Developments

SA NFP Barunga Village Inc’s $24M 5-year masterplan dependent on Govt funding

The South Australian Not For Profit provider has unveiled an ambitious five-year masterplan of its aged care site in Port Broughton, 175km northwest of Adelaide.

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Caroline Egan

09 Jul 2025

Development

St Bart’s proposed 80-bed Perth aged care home for the homeless one step closer

Western Australia’s Metro Inner Development Assessment Panel has recommended approval of St Bart’s aged care facility on Brown Street, East Perth, which will provide 80 aged care beds for people over 50 who have a history of homelessness.

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Caroline Egan

09 Jul 2025

Development

Mercy Community opens $41M aged care home in Rockhampton, QLD

Queensland faith-based operator Mercy Community has held an official opening of its three-storey, 90-bed Mercy Haven aged care facility in Rockhampton, QLD, with CEO Justin Lorenz leading guests on a guided tour.

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Caroline Egan

09 Jul 2025

Development

Community Home Australia opens supported living opposite Westmead Hospital in Sydney’s West

Dementia care and disability support provider Community Home Australia has opened ‘Kora House’, a four-storey, 18-studio supported living facility across the road from Westmead Hospital, with 150 applications so far.

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Caroline Egan

09 Jul 2025

Development

Hyegrove Willoughby gains home care approval ahead of September opening

Hyegrove Willoughby has secured approval to operate as a home care provider, with services set to launch in September alongside the opening of its high-end retirement village on Sydney’s Lower North Shore, 8km north of the CBD. Developed by...

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Ian Horswill

07 Jul 2025

Development

Corio Projects’ $170M seniors living development in Sydney’s inner south approved

Corio Projects has been given the green light for 170 independent living units and a 34-bed residential care facility across six buildings up to eight storeys in Rosebery, 6km south of Sydney’s CBD. The NSW Government Department of Planning...

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Ian Horswill

08 Jul 2025

International

Macquarie to launch $5B senior housing platform - in the US

Sydney-based Macquarie Asset Management is launching a dedicated senior hiousing platform across the Pacific Ocean. It has linked with Chicage-based Health Wave Partners, a boutique investment firm specialising in high-quality senior housing across...

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Ian Horswill

07 Jul 2025

Awards

Aura Holdings’ Somerset Indooroopilly scores top architecture award as $3.2M unit sets record

The newly unveiled Stage Two O’Connell buildings, which are named in honour of June O’Connell, and have 88 apartments, were opened in October last year. COX Architecture, which designed the retirement village expansion, was awarded one of nine...

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Ian Horswill

07 Jul 2025

Topic - Developments

Tulich family’s first stand-alone retirement village approved in Oran Park, Sydney’s southwest

Now under the leadership of Managing Director Bianca Tulich, the daughter of founder Maurice Tulich, the group is focused on expanding its presence in the premium retirement living space

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Ian Horswill

25 Jun 2025

Sector Moves & People

Adventist Care to open 65 new independent living apartments at Rossmoyne Waters, Perth

Adventist Care is set to unveil 65 new independent living apartments as part of Horizon, the second stage of the Not For Profit’s Rossmoyne Waters redevelopment in Perth’s southern suburbs. The new development complements stage one, Australis...

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Ian Horswill

30 Jun 2025

Development

Construction starts on $428M GemLife Elimbah - its third land lease community in QLD’s Moreton Bay

Construction has started just two months after the land lease communities developer secured development approval for the 404-home gated estate. GemLife Elimbah has been fast-tracked ahead of its official market launch in the coming weeks, to meet...

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Ian Horswill

30 Jun 2025

Development

Grand opening of Living Choice Flagstaff Hill retirement village set for tomorrow

South Australia’s first integrated golf course and retirement community will officially open tomorrow (Saturday 28 June), with the launch of The Summit and The Fairway apartment buildings, and the unveiling of the newly rebuilt Flagstaff Hill Golf...

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Ian Horswill

27 Jun 2025

Redevelopments

RSL LifeCare reveals reimagined vision for 86-year-old flagship village on Sydney’s Northern Beaches

Since its establishment in 1939, the ANZAC Village in Narrabeen – 23 kilometres northeast of Sydney’s CBD – has evolved through 30 individual developments, growing into a community that offers retirement living, residential aged care, home...

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Ian Horswill

27 Jun 2025