Summerset are under pressure for its plans for wage-earners not covered by the increase.

According to a report, several retirement villages have paid no tax for at least 10 years.

Summerset Group increased sales of occupation rights at its retirement villages.

Long-awaited Oceania listing announced

News snippets from around Northland

Labour and Green party politicians were in Rotorua to discuss issues around elder care.

New report reveals scale - and risks - of retirement village growth

Funds handy for urgent medical care but urge to shop is a hazard.

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

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.

A New Zealand aged care trust has been lauded for its use of a robotic fur seal 'colony' that helps dementia patients.

The founder of New Zealand's Metlifecare has opened a new $184 million London retirement village.

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.

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.

A crown organisation is out to raise awareness about the real financial, personal and legal impact of buying into a retirement village.

Retirement village residents who buy into a huge new Hobsonville waterfront village will lose 25pc of their purchase price when they sell after five years.

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.