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Paulger Courts Village
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Retirement living · City Center, Christchurch

Paulger Courts Village

George Manning Village Limited · Spreydon, Christchurch · retirement living in Canterbury
Life Score
82
Exceptional
Capital Back
43
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

Paulger Courts Village is a retirement community located in Spreydon, Christchurch, offering residents a village lifestyle with accommodation and services designed for active retirement living. While specific details about daily life are limited in available sources, the village operates as part of the broader retirement village sector, providing residents with community-focused living options.

Your home

Living options

Accommodation

Paulger Courts Village offers retirement living accommodation in Spreydon.

Living options
A day in the life

What living here is actually like

Community and lifestyle

Village Living

As a retirement village, Paulger Courts Village provides a community-focused environment for residents.

Always something on
Peace of mind

Care for life, on site

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

Independent
Care and community
Where it is

Setting & neighbourhood

Paulger Courts Village is situated in Spreydon, a residential suburb of Christchurch in Canterbury, New Zealand. The location provides access to local amenities and community services typical of established Christchurch neighbourhoods.

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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
43
Below average · #302 of 520
Better than 42% 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
~156.5 days
median, from 4 recent resales
Fees after you leave
Continue
charged until the unit resells
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How the 43 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%
156.5 days across recent resales.
86
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%
Interest is payable if capital is returned late.
100
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%

Accrues over your first 3 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

~156.5 days median

Your capital is repaid once the unit is re-licensed to a new resident. (Operator-stated average: 169 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, and interest is payable if your capital is returned late.

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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