Topic - aged care
78 bed aged care facility invests $115K in solar to save $40K a year in energy costs
Nov 03 2016
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Chaffey Aged care in Mildura has just installed a 100KW solar system (384 solar panels) for an investment of approximately $115K. They calculate it will reduce their energy bill by $40K a year, paying the investment off in 2.8 years.

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Three years after $1B+ valuation, RetireAustralia faces $850M sale

Infratil and NZ Super put its jointly owned business RetireAustralia on the market in March 2022 with a reported price tag of over $1 billion. With its profits soring, the joint owners announced it was off the market in December 2023. In April last...

Ian Horswill
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Opinion

What does the ‘voiding’ of the land lease DMF in Victoria mean for retirement villages?

By our calculation up to 35-40% of retirement village contracts could have their DMFs voided as well if applied across the country. We can’t see this actually happening but we do believe lawyers received a mid year Christmas present yesterday when...

Chris Baynes
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Corio Projects’ $170M seniors living development in Sydney’s inner south approved

Corio Projects has been given the green light for 170 independent living units and a 34-bed residential care facility across six buildings up to eight storeys in Rosebery, 6km south of Sydney’s CBD. The NSW Government Department of Planning...

Ian Horswill
9 hours ago
Aged Care

Catholic Healthcare investing $600M to build connected communities across NSW

One of Australia’s largest Not For Profit providers of home care, residential care and retirement living services, is investing over $600 million over the next five years in five innovative connected communities in New South Wales. “We’ve spent...

Ian Horswill
07 Jul 2025