Would you 支払う／賃金 £3m for a flat in Britain's most luxurious community for the retired?
At first ちらりと見ること, you would be forgiven for thinking Auriens is one of the 資本／首都's most luxurious hotels.
Beyond its elegant, marble-床に打ち倒すd atrium is a tranquil pool and spa, art-deco speakeasy 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業, 支持を得ようと努めるd-panelled cinema and 罰金-dining restaurant.
But, the £250 million 開発 is one of a new wave of 高級な 退職 communities that 約束 the gold 基準 in later life living ― 完全にする with a chef, chauffeur and concierge.
Just a 石／投石する's throw from London's trendy King's Road, Auriens is home to 56 apartments for 居住（者）s 老年の 65 加える with discerning tastes and 深い pockets.
の中で its 居住（者）s is 82-year-old former Vogue cover 星／主役にする Paulene 石／投石する, while Bafta Award 勝利者 法案 Nighy was a guest at a 最近の 調書をとる／予約する 開始する，打ち上げる.
罰金 living: Sunday roast at Auriens' onsite restaurant Culfords
The cost of care is 急に上がるing in the UK, with a place in a care home now costing around £800 a week on 普通の／平均（する）, によれば the charity Age UK, and a nursing home £1,078.
Auriens prices are の中で the higher end, to 反映する the 高級な lifestyle they afford.
One bedroom apartments start at £2,750,000, while two-bedroom homes can be 購入（する）d for £3,995,000.
Those who would rather rent can 推定する／予想する to 支払う／賃金 £18,650 per month, or an 注目する，もくろむ-watering £223,800 a year, for a one bedroom.
In need of a bit of extra space? 推定する／予想する to 支払う／賃金 £24,000 a month for a two-bedroom apartment.
Inside the soft-lit atrium, an easel 陳列する，発揮するs a 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of the 近づいている events, which 含む an evening with former cricketer Alec Stewart OBE and jazz dinner with musician Ian Shaw in onsite restaurant Culfords.
A small group of 居住（者）s are chatting about next week's menu with the concierge while sipping loose-leaf tea from 罰金 中国 cups.
I can hear the sound of the 居住（者）s' choir wafting up the 支持を得ようと努めるd-panelled staircase as they rehearse downstairs in the library.
Little wonder Auriens feels almost like an outpost of Claridge's: many of the staff were 以前 雇うd at some of London's most prestigious five-星／主役にする hotels.
長，率いる chef Matthaios Tsistrakis joined the team from The Savoy, while restaurant 経営者／支配人 Francisco Martinez swapped 私的な member's club Annabel's for Auriens.
Henry Lumby, the sales director, says: 'We train our staff in the art of knowing, 心配するing our 居住（者）s' every need before they even ask.
'One of our 居住（者）s broke 負かす／撃墜する while 運動ing to see her daughter. Rather than calling the AA she rang the concierge.'
Most Auriens 居住（者）s move in after downsizing from smart London 演説（する）／住所s, 解放する／自由なing up wealth which can then be enjoyed in their golden years. Downsizers in England and むちの跡s can 打ち明ける £305,090 on 普通の／平均（する） by moving f rom a four-bed to a two-bed home, によれば 広い地所 スパイ／執行官 Savills.
Yet around 1.3 million homeowners 老年の 65 and over still live in four-bedroom homes, as the cost of stamp 義務 and 欠如（する） of appropriate 退職 homes 封鎖するs them from moving.
This country lags behind the 概念 of 退職 communities, with only 0.6 per cent of Britons living in one compared with at least 5-6 per cent in New Zealand, Australia and the US, によれば the Associated 退職 Community 操作者s (ARCO).
Auriens 居住（者）s are 78 years old on 普通の／平均（する） when they move into the community, but with each apartment designed with ageing in mind, they can be adapted to 居住（者）s' 必要物／必要条件s.
Riverstone Living 類似して 申し込む／申し出s the 基準 of a hotel with the feeling of home to the 居住（者）s of its two 高級な 退職 communities in Kensington and Fulham, West London.
