March 30 sees over 50 leading speakers at the Retirement Communities World Conference in Sydney, including Paul Klaassen who founded and still runs Sunrise Seniors Living, operating over 440 villages in the US, Canada, Germany and UK. Given the housing market in each of those countries, he will have an unrivalled insight into the challenges of new sales. See http://www.terrapinn.com/2009/rcw_au/programme.stm for the full program.
Lowest number of aged care beds on record added in 2024-25
Residential aged care bed growth is being rapidly outpaced by demand, with resident numbers increasing by about 5,000 per year versus just 800 net new beds in 2024-25.