Community Living

Only in SATURDAY: How a $22.9M clubhouse can be built in a land lease community

Sep 23 2025 Updated 10 hours ago

Ian Horswill

1 min read

The $22.9 million GemLife Gold Coast Country Club

GemLife Gold Coast Country Club isn’t just a lifestyle perk – it’s a valuation engine, pushing home prices from $640,000 to $1.85 million in three stages.

With land lease operators chasing premium sales and investors chasing pipelines, community facilities have become the sector’s sharpest valuation lever.

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RIP: We are seeing the death of the family-run aged care operator

It feels like I am writing an obituary to family-run aged care facilities. Once the backbone of the sector, multi-generation operators are now selling out at a pace not seen before. The sell-off is accelerating, with three landmark deals in just two...

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Lauren Broomham

11 Sep 2025

Opinion

Is the DMF model dead? Anglicare CEO Simon Miller says yes

After buying 50% of LDK Senior’s Living from Cromwell Property Group in November 2022, Anglicare CEO Simon Miller is going all in on private aged care. Speaking at the DCM Group’s Ask the Visionaries’ Anything breakfast forum at...

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Ian Horswill

16 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

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

Regis shares dive 27% as AN-ACC reweighting slashes earnings outlook

The ASX-listed residential aged care provider has warned it will scale back development plans after the Federal Government’s AN-ACC price announcement and classification reweightings left funding growth well short of expectations.

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Caroline Egan

22 Sep 2025

Aged Care

Breaking down silos: Whiddon’s regional pilots are transforming aged care

Six 12-week Collaborative Health Care (CHC) Initiative pilots are now live across regional NSW, bringing aged care providers, hospitals, insurers, and Government agencies together to tackle some of the biggest pressure points in health and aged care.

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66 recipients of Aged Care Capital Assistance Program grants announced

The Australia Government has announced 66 recipients of its Aged Care Capital Assistance Program with grants worth $300 million. The largest - a grant of more than $50 million - has gone to Southern Cross Care (QLD) to build a new 94-bed residential care home in Broken Hill, NSW.

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Would you invest in a business with zero margin?

The latest AN-ACC prices and weightings, released late last Friday, confirmed what many feared: after an initial uplift, the clawback has begun. Operators who saw gains since AN-ACC’s 2023 launch now face funding being stripped back.

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Lauren Broomham

18 Sep 2025