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Ryman flags new $200 mln village for Auckland's Hobsonville

Wednesday 27 July 2016 11:44 AM

Ryman flags new $200 mln village for Auckland's Hobsonville

By Paul McBeth

July 27 (BusinessDesk) - Ryman Healthcare, the country's biggest retirement village operator, has bought a 4 hectare site in Auckland's Hobsonville for a $200 million development, marking its 10th village in New Zealand's largest city.

The new village would house more than 400 residents, including a rest home, and providing dementia and hospital-level care, adding to Ryman's Auckland portfolio of four existing villages, three under construction and two in the consenting phase, it said in a statement ahead of the company's annual meeting in Whangarei.

"We've invested in the Auckland region because there is an undersupply of housing for older people," chairman David Kerr said. "It is a fast-growing market and we're seeing strong demand. We have a lot of confidence in the market."

In May, Ryman marked yet another record profit as it benefited from an expansion across the Tasman and increased re-sales of occupation rights.

Ryman houses 10,000 residents at 30 villages and wants to accommodate a further 17,500 over the next five years. It has 13 more villages in the pipeline, of which four are expected to open this year. It's also looking for another two sites in Melbourne with a view to having five villages up and running in Australia's second-biggest city by 2020.

The company said first-quarter trading was in line with expectations without providing more details, and that the development programme was weighted to the second half of the financial year.

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Ryman shareholders will vote on approving a 9 percent payrise for the board today to reflect the expanding operations across the Tasman and match market-wide increases in directors' fees. Other resolutions Ryman shareholders will vote on include re-electing Kerr, co-founder Kevin Hickman, and Australian-based George Savvides to the board.

The shares slipped 0.4 percent to $9.70, having gained 15 percent this year.

(BusinessDesk)

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