We take great pleasure in announcing that Graham Rigby has become a Director of Napier & Blakeley.

Graham joined Napier & Blakeley in July 2015 and manages our Building Consulting team in Western Australia.

Graham is a good friend and trusted advisor to local and international property investors, owners, and managers, who require Development Monitoring, Technical Due Diligence, Building Condition, Capital & Maintenance Expenditure Forecasts and lease expiry Make Good advice.

Graham makes regular contributions to the industry through RICS and is instrumental to Napier & Blakeley’s in-house structured training and our Regulated by RICS status.

Graham works closely with our Quantity Surveying, Tax Depreciation & Insurance, Sustainability, Climate & ESG teams to help investors make good informed decisions about the physical risks and opportunities of their property investments and portfolios.

Please contact Graham for any Building Consulting advise in Western Australia.

A happy lunar new year and 2024 to all clients,

friends and families of Napier & Blakeley.

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2023 was another intriguing year in the construction and property markets.

Construction cost escalation reduced on the previous year, the cost of debt stabilised, and there was positive population growth, all good fundamentals for our industry.

Property transactions across all sectors remained lower than normal, however we were still busy providing Technical Due Diligence on many of the major deals; Sheraton Mirage Gold Coast, Fitzroy Island, D’Albora Marina portfolio, the Healthscope portfolio of private hospitals, 555 Collins Street Melbourne and 1 Esplanade Perth, to name but a few.

Our construction and development services were in high demand all year.  We advised on more than 600 projects ranging from $1M to $400M and over $5 Billion in cost.

Clients are the lifeblood of the construction, development and property markets, and as always we thank them for their trust in us as part of their team, creating and improving our shared liveable, economic, and sustainable futures.

Year in, year out, we thank all our N & B people for their continued reliability, dedication, professionalism, innovation and good cheer.

Our community includes our industry friends, suppliers, sub consultants, colleagues and organisations and we look forward to 2024 and to the future achievements we will make together.

In lieu of gifts, we have again donated throughout the year to charitable organisations, such as the Sydney Breast Cancer Foundation, SurfAid, and PIF.

Our last day of business for the year is Friday 22nd December and our first day back is Wednesday 10th January. 

From everyone at Napier & Blakeley, have a great festive season and a successful 2024.

New Director Daniel Small

After 38 years, we have crossed the ditch and are now open for business in Auckland & Christchurch providing quantity surveying, tax depreciation and technical due diligence services to property developers, financiers and investors.

This geographic expansion will complement our other teams in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, confirming our ability to provide our services throughout Australasia.

Napier & Blakeley will be led by local Director, Daniel Small.  Daniel was an architectural builder before retraining as a quantity surveyor.  He worked in New Zealand as a quantity surveyor before spending the past few years working in the Melbourne Napier & Blakeley team with Directors Craig Smith and John Atkins.  During this time, Daniel gained experience in a wide range of sectors including residential, commercial, retail, childcare & land subdivisions.

Daniel has been very active in research into upfront embodied carbon and has played an active role in developing our service offering in this space.

Daniel’s areas of expertise include:

?  Cost Planning
?  QS Financier Reporting
?  Embodied Carbon Measurement
?  Pre-tender Estimates
?  Value Management
?  Schedules/Bills of Quantities
?  Tendering
?  Tender Reviews
?  Procurement
?  Engineer to the Contract/Superintendent
?  Reinstatement Cost Assessments

Please contact Daniel for any Quantity Surveying advice in New Zealand

Our business has expanded, and with that growth comes an increased demand to serve our clients.  Engaging exceptional individuals with the right skill set, experience, and dedication is the cornerstone of fulfilling our commitments to our clients.  Allow us to introduce our new team members.

Promotions

At Napier & Blakeley, we value talent and believe in recognising and rewarding it appropriately.  Please join us in congratulating our colleagues across our offices on their recent promotions.

Career Opportunities

We’re always on the look out to add to our talent pool, if you know of a property/construction professional wanting to join our dynamic team and advance their career, please share our newsletter and contact details.

