Retail leader named to head NZ retirement giant
Umbers is now based in Melbourne but starts later next month
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Property valuations see retirement giant's net profit surge to $264m
"We have moved quickly to keep our residents and staff safe" - Scoullar
Some Metlifecare village staff, residents isolating
"A lot more risk of the pandemic this time": Metlifecare chief executive Earl Gasparich.
Metlifecare makes $304.4m profit, new $150m village planned
Total assets of $4b are up from $3.5b, company developing four new sites
Retirement village bosses meet virtually for pandemic discussions
The villages are responding strongly to the threat.
Retirement village apartment licences set $3m-$4m price records
Peddlethorp designed the buildings with Stewart Harris doing interior design.
Car collector at wheel for Summerset
"If I'm not here at Summerset, I'll be at a race track somewhere in New Zealand."
Sorry saga of Sue Brown's mum has sequel at Parliament
Consumer rights are weaker than they could be says Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson.
Retirement village criticised for care given to a man who fell walking his dog
The HDC is reminding retirement villages of its responsibilities to all it residents.
Steve Braunias: Love, loss and changing the law - The extraordinary life of Tim
Steve Braunias meets Tim Fairhall, who fought the law and the law lost.
Retirement village boss hits out at residents' call for change
'The arbiter of all this will not be you, me or the Government. It will be the residents.'
Retirement village residents air grievances
Inherant power imbalance between wealthy owner/operators and residents,
Brian Fallow: Making pensioners poorer isn't a Super idea
Treasury needs better ideas for containing the rising cost of NZ Superannuation.
The 'defiant' new boss of retirement giant Oceania Healthcare
"I've been in and around the sector for over 10 years," says Oceania Healthcare boss.
Aussies smack down Kiwi retirement giant's expansion effort
"Ryman has downplayed the impacts of the effects on this bayside estate" - tribunal
The sad life and lonely death of pensioner who found she didn't own her home
The missing house, the dead body, the secret affair, and the SFO investigation.
Retirement village living: How to choose the right one
Anne Gibson looks at some of the key issues to investigate before making your move.
Where 47,000 older Kiwis live: new study out
By 2033, JLL estimates around 81,000 people will live in these villages.
'Full legislative review' of retirement village sector needed, minister says
Poto Williams agrees with calls for an 'urgent' review of the law.
Business Hub: New Arvida CEO Jeremy Nicoll talks rugby and retirement
"I play for Takapuna - the Takapuna Turtles" says Jeremy Nicoll, new Arvida CEO.
Editorial: The retirement village sector must reform - or be forced to
Editorial: The problem is, the concerns have around for some time and well known about.
Retirement village reform: 'Major, material change needed'
Retirement Commissioner urges sweeping review of the sector.
Ryman's steps to keep 900 elderly safe from Covid outbreak
Ryman has 900 elderly people in five Victorian properties.
Millennials' financial confidence shaken by Covid
Soaring house prices likely to blame for a rise in financial anxiety of millennials.
Business Hub: Jeremy Nicoll
New Arvida CEO Jeremy Nicoll reveals the companies next moves post-covid for retirement living. Video / Dean Purcell
Radius, E-road report results
A 4.3ha site at Belfast, Christchurch is to be developed into a new village with hospital.
Chiefs promise 'improvements' to retirement village sector
A comprehensive blueprint for a range of improvements in the industry launched.
Substandard care: Elderly woman dies at rest home
Staff unable to explain why the woman had multiple fractures to her shoulder and legs.
Retirement village contracts, complaints system must improve: minister
"Some changes the industry could start to make themselves," Poto Williams says.
Opinion: The exposures facing healthcare sector growth
F&P Healthcare and Ryman have been standouts among Australasian healthcare companies.
Oceania Healthcare turns loss into big profit
Sales volumes rose 26 per cent in the latest year.
CEO quitting NZ's biggest listed retirement village owner
More time with family and pursuing other business ventures his new goals
Local Focus: Katikati Station – two years in the making
Tauranga Model Railway Club looks for a permanent home. Made with funding from NZ On Air.