On top of its retirement village expansion, AMP will now indirectly controlled 5,000 beds in aged care, which is 3% of the Australian market. Principal Healthcare Group, part of AMP Capital Investors, paid $300 million for Domain Aged Cares 16 aged care facilities. The next largest operator is Britain's BUPA, which bought the Amity group last year with 3,600 beds.
The law is an ass – and it has cost Lifestyle Communities $1.5 billion and counting
The tribunal in Victoria has ruled the contract requirement of departing residents from land lease operator Lifestyle Communities is void based on a legal/legislative wording, despite residents being well informed when they signed that contract...