Property and property development is in Mark’s blood.
After graduating from Otago University in 1982 he jumped straight into the property business and assisted in the establishment of Realty Brokers Ltd MREINZ.
In 1987 I was looking for fresh opportunities and made the switch to the international marketing of New Zealand properties.” Over the next five years, Mark regularly visited property investors in Taiwan, Japan and Singapore and sold over $200m of commercial investment real estate.
Mark’s success attracted the attention of Roy Richardson, founder of Location Group. “At the time, the Group was a respected residential property developer,” Mark remembers. “Roy wanted to expand into the Commercial marketplace, which was my background.”
Roy offered Mark a partnership. That was in 1992. Today, commercial property development still accounts for a significant portion of the Group’s ongoing business.
Chris brings to his role as Director the same enthusiasm that had made him an accomplished sportsman.
He’s played representative age group rugby for North Harbour and cricket for Auckland and the Harford Club in Middlesex, England.
While he was notching up these sporting achievements, Chris was working for Davies Customs Agency. Part of his role there was to steer the family business through ISO9000 Accreditation and application for IATA.
“I joined Location Group in 1998 as the General Manager for their subsidiary company Distribution Works Ltd,” Chris explains. The company specialises in warehousing and logistics, which made the role a natural leap from Chris’s previous position as National Manager for Chep Handling Systems.
“I was working at Distribution Works for two years, when the Directors invited me to join the property division,” Chris remembers. He now sources and oversees property development opportunities in major cities across New Zealand.
