Retirement and Community Living

Community Leadership 2025 finalists: National Retirement Living Summit

The Retirement Living Council”s National Retirement Living Summit in Brisbane on 18-20 June featuring the annual awards. Four employees of operators have been chosen as finalists in the Community Leadership category. Community...

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Housing News

Anglican Care’s closed aged care home converted into housing for women over 55

The agency of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle announced it was shutting an aged care home in Mt Hutton, a suburb of Lake Macquarie, 14km west-southwest of Newcastle, in March 2022. On Saturday, NSW Government announcedit has been converted in 20 units for homeless women..

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Development

Principle Living’s flagship Newcastle Golf Club 172-home retirement village approved

The fifth retirement village by the business, founded by the Mann family and Stevens Group, has received development consent for Apperly Village from the Hunter and Central Coast Regional Planning Panel. The 172-home retirement village, to be co-located...

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Out of the Ordinary

Will this catch on? Residential homes only for over-45s

In a first, 24 homes are being built for people aged 45 and over. “It’s a new concept. People haven’t really done a downsizer community development like this before. People put age restrictions on properties, but not for the reasons we have...

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Opinion

Why building new retirement living developments is not for the faint hearted

Today’s issue is packed full of development stories and talking to For Profit and Not For Profit executives it is getting harder and harder to make projects viable. Anyone building a retirement living facility today needs 40% to 45% more to make...

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Community Living

Spurned Eureka Group suitor Aspen sells remaining 55 million shares in the company

The ASX-listed affordable housing provider on Monday said it had sold out of the only pure-play over 50s rental community owner and operator, which it hgad sought to buy in January last year. Aspen Group was only twarted in its bid when FDC...

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Community Living

Mini-series 3: Power, policy & the big picture

Strategy, Reform and the Shifting Landscape of Aged Care From funding forecasts to political pressure, this series captures the macro forces reshaping aged care, home care, and retirement living. Hear from economists, advocates, and peak body...

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Group Editor

19 May 2025

Community Living

Retirement Living Council: Cairns Regional Council condradicting itself over village rate rise

The peak body’s Executive Director Daniel Gannon has launched a second stinging attack on the council in Far North Queensland, which is proposing to charge rates on each individual unit in the 10 retirement and land lease communities within its...

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

DevCore unveils plans for 1,200 land lease homes across NSW and QLD

Property developer DevCore has revealed a pipeline of at least 1,200 land lease homes, to be delivered across six future communities in New South Wales and Queensland. Founded by former Rawson Homes executives Peter, Lawrie and Mark Rawson, DevCore...

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Lauren Broomham

19 May 2025

Development

$50M plus pre-release sales for Stage 2 of Reside Communities’ Fairway Carindale, with three-bedders hitting $3.6M

Fairway Carindale’s first stage, Ivy and Aster, which featured 52 luxury apartments within Pacific Golf Club’s 53ha site, opened in late Janaury

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Aveo’s preferred buyer Scape reveals new senior housing business Living Co

Stephen Gaitanos, the Co-Founder, Managing Director and Group CEO of Scape Australia, the country’s leading residential-to-rent owner and operator, has told Mingtiandi’s Singapore Forum that the group will provide accommodation for seniors.

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Legal Issues

Cooloola Waters Retirement Village fails to overturn $22K payout ruling to former real estate agent

Cooloola Water Holdings, which runs Cooloola Waters Retirement Village at Tin Can Bay, in Queensland’s Gympie region, has failed in a bid to overturn an order to pay more than $22,000 in commissions to a former real estate agent who helped broker...

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Ian Horswill

19 May 2025

Community Living

The Henley on Broadwater expands private aged care offering amid strong resident demand

The Henley on Broadwater, a vertical retirement village in Southport on Queensland’s Gold Coast, is expanding its private aged care offering from 12 to 21 suites in response to growing internal demand. Originally opened as The Grande Pacific...

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Lauren Broomham

19 May 2025