Understanding an organisation and its people’s needs at all levels is key to understanding industrial real estate at Colliers.
A NEW CHAPTER Gavin Bishop has a long string of achievements to his name after more than two decades with Colliers. Recently appointed Colliers’ new Managing Director (Industrial) & Head of Industrial Capital Markets Australia, he looks back on his career to date and forward to the opportunities that lie ahead.
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avin Bishop, Managing Director (Industrial) & Head of Industrial Capital Markets Australia, is a Colliers man through-and-through. While studying at Western Sydney University in the late 1990s, Gavin was selected for Colliers’ scholarship program for promising talent. The real estate titan liked what it saw, and the organisation and Gavin never looked back – he has worked there for more than 22 years and was recently promoted to head the Colliers national industrial team. After exploring several different areas of real estate early on, he says he found his true passion within the industrial space. “I remember getting the opportunity to work as part of our South Sydney office’s industrial team – and that’s where my passion really took off,” he says. “Working as a junior operator in the strata market, I started to get my bearings on working with
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Gavin Bishop, Managing Director, Industrial | Head of Industrial Capital Markets Australia at Colliers. investors and occupiers as well as understanding different businesses and their key drivers.” Having found his groove in industrial property, Gavin went from strength to strength working at – and eventually running – several different offices. He says he was present at a fortunate time where new industrial opportunities were springing up as new infrastructure was
developed. Perhaps the key skill he has learned along the way, he says, is the importance of great relationships – with occupiers, businesses, private investors, institutional investors, and developers. Doubtless part of his skill for relationships is that he is reluctant to tout his own achievements – instead underscoring the work of his team and his great fortune in working with talented people. But his achievements do in fact speak for themselves. His public resume notes that he and his team have sold 24 of all 34 industrial portfolios in Australia over the last six years. Among these sales were the AMP Portfolio ($105 million), the J.P. Morgan Portfolio ($250 million), the Altis Portfolio ($342.5 million), the Qantas Portfolio ($802 million), and the GIC/Australand Portfolio ($1.073 billion). This is just a small snapshot of an unusually impressive career. Compiling a full list of his career highlights would surely take several
