LIFE at Halcyon Parks in Caloundra is just as good the second time around for British expats Jim and Eleanor McCann. The McCanns are settling back into the community after living in Scotland for the past seven years.

Prior to that, they had lived at Halcyon Parks for five years until personal circumstances took them back to the United Kingdom in 2011. “We never really wanted to leave here and it was always in our minds to come back to Australia,” Jim said.

The warmth of the welcome the McCanns received when they visited the community just after returning to Australia in ...

Kate Markey’s busy and active lifestyle is even easier to live since she moved to Halcyon Glades.
On top of putting many activities she loves right on her doorstep, the move has opened the door to a more social life. 

The former arts and craft teacher paints, plays pickleball, enjoys yoga and Tai Chi, hits the gym and is a regular in the pool. In fact, her love of aquatic action was a key factor in her decision to move from a townhouse in suburban Zillmere to a new home at Halcyon Glades.

“In Brisbane I went to the local swimming pool ...

Caboolture has welcomed the first major phase of it’s $1 billion in public and private infrastructure investment with the official opening of Pumicestone Marketplace. The 4,500 sqm neighbourhood shopping centre launched a Drakes supermarket on 29 January, with a Stellarossa coffee shop, bakery, bottle shop, pharmacy, medical practice, and several more speciality shops to open over the following weeks. 

Pumicestone Maketplace comes as Caboolture welcomes new infrastructure initiatives that are improving transport connectivity, boosting vital services and enhancing lifestyle amenities in a region ‘where the country meets the city’. Halcyon joint managing director Dr Bevan Geissmann said the north Caboolture region ...

Halcyon Greens has unveiled the first stage of its spectacular $13 million Recreational Precinct setting the benchmark for lifestyle communities in Australia.

The Pavilion plays host to the largest pickleball facility in Australia, a sport that is taking home owners by storm. Complete with eight floodlit pickleball courts, the five-star facility features a floodlit championship sized bowling green, floodlit tennis court, BBQ facilities, kitchenette and function space for home owners to enjoy a game of billiards or socialise after a game on the courts.

Halcyon joint-managing director Dr Bevan Geissmann said Halcyon was thrilled to deliver the first phase of a precinct ...

At Halcyon we see our role as planning, designing, building and delivering a lifestyle community that allows you to fully embrace the next chapter of your life. Each Halcyon community is a place to call home where you can rejuvenate, feel safe and most importantly, be amongst friends.

Such a community evolves from thorough research, thoughtful planning, years of experience and a commitment to quality. This process starts with site selection. For us it’s the most important step in creating a new community because it ultimately influences how the project’s masterplan and character will unfold.

Several factors guide us when looking at ...

In 2019 Halcyon celebrates 15 years since our first home owner arrived at Halcyon Parks in Caloundra.

For both of us it seems just like yesterday that Peg Liesegang moved into her new Halcyon home - the first of hundreds to follow across our seven communities. When we established Halcyon we wanted to break the mould of a traditional retirement village and introduce a lifestyle that met the changing needs and higher expectations of modern seniors.

Fifteen years after setting out on this journey, we continue to be passionate about what we do and remain focussed on the future and the many ...

Halcyon Lakeside craftsman Howard Cox turns the mundane into the magnificent. A fitter and turner by trade, Howard loves to create exquisite guitars, ukuleles, banjos and banjoleles out of things like biscuit tins, cigar boxes, truck hub caps, distinctive wood and - in one case – a huge piece of fruit.

He has made around 70 of the stringed instruments since becoming fascinated with a cigar box guitar he saw in a shop while on holiday five years ago. “I wanted to buy it, but it was too expensive,” he said. “I thought to myself ‘I could build one of those’ ...

At Halcyon we believe that word of mouth is the best publicity of all. That’s because the people who live at Halcyon are the real experts about what we do, and the best ambassadors for our seven lifestyle communities.

We value their word of mouth recommendations so highly that six years ago we began a program rewarding home owners who successfully refer family or friends to Halcyon. Under the initiative, home owners receive $1,500 as well as an additional $500 to donate to the charity of their choice, if their referred family member or friend buys a home in a Halcyon ...

Halcyon Greens at Pimpama was the ideal place for Probus South Pacific Limited chairman Douglas Geekie and his wife Suzanne to downsize. As the Chairman of a 125,000-member organisation that promotes active retirees, and provides support services to Clubs through friendship, fellowship and fun, Douglas is finding the Halcyon lifestyle agrees with his sociable and energetic outlook.

Douglas and Suzanne decided to move to Halcyon Greens last year after living in their large home at Hope Island Resort for 17 years. “We wanted to downsize because the house we had was about 42 squares that placed increasing demands on our time ...

Our home owners are opening their doors and hosting our biggest ever open day event at three of our lifestyle communities on Saturday 9 March.

This will be a great opportunity to get an insider’s view of how Life Begins at Halcyon and to celebrate Halcyon’s 15-year anniversary. Come along to Halcyon Greens in Pimpama, Halcyon Glades at Caboolture and Halcyon Lakeside on the Sunshine Coast to see for yourself what living here looks and feels like.

Chat with our home owners – the real Halcyon experts - who love showing off their community, sharing their experiences and providing genuine insights into ...