Bay Sands Village
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Retirement living · Mount Maunganui, Tauranga

Bay Sands Village

Metlifecare Retirement Villages Limited · Mount Maunganui · minutes from golden beaches · independent apartments + villas with rest home care
Life Score
78
Strong
Capital Back
50
the money ↓
See what life here is like — then weigh what it means for your family further down.
The village

Life here

Bay Sands Village sits just minutes from Mount Maunganui's sparkling beaches, offering residents the best of both worlds—seaside living with easy access to Bayfair shopping and the Omanu Golf Course. This vibrant Metlifecare community features newly designed, luxuriously finished apartments and villas in a state-of-the-art setting. The spacious community centre is the heart of village life, where residents gather for café culture, swimming, fitness, and a rich calendar of social activities. It's a place where community is at the heart, and residents actively shape the village vibe.

Your home

Living options

Homes for Independent Living

Brand-new, move-in-ready apartments and villas, luxuriously finished and spacious.

2-bedroom villas from $840,000
3-bedroom villas from $1,190,000
3-bedroom apartments from $900,000
Open-plan design
Secure lockable windows and doors
Living options
A day in the life

What living here is actually like

Bay Sands is designed for active, engaged living.

Community & Activities

The expansive community centre is the social hub, offering café dining, a library, indoor heated pool, spa, gym, and cinema room. Residents enjoy organised entertainment, exercise classes, lawn bowls, petanque, arts and crafts, cards, bingo, and regular social outings and resident dinners.

Indoor heated swimming pool
Spa pool
Gym with exercise classes
Café and restaurant
Cinema room
Library
Bowling green and petanque
Hairdresser
Organised entertainment and social outings
Resident dinners and bar happy hours
Arts, crafts, cards, bingo, and quizzes
Always something on
On your doorstep

Facilities & services

Indoor heated swimming pool
Spa pool
Gym
Café and restaurant
Cinema room
Library
Hairdresser
Bowling green
Petanque court
Communal lounge
Barbecue area
Dining room
Health clinic
Emergency call system
Village van
24-hour on-site staff
Security patrols and cameras
Locked front gates at night
Peace of mind

Care for life, on site

If your health changes, you won't have to leave the place you know. Bay Sands Village offers these levels of care on site:

IndependentRest home
✓ Registered nurse available for appointments · Podiatrist available for appointments · Health clinic · Meal deliveries · Linen change
Care and community
Where it is

Setting & neighbourhood

Bay Sands Village is perfectly positioned in Mount Maunganui, just minutes from the golden sands of popular beaches. The village sits close to the Omanu Golf Course and within walking distance of Bayfair shopping and dining precinct, offering residents easy access to both coastal recreation and urban amenities. The location combines beach life with urban sophistication, making it ideal for those seeking an active, connected retirement lifestyle.

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Now the practical part

The money — what comes back to your family

You've seen why you'd love it. This is the part most families only discover at the exit statement — so we put it in plain sight. Every figure is from the village's own filed Disclosure Statement.

Capital Back score
50
Around average · #191 of 520
Better than 63% of NZ villages — yet the market median is just 46. The sector is tough.
Deferred fee
30%
charged on your entry price
Your share of capital gain
0%
operator keeps 100% of any uplift
Time to get capital back
~107 days
median, from 8 recent resales
Fees after you leave
Stop
good — many villages keep charging
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How the 50 is built

Nothing hidden — every component

The Capital Back score is a transparent weighting of five filed terms — you can see exactly where this village wins and loses.

Move-in fee you don't get back Deferred Management Fee — weighted 30%
30% deferred fee — lower is better.
25
Share of capital growth Capital gain to resident — weighted 15%
0% — the operator keeps any resale uplift.
0
Speed your capital returns Median resale time — weighted 30%
107 days across recent resales.
93
Fees stop when you leave Weekly fees on exit — weighted 15%
Charges end on vacancy.
100
Interest if repayment is slow Interest on delayed capital — weighted 10%
No interest on delayed repayment.
0
The filed terms, in plain English

What the Disclosure Statement actually says

Every operator uses different words for the same thing — we normalise them so you can compare like with like.

%

Deferred Management Fee

30%

Accrues over your first 3 years, charged on the entry price.

Market: median 30%; only 16% of villages charge under 25%.

Capital gain

0% to the resident

Any increase in the licence value at resale is kept entirely by the operator.

Market: just 8% of NZ villages share any capital gain.

How fast your capital comes back

~107 days median

Your capital is repaid once the unit is re-licensed to a new resident. (Operator-stated average: 106 days.)

Market: median 154 days; 21 villages still average over a year.

Fees & interest on exit

Resident-friendly

Weekly fees stop when you vacate.

Market: 220 of 520 villages keep charging weekly fees after you've gone.
Before you sign the ORA

The reckoning usually arrives too late

  • You're buying a licence to occupy, not the home — you can't sell, rent or borrow against it.
  • A large deferred fee is gone within a few years, whatever the unit later sells for.
  • Your family carries the risk of how long resale takes — and the operator's ability to pay.
  • None of this is hidden — it's all in the Disclosure Statement most people sign without reading.
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