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. Click here 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. Click here 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. Click here 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... Click here 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... Click here 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... Click here 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... Click here 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... Click here 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. Click here 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. Click here 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. Click here 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... Click here 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. Click here Lauren Broomham 16 Dec 2024