Supply versus Demand: Finding housing for our elderly

From Afternoons, 1:10 pm on 1 December 2025

Where are you planning to live when you retire? Stay in your own home as long as possible? Move in with family maybe? Or are you keen to move into a retirement village?

Global property firm JLL recently released their 2025 report on the state of New Zealand retirement villages, and it has found that in the next 8 years demand is set to out strip supply by over 11 thousand places.

That's a deficit that's only expected to grow as our population ages.

WSP fellow and Deputy Director at the Helen Clark Foundation Kali Mercier joins Jesse to discuss.

This is a head and shoulders shot of Kali Mercier. She is wearing teal glasses which match the colour of her top.

Photo: Supplied - Helen Clark Foundation