How I Work / Australia-Wide
My Approach
A process built for deals that don't fit a template, from first look to sale or hold.
Every mandate I take on runs the same way: find what makes the numbers, the approval and the partners all work at once. That's true whether it's a development site with a planning problem, a commercial asset trading below its potential, a family office wanting direct exposure to property, or a fund that needs an independent set of eyes on a deal. I work Australia-wide, across the full cycle rather than one slice of it.
The process
Most advisory relationships start at one of four points, and I'll pick up a deal at whichever stage it's actually at:
- Feasibility & site strategy. Before you commit capital, working out whether a site or asset actually stacks up: cost to acquire, cost to deliver, and what it's worth at the other end.
- Planning pathways. Reading a site's real planning risk, not the optimistic version: what a council will actually approve, what consultant reports it will actually need, and what a pre-lodgement meeting will surface before you've spent the money finding out the hard way.
- Capital structuring & joint ventures. Getting a deal funded properly (equity, debt, JV or promote structures), as principal alongside you or as advisor to the table.
- Delivery oversight. From acquisition through construction to sale or lease-up, keeping the project on the numbers it was approved on.
Where I add value
Property developments. Feasibility, site strategy, planning pathways and delivery oversight for residential and mixed-use projects, from raw site to handover. I've taken projects the full distance, sold out to owner-occupiers.
Value-add commercial. Repositioning under-performing assets: re-leasing, refurbishment, planning uplift and capex strategy to lift net income, tenure and value. This is live work, not a theory: it's what's underway on 189 Balaclava Road right now.
Family offices. Direct property strategy and deal execution for private families: sourcing, due diligence and structuring, with aligned terms and plain reporting, not a sales process dressed up as advice.
Managed funds. Mandate sourcing, independent feasibility review and asset strategy for funds allocating capital to property, where a second set of eyes on the numbers matters more than a relationship with the vendor's agent.
Problem sites. The roadblock cases: planning refusals, difficult titles, stalled builds, partner disputes. Finding the entry point everyone else has missed is the actual job, not an exception to it.
Deal structuring & JV. Joint ventures, capital partnering and promote structures, as principal alongside you or as advisor to the table, built so the incentives actually line up between the parties.
Run your own numbers
I've built six free calculators so you can stress-test a deal before we ever speak, using the same kind of modelling I'd run on a mandate, in your hands:
- Development feasibility (DA) cost calculator: cost from buying a site to a lodged DA
- Development feasibility (GRV) calculator: full feasibility from DA to settled sales
- Net operating income (NOI) calculator: income, outgoings and implied value on a commercial asset
- Property ROI calculator: return on a property hold from purchase to sale
- Portfolio review calculator: after-tax cash flow across a multi-property portfolio
- Commercial lending calculator: deposit and equity position by loan type
Figures carry across them as a deal progresses: a valuation from the NOI calculator can feed straight into the ROI or lending numbers, and sale proceeds from a completed deal can fund the next one. See the full calculator suite.