Retirement and Community Living

Cranbrook Care to focus on retirement living as it quits residential aged care

The Sydney-based private operator, which owns the 50-apartment Cranbrook Residences and the adjacent older Golf Shore Retirement Village in Norwest, 35km northwest of the Sydney CBD, has announced its intention to expand its retirement living business.

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Caroline Egan

28 Apr 2025

Home Care

Support at Home: six strategies every home care provider needs now

With the new Support at Home program launching on 1 July, home care providers have just weeks left to overhaul their systems, staffing, and service delivery – or risk falling behind. In a recent DCM Group webinar, sector leaders laid out six key strategies to succeed in this new era.

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

In just six years Vivacity Property and capital partner RF Corval have now built a portfolio of eight land lease community projects

Owner/operator Vivacity has conditionally acquired with their capital partner RF Corval three contiguous sites located in Berkeley, a suburb of Wollongong, 85km south of Sydndey’s CBD, for the proposed development of a new land lease community.

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Ian Horswill

15 Apr 2025

Sector Moves & People

Calvary Health Care announces McKinsey & Co’s Damien Bruce to become National CEO

McKinsey & Company consultant Damien Bruce has been appointed National CEO of Calvary Health Care, the Catholic health, home, and aged care provider, following the retirement of current National CEO Martin Bowles earlier this year.

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Caroline Egan

29 Apr 2025

Development

Third.i announces strategic joint venture with Dexus to deliver The Merewether retirement village in Newcastle

The property developer has revealed that it will partner with the Australasian real assets group to deliver the $300 million, 178-unit luxury retirement community at the Merewether Golf Club in Newcastle.

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Housing News

15 new social homes planned for senior co-housing community in WA’s South West

“Whilst the project does not offer assisted living or nursing facilities, and each member is responsible for themselves, it is common in cohousing communities that if someone is sick, neighbours will help with activities like bringing them meals...

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Development

ICAM targets expansion to 10-15 villages as Adelaide village undergoes major revamp

The Adelaide investment firm is set to significantly grow its retirement living portfolio over the next few years as the company continues to enhance its existing three retirement villages, such as its latest project at Kings Park Retirement Village in Adelaide.

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Redevelopments

800 people object to Forestville RSL redevelopment with retirement village units to replace declining gambling income

With the Board looking to the future of less poker machine income and submitting a new clubhouse and 55 village apartments, a petition with 800 member signatures and counting is being submitted to Council as a DA objection to the $77 million...

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Chris Baynes

28 Apr 2025

Government Policy

The Retirement Living Council has been on a media blitz calling for ‘the right policy at the right time’ – to support seniors downsizing to retirement villages

RLC Executive Director Daniel Gannon has been featured across all medias spruiking the community benefit of raising the Age Pension Asset Cap from $315,00 to $550,000 and raising the Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) from $252,000. The Age Pension...

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Chris Baynes

28 Apr 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Retirement living set for major growth as investors eye long-term opportunities: LEADERS SUMMIT presentations now available

The retirement living sector is entering a new era of transformation and investment, with strong signals that mergers and acquisitions will accelerate over the next few years.

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Development

Levande tops out Sydney vertical village, marking major milestone in $3B growth plan

The village operator has officially topped out its landmark 28-storey vertical village, The Cambridge, in Epping, NSW, 28km northwest of the Sydney CBD – the tallest retirement living development in the state and a centrepiece in Levande’s $3 billion national expansion strategy.

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Lauren Broomham

28 Apr 2025

Opinion

Masterclass in the future demand for retirement living – invest in assisted living!

I am on holidays, which has given me some quiet time to go back over the presentations at the LEADERS SUMMIT, and the graph above and below jumped out at me from Cam Ansell’s presentation. Check the growth in Assisted Living. Cam is the Founder...

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Chris Baynes

28 Apr 2025

Home Care

What will Support at Home mean for private aged care? Watch LEADERS SUMMIT 2025 videos - now available online

At the recent LEADERS SUMMIT 2025, James Wiltshire, Executive Director of the DCM Institute, asked Aaron Lavell, Director of Odyssey Lifestyle Care Communities, and Byron Cannon, CEO of LDK Seniors’ Living, what the incoming Support at Home reforms...

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Caroline Egan

28 Apr 2025