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AVID Property Group unveils plans for new Vantage land lease community in NSW

AVID Property Group has revealed its vision for the former Stockland master planned community project at Huntley, 18km from Wollongong, which it acquired in May. The site – now named Forest Reach – will deliver 530 residential land lots, 108 townhomes, and a proposed 236-home Vantage land lease community, AVID CEO Cameron Holt announced this morning.

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12 Aug 2025

Developments

Ingenia lodges plans for land lease community on Brisbane site purchased in 2021

Town planners Saunders Havill Group has lodged a development application with Brisbane City Council to build a 166 two- and three-bedroom Over 50s land lease community with ancillary community facilities for Ingenia Lifestyle in Rochedale, an outer southern suburb of Brisbane.

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12 Aug 2025

Opinion

Retirement villages overcome loneliness – good news in Loneliness Awareness Week but more to do

Newly published research from the Bolton Clarke Research Institute and Monash University reveals moving to a retirement village halves loneliness within 12 months. As the average stay in retirement living is now nine years, this appears to be great...

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12 Aug 2025

Community Living

Active Utilities powers Living Choice’s retirement villages with new community battery rollout

Living Choice Australia has partnered with energy solutions provider Active Utilities to deliver large-scale community batteries at its Fullarton and Flagstaff Hill retirement villages in Adelaide – part of a push to give residents cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Infratil confirms “loss” on sale of RetireAustralia to new owner

RetireAustralia – long seen as one of the sector’s most innovative operators under CEO Brett Robinson – has changed hands, with co-owner Infratil confirming on Friday (8 August) it will exit with a flat return.

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$66M SummitCare Penrith overhaul to deliver 93 seniors units and new care rooms

Family-owned aged care operator SummitCare has lodged a State Significant Development Application to transform its Jamisontown site in Penrith, 55km west of Sydney’s CBD, into a mixed seniors housing and care facility.

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$77M Forestville RSL redevelopment with seniors housing approved in Sydney’s North

The Sydney North Planning Panel has unanimously approved the $77 million redevelopment of the registered Club built in 1959 in Forestville, 12km north of Sydney’s CBD. Northern Beaches Council recommended the development application to the Panel for approval, covering the construction of a single-level new Club and Garraway – a boutique retirement village with 52 independent living apartments.

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Legal Issues

WA’s amended Retirement Villages Act signals major shift in operators’ obligations

Amber Crosthwaite, Partner specialising in Care and Living at WA legal firm Lavan, says the amendments to the Retirement Villages Act 1992 (WA) formally separate capital maintenance from capital replacement – a change that significantly alters operators’ financial and governance responsibilities.

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Housing

Older women targeted for affordable housing plan in Melbourne’s southeast

Community Housing Ltd has proposed a 13-storey apartment tower in Dandenong, 29km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD, offering 86 homes for vulnerable groups. The application, prepared by Squareback Planning and designed by Cera Stribley, for a Ministerial Permit states the proposed development would target older women experiencing homelessness, veterans at risk of homelessness, victims of family and domestic violence, and frontline workers employed locally.

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Developments

Harbison to build first co-located retirement village in NSW Southern Highlands

Harbison, the community-owned organisation, which has been providing aged care services to the Southern Highlands community in NSW for over 60 years, is building a retirement village on land near its aged care home in Moss Vale, 142km southwest of Sydney’s CBD.

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Community Living

Not For Profit Sylvan Glades plans expansion of retirement village in Yarra Ranges, VIC

Plans are progressing for an expansion of the Sylvan Glades Retirement Village in Monbulk, 42km east of Melbourne’s CBD, with community meetings already held to discuss the proposal.

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Living Gems scales back proposed Tamborine Mountain land lease community

The operator has reduced its proposed land lease community on Tamborine Mountain, QLD, in response to community and council concerns. The number of homes has been cut from 166 to 141, the overall footprint reduced, and green space and peripheral buffering increased to 4.5 metres to lessen the impact on neighbouring properties.

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