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St Bart’s $46M aged care home for homeless partly funded by $30M Federal grant

St Bart’s has secured Federal funding for its long-planned aged care home in East Perth, with the Albanese Government confirming this afternoon it will contribute $30 million towards the $46 million build.

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Ian Horswill

17 Sep 2025

Opinion

Is the DMF model dead? Anglicare CEO Simon Miller says yes

After buying 50% of LDK Senior’s Living from Cromwell Property Group in November 2022, Anglicare CEO Simon Miller is going all in on private aged care. Speaking at the DCM Group’s Ask the Visionaries’ Anything breakfast forum at...

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Ian Horswill

16 Sep 2025

News & Headlines

SATURDAY is your water cooler talking point: Odyssey’s new direction

When Odyssey Lifestyle Care Communities began planning its $150 million Chevron Island project, it leaned on trusted tier-one contractors. For its future pipeline, the operator is taking a new path. CEO Aaron Lavell talks exclusively to SATURDAY...

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Community Living

Stockland’s Halcyon brand emerges as runaway land lease leader

When Tarun Gupta took over as Stockland CEO in July 2021, he staked his name on land lease communities with a bold $620 million acquisition of Queensland’s Halcyon Group. The move trumped rival offers from Ingenia Communities and Serenitas – and cemented Stockland’s ambition to dominate “the fastest growing lifestyle segment – the Over 50s market.”

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Brookfield offloads Aveo, targets US$10B American seniors housing giant

Fresh from selling Aveo for $3.85 billion, Brookfield Asset Management is looking to spend more than US$10 billion (A$15 billion) acquiring Yes! Communities, a major US manufactured home operator owned by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

LDK Seniors’ Living enters QLD with Brisbane bayside acquisition

LDK Seniors’ Living has secured its first Queensland site, purchasing a 2.1ha landholding in the bayside suburb of Brighton, 27.9km north of Brisbane’s CBD, from the Uniting Church.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Development

Bocina Group unveils first land lease community in QLD’s Lockyer Valley

Gold Coast-based Bocina Group has lodged plans for its first land lease community, a 267-home project in Gatton in Queensland’s Lockyer Valley.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Development

Uniting gets go-ahead for 152-unit Shellharbour development

Uniting NSW.ACT has secured approval for the first stage of its new Shellharbour development, which will deliver 152 independent living apartments and assisted living services in the Illawarra, about 100km south of Sydney’s CBD.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Community Living

Thakral CEO: land lease giant GemLife now in “game on” mode

GemLife, the Gold Coast-based land lease community operator that staged Australia’s largest IPO of 2025, is “just at the beginning of a new journey,” according to one of its biggest shareholders.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Development

Summerset’s second continuum of care village takes shape in Melbourne’s Chirnside Park

New Zealand-based operator Summerset Group has provided an update on its $146 million retirement community under construction in Chirnside Park, 38km east of Melbourne’s CBD.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Government Policy

QLD sets December start for new land lease contracts and re-sales

The Queensland Government has confirmed that new site agreements and re-sale processes for land lease communities will take effect from 6 December 2025.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

In the Headlines

Lifestyle Communities sells Ocean Grove land to pay down debt

ASX-listed land lease operator Lifestyle Communities has finalised the first of four land sales as part of a $114 million divestment program to cut debt.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Community Living

Ageing Australia CEO says 10-person retirement living team “not enough”

Ageing Australia CEO Tom Symondson says the peak body is expanding its retirement living capability to meet surging sector demand but admits its current 10-person team is “not enough.”

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025