Residents buy their homes and pay ongoing fees that vary with the type of services they need or desire. The Otways paid £325,000 for their two-bedroom flat and currently pay £1,500 per quarter in service charges. When his home is resold, 10 per cent of the sales price will go to the village operator, LifeCare Residences, which is run by Gavin Aleksich, a seasoned retirement village entrepreneur who moved from New Zealand to the UK in 2005 after identifying it as a particularly promising market.
老年人自己買房,並根據所需要服務的種類付費。奧特威老倆口花了32.5萬英鎊買了一套雙臥室的公寓房,目前每季度各種服務費用支出是1500英鎊。一旦將來公寓房賣掉,賣房款的10%歸老年村的經營者LifeCare Residences所有。它由從業經驗豐富的企業家加文•阿列克西奇(Gavin Aleksich)經營,他認定此行特別有發展前途,於2005年從紐西蘭移居英國。