Tamahere Country Club
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Retirement living · Tamahere, Waikato

Tamahere Country Club

Tamahere Country Club Care Centre Limited · Tamahere, Waikato · independent villas + rest home and dementia care
Life Score
73
Strong
Capital Back
41
the money ↓
See what life here is like — then weigh what it means for your family further down.
The village

Life here

Tamahere Country Club brings resort-inspired living to the Waikato, where lifestyle and luxury converge. Residents enjoy meticulously crafted standalone villas set within beautifully maintained grounds, complemented by world-class facilities and a vibrant social calendar. The village seamlessly extends care options through its adjacent 60-bed rest home and 20-bed dementia facility, allowing residents to age in place with dignity. Here, retirement feels less like a transition and more like the beginning of an enriched chapter.

Your home

Living options

Villas

Stunning standalone villas designed to meet a variety of lifestyle needs, each with high-quality fixtures and fittings.

Two-bedroom options
Three-bedroom options
Double or single garage
Guest rooms and offices available
27–71 sqm room sizes (care facility suites)
Living options
A day in the life

What living here is actually like

Life at Tamahere Country Club centres on connection, wellness, and leisure.

Activities & Social Life

The village offers a comprehensive calendar of organised entertainment, social outings, and resident dinners, alongside access to premium facilities including a heated pool, health spa, golf driving range, and cinema room.

Exercise classes
Lawn bowls and croquet
Billiards and cards
Movie nights and quizzes
Bar happy hours
Arts and crafts
Organised entertainment
The Clubhouse, Lake House, and Pavilion venues
Always something on
On your doorstep

Facilities & services

Gym
Library
Cinema room
The Clubhouse
The Lake House
Bar
Health Spa
Golf driving range
Bowling green
Croquet lawn
Billiards room
Hobby room
Motorhome parking
Heated pool
The Pavilion
Lock-up storage
Village van
Milk and newspaper delivery
Peace of mind

Care for life, on site

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

IndependentRest homeHospitalSecure dementia
✓ Registered nurse · Doctor · Physiotherapy · Podiatry
Care and community
Where it is

Setting & neighbourhood

Tamahere Country Club is located in Tamahere, Waikato, near Hamilton. The village sits on a 1-hectare site designed to evoke the ambiance of the world's finest resorts, with beautifully landscaped grounds and premium amenities. The adjacent care facility—a 60-bed rest home and hospital with a 20-bed dementia unit—ensures continuity of care as residents' needs evolve, serving both the village community and the wider Hamilton area.

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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
41
Below average · #323 of 520
Better than 38% of NZ villages — yet the market median is just 46. The sector is tough.
Deferred fee
35%
charged on your entry price
Your share of capital gain
0%
operator keeps 100% of any uplift
Time to get capital back
median, from 1 recent resales
Fees after you leave
Stop
good — many villages keep charging
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How the 41 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%
35% deferred fee — lower is better.
13
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%
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.

%

Deferred Management Fee

35%

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, 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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