Now they are expanding, buying three Auckland retirement villages for $62 million.

It is only a matter of time before individual village owners in Australia come together to pull their villages into an investment fund similar to Arvida, which is led by Bill McDonald (pictured) from Australia who worked with ING and Stockland on their retirement village businesses.

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