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Two industry leaders join CorporateRealEstate digital platform
ASIA-PACIFIC’s first commercial property online platform, CorporateRealEstate.com, has appointed as directors two of Australia’s most experienced commercial property agents, Tom Barr and Don Mackenzie, as part of its business acceleration.
The CorporateRealEstate.com platform was launched this year to connect corporate tenants, tenant representatives, and investors to real estate opportunities throughout the region.
Mr Barr, formerly JLL’s director of commercial leasing Queensland, and Mr Mackenzie, previously JLL leasing director for Queensland, will focus on sales and business development at CorporateRealEstate.com, encouraging more agencies, major funds and owners to join as members.
“It’s an extremely exciting opportunity to be involved in the development of Asia-Pacific’s first property platform that focuses purely on the corporate market,” Mr Barr said.
“The industry response to CorporateRealEstate.com has been extremely positive. Don and I have been brought on to secure strong win-win relationships with property owners and funds, agencies and tenant representatives both locally, and throughout Asia Pacific.”
Since launching in March, CorporateRealEstate.com has signed some of Australia’s leading owners as Corporate Gold Members, including Brookfield, Charter Hall, GPT, Investa and Leighton Properties.
CorporateRealEstate.com’s owner members have a combined property portfolio value of more than $70 billion which has attracted interest from Fortune 500-level companies across Asia-Pacific.
“It’s the value that CorporateRealEstate.com’s memberships offer, which owners and agencies have responded so well to,” Mr Mackenzie said. “As Gold Owner Members, major institutional funds and owners can list all of their properties for one annual fee.”
CorporateRealEstate.com director and property entrepreneur Adam Flaskas, who founded the platform with co-director Grey Rogers, said the appointment of Mr Barr and Mr Mackenzie was evidence of their strong commitment to building Asia-Pacifc’s most exclusive corporate property platform.
“Tom and Don have been instrumental in negotiating some of the largest office leasing transactions in the Brisbane market,” Mr Flaskas said. “They bring a unique skillset and strong working relationships with key tenant representatives and Commonwealth Government advisors nationally which will be instrumental to our business development.”
Commencing his property career at Savills in 2003, Mr Barr spent four years in office investment sales and leasing. He then joined JLL in 2007 as a manager in the office leasing team and quickly established himself as a market leader and was later appointed as a director of JLL.
In 2011, Mr Barr was a recipient of the Elite Club Award, which recognises the ‘best of the best elite hunters and gatherers’ within JLL in Australia – awarded each year to the 12 top performers who have delivered the largest financial contribution or who have exceeded their performance plan by the largest amount for the year.
Mr Mackenzie has more than 12 years commercial experience in the Brisbane office market. In this time he forged relationships with the State Government and Brisbane City Council, which amounted to more than 210,000sqm in commercial leasing transactions.
He has also been involved in some of Brisbane’s largest fringe transactions and was recently part of the successful project marketing of Brisbane’s largest inner city office developments.
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