Developments

Stockland launch its 27th over 50s land lease resort on QLD’s Sunshine Coast

When Stockland CEO Tarun Gupta announced the diversified developer had bought Dr Bevan Geissman and Paul Melville’s land lease community business Halcyon Group in July 2021 it had six established land lease communities, four communities in...

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Ian Horswill

23 hours ago

Development

$1M per bed: Victorian Govt completes Rutherglen aged care home

The Victorian Government has completed the $57.1 million construction of a 50-bed aged care home in Rutherglen, located 300km northeast of Melbourne, population 3,000., which equates to $1 million a bed..

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Caroline Egan

29 May 2025

Development

First sod turned on $60M Rockpool Hamilton Northshore aged care home in Brisbane

The private aged care operator founded by Bill Summers in 2016 has begun construction on the six-storey, 153-bed aged care home, with the first residents expected to move in early next year.

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Caroline Egan

29 May 2025

Development

Vivacity’s bid to build $28M 254-home land lease community in Maitland, NSW, deferred

Maitland City Council officers had recommended the Sydney-based land lease community developer and operator’s proposal for a manufactured home estate in Farley, which is being redeveloped into a residential suburb of Maitland, be refused. The...

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Development

Adrian Puljich’s Aliria brand has approval for two more land lease sites with 416 homes

Construction will start on the first of two new over-50s communities in Toowoomba, southern Queensland’s Darling downs region, in the second half of 2025, after they received development approval from Toowoomba Regional Council last week. Both are...

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Development

Over 50% of Ryman Healthcare Australia’s final stage at Nellie Melba sold

Six years after its initial opening, Ryman Healthcare Australia is preparing to unveil the final stage of its Nellie Melba Retirement Village in Wheelers Hill, 25km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD – with over 50% of the new apartments already under...

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Lauren Broomham

26 May 2025

Development

NSW Court approves ex-One Nation director’s plan to convert family home into retirement village

A family home bought by David Oldfield for $1.89 million in 2011 can be turned into a $17.5 million 35-home retirement village in Belrose, 19km northeast of Sydney’s CBD, after his appeal to the Land and Environment Court was successful. In February...

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Development

SATURDAY means business: Warning for retirement village operators with small regional aged care homes

Stephen Rooke (pictured top), Principal Consultant with advisory firm G5 Strategic, puts it bluntly about building a new residential aged care home in the 99th issue of SATURDAY magazine, released to subscribers last Friday.

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Development

295-home Living Gems Harris Crossing land lease community approved by Townsville City Council

The $210 million lifestyle resort, by the Puljich family’s Living Gems brand, will be built on a 13.6ha of land, within Maidment Group’s Harris Crossing community in Bohle Plains, in the city’s fast-growing west. Early works have already started...

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Ian Horswill

26 May 2025

Development

For Purpose Aged Care opens second WA home as national expansion continues

The residential aged care operator has celebrated the latest milestone in its Signature Care development pipeline, officially opening its second aged care home in Western Australia. The new 144-bed Mandurah Community Care facility, located in...

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Lauren Broomham

22 May 2025

Development

Puttin’ on the Ritz - redevelopment of historic hotel in NSW’s Blue Mountains one step closer

A community event was held last week for locals to provide feedback on Pathways Residences’ designs for the redevelopment of the historic Ritz Hotel in the NSW Blue Mountains’ historic village of Leura, into a 137-bed luxury aged care home through the State Significant Development pathway.

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Caroline Egan

22 May 2025

Rebuilds

HammondCare’s $63M final restoration of its aged care heartland begins

HammondCare’s final transformation of its flagship Hammondville site, 31km southwest of Sydney’s CBD, with two new multi-storey aged care homes began on Wednesday with the demolition of the original 93-year-old Bond House nursing home.

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Ian Horswill

22 May 2025

Development

Principle Living’s flagship Newcastle Golf Club 172-home retirement village approved

The fifth retirement village by the business, founded by the Mann family and Stevens Group, has received development consent for Apperly Village from the Hunter and Central Coast Regional Planning Panel. The 172-home retirement village, to be co-located...

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025