Apartment or strata property
How it can work: You own your lot and share responsibility for common property.
Check carefully: Body corporate fees, sinking fund, building records, special levies, lifts, parking and pet rules.
Downsizer property options
Where could you go after you sell?
Compare the main property setups, then explore a practical starting list across six popular areas. Use it to narrow the field before you spend weekends driving from one inspection to another.
Compare the setup first
A smaller home can come with a very different contract.
The advertised price is only the beginning. Work out what you own, what you pay while living there and what happens when you leave.
Villa, townhouse or duplex
How it can work: This may be freehold, strata or community title. The legal setup matters more than the label.
Check carefully: Title, body corporate, stairs, access, maintenance, visitor parking and future resale.
Retirement village
How it can work: You may buy a right to live there rather than ordinary property title. Contracts vary.
Check carefully: Entry payment, ongoing charges, exit fee, capital gain or loss, refurbishment and resale timing.
Land-lease community
How it can work: You usually own the dwelling and pay to use the land.
Check carefully: Weekly site fees, how fees rise, sale rules, government-payment eligibility, pets and storage.
Serviced or rental living
How it can work: You pay rent or a bundled charge rather than buying ordinary property title.
Check carefully: What meals, cleaning, care or other services are included and how the agreement can change.
Names such as “villa”, “resort” and “community” don’t prove the legal ownership model. Read the contract and get independent legal and financial advice before you commit.
Explore by area or property setup
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This is a researched starting list, not every property or every current vacancy. Operators change prices, availability, fees and rules. Confirm those details directly before relying on them.
Showing 23 starting options
Gold Coast
Land-lease communitySeachange Emerald Lakes
Carrara
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Land-lease communityHalcyon Greens
Pimpama
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Retirement villageThe Verge at Burleigh
Burleigh Heads
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Check with the operator →Brisbane
Retirement villageParkside Carindale
Carindale
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Retirement villageThe Clayfield
Albion
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Land-lease communityIngenia Lifestyle Chambers Pines
Chambers Flat
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Check with the operator →Brisbane
Land-lease communityIngenia Lifestyle Bethania
Bethania
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Check with the operator →Northern NSW
Land-lease communityGemLife Tweed Waters
Tweed Heads South
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Retirement villageAveo Banora Point
Banora Point
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Land-lease communityHometown Banksia Waters
Tweed Heads West
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Land-lease communityTweed Broadwater Village
Tweed Heads South
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Check with the operator →Hervey Bay
Land-lease communityPalm Lake Resort Hervey Bay
Eli Waters
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Land-lease communityIngenia Lifestyle Hervey Bay
Urangan
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Serviced or rental livingEureka New Horizons Villas
Scarness
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Retirement village and careTorbay Lifestyles & Care
Torquay
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Check with the operator →Victoria
Land-lease communityLifestyle Communities Deanside
Deanside
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Land-lease communityLifestyle Communities St Leonards
St Leonards
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Check with the operator →Victoria
Retirement villageAveo Botanic Gardens
Cranbourne
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Retirement village and careRyman Weary Dunlop
Wheelers Hill
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Check with the operator →Western Australia
Retirement villageSt Ives Murdoch
Murdoch
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Check with the operator →Western Australia
Retirement villageBethanie on the Park
Menora
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Check with the operator →Western Australia
Retirement village and careSwanCare Bentley Park
Bentley
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Check with the operator →Western Australia
Land-lease communityTuart Lakes Lifestyle Resort
Baldivis
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Check with the operator →Before booking a tour
Ask for a real example of what you pay to enter, live there and leave.
- Ownership: What exactly am I buying or signing?
- Ongoing cost: What do I pay now, and how can it rise?
- Exit: Show me the amount I could receive after 1, 2, 5 and 10 years.
- Resale: Who controls the price, marketing and timing?
- Property work: Who pays for repairs or refurbishment when I leave?
- Daily life: What are the rules for pets, visitors, parking, storage and care?
Work out what is affordable
A shortlist is more useful when you know your real numbers.
Put your likely sale result beside the next property, selling costs, buying costs and the cash you want to keep. The free Gap Planner gives you a starting point before you inspect or commit.
Use this as a starting point.
This directory provides general property information. It isn’t a property appraisal, legal advice, financial advice or a recommendation to buy into any community. Information can change. Confirm the current contract, price, fees, availability and rules with the operator, then obtain advice suited to your circumstances.
Directory reviewed: 3 September 2026.