Web searches hit 1200 in one day - up from 900 in January

Apr 23 2009 Updated July 4, 2023

The Weekly Source

1 min read

On this Monday, 21st of April, the number of individual people searching on villages.com.au past 1200 for the first time, reaching 1232. This is a 25% increase from January. Promotional listings (costing $520pa) received the most searches. It is interesting to see where the searches across Australia are concentrated. See the following reports.

No excuse for providers to not be ready on 1 November: Aged Care Minister Sam Rae

Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has told ABC radio the Aged Care Rules have been in place for “a significant amount of time” and the Government has been listening to and supporting to the sector, “so, there really isn’t an excuse from any provider to not be prepared for 1 November”.

Click here

Caroline Egan

23 Oct 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Aged care consolidation continues: Regis Aged Care on the march

The ASX-listed operator has entered into binding agreements to acquire family-owned OC Health’s two remaining aged care homes for $45 million plus a $36 million liability for RADs. The purchase of Ocean Mist, in Torquay, a seaside town southwest of...

Click here

Caroline Egan

23 Oct 2025

Opinion

Aged care beds going backwards – where’s the outrage?

StewartBrown just dropped a number that should jolt the sector: average time on a Home Care Package has plunged from 3.6 years in FY24 to 2.4 in FY25. That’s not a tweak – it’s a cliff. And it speaks to the same uncomfortable truth across...

Click here

Lauren Broomham

23 Oct 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Prices for aged care homes in demand “far exceed” recent valuations

Aged care homes are selling for prices well above their most recent valuations, fuelling a surge in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity across the sector, according to aged care consultancy Pride Aged Living.

Click here

Caroline Egan

29 Oct 2025

Retirement villages now hot investments: Here is why

Aveo is even sweeter in that it has been moving its contracts to a mix of upfront payments rather than the DMF. In March 2024, we reported in The Weekly SOURCE that a third of new Aveo customers have chosen an alternative to the traditional deferred...

Click here

Chris Baynes

21 hours ago

The Weekly SOURCE

Retirement and Community Living

New issue of SATURDAY magazine: Is your “wellness” just window dressing?

In Australia, “wellness” in retirement living has become a marketing reflex – glossy promises, thin delivery. Residents are savvier now. They look past brochures to what’s on the ground: is there a real program, real people, real results?...

Click here

Lauren Broomham

22 hours ago

Community Living MULTI

Community Living

Eager retirees offer cash so they don’t miss out at Calvary retirement living event

Around 80 prospective residents last Friday attended Calvary Health Care’s inaugural Transition into Retirement Living Education Session at Ryde Calvary, Sydney. It led to some residents trying unsuccessfully to hand over $1000 in cash to reserve a unit. Occupancy is now 98%.

Click here

Newly opened Vantage Hervey Bay land lease community will always be special to AVID

Heike and Michael Duggin have made the 1,000-kilometre move from Townsville to Hervey Bay – and into the record books as the first residents of AVID Property Group’s new land lease community, Vantage Hervey Bay. A further 40 residents are expected to move in later this year.

Click here

Ian Horswill

04 Nov 2025