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Number of reverse mortgages now 42,000 and worth $3.3B
Jun 24 2012
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The Weekly Source

Rather than buying into a village, 3,800 ageing Australians took out a reverse mortgage last year, according to research by Deloitte. The average age is 75. This compares to over 12,000 ILU sales last year however.

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18,650 social and affordable homes funded as 370 homes set for repurpose

The Australian Government’s flagship Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) has agreed to fund 9,284 social and 9,366 affordable homes through 279 successful projects under the first two funding rounds of the HAFF and National Housing Accord Facility...

Ian Horswill
04 Jul 2025
Topic - Acquisitions

Peter Inge and Mark Fay keep buying: Retirement village acquisition spree continues

IPLiving, the retirement village platform backed by investment business Palisade Impact, has added its fourth village with the acquisition of Rosebud Village – a 105-unit community on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, 61km south of Melbourne’s...

Ian Horswill
04 Jul 2025
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Aged care regulator doesn’t understand retirement living: Daniel Gannon

Peak body the Retirement Living Council (RLC) welcomed the decision of the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing agency last Thursday to cut the proposed the minimum liquidity requirement for refundable retirement deposits for aged care...

Ian Horswill
04 Jul 2025
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Still waiting: the human cost of delay in aged care assessments

When Meghan Hird submitted a referral to My Aged Care for her father in September last year, she never imagined they would still be waiting 10 months later. In that time, her father’s Alzheimer’s has progressed from early signs to mid-stage...

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