SATURDAY Issue 77

Is it all talk – can land lease have 200,000 homes in 20 years?

With new large and small players entering the sector, what is limiting land lease to overtake retirement villages? Capital is available for land lease to deliver hundreds of thousands of new homes over the next 20 years – if the land can be...

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The new uranium: risks harnessing the power of aged care data

Data: highly valuable if harnessed correctly, but dangerous if misused, and toxic if it escapes. Digitising your data is a trap for many aged care operators. The key to ensuring this digital uranium is used for good is to collect quality data in the...

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The next frontier for land lease: all age master planned communities

Land lease operators are going main stream, diversifying into larger master planned greenfiled developments to access land and create community. There is a new breed of land lease operators thinking outside the box – and their plans could...

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Opinion: it is raining money we can’t afford. Where are the Aged Care Taskforce recommendations?

The graph above reveals the Federal Government has added $15 billion in two years to social benefits, and now the 3.75% wage increase. Who should pay? This week, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) delivered its Annual Wage Review decision, increasing the national Minimum...

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Regulation creep threatening land lease: 10 years waiting for Council approvals

With both Queensland and New South Wales tightening the legislation around land lease communities in recent weeks, is it time for the sector to present a more united front? The land lease sector has now captured the attention of the regulators. With...

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Corporatising land lease: meet your new Top 10 land lease players

Australia’s land lease sector has transformed in just three years. Big business now leads $8.5B worth of in field development

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‘Mum and Dad are out for land lease; big corporates are in’

Over 24 months of Stockland, Mirvac, Avid and Yolk have moved into land lease; will corporatisation kill the family vibe? In the early 2000s, the top end of town fell in love with the retirement village sector, buying up the pioneer family operators...

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“Actively lobbying for it”: do land lease customers want care? Yes.

Land lease don’t do ‘care’; but customers and a model that discourages residents from moving is pushing operators to cave in. Like retirement villages, the land lease sector has long been regarded as a ‘property play’ – but its ageing...

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Executive spotlight

Daniel Aitchison Chief Executive Officer, Palm Lake Care Appointed to his current role in June 2022, Daniel was formerly the Chief Executive of Clayton Church Homes in South Australia and the General Manager, Aged Care Services at AnglicareSA. He...

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Lauren Broomham

07 Jun 2024