The growth plan means $50 million will be spent on villages at Pt Chevalier, Papakura and Cambridge.

New Zealand's second largest listed retirement business recorded a 33 per cent change in the fair value of its investment properties.

Master chef Simon Gault spices up retirees' food with mum's magic.

Northland Inc is looking at whether there's a market to build a retirement village in Dargaville to lure Aucklanders ready to quit the rat race.

This festive season the Hawke's Bay Community Choir is doing the rounds visiting local retirement villages to help spread the Christmas spirit through song. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Ryman plans to build a non-complying project on a greenfields ex-navy site in Devonport.

Arvida Group says it's on track to deliver a strong annual result after it more than doubled first-half profit.

The Ryman village is planned for the ex-Navy Wakakura site in Devonport.

New Zealand's biggest retirement business evacuated 41 elderly residents from one of its Wellington villages after the earthquake.

Hamiltonian Dorris Ratcliffe is 98 years old but has the lifestyle of a woman much younger. She says keeping busy and volunteering makes her life worthwhile. Made with funding from NZ on Air.

COMMENT: Before my first visit to a retirement village, I had preconceived ideas about 'an old person' home'.

Revealed: Ryman's Devonport retirement village plans

Retirement village operator Metlifecare's latest big operation has opened on Auckland's North Shore.

NZ's biggest listed retirement village operator Ryman, has set up its own precast concrete factory, as delays hit one of its big building project.

Ryman Healthcare has bought a 4ha site in Auckland for a $200 million retirement village.

Summerset Group, expects the opening of a new village in the Auckland this year will keep sales humming.

Arvida Group reported annual earnings ahead of its prospectus forecast and is confident of further gains in 2017.

Summerset Group plans to build a second retirement village in Nelson after buying an eight-hectare site in Richmond.

Older people are more likely to be targeted by scams and fraud.

More than 11 new retirement villages will need to be built annually to cater for our aging population.

The deaths of two Whangarei rest home residents after an outbreak of respiratory virus at a Waipu care home is being investigated by health officials.

Retirement giant Ryman Healthcare has released the first image of a $100 million North Shore village on a site where hundreds of people will live.

Arvida Group posted its first-half profit of about $7.4 million, putting it on track to meet its prospectus forecast for full-year earnings.

Serious weathertightness issues have been found at the popular Eastcliffe Retirement Village in Orakei and repairs to the buildings will cost $12 million and take five years to fix.

Retirement village dispute resolutions could soon be improved, after gaps in the system were criticised.

'Like living in Club Med" or "siloing a generation". Retirement villages attract strong feelings for and against.

A retirement village set up an elaborate hidden-camera sting to catch one of its workers, after residents complained that they had lost thousands of dollars.

Huge demand in the retirement sector propelled Metlifecare to push up net profit after tax 78.3 per cent to $122.7m.

Residents at Warkworth's Summerset Falls retirement village have complained about delays to a recreation centre expansion.