After seven-year struggle, $317m Ryman plans approved
Rollercoaster ride for $317m estate continues, but project opponents already grumbling.
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Retirement village law under spotlight for potential reform
Probe comes following widespread calls for change in the sector.
House prices, building costs stall $300m retirement village plans
As retirement village stocks get hammered, huge Parnell project stalled.
Fletcher's first retirement village units up
Village beside where Fletcher Living has built more than 400 homes.
Problems at upmarket retirement village, chimneys stripped as delays hamper schist shipment from China
"About 60 or 70 chimneys that need cladding,"
Schist happens: Watch out, Santa
Santa could contend with defective schist chimneys this Christmas.
Retirement giant Arvida Group pushes up interim profit
More than 250 new units being built in big expansion.
Oceania revenue up, profit down
Total sales volumes were in line with the prior corresponding period.
Giant of listed retirement village sector has a drop in interim net profit
Revaluations of $89.3m previously dropped to just $49.6m.
Analysts ask: Should Ryman keep more of residents' money?
The giant of New Zealand’s listed retirement village companies reports on Friday.
Michael Noche's death: Retirement village site scene of candlelight vigil tonight
Already, $8220 has been raised on a Givealittle page for the family.
‘One of the hardest workers’ - tributes flow for Auckland scaffolder Michael Noche
'It was a privilege to work with you.'
'Family shattered' after father's death in fall on work site
Man fell six or seven floors at Summerfield retirement village site
'So unfair': Family wait six months for $120,000 from late mother's retirement unit sale
'That's part of our terms and conditions,' says Real Living CEO Martin Oettli.
'Honey, I shrunk the hospital' - Ryman plans fewer beds
Retirement behemoth plans smaller geriatric hospitals due to lack of state funding.
'What we didn't realise about our retirement village'
OPINION: Consumer NZ has called for an urgent review of residents' protections.
Sponsored: The talented Ms. Martin
Injecting sparkle into retirement village living is all in a day's work
Auckland Catholic rest home losing $100,000 a month due to critical staff shortage
A number of other rest homes and charity-based places have shut down lately too.
$100m+ expansion planned for 10 Metlifecare villages
Business has 33 villages accommodating 6500 residents.
271 complaints in six months: What irks retirement village residents most
Neighbours' behaviour, poor services, bad management and fees were among the complaints.
Ryman wants reform in Australia to get more hospitals in villages
New Zealand's retirement village and aged-care "model" was admired in Australia.
Sponsored: On the road again
Sun and Soong Chau's playground extends beyond the limits of their Hillsborough home.
$5bn Metlifecare: How it's tracking under private ownership
Total assets rose significantly by $889m to reach $5bn: latest annual report.
Named: Retirement village keeping widow's $790,000
Resident had to move out when her husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Widow left 'in financial limbo'
She couldn't afford weekly village fees and her husband's hospital-level care.
Retirement village planned for $90m Remuera site
"We don't want this to be a confrontational process," says local agent Grant Dickson.
$400m Auckland retirement chain sale?
The business has run villages for more than 30 years and is locally owned.
Elderly woman repeatedly given wrong dose of heart meds in aged-care facility
The woman was administered an incorrect dose six times by six different nurses.
Sponsored: Right on track
Albert Jelley has packed more into 100 years than many of us do in half that time.
Ryman abandons $95m plans for new village in Australia
Setbacks, including problems securing consents, resulted in property going on the market.
Sponsored: Putting the 'Green' into Greenwood
He devoted much of his life to restoring forests, but never dreamed he'd retire in one.
Frantic phone call after man's alleged $1.3m fraud came to light
The court heard a document had been 'twinked out' to alter the man's salary.
Shareholder challenges Ryman board, plans FMA complaint
Dispute about what was listed as completed and whether that was true.