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Woburn Masonic Care
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Retirement living · Westown, New Plymouth

Woburn Masonic Care

Masonic Care Limited · Lower Hutt · rest home & care facility · Masonic values of care, community & compassion
Life Score
33
Basic
Capital Back
32
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

Woburn Masonic Care is a modern rest home facility in Lower Hutt, operated by the Masonic Villages Trust—a charitable organisation with a long history of quality retirement communities across the southern North Island. The facility combines sophisticated care features and amenities with the Masonic model of care, which goes beyond physical infrastructure to prioritise Care, Community, and Compassion. Here, residents receive support underpinned by values that have guided Freemasonry for generations.

Your home

Living options

Care Suites

Woburn Masonic Care offers residential suites within a state-of-the-art care facility designed for those requiring rest home or higher-level care.

✓ Modern suites with contemporary amenities
✓ Secure unit windows and doors
✓ State-of-the-art facility infrastructure
Living options
A day in the life

What living here is actually like

Life at Woburn Masonic Care is centred on community and wellbeing.

Community & Activities

Residents benefit from a care environment built on Masonic principles that emphasise compassion and community connection. The facility supports residents to engage in meaningful activities and social connection as part of their daily life.

✓ Community-focused care model
✓ Regular activities and engagement opportunities
✓ Support for residents' wellbeing and quality of life
On your doorstep

Facilities & services

State-of-the-art care facility
Modern amenities
Secure accommodation
Community spaces
Peace of mind

Care for life, on site

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

Rest home→Hospital
✓ Rest home care · Hospital-level care
Care and community
Where it is

Setting & neighbourhood

Woburn Masonic Care is located in Lower Hutt, in the Wai-Iti Crescent area. The facility is part of the Masonic Villages Trust network, which operates multiple retirement villages and care facilities across towns in the southern North Island, including six in Taranaki. The Trust operates on charitable and benevolent principles at the heart of Freemasonry, providing quality care communities throughout the region.

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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 · #422 of 520
Better than 19% of NZ villages — yet the market median is just 46. The sector is tough.
Deferred fee
30%
~$90k on a $300k unit, over 2.5 years
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
7 years
Your estate receives
$210,000
Operator keeps (deferred fee)$90,000
Share of your $300,000 back70%
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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.

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Deferred Management Fee

30% of $300,000 = ~$90,000

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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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.
  • Roughly $90,000 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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