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Horowhenua Masonic Care Facility
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Retirement living · Levin, Horowhenua

Horowhenua Masonic Care Facility

Masonic Care Limited · Rest home, hospital and respite care in park-like grounds · 77 beds with registered nurses 24/7
Capital Back
38
the money ↓
See what life here is like — then weigh what it means for your family further down.
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The village

Life here

Set within the peaceful grounds of Horowhenua Masonic Village in Levin, this 77-bed care facility brings together rest home, hospital, and respite services under one roof. Care is planned in genuine partnership—staff regularly seek feedback from residents and families to ensure every person's needs are truly met. With registered nurses on-site around the clock, a physiotherapist visiting weekly, and a full kitchen preparing home-baked meals daily, life here balances professional care with the comfort of community.

Your home

Living options

Care Accommodation

Rest home and hospital care beds, plus eight care suites available for purchase under Occupation Right Agreement. Premium rooms available with optional accommodation supplement.

✓ 77 total care beds
✓ 8 care suites (ORA purchase)
✓ Standard and premium room options
✓ Accommodation supplements $0–$100/day depending on room selection
Living options
A day in the life

What living here is actually like

Daily life centres on meaningful activity, good food, and genuine connection.

Activities & Community

Meals are cooked fresh on-site with home baking for morning and afternoon teas. A full recreation programme includes arts and crafts, exercise classes, music, visiting entertainers, animal visits, and van outings. Residents gather in multiple day rooms, the café, library, and chapel—spaces designed for both quiet reflection and social warmth.

✓ On-site kitchen with home baking
✓ Arts, crafts, music and entertainment
✓ Weekly physiotherapy sessions
✓ Van outings and animal visits
✓ Café, library, chapel, multiple day rooms
✓ Diversional therapy programme
Always something on
On your doorstep

Facilities & services

Hair salon
Activities room (physio & diversional therapy)
Library
Chapel
Multiple day rooms
Café
Commercial kitchen
Laundry services
Peace of mind

Care for life, on site

If your health changes, you won't have to leave the place you know. Horowhenua Masonic Care Facility offers these levels of care on site:

Rest home→Hospital
✓ Registered nurses (24/7 on-site) · Caregivers · Diversional therapists · Physiotherapist (weekly) · Dietitian (regular visits)
Care and community
Where it is

Setting & neighbourhood

Horowhenua Masonic Care Facility is located in Levin, Horowhenua, within the park-like grounds of Horowhenua Masonic Village. The setting provides a peaceful, garden-like environment while maintaining easy access to local health services, including liaison with MidCentral Health specialist services and Arohanui Hospice. The facility is integrated with the broader Masonic Villages community, creating a supportive neighbourhood for residents and their families.

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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
38
Below average · #351 of 520
Better than 33% of NZ villages — yet the market median is just 46. The sector is tough.
Deferred fee
30%
~$39k on a $130k unit, over 2.5 years
Your share of capital gain
0%
operator keeps 100% of any uplift
Time to get capital back
~45 days
median, from 2 recent resales
Fees after you leave
Continue
charged until the unit resells
7 years
Your estate receives
$91,000
Operator keeps (deferred fee)$39,000
Share of your $130,000 back70%
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How the 38 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%
45 days across recent resales.
100
Fees stop when you leave Weekly fees on exit — weighted 15%
Fees continue until the unit resells.
0
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.

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Deferred Management Fee

30% of $130,000 = ~$39,000

Accrues over your first 2.5 years, charged on the entry price.

Market: median 30%; only 16% of villages charge under 25%.
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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.
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How fast your capital comes back

~45 days median

Your capital is repaid once the unit is re-licensed to a new resident. (Operator-stated average: 45 days.)

Market: median 154 days; 21 villages still average over a year.
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Fees & interest on exit

Watch this

Weekly fees continue until the unit resells.

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.
  • Roughly $39,000 is gone in deferred fees within 2.5 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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