Corporate Property Advisor / Australia-Wide
About Trent Macartney
Property developments, value-add commercial, family offices and managed funds.
I'm Trent Macartney, founder of Project Carter. I advise developers, private families and funds on property that does not fit a template: sites with a planning problem, commercial assets trading below their potential, and deals that have stalled. I work Australia-wide: the work follows the deal, not a postcode.
My work runs the full cycle rather than one slice of it. That means feasibility and site strategy before you commit, planning pathways once you're in, capital structuring and joint ventures to get a deal funded properly, and delivery oversight from acquisition through to sale or lease-up. I've taken residential projects from raw site to sold out, and I'm currently repositioning commercial assets to lift income, tenure and value.
How I work
I work directly, not through a call centre or a junior on the file. Every mandate gets the same starting question: what do the numbers, the approval and the partners all have to look like for this to work? Where most advisors see a roadblock (a knockback planning history, a title that won't cooperate, a partner dispute, a site the market has written off), I look for the entry point everyone else missed. There is always a solution to every property; the work is finding the one that actually stacks up.
Who I work with
Property developers taking a site from acquisition through to a sold-out or leased-up outcome. Owners of value-add commercial assets who want a repositioning strategy, not just a leasing agent. Family offices who want direct sourcing, due diligence and structuring, with plain reporting and aligned terms. Managed funds who need independent feasibility review or mandate sourcing without the noise of a big-firm process.
Where the work happens
I'm based in Melbourne and currently active across Victoria and Queensland, with projects delivered and underway in Caulfield North (VIC) and Toowoomba (QLD). The advisory work itself is not tied to a state: I'll assess and run a deal anywhere in Australia where the fundamentals and the numbers make sense.
Free tools, if you want to run your own numbers first
Before we talk, you're welcome to stress-test a deal yourself. I've built six free calculators covering the full cycle: a property ROI calculator, a net operating income calculator, a development feasibility (DA) cost calculator, a development feasibility (GRV) calculator, a portfolio review calculator and a commercial lending calculator. Every one downloads a one-page PDF, and figures you enter in one can be pulled straight into the next as a deal progresses.