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Community Living

SATURDAY means business: Inside Seasons Living’s bold push to reshape aged care in QLD

As traditional aged care models strain under growing demand, Queensland-based Seasons Living is betting big on a more flexible future – expanding its unique assisted living approach across the state. With construction well underway at Sinnamon...

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20 hours ago

Community Living

Serenitas adds another 200-home site to its growing land lease development pipeline

Australian property developer Mirvac has highlighted the continued momentum across its business – including its investment in land lease operator Serenitas – in its third quarter operational update released to the market last week (30 April)...

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20 hours ago

Eureka secures $180M in refinancing deal, acquires new site in QLD

Eureka Group Holdings CEO Simon Owen is delivering on his ambition to make the company Australia’s market leader in both over-50s and all-age rental communities, after successfully refinancing and expanding its debt facilities.

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02 May 2025

Sector Moves & People

IRT CEO Patrick Reid steps down after eight years

The Illawarra-based Not For Profit has announced the resignation of its CEO, Patrick Reid, who is departing to take up a new leadership role with another community services organisation, understood to be a competitor of IRT. As a result, he has...

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02 May 2025

Opinion

Coalition’s pledge to cut home care wait list to zero is too little, too late

With just days until polling day, aged care has finally entered the political spotlight, with Shadow Minister for Aged Care Anne Ruston pledging a Coalition Government would cut home care wait times to zero, but making no commitment to release more Home Care Packages.

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01 May 2025

Aged Care

“Bureaucracy over care”: Sasha Andrews urges aged care policy pause

Sasha Andrews, CEO of NSW Mid North Coast stand-alone provider Woolgoolga & District Retirement Village (WDRV), is calling for a major overhaul in aged care policy, warning that current reforms are prioritising bureaucracy over the actual needs...

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30 Apr 2025

Third.i announces strategic joint venture with Dexus to deliver The Merewether retirement village in Newcastle

The property developer has revealed that it will partner with the Australasian real assets group to deliver the $300 million, 178-unit luxury retirement community at the Merewether Golf Club in Newcastle.

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Housing News

15 new social homes planned for senior co-housing community in WA’s South West

“Whilst the project does not offer assisted living or nursing facilities, and each member is responsible for themselves, it is common in cohousing communities that if someone is sick, neighbours will help with activities like bringing them meals...

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ICAM targets expansion to 10-15 villages as Adelaide village undergoes major revamp

The Adelaide investment firm is set to significantly grow its retirement living portfolio over the next few years as the company continues to enhance its existing three retirement villages, such as its latest project at Kings Park Retirement Village in Adelaide.

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Home Care

Support at Home: six strategies every home care provider needs now

With the new Support at Home program launching on 1 July, home care providers have just weeks left to overhaul their systems, staffing, and service delivery – or risk falling behind. In a recent DCM Group webinar, sector leaders laid out six key strategies to succeed in this new era.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Retirement living set for major growth as investors eye long-term opportunities: LEADERS SUMMIT presentations now available

The retirement living sector is entering a new era of transformation and investment, with strong signals that mergers and acquisitions will accelerate over the next few years.

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Levande tops out Sydney vertical village, marking major milestone in $3B growth plan

The village operator has officially topped out its landmark 28-storey vertical village, The Cambridge, in Epping, NSW, 28km northwest of the Sydney CBD – the tallest retirement living development in the state and a centrepiece in Levande’s $3 billion national expansion strategy.

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