Having joined Colliers in early 2014, I have subsequently sold over $180 million of hotel assets across Victoria and NSW, including the largest hotel transaction in Victoria since 2008, being Bell City Preston for $143 million.

Prior to joining Colliers, I was Director of Asset Management for Tourism Asset Holdings Limited (TAHL), Australia's largest hotel owner and responsible for selling down this portfolio totalling over $1.5 billion.

Before TAHL, I was with Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels for 7 years, as Head of Asset Management and Chief Operating Officer for the Hotels group across Asia Pacific.

For over 27 years, Nigel’s career in the hotel industry has spanned hotel operations and finance, working for leading hotel operators and more recently, heading two of Australia’s leading wholesale hotel investment funds.

Prior to joining Colliers, Nigel spent 10 years as the Fund Manager of Eureka Fund Managements First Core Fund. The fund comprised hotel investment in branded hotels such as InterContinental, Four Seasons, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn. He led the fund team in establishing an investment in over $1.0bn of hotels in Australia and New Zealand. Nigel was responsible for the entire fund strategy of acquisition, repositioning, asset management, equity and debt capital strategies and exit strategy.

Nigel commenced the hotel investment stage of his career with Colonial First State Property as an Asset Manager for the portfolio of Marriott hotels in Australia before taking the funds lead role as Fund Manager.

In the early part of Nigel’s career, he held a number of Finance Director roles for Southern Pacific Hotels Corporation (now IHG) in Australia and the Pacific. After a period, as Regional Director of Finance for the Northern half of Australia he established his own hotel finance consulting group which provided accounting and financial related services to hotel operators and owners in Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu and Fiji.

Karen has over twenty years of experience in the hotel industry and holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Australian Graduate School of Management. She brings with her a specialised knowledge of the Asia Pacific hotel investment market and an ability to drive fresh capital into Australia’s hotel markets. She has developed an exceptional network over the past two years across Asia and the Middle East and within government, in her capacity as Senior Investment Specialist Tourism Infrastructure at Austrade and her knowledge of new entrants into the growing Australian tourism sector is second to none.      

Barry has worked in development roles of International Hotel companies for over fifteen years in the United States, Canada and Australasia including Wyndham Hotel Group, Choice Hotels, Best Western Australasia and Radisson Hotel Group.

Areas of expertise include:

• Franchise and Management Agreement negotiations

• Hotel site and market analyses including brand suitability and segmentation.

• New Construction specialist

  Barry also has a background in hotel, restaurant and tourism consulting having started his professional career with Horwath HTL in Tampa, Florida and Brisbane, QLD.

  Areas of expertise include:

• Hotel feasibility studies

• Hotel operational improvement reviews

• Resort development planning

After joining Colliers in 2008 as a student valuer, I have worked both in the Melbourne East and CBD office as an assistant valuer to Industrial, Commercial and Specialised assets including Healthcare and Retirement Living & Hotels and Leisure.

I qualified as a valuer in April 2011 and specialised in the valuation of hotel and leisure assets providing valuation and consultancy advice for a variety of property classes including accommodation hotels, gaming venues, pubs, clubs, motels, tourist parks and reception centres until early 2014. 

Since this time I have specialised in the the hotel and student accommodation sectors as a sale agent / transaction manager with a broad base of experience in the sales of pubs, motels, hotels, and student accommodation assets. 

I have an in-depth understanding of the hospitality and accommodation sector, allowing me to provide prudent advice to clients and various industry stakeholders 

Over recent years, I have been actively involved in the growth of the Student Accommodation sector transacting a number of sites across inner Melbourne.  With knowledge of the demand drivers and locational metrics I have been able to provide strategic advice to a variety of developers and operators in this growth market.