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.
老年人自己买房,并根据所需要服务的种类付费。奥特威老俩口花了32.5万英镑买了一套双卧室的公寓房,目前每季度各种服务费用支出是1500英镑。一旦将来公寓房卖掉,卖房款的10%归老年村的经营者LifeCare Residences所有。它由从业经验丰富的企业家加文•阿列克西奇(Gavin Aleksich)经营,他认定此行特别有发展前途,于2005年从新西兰移居英国。