Highgrove Retirement Village
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Retirement living · Unsworth Heights, North Shore

Highgrove Retirement Village

Highgrove Holdings Limited · Albany, North Shore · independent apartments + assisted living + on-site hospital care
Life Score
79
Strong
Capital Back
32
the money ↓
See what life here is like — then weigh what it means for your family further down.
The village

Life here

Nestled in Albany's leafy northern reaches, Highgrove offers flexible lifestyle and care choices designed to let you live life your way. Whether you're seeking independent living with freedom to travel and explore, or prefer the reassurance of assisted services close at hand, the village adapts to your changing needs. With Patrick Ferry House on-site, couples and loved ones can remain together even when more intensive care becomes necessary—a rare comfort in retirement living.

Your home

Living options

Apartments

Sunny, thoughtfully designed one and two-bedroom apartments with full kitchens, generous living areas, and private outdoor space.

One and two-bedroom apartments
Full kitchen with composite granite benchtop
Tiled bathroom with underfloor heating
Paved garden patio or balcony
Elevated views
24-hour emergency call buttons in master bedroom and bathroom
Living options
A day in the life

What living here is actually like

Life at Highgrove balances independence with community and support.

Village Life & Services

Residents enjoy flexible service options including meals and cleaning, plus access to shared facilities that encourage connection and wellbeing.

Heated swimming pool and spa
Gymnasium
Dining facilities
Optional meals service
Optional cleaning service
Close to golf courses, medical centre, and local shops
Near Westfield Glenfield and Albany shopping malls
Always something on
On your doorstep

Facilities & services

Heated swimming pool and spa
Gymnasium
Dining room
Emergency call system
On-site hospital (Patrick Ferry House)
Peace of mind

Care for life, on site

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

IndependentServicedRest homeHospital
Care and community
Where it is

Setting & neighbourhood

Highgrove sits in Albany, a well-established suburb on Auckland's North Shore. The village enjoys proximity to several golf courses, a medical centre, and local shops, with easy access to major shopping destinations including Westfield Glenfield and Albany malls. The setting balances suburban convenience with a quieter, family-friendly neighbourhood feel.

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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
32
Capital-unfriendly · #416 of 520
Better than 20% 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
not enough resales disclosed
Fees after you leave
Stop
good — many villages keep charging
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How the 32 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
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 2 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.

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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