2009 has seen NFPs successfully forge ahead with low and medium rise boutique village developments while private operators have been struggling. Often the NFPs kick off with a valuable property in a prime location, the best example being the Royal Freemasons Redmond Park development in Carlton (20 minutes from Melbourne CBD) with 61 apartments/ILU's. Just completed, it has only three ILU's unsold, each around $750,000. The Freemasons engaged Tracey Forbes and John Prowse (Prowse Consulting) to manage the project. Southern Cross (SA) in Adelaide is building luxury apartments at Myrtle Bank and has just invested another $8 million buying a 24,000 sqm site across the road.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Brookfield sells retirement village operator Aveo for $3.85B
Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager headquartered in New York with over US$1 trillion of assets under management, has agreed to sell its retirement living platform, Aveo, to The Living Company for A$3.85 billion...
