The Retirement Village Association has expressed puzzlement at the complaints that inspired the Commerce Commission probe into retirement villages. Both Consumer NZ and the Retirement Village ...
Trade Me today entered the retirement village market adding a retirement village sub-site to Trade Me Property. The new retirement village section launched today with over 100 retirement villages from ...
The Commerce Commission is launching an investigation into potential breaches of the Fair Trade Agreement from retirement villages. This probe was inspired by several complaints from village residents ...
Brian Peat, national president of the Retirement Village Residents Association of NZ speaking during a visit to Blenheim.Anthony Phelps / STUFF There wasn’t an empty seat in sight at the Redwood ...
A group representing residents of retirement villages is furious about delays to changes to a 20-year-old Retirement Villages Act. Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka has confirmed a long-awaited ...
Retirement Villages Association executive director John Collyns said with 32,000 residents living in villages, the number of disputes represents around one for every 17,000 residents. Photo / iStock ...
Federal Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones says he wants to stamp out bad behaviour by retirement village operators following an ABC investigation that revealed "legalised financial abuse of ...
The retirement village industry is warning that requiring operators to return capital to residents within a specific timeframe could cause some smaller operators to become insolvent. It was just one ...
Troy Churton, former Commission for Financial Capability retirement villages national manager shares tips on factors to consider. Video / NZ Herald Residents in a 17-unit retirement village must pay ...
Good morning and thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. The invitation was given a few months ago by your executive officer, after a phone call from a member of the Retirement Villages ...
Life got so bad for 90-year-old Maurine Moore at her home in a retirement village in Melbourne that she contemplated suicide. "I felt that bad," she says, choking up. Earlier this year, the retired ...