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Aspen bets on SA growth with new 200-home land lease project

Aspen Group has struck a $14.1 million deal to acquire the remaining stages of the Wallaroo Shores master planned community in South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula – with plans to deliver 200 lifestyle land lease homes alongside build-to-rent, townhouses, and a commercial precinct.

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Ian Horswill

29 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Will The Living Company buy Lendlease’s Keyton stake as bids close October 2?

The Living Company – owner of Scape Australia, XO Living (Build to Rent), and the recently acquired Aveo retirement portfolio – is reportedly among three bidders for Lendlease’s 25.1% stake in Keyton, with bids due by 2 October.

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Ian Horswill

22 Sep 2025

In the Headlines

Lifestyle Communities sells Ocean Grove land to pay down debt

ASX-listed land lease operator Lifestyle Communities has finalised the first of four land sales as part of a $114 million divestment program to cut debt.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Brookfield offloads Aveo, targets US$10B American seniors housing giant

Fresh from selling Aveo for $3.85 billion, Brookfield Asset Management is looking to spend more than US$10 billion (A$15 billion) acquiring Yes! Communities, a major US manufactured home operator owned by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Land lease operator Lincoln Place gears up for ASX listing or $1B sale

In just six years, Nick Collishaw and Ben Hindmarsh have built Lincoln Place into one of the fastest-growing land lease operators, with 24 lifestyle communities across NSW, Victoria, Queensland and the ACT, housing 2,000 residents and a pipeline of around 4,500 dwellings.

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Ian Horswill

15 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Opal HealthCare powers ahead with triple Victorian acquisition

Australia’s largest aged care operator, Opal HealthCare, has added three more homes to its Victorian footprint after completing the acquisition of Australian Aged Care Group (AACG) on 1 September 2025.

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Caroline Egan

09 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Scape’s Craig Carracher: Aveo deal cost closer to $4.5B, not $3.85B

Brookfield Asset Management hailed the sale of Aveo as the largest direct real estate transaction in Australian history, quoting a price tag of $3.85 billion.

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Ian Horswill

08 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Estia Health expands in Queensland with Vacenti Aged Care buy

Bain Capital-owned Estia Health has struck a deal to acquire Brisbane-based Vacenti Aged Care, adding six established homes and a new development nearing completion in Cleveland to its portfolio.

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Ian Horswill

10 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Medical and Aged Care Group acquires two aged care homes in Melbourne for $200K per bed

The Melbourne-based family-owned operator has acquired Cheltenham Manor, in the suburb 18km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD, and Greenwood Manor in Dingley Village, 23km southeast of the state capital. The purchase adds 207 beds to its portfolio. The...

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Ian Horswill

04 Sep 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Land lease operator Lincoln Place buys site in Yeppoon, QLD, for its biggest estate

In July 2023, Lincoln Place founders Nicholas Collishaw and Ben Hindmarsh told The Weekly SOURCE they expected to build in scale to be in the “top three in the (land lease) sector” Their latest acquisition - a 31.25ha site in the Yeppoon suburb...

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Ian Horswill

21 Aug 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Infratil confirms “loss” on sale of RetireAustralia to new owner

RetireAustralia – long seen as one of the sector’s most innovative operators under CEO Brett Robinson – has changed hands, with co-owner Infratil confirming on Friday (8 August) it will exit with a flat return.

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Ian Horswill

11 Aug 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Eureka Group Holdings buys sixth park in eight months with $6.7M NSW South Coast deal

Eureka Group Holdings has snapped up Coral Tree Lodge at Greenwell Point, marking its sixth acquisition in just eight months as it rapidly scales its all-age rental portfolio. The $6.7 million purchase of the 2.33ha waterfront site, 176km south of Sydney – comprising 123 sites, including 73 permanent and annual rentals and 22 motel units – delivers an 8.6% ingoing yield and follows a string of buys funded by its $70.4 million October 2024 capital raise.

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Ian Horswill

11 Aug 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

RetireAustralia acquired by Invesco Real Estate for $845M

The global real estate investment management business, which has over US$80 billion in real estate assets under management, has forked out $845 million for the Brisbane-based retirement village operator.

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Ian Horswill

08 Aug 2025