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'Significant milestone for many Kiwis': Oceania Healthcare CEO Suzanne Dvorak
The workforce is predominantly female which is reflected in the company's leadership.

A way forward: Progress in reopening Wairoa aged care facility
Call for the Government to ensure the town gets elderly/respite care facility.

Winton Land 'pauses' $750m Wynyard plans, offers buyers refunds
How many people had paid deposits was not stated but pre-sales said to be 'strong'.

Sold: Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei's Hillary block at Belmont to Summerset
The deal is different from the hapū's arrangement with Ryman Healthcare.

Retirement village vacancies rise: Ryman's chairman Dean Hamilton explains
Opening three new hospital buildings in Auckland and Hastings pushed up vacancies.

Ryman result: Australasian business has 1156 empty retirement homes
A new phenomenon: increasing vacancies being declared in our retirement villages.

Buyers shun retirement village luxury: 69% unsold despite chauffeur, executive chef
What does new Australian-born CEO Suzanne Dvorak have to say about the lack of sales?

Oceania Healthcare records $17.1m interim loss, sells properties
Firm selling older rest homes to put money into more upmarket villages, fancy care suites.

Couple at loggerheads with Radius over Waikato retirement village unit
'It’s a shambles. It’s been going on for about eight years' Brian Peat says.

'Bugger it': Cop's words revealed before fatally tasering dementia patient, 95
The 34-year-old is alleged to have used a Taser on the great-grandmother.

'Later-life luxury': $6m for Auckland retirement village penthouse
'Retirement village market has segmented into wealthy, mid-scale and budget' - Wilkinson

Parnell transformation: Before and after $17m Pearson House upgrade
Rabbit warren-like building has had a massive makeover: photos show scale of change.

Property Insider: SkyCity's forest panels illuminated; Mormon temple opening; Metlifecare in Remuera
A tower of this size would be a big ask.

Singaporeans pay $40m for 24.9% of five-village retirement chain
'This is a capital-intensive business. We really want to expand' – chairman Bill McDonald.

Property Insider: Largest new retirement village opening; Auckland cladding inspection failures
Auckland Council's building inspection boss reveals shocking numbers on cladding failures.

'A sad day' – Shareholders Association regrets loss of Arvida to sharemarket
'We regard this as like a death in the family,' the NZSA's Grant Diggle said.

Jonah Lomu’s Thursday Murder Club cameo - author Richard Osman explains
TV funnyman has a new crime novel (and an All Black-related admission about his last one).

‘Life is meant to be a joy’: New Zealand’s oldest person ticks off another birthday
Skinfluencers might want to take note of the 'line-free' supercentenarian’s skin routine.

How Metlifecare expanded in secret after $1.3b deal
The retirement village operator went private in a $1.3b deal in 2020.

Markets with Madison: Metlifecare
The third-largest retirement village operator has transformed in secret since it was bought by private equity in 2020. Will the better business find its way back the public market?

JLL retirement village study: population up, companies adjust growth
Most older people do not live in such villages, even with 53,000 people there now.