Selling

Aura Holdings’ Somerset Indooroopilly scores top architecture award as $3.2M unit sets record

The newly unveiled Stage Two O’Connell buildings, which are named in honour of June O’Connell, and have 88 apartments, were opened in October last year. COX Architecture, which designed the retirement village expansion, was awarded one of nine...

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Ian Horswill

07 Jul 2025

Development

Work begins on Springtree’s second land lease community in Victoria

The brand founded by Elka Capital, the creation of David Laing and Tom McDonald, and The Lowy Family Group-backed Assembly Funds Management, has broken ground on its second land lease community in Yarrawonga, on the south bank of the Murray River...

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Ian Horswill

23 Jun 2025

Selling

Cushman & Wakefield tip “active” retirement living and aged care for landholding in blue chip Melbourne suburb

A landmark landholding in Melbourne’s blue-chip suburb of Hampton is set to enter the market and receive peak interest from both high-end developers and the buoyant Aged Care and Retirement Living market. The 3,662sqm site at 28-34 Service Street...

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Ian Horswill

12 May 2025

Selling

Ryman continues to sell off its Australian land bank, with the disposal of spare space next to its first village in Wheelers Hill

Ryman Healthcare has taken a reported $9.1 million for 9,065sqm adjacent to its Nellie Melba village, which is now one of Australia’s largest. The disposal is in line with the NZ operator’s scaling back on expansion plans after it came undone in...

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Chris Baynes

05 May 2025

Selling

Stockland delivers 500 new land lease home sales a year with 20%+ margin

Seniors accommodation has worked out very well for Stockland after abandoning retirement villages, with a big development pipeline, big sales numbers and big development profit in its relatively new land lease business. Its Q3 ASX results have...

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Chris Baynes

05 May 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

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

Development

Gold Coast site approved for 130-bed aged care home for sale through receivers

The nearly 9,000sqm site in Parkwood, 5km from the heart of the Gold Coast, is owned by SDA Property’s No 4 Pty Ltd, which has gone into administration.

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Caroline Egan

23 Apr 2025

Selling

$110M in sales as new homes released at GemLife Gold Coast

The $200 million 46ha lifestyle resort for over 50s in Pimpama is about to launch its Stage 3 release of 143 homes, priced from $880,000, the first released in 10 months. All 111 of the standard homes released in the first two stages of the land...

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Ian Horswill

24 Feb 2025

Community Living

Stage two of Keyton’s Bernborough Ascot retirement village in Brisbane nears completion

The second stage of Australia’s first vertical retirement community built within a racecourse precinct; Poinciana House is now set to open early next year with over 60% of its 53 independent living apartments already sold.

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Lauren Broomham

16 Dec 2024

Development

Stockland Halcyon notches up 24 land lease communities, unveils its latest 212-home LLC on the Sunshine Coast

The prolific property developer has launched its newest land lease community, Halcyon Dales, guaranteeing new residents a nine-month build.

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Lauren Broomham

16 Dec 2024

Development

Hyecorp Willoughby integrated care village in Sydney tops out with 75% of apartments sold

Hyecorp Property Group expects to complete and settle its first venture into retirement living, Hyegrove Willoughby, mid-next year after topping out its six buildings this month in the suburb, 8km north of Sydney’s CBD.

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Ian Horswill

09 Dec 2024

Development

VMCH holds topping out ceremony for $250M flagship retirement village St. Clare

The For Purpose organisation has celebrated builder Hacer Group’s completion of the frame for all four residential buildings that will be St Clare in Kew, 5km east of the Melbourne CBD. The $250 million Woods Bagot project, which broke ground in...

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Ian Horswill

09 Dec 2024