On the one hand the Village Life group has a rocky year transferring most of its 80+ rental villages over to SunnyCove because of the hard going to make the financial model work, and on the other hand the American group Harvest Developments announces it is going to build 10 villages in the next 2 years based on its US formula that has allowed it to build 300 villages in 30 years. The average entry age in America is 83 and they stay for an average of 3 years.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Brookfield sells retirement village operator Aveo for $3.85B
Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager headquartered in New York with over US$1 trillion of assets under management, has agreed to sell its retirement living platform, Aveo, to The Living Company for A$3.85 billion...
