Topic - Developments

Village and care operator Embracia continues to expand

Apr 28 2014 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Peter and Dawn MacKenzies Embracia is adding a 170 bed multi story care facility to their two villages and ten care sites in VIC and QLD. The $24M investment is on the Milleara primary school site at Avondale Heights, near Moonee Valley.

These new retirement villages show providing care is here and now

Gone are the days when retirement living was defined by community centres, swimming pools and bowling greens. While these amenities still exist – the provision of care is now a core part of the value proposition. Hyegrove Willoughby on Sydney’s...

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Ian Horswill

07 Oct 2025

Government Policy

The three aged care bombshells from Senate Estimates

Last week’s Senate Estimates hearing – held just three weeks before sweeping reforms roll out – gave politicians the chance to ask Government heavyweights the questions they’re getting from constituents and to interrogate the once-in-a-generation changes.

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Caroline Egan

15 Oct 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Bain Capital assesses what’s best for fattened Estia Health 23 months after $838M buy

The US-based private investor is reportedly believed to have contracted investment bank Barrrenjoey to see if its residential aged care business can be sold for a sizeable profit or should be floated on the ASX. The Australian, which reported Bain...

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Ian Horswill

09 Oct 2025

Opinion

The retirement village identity crisis

It is with great interest we are following the developments in South Australia regarding the planning classification of retirement villages as ‘essential infrastructure’. The catalyst? Senior Australians locked in hospital beds with no place to...

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James Wiltshire

14 Oct 2025

GemLife unveils its most expensive single-storey country club at Moreton Bay, QLD

GemLife will deliver its most expensive single-storey development to date at GemLife Moreton Bay, with an $18 million country club now under construction beside the 9ha Brolga Lake, offering waterfront and bushland views.

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Ian Horswill

5 hours ago

Development

Central Element refiles its $94.2M CAPs DA for seniors housing after buying road in Greenwich, Sydney

Builder-developer Central Element has re-lodged plans for a luxury Community Apartments Project (CAPs) in Greenwich on Sydney’s Lower North Shore, after acquiring the public road that split its site.

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Good news for seniors housing development in NSW: Colliers

On 17 October 2025, Planning Minister Paul Scully switched off the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) referral trigger for State Significant Development (SSD) applications covering seniors housing and Build to Rent – the same change he made for in-fill affordable housing in December 2024.

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$500M plan to remake Uniting’s War Memorial Hospital enters assessment

Uniting NSW.ACT’s biggest redevelopment on record – transforming the historic Waverley hospital into a “health and wellness precinct” – has moved to the assessment stage as a NSW State Significant Development (SSD) application.

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Ian Horswill

6 hours ago