Managing Director Steven Goakes guides you through the smart way to invest in commercial real estate using a unit trust, highlighting how structure, diversification, and active management deliver investor value.
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Steven brings a wealth of experience to Natgen and our clients. His 30 year career has focused on commercial real estate, funds management, compliance, corporate governance and law.
With a masters degree in property and trust law and a business degree, since 1998 Steven has been structuring and operating manage investment funds to maximise returns to stakeholders. Success in this area has come through critical analysis of organisational and stakeholder needs, and focusing management effort in those areas which add investor value.
Steven has managed investment assets in excess of $1 billion and has personally overseen the purchase and investment of a further $1 billion of commercial properties and participated in (and advised on) joint-venture developments totalling over $400 million in gross realisation.
Beyond his professional activities, Steven is also actively involved in mentoring business professionals for organisations within Australia & abroad.
Steven is a responsible manager under the Group’s AFSL.
The concentration of Natgen is particularly in commercial property uh we’ve chosen that area over a long period of time and we’ve got a lot of experience there.
It it’s quite difficult for an investor to actually get into the commercial property market without a very significant amount of money, often millions of dollars. So what we do is we provide investors with an opportunity to enter that market with less money um and combine with uh other like-minded investors to collectively invest in larger assets.
Larger assets mean um better security of tenure, better tenants, longer leases and all the things that you actually don’t get in the residential market.
The other thing that we particularly like long term about commercial is its measurability. We’re we’re very much into analytics and um whilst the residential market is probably more to do with uh to some extent sort of emotions and demographics, the commercial market is all about measurable things, all about statistics, all about where traffic flows are.
And we can we can measure those things with great accuracy. The other thing that we can then do is plan for the future better because we know where people are going and we can build facilities that replicate facilities where they’ve come from.
We don’t actually have to have a lot of imagination of what people are going to need in new places, they just need what they need at other places. So that’s another advantage we see uh in commercial.
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