“It makes perfect sense to appoint an expert advisor to act on behalf of the tenant. Landlords appoint their own leasing advisors all the time, often at the peril and cost to an ill-informed, unrepresented tenant!”
Acumen Corporate Property are a specialist consultancy firm focusing on commercial tenant representation and professional leasing advisory services.
We consistently achieve superior financial outcomes in lease negotiations for our clients across the Office, Retail and Industrial Leasing markets of Australia.
When we act on behalf of a tenant, we place significant emphasis on our fiduciary duties and at all times act in the best interest of our client. We do not act for Landlords or manage any commercial property. This ensures we avoid any compromise whatsoever to our integrity or professional independence. All client relationships are based on total confidentiality, trust and honor. Our reputation for providing accurate, honest and courteous advice along with great outcomes for our valued clients are hallmarks of the practice.
Our highly committed team provide unbiased, well informed, expert advice essential for our clients to make calculated, operational and cost effective decisions. We save our clients time and money all while allowing the client to focus on its core business activities.
We have acted for a wide range of high profile private sector clients, public companies and Government agencies.
We are proud of our track record, high level of experience and and deep understanding of corporate property markets throughout Australia.
Leadership Team
The leadership team at Acumen Corporate Property have over 50 years of experience in corporate property, tenant representation and advisory services.
Principal Consultant
Charles Kellett (B Bus, Cert REM, AAPI)
Charles Kellett is a Director and Principal Consultant of Acumen Corporate Property (formerly Charles Kellett Property Consulting) which has been in operation since 2008. Prior to that, Corporate Real Estate (CRE) services were successfully provided by Charles as the founding director of Property Resources Consulting for a period of 12 years (1993 to 2005). The business was successfully sold, and Charles moved into senior investment management roles in the Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) and Property Development sectors working for Hawaiian and Becton Investment Management before returning to the CRE advisory space in 2008.
Charles is Business Degree qualified in Property Valuation and Land Economy, is an Associate member of the Australian Property Institute (since 1989) and has a distinguished career in property that spans over 25 years, the bulk of which have been devoted to providing independent CRE consulting solutions.
His sole intention has been to provide high level, project focused property advice to a select range of clients. He is well placed to provide expertise in the areas of tenant representation, development and financial feasibility analysis, due diligence, transaction management, property asset and project management and strategic urban & commercial property development advice.
Charles brings his broad sphere corporate real estate experience from across multiple sectors to organisations, where his knowledge and advice ensures that client outcomes remain the key focus.
Principal Consultant
Mario Macri (B Comm)
Mario Macri is a Principal Consultant of Acumen Corporate Property with over 25 years’ experience successfully providing Corporate Real Estate services to private and public sector clients. Mario holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and comes from Commercial Banking background with Westpac as a Property Risk Analyst.
After working in the Banking Industry for a decade Mario moved into the Corporate Real Estate advisory sector where he soon established himself as one of the industry’s most talented Tenant Advocates with a particular emphasis on large, complex “Design and Construct” Office leasing pre-commitment projects.
He cites his areas of expertise as complex financial modelling and analysis, transaction management and negotiation, commercial leasing process and execution, construction management and project delivery.
Mario has completed consultant assignments that have consistently seen him successfully transact substantial outcomes and savings, across Australia, for his clients as well as ensuring project delivery, end to end, on some Australia’s largest commercial office leasing pre-commitments.
He is well known throughout the commercial property industry for achieving significant savings and outcomes on behalf of tenant clients.