Selling

Encore Living begins construction on new Paynesville retirement village

Encore Living has started construction on its latest retirement community in Paynesville, Victoria, a lakeside town 293km east of Melbourne’s CBD.

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Ian Horswill

03 Oct 2025

Aged Care

Only in SATURDAY: Regis’ $339M Rockpool deal shows acquisitions are outpacing builds

Just when the aged care sector needs them most, Rockpool is building “stunning, state-of-the-art” aged care homes. The sale of four homes to Regis allows them to accelerate growth. To find out more, read SATURDAY.

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Caroline Egan

28 Aug 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

DA-approved aged care site in Western Sydney offered to market

An aged care development site in Sefton, 23km west of the Sydney CBD, has been listed for sale via Expressions of Interest through Health Aged Care Confidential and Ray White Commercial Western Sydney.

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Lauren Broomham

06 Aug 2025

Awards

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