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Today in Morayfield, South-East Queensland, stands this newly built cutting edge highway service centre. We committed Taco Bells & United Petrol to the site to fit alongside the existing Anaconda. Prior to that, stood a 20 year old homemaker centre with showrooms vacant & had been available for lease for 2 years. The owners had to demolish half the buildings [...]
Escaping a cold Melbourne autumn to inspect a new potential co-investing opportunity in Cairns CBD in April of 2021 was a pleasure. As an estate agent I have marketed numerous properties in Cairns over the years and I feel that I am uniquely placed to measure a difference to pre and post covid times.  This time around, whilst there was a definite shortage of backpackers and the charisma that [...]
By Rob Stanley-Turner 20/06/2020 Box Commercial's investor groups have committed to two large single asset wholesale-investment syndicates. An the unvestor's quick response meant that the syndicate was oversubscribed within days of its opening The first property, a giant 9029 sqm cold room storage & distribution facility in Yatala Queensland was leased for 11 years to a meat wholesaler & distributor. The [...]
Morayfield, a fast-growing suburb 44 kilometres north of Brisbane, has been chosen as the site of Queensland’s newest Taco Bell. The restaurant was pre-leased in a new highway service centre at 182-190 Morayfield Rd.OOoriginally the owner decided to sell this fantastic, high-profile 6500 sqm site, and instructed us to take the property to market with 3 existing tenancies [...]
Our investors have pretty straight forward goals. They want investments which produces a stable monthly income and have capital security. Our clients have gone along way to answering that with a lease to the Queensland government for this modern office warehouse facility 21-31 Markwell Place Mount St John (Townsville) The property is leased to the state government of [...]
By Robert Stanley-Turner 15/01/2020 Happy New Year! January is the perfect time to sit back, start afresh and re-evaluate your investment goals. Over the last few years, we’ve all been challenged by a lack of attractive investment options as returns have followed interest rates down. (OK, perhaps we’ve been a little bit spoiled by the glory days of [...]
By Robert Stanley-Turner A Mulgrave property investment purchased in 2017 has recently sold for $27.82M on behalf of its syndicate investors. Throughout the term of the investment, investors received around 8% per annum and ultimately $1.20 returned for each $1 they invested. Investors were able to participate in the syndicate from $50,000. The property was purchased in June 2017 for [...]
By Rob Stanley-Turner: Airport Storage & Parking in Marcoola on the Sunshine Coast sold in December 2017. Back in early 2017 when I first spoke with the owners, we discussed my recommendations as to sale format, optimal timing, finding the likely buyers and the best price strategy. We explored valuation concerns, the maturity of the complex and potential for development, [...]
By Rob Stanley-Turner: Costa coffee is just everywhere here in fact they have over 3400 outlets. Not only have they stores but they also have instant pods in servos. They are owned by huge multinational Whitbread Plc. Whitbread are the UK’s largest operator of hotels, restaurants and coffee shops, with some of the UK’s most successful hospitality brands including Premier [...]
