut through regulation, rebuild efficiency.

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Lauren Broomham

20 Aug 2025

Community Living

Dementia crisis in retirement villages: no clear process, resident safety at risk, no answers

“Dementia is galloping.” That was a blunt assessment from one Queensland retirement village resident at a recent meeting of the Association of Residents of Queensland Retirement Villages (ARQRV). “Even younger people in their 70s are...

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Lauren Broomham

18 Aug 2025