Jonathon Canavan

Experience

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  Colliers International

  Feb 2009 - Sept 2013

  Associate Director

  At the time of employment, Colliers International was the only major property firm that had established a dedicated Residential Development team. As part of this team, Jonathon arranged and completed over 60 transactions.During the GFC Jonathon specialised in distressed assets on behalf of receivers and financial institutions, which included repositioning assets and arranging completion partners.As one of the prominent property agents working exclusively with development sites, Jonathon obtained a wide network of contacts for both identifying and disposing of development site assets. He continues to maintain many relationships with past colleagues and contacts and will utilise these relationships particularly to identify and acquire new projects.Role Summary• Identification of upcoming strategic development zones• Planning and financial feasibility assessments• Amalgamations of multi lot sites and opportunities• Arrangement of joint ventures equity participations• Distressed asset ‘work outs’ on behalf of bank and receivers.• Australian Rookie of the Year - Highest Revenue earner in under 2 years (2010) Show less

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  Coronation Property

  Oct 2013 - May 2016

  Development Director

  Coronation Property Co is a privately owned property development company that was established in June of 2013. Following its conception I came on board to help acquire new development assets and build the company and team around the demands of new projects. In 3 years I oversaw the acquisition of 9 new projects and recruited over 25 staff. I worked across all projects and was a pivotal role in taking the development pipeline from the first award winning development ‘Solis,” to significant yield of apartments.Critical to the establishment phase of this business, I helped facilitate the rapid expansion, made possible by identifying and acquiring the right opportunities; and the right people.Role Summary • Development Director responsible for 9 Residential and Mixed use projects throughout Sydney• Major focus on identification, acquisition and establishment of new projects.• Co-ordination of key stakeholder strategies to establish project planning targets and then achieve set targets• Liaison with State and Local Government Agencies• Structuring and establishment of project specific development teams, including identifying new talent and recruiting new team members• Execution of planning strategies and completion of planning objectives for all projects• Oversee Sales and Marketing phases• Management of project performances and financial outcomes Show less

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  HUNTA Property

  Jul 2016 - now

  Director

  HUNTA is property advisory business that specialises in development site identification and selection, both development and project management and due diligence for its select clients. Hunta is renowned for helping its clients to refine their property development strategies, focus their development and acquisitions goals to maximise the overall project returns. HUNTA works with a number of ASX limited and multinational clients including Stockland (ASX:SGP) who is the largest diversified property company in Australia. In the last 5 years Hunta's chief Staff have completed over $1 billion dollars in developments and property related transactions.Our asset classes of expertise include:– Residential Apartments, Townhouses and Mixed Use. – Residential Land Subdivisions. – Industrial Land & Subdivisions. – Hotel Development. Build to Rent - Multi family - Retirement Living- Aged Care- Affordable housing Show less

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  Stockland

  Mar 2017 - Feb 2018

  National Business Development Manager - Residential Apartments & Mixed Use

  Stockland (ASX:SGP) is the largest diversified property company in Australia. Stockland own, manage and develop a growing portfolio of shopping centres, logistics hubs, business parks, residential communities, retirement living villages, and office assets.Stockland have a clear mandate to acquire Residential Apartment development opportunities that fit within the Acquisition Strategy for this property cycle and the next. My role at Stockland was to lead the Business Development Team for Residential Apartments & Mixed Use projects nationally.Which included- Developing a strategy for all major metropolitan markets Australia wide- Identification of new development opportunities- Analysis of commercial viability for new deals and assessment of risks- Front end planning and design co-ordination- Negotiation of commercial terms- Accountability to internal and external stakeholders- Negotiating Project Delivery Agreements (PDA’s) and Joint Ventures (JV’s)- Assisting in the determination of highest and best use outcomes for existing assets Show less