This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
AGENTS Cushman & Wakefield has bolstered its Victorian industrial and office teams with five new appointments.
Kosta Filinis, Gareth Jackson, and Alex Andrews have joined the industrial sales and leasing team to capitalise on the current growing demand for industrial sites in south east Melbourne. They joined from Savills. Alex Moffatt has also joined the industrial team from CBRE.
Filinis was appointed director, industrial sales and leasing. He has over 20 years’ experience and has worked with JLL, Colliers, and Savills, where he has also spent the past six years.
Jackson and Moffatt were both appointed directors of industrial sales and leasing.
Moffatt was previously director, capital markets.
Andrews was appointed manager of industrial sales and leasing, with over eight years’ experience.
Meanwhile Chris Meehan from Colliers has joined as associate director of office leasing.
These five hires follows the recent appointment of seven new hires to its national valuations & advisory team, all based in Victoria. Josh Phegan, Niall Ashley, Lily Lachal and Peter Bath joined Cushman & Wakefield as institutional valuers, while Linda Sharkey, Hugh Davies and Patrick Mulcahy were appointed as the self-storage valuation & advisory team.
Cushman & Wakefield’s joint head of industrial sales & leasing, Victoria, Andrew O’Connell, said Melbourne’s south east recorded approximately $930 million in industrial transactions in the 12 months to December 2020, up 5.5% on 2019 and 12.1% on the five-year average.
“We expect this demand to continue right into 2021 particularly as foreign purchasers return to the Australian CRE market, and interest rates remain at record lows,” he concluded.