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設立するd in 2019 with the bac king of 投資 bank Goldman Sachs, Riverstone saw a gap in the market for later-living villages for 井戸／弁護士席-to-do over-65s who want to downsize but stay in the 資本／首都.
Before they move in, 居住（者）s can discuss modifications to their apartment with the company's 'wellbeing 外交官／大使'.
Want new wallpaper or carpets? Of course.
Staff are 利用できる 24/7 and there's also an intimate 私的な cinema, sumptuous 支持を得ようと努めるd-panelled club room, library, brasserie serving seasonal produce and seafood, 加える an on 場所／位置 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業.
One-bedroom apartments at its Kensington 演説（する）／住所 start at £785,000, or £922 a week if renting, 加える a £1,388-a-month 維持／整備 料金.
Elysian 住居s has places in London and the Home 郡s and the 会社／堅い seems to have touched on a 甘い 位置／汚点／見つけ出す for older 買い手s with its sell: 'A zest for life. A passion for culture. A taste for the finer things. These are not 質s that 減らす with age. In fact, やめる the 逆転する.'
A chestnut-lined 運動 leads up to Wildernesse House in Sevenoaks, Kent, a 抱擁する stately pile in 24 landscaped acres which has all the five-星／主役にする hotel 施設s a 居住（者） could want. 加える you can bring your dog or cat if you're buying one of the 23 apartments or eight new mews homes. Prices from £1,050,000 for apartments in the main house, £1,200,000 for mews houses and £595,000 for modern apartments.
At Audley Sunningdale Park in Ascot, Berkshire, staff know the 指名するs of each of the 39 owners and their tipple of choice at happy hour every Friday.
'A lot of our owners lived in a big house and were lonely,' says general 経営者／支配人 Patrick Letham. 'Many just want to pre-empt the need to move again five or ten years 負かす／撃墜する the line by 未来-proofing themselves. Now they have a community. Everything they need is on tap and they no longer have to worry.'
Do owners ever feel claustrophobic living in such a 限定するd community, I ask.
'We have owners who keep to themselves and don't come to coffee mornings or events,' he says.
Downsizing was one of the main 推論する／理由s owner Lynn Whiteman, 74, moved to Sunningdale after she became a 未亡人.
The former British 航空路s Concorde flight attendant had been living 地元で when she became one of the first 居住（者）s to buy a 所有物／資産／財産 off-計画（する） at Sunningdale.
Since moving in, she says she's never been so busy. 'I 参加する Pilates classes and go to the coffee mornings.'
Raising a glass: 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Adele Cooke at Audley Sunningdale Park in Berkshire
There is also 弓術，射手隊, 野性生物 photography, 絵 and beekeeping on 申し込む／申し出.
'I love that I can have my own life but also feel part of something,' she says.
Today, Tricia Brooking, 73, has a 10am Pilates class, lunch, then a きびきびした walk with a friend.
The mother of two downsized to Sunningdale with husband Roger after her four-bedroom detached house in Maidenhead became unmanageable.
'We knew we needed to move 18 months ago and this was the best move we have ever made. I keep telling my friends that they should move in too.'
Other Sunningdale owners are retired 外科医s, 操縦するs and captains of 産業.
未亡人s or women who have had to take on 付加 caring 責任／義務s for their partner seem to 特に 利益 from moving into such a community where friendship groups 栄える.
国家的に, there are four times more 未亡人s 老年の over 80 than widowers, によれば 退職 specialist Just Group.
And 人物／姿／数字s from City, University of London agree, with 熟考する／考慮するs showing that moving into a 退職 villages can 上げる the longevity of women by as much as five years.
Prices to buy a home at Sunningdale start from £739,950 but can 越える £1 million for larger apartments in Northcote House, the Grade II-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d 1930s mansion 以前 used as a party pad by industrialist Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen. There is also a 月毎の £1,272 service 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金.
Once a part of Windsor 広大な／多数の／重要な Park, home to the 王室のs, Northcote House is now home to the village's bistro, 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 and health club, with pool, sauna and steam room. Inside, the capacious 製図／抽選 rooms are adorned with equestrian 絵s, horse 長，率いる 破産した／（警察が）手入れするs and racing silks 支払う／賃金ing homage to nearby Ascot and 王室の Windsor racecourses.
