Specialist Retirement Property Developers

At last, after much discussion and debate in the private sector, our older population does not have to continue to fear old age. Some serious specialist development companies are set to change the future for our older population. Using the successful models and experience of Assisted Living schemes in the USA and other countries around the world, they are evolving a new better, real alternative to residential care and more conventional sheltered housing to form retirement living with a difference.

So what are these new Developments offering?

Leasehold purchase or a rental alternative, of decent sized apartments, cottages or bungalows with a minimum level of service including 24 hour emergency care, in a hotel type of environment with a host of amenities on your doorstep. Additionally they will be able to provide flexible levels of extra care to enable residents to remain in their homes or community as their independence reduces.

What does this really mean?

Well, you can have a property that is designed specifically for the older generation in mind, with discrete emergency call alarms if you need help, a safe environment to live removing the worry when you go away on holiday, the use of the communal facilities including the landscaped grounds, the use of the community skilled maintenance and management staff, assistance with personal laundry, the preparation of meals, involvement in the communities’ daily social activities including exercise activities, entertainment, excursions and services.

Some of the communities are offering much more, including use of the community’s interior design services, and provide facilities which may include coffee bars, restaurants, Club House, bar, cinemas, library, health spa, tennis courts, swimming pools, allotments and provide guest accommodation.

2007 has already seen the opening of many Assisted living communities, throughout the country, and this is only the start of things to come, with a number of villages already having been granted planning permission and are due for release in 2008.

The following companies specialise in building villages with Assisted Living or Extra Care apartments, cottages and homes.

Audley Life
Retirement Villages
Prestigious Retirement Villages plc

A retirement with a difference

Other types of retirement property are undergoing an evolution with the vision and drive of Specialist Developers introducing environmental energy saving benefits to their retirement properties.

Countryside Properties working with the National Trust have introduced a fantastic and unique opportunity for people aged 55 and over to live on one of England Grandest estates. Cliveden Village is an exceptional development of contemporary apartments and houses built within the 376 acre, National Trust owned Cliveden Estate. Cliveden, built for the Duke of Buckingham, has been synonymous with innovative contemporary architecture and when it was completed by Sir Charles Barry in 1851 it was heralded as one of England’s most extravagant, unusual buildings at the leading edge of design. Countryside Properties have created a community of the highest standard of modern architecture to truly reflect and compliment one of England’s most distinguished estates.

The Retirement Properties in Cliveden Village have a very strong environmental agenda, both in terms of the materials chosen for construction and in the actual design of the homes. Wherever possible and viable, the homes are built using materials that are renewable, sustainable or recyclable, and have been oriented to maximise the amount of heat that they can gain from the sun.

For more information on this unique opportunity have a look at this development or visit their website at http://www.clivedenvillage.net