Evergreen Lifestyle Broadacres Village

With four Western Cape villages in its portfolio, and now the beautiful Broadacres Village in Gauteng, plus a host of international accolades that include Best Retirement Development in South Africa and Africa, Evergreen Lifestyle’s claim that it builds and manages exceptional retirement villages is much more than mere grandiloquence.

Arthur Case, Evergreen Group CEO, believes that peace of mind is essential to enjoying retirement to the full. “Sustained independence, friendships and vitality, plus a vibrant, companionable community, make for retirement living at its best. We take care of village maintenance and management and provide a range of domestic services that frees residents from obligations and gives them the time to enjoy clubs, special interest groups and an active social life from day one.”

Broadacres already comprises 130 completed homes. The last few of these brand new, spacious three bedroomed homes with double garages, set in beautiful landscaped gardens, are available for sale. Still to be completed is the Lifestyle Centre, where construction has already commenced, as well as a number of luxury two and three bedroomed apartments.

Once completed the village will have more than 200 units, which augurs well for levy economics. Evergreen’s policy is not to profit from levies, but to keep levies affordable as this is in the interests of the developer and life-right holders.

“Evergreen Broadacres village offers a life-right purchase model that complies with the Housing Development Schemes for Retired Persons Act, No 65 of 1988, providing residents with security of tenure for life,” explains Arthur. “Life rights represent the only retirement model where the interests of the developer and those of the resident are so closely aligned. Because the life-right developer remains engaged, unlike some sectional title and freehold developers who disappear once the last unit is sold, it is in the developer’s interests to look after the physical assets, keep levies affordable and offer a professional management service. Evergreen manages every aspect of the village, including security, catering, health care, garden maintenance and landscaping, and the maintenance of the communal facilities. Not all life-right schemes are the same. Evergreen offers flexible pricing to help purchasers match the purchase price of the life right to their available capital. In other words, life rights may be purchased at a discount in exchange for a reduction in the capital return on termination of the life right. This is possible because the Evergreen Group takes a long-term view on return on capital.”

Evergreen national sales director Philip Wilson adds: “With life rights, buyers can structure their purchase according to their means, and confidently plan and fund an Evergreen lifestyle tailored to their particular circumstances, without concerns regarding sustainability and affordability.”

Although retirees at Evergreen Broadacres village are relatively young and healthy, the true value of the selected retirement option will come into its own if their health is compromised. Primary health care services at the village are managed by Unique Health, Evergreen’s preferred service provider. Every home is equipped with a TeleCare unit, which is a medical emergency device providing 24/7 access to a call centre that can dispatch ambulances and paramedics within minutes of the resident pushing the button.

Broadacres village’s continuing care approach provides great health and active lifestyles for everyone in order to combat ageing and the onset of frailty. This is supported by personalised and discreet home-based health care, delivered by experienced carers and nurses. The impressive new 4000 m² Lifestyle Centre, which will not only have a restaurant, TV lounge, games room, heated pool and gym, along with a library and hair salon, but include a health care centre with a clinic, occupational therapy suite, visiting doctors’ rooms and a specialist 32-bed frail care unit, testifies to the Evergreen approach.

Security is a key concern for all South Africans, with older people often being the targets of housebreaking and theft. Broadacres village security measures include access control, visitor management systems, electric fencing, CCTV cameras, 24-hour patrols and push-button assistance.

Working together, the entire infrastructure is geared towards delivering the Evergreen promise – which, in a nutshell, is retirement living at its best!