Across Australia there are 2,200 retirement villages, and most of them are hidden behind big fences and gates, with quiet streets of discrete homes.
No more! The new retirement village is vertical and rather than being hidden, they are bold and proud, reflecting the new village customer.
The photo above is a new retirement village just commencing construction by Reside Communities, on Hope Island, about 19km north of Surfers
Paradise. It will take five years to fully build, and when it is finished it will have 348 village apartments across five towers of seven storeys, plus a Woolworths next door and a much more.
In Adelaide, Uniting Communities, a part of the Uniting Church, has just opened its U City building (pictured right) in the very centre of Adelaide’s CBD. It has six floors of retirement village apartments.
In Sydney, Presbyterian Care has just completed a luxury apartment village in the middle of upmarket inner-city Paddington (pictured below).
North of Brisbane, at Newport on the Redcliffe Peninsula, Stockland has completed this 125-apartment village as part of a larger urban development (pictured left).
And in Melbourne Australian Unity has just opened The Grace at Albert Park Lake with 79 apartments up to 300sqm in size and with prices starting at $650,000, with one penthouse at the top with two outdoor terraces going for up to $4.5 million. (pictured right).
These new styles of retirement village reflect new retirees who want choice – and the village sector, private and Not For Profit, is listening.
You can discover more choice on villages.com.au.
