Regis Healthcare signs a binding agreement to acquire Royal Freemasons Homes of Victoria’s home care business in a transaction funded entirely with cash and slated to complete in the second quarter of FY27. The deal covers the Victorian home care operations rather than its residential facilities, giving Regis a bigger footprint in community-based aged care instead of bricks-and-mortar sites. Management presents the move as a way to scale faster in a segment where demand and funding are both rising.
Under the agreement, Regis takes over Royal Freemasons’ Victorian business assets across the Commonwealth Home Support Programme and its Support at Home services, which together serve around 480 clients. The aged care group does not reveal how much it is paying, keeping the transaction value confidential.
Regis indicates the acquisition should lift its home care revenue by more than $10 million a year. That pushes the company’s total annualised home care revenue to roughly $50 million, a significant step up in the size of its in-home operations.
Regis presents the enlarged home care platform as a way to capture strong industry tailwinds, especially the growing preference among older Australians to remain at home rather than move into residential facilities. Sector analysts point to demographic momentum, with an ageing population driving higher demand for support services delivered in the community.
Government policy leans toward funding care at home, and that shift is creating more revenue visibility for providers that can scale effectively. With this Victorian acquisition, Regis is betting that a bigger integrated home care network will position it well as funding models evolve.