MELBOURNE
Rob Howells, Managing Director | 0437 649 082 | rhowells@napierblakeley.com
Coco Williams, National Head of Client Services | 0418 348 712 | cowilliams@napierblakeley.com
Peter Frith, Director | 0437 649 082 | pfrith@napierblakeley.com
Craig Smith, Director | 0407 371 664 | csmith@napierblakeley.com
Ian Gardner, Director | 0488 225 569 | igardner@napierblakeley.com
John Atkins, Director | 0456 644 052 | jatkins@napierblakeley.com

SYDNEY
Alastair Walker, Director | 0419 503 289 | awalker@napierblakeley.com
Peter Hammond, Director | 0419 980 901 | phammond@napierblakeley.com
Michael Ross, National Head of Tax | 0403 841 175 | mross@napierblakeley.com
Stephen Cooke, Associate Director | 0409 228 552 | scooke@napierblakeley.com

BRISBANE
Paul Cosker, Director | 0434 400 107 | pcosker@napierblakeley.com
Gavin Peach, Associate Director | 0412 225 781 | gpeach@napierblakeley.com
KY Pih, Associate | 0408 933 660 | kpih@napierblakeley.com

PERTH
Graham Rigby, Associate Director | 0419 847 998 | grigby@napierblakeley.com
Scott Muirden, Director  |  0450 393 099  |  smuirden@napierblakeley.com

ADELAIDE
Sam Grindley, Associate Director | 0460 032 142 | sgrindley@napierblakeley.com

The Regatta was hosted by the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron which will also host sailing events for the 2032 Olympics, so we’re in good company.

The day consisted of little wind, beautiful weather, great food platters, a couple of sunburned faces, sock tans, and a championship trophy. Our boat, McMoggy, took first place within the multi-hull event and although this could be considered a technical win (other boats gave up and motored in due to the lack of wind) the N&B team persisted and a win is a win and, more importantly, we have the trophy to prove it!

Everyone had a great time and relationships were strengthened during the day out on the water. The team look forward to defending their title next year.

Congratulations to PIF, all other competitors, skippers, crew and supporters. Funds raised on the day will support The Haven Project as it builds homes for homeless youth across Brisbane.

Jo Masters of Barrenjoey provided us with all the current forces at play in the market, along with what her cloudy crystal ball is inidicating. Jason Weate of Dexus then guided the discussion with Deborah Coakley of Dexus, Justin Louis of Stockland and Harsh Narang of Blackstone Real Estate.

It was a lively and informative conversation with many topics covered, including the catalysts for renewed investment activity, and how they’re approaching an environment of higher interest rates.

Thank you to all the panelists for their time and for making it a fantastic event. And a huge thank you to Jason for stepping in at the last minute to moderate.

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The relocation provides the N&B team better proximity to our clients and to all the amenities and infrastructure that the West End and CDB offer.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Some current and recent projects in Western Australia include:

For 38 years Napier & Blakeley have been providing the following services to the property industry:

• Quantity Surveying
• Development Financiers’ Reporting
• Property Acquisition & Disposal Technical Due Diligence
• Property Development Due Diligence
• Capital Expenditure Forecasting
• Make Good Reporting
• Sustainable Property Solutions
• Development Monitoring
• Property Tax Depreciation

To discuss any of our services, please contact  :

PERTH
Graham Rigby, Associate Director | 0419 847 998 | grigby@napierblakeley.com

The event was well supported with over 700 people, 8 spectator boats and 42 yachts participating with approximately over $300,000 raised for homeless young people.

We boarded Eagle Rock at King Street Wharf, which is a beautiful boat adoringly looked after by her crew.  Whilst we did practice drills before the race – all under the professional guidance of our skipper and crew, we enjoyed a luncheon with some drinks.

  Racing commenced at 1:40pm for Division 2 and the crew divided rapidly into those who we could call able-seamen and those who were more relaxed onlookers.

Our highly experienced crew were very thorough in their safety briefing and we set off full of confidence, that we would place well.  All we needed was our share of luck and some light to medium winds.  The winds were NOT light to medium.  The arduous journey to the heads and back took it’s toll on those of us at the front of boat, switching perilously across the bow as we tacked into the wind, losing two hats in the process into the angry sea.

The course for class 3 was a start off Point Piper which our experienced crew timed to perfection.  After a little while it was clear that the extensive supplies on board were slowing the vessel down so many members of the crew were re-allocated to disposing of the food and drink by whatever means necessary as we progressed up the harbour to Lady Bay, round Shark and Clark Islands, back to Nielsen Park then to the finish in Rushcutters Bay.

At some point along this route the race finished well ahead of us… leaving us to place 10th.  Two hours and 1 minute of great fun.

The after party at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is a great opportunity to connect with others in the race that include many of our clients both property and development, and to plan how to get over the line 1st next year !

Our thanks go to the crew of the Eagle Rock for an enjoyable, safe day on the harbour.

The N&B crew comprised of:

• Michael Ross, Stephen Cooke, Nic Mules – NB
• Joe Luca Donato – AXA Investment Managers
• Sarah Dempsey & Nick Gaston – Centuria
• Andrew Hatzids & Don Shipway – Busways
• Henry Davidson – LaSalle

Happy International Women’s Day 8th March. #napierblakeley #InternationalWomensDay