The enormous horseshoe-形態／調整d 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 at the centre of the 所有物／資産／財産 耐えるs a striking resemblance to The Ivy brasserie in London's Covent Garden.
The espresso machine sits on the very 位置／汚点／見つけ出す that the Sunningdale 協定 was 調印するd in 1973. (Northern Ireland's first 試みる／企てる to 器具／実施する a 力／強力にする-株ing (n)役員／(a)執行力のある governm ent.)
Perched at the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 is Mary, 92, who enjoys a 冷静な／正味の glass of ワイン after a trip to her 地元の Waitrose in Windsor. 'I love living at Audley with my husband,' she tells me with a wink.
Soon she's lost in conversation with other 居住（者）s as they enjoy a late morning tipple or coffee.
Sunningdale is one of 20 Audley villages, with other communities 位置を示すd in Kent, Devon, Yorkshire and the Midlands. At Audley Binswood, 王室の Leamington Spa, 114 所有物／資産／財産s are centred around the striking Binswood Hall, a Grade II-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d Victorian Gothic Mansion.
The lavish million-続けざまに猛撃する spa コンビナート／複合体 with fitness studio, heated swimming pool and gym has stained glass windows.
Prices start at £320,000 for a one-bedroom apartment and there is a £1,108 月毎の service 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金, which covers 維持／整備 of the 所有物／資産／財産.
一方／合間, Audley Inglewood, 近づく Kintbury in Berkshire, 誇るs a 罰金-dining restaurant which was awarded an AA rosette in 2018.
The 91 apartments and cottages are surrounded by 39 acres of countryside which forms part of a large Area of 優れた Natural Beauty.
Palatial:?At Audley Binswood, 王室の Leamington Spa, 114 所有物／資産／財産s are centred around the striking Binswood Hall, a Grade II-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d Victorian Gothic Mansion.
One-bedroom apartments start at £325,000. There are catches, of course. So before downsizing to a 退職 community make sure that you are aware of 付加 and 現在進行中の 料金s.
Most 退職 villages 申し込む／申し出 所有物／資産／財産s as leasehold, which means that you own the building for a 始める，決める period of time and rent the land on which it is built.
Each year you will be 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d ground rent, which is typically a few hundred 続けざまに猛撃するs 毎年.
Your 維持／整備 料金s may also fluctuate depending on the cost of major 修理s or 革新s to communal areas, which can quickly 追加する up.
Most 退職 villages also 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 a deferred 管理／経営 料金, which is payable when you sell your 所有物／資産／財産 or pass away.
At Auriens, the deferred 管理／経営 料金 is calculated as a 百分率 of your 所有物／資産／財産's sale price. It is at 3 per cent for each year that you own your apartment, up to a 最大限 of 15 per cent of the sale price or market value of the 所有物／資産／財産, depending on which is higher.
At Audley, 居住（者）s can choose between two 支払い（額） 計画（する）s with different 出口 料金s.
In the first 計画（する） you 支払う／賃金 an 付加 1 per cent in deferred 管理／経営 料金s for each year that you have lived in an Audley 所有物／資産／財産.
For a home 価値（がある） £400,000 this would be 同等（の） to £52,191 after ten years.
In the second 計画（する） you 支払う／賃金 half price 現在進行中の month ly 維持／整備 料金s but must 支払う／賃金 支援する 2 per cent in deferred 管理／経営 料金s for every year that you have lived in the 退職 community. For the same home 価値（がある） £400,000 this would be 同等（の） to 20 per cent, or £104,382, after ten years.
支援する in the dining room at Auriens, lacquered walnut （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs that wouldn't look out of place in a Mayfair restaurant are 存在 始める，決める for tomorrow's breakfast, with jam or marmalade laid out based on 居住（者）s' preferences.
'We know how 居住（者）s like their eggs, where they sit in the morning and which newspapers they read,' says Lumby.
It's these の近くに 関係s that 始める，決める 高級な 退職 communities apart.
- What's your secret to a happy 退職? Email adele.cooke@mailonsunday.co.uk
