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atalyst Development Services provides a full range of advisory services to the property industry.
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Founded in 2016, we provide strategic advice and services to landowners, government agencies, private stakeholders and developers to assist in the realisation of their landholdings and investments in key growth areas.
We provide a full range of services, from project visioning and stakeholder engagement to structuring and development partner selection, as well as the financial assessment of opportunities.
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We offer a boutique, personalised service which is tailored to you and your project’s needs, informed and driven by Catalyst Development Services' vision – Practical Experience, Passion for Excellence and Fully Independent.
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OUR VISION
ur Vision is to provide quality strategic advisory services; creating sustainable, innovative and legacy projects whilst delivering superior returns to key stakeholders.
The fundamental and unique offerings provided by Catalyst Development Services are underpinned by the following:
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Practical Experience
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Catalyst Development Services has extensive trading experience on a range developments, not merely conceptual or theoretical experience. This includes sound commercial acumen, financial management, delivery and trading experience and negotiating for real, on-the-ground outcomes. This is critically important as great ideas need to be founded on sound business strategy. Importantly, they also need to be fully realisable, with thorough planning, consideration of risk and development of key partnerships to facilitate this.
Passion for Excellence
Catalyst Development Services has been involved and delivered on many of the more innovative residential communities in Victoria over the past 20 years. These include Mount Atkinson, Caroline Springs, Atherstone and Laurimar, but also directly representing landowner interests for Orica, the Five Farms development in Clyde North and management of the Wollert North Infrastructure Consortium.
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Fully Independent
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Catalyst Development Services is not developer, contractor or stakeholder owned or controlled, allowing us to provide un-biased, strategic and independent advice which best suits the needs of each of our clients.
ABOUT US
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Some of Sean's key projects include:
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Key client representation
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Orica - Providing advisory services for the divestment of key Australian sites. This included the divestment of half of the Orica Deer Park site to UniSuper / HBB Property
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Five Farms - landowner representation for Frasers Property Australia community in Clyde North, Melbourne
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Wollert North Infrastructure Consortium - manager of coordination and delivery of major precinct infrastructure on behalf of three developers in partnership with City of Whittlesea, YVW and MWC
Caroline Springs by Lend Lease
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8,000 dwelling residential community with a Major Town Centre, two neighbourhood centres and 10 schools.
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Project Director/Engineering Manager
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Laurimar by Lend Lease
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2,000 dwelling residential community with Neighbourhood Town Centre
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Overall responsibility for master planning and delivery.
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Project Director/Development Manager
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Atherstone by Lend Lease
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4,000 dwellings and a local government partnership development
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Project Director
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Mount Atkinson by Mount Atkinson Holdings
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700 ha project with a 5,000 dwelling community, major employment hub and Major Town Centre.
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Representation of landowners and Development Managers through the PSP approval process, master planning, early servicing strategies
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Project Director (Development Manager's Representative)
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Sean prides himself on building strong relationships within the property industry. Sean believes that through positive and transparent relationships, collaboration and by thinking outside the box, successful, feasible and sustainable projects can be realised and delivered.
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Catalyst Development Services was founded by Sean Pinan in Melbourne in 2016 to provide a full array of advisory services and development expertise to the property industry.
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Sean Pinan has extensive experience in the master planning, structuring and delivery of major residential communities across the growth areas of Melbourne.
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Sean, through his former roles as Project Director and Regional Development Manager at Lend Lease, has been involved in significant city shaping developments such as Caroline Springs in the west and Laurimar in the north.
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Sean is a non executive board member and Vice President of the UDIA Victoria and chairs the Residential Greenfield Committee.
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SEAN PINAN
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SERVICES
ervices provided by Catalyst Development Services include Development Advisory, Development Management and Value Add Development Services.
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Development Advisory Services
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Project Structuring and Financing Solutions
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Advocacy and Negotiating Services
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Feasibility Assessments and Business Cases
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End-to-end Land Owner Representation
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Visioning and Master Planning Coordination
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Market Analysis
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Sustainability Initiative Development
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Development Management Services
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Project Visioning
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Project Strategy Development
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Stakeholder Engagement and Coordination
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Cashflow Development and Management
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Ongoing Project Reporting
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Project Delivery Management
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Sustainability Initiative Delivery
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Value Add Development Services
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Peer Reviews
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Consultation and Mediation
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MOUNT ATKINSON HOLDINGS
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700 ha project with a 5,000 dwelling community, major employment hub and Major Town Centre
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Representation of landowners and Development Managers throughout the PSP process, master planning and early servicing strategies.
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Project Director (Development Manager's Representative)
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Landowner advisor to Yarra Valley Water on 740 ha landholding in Beveridge North West
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Precinct Structure P representation and negotiation
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Commercial considerations
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Structuring and governance
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Vision and initatives development
270 HARDYS ROAD CLYDE NORTH
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115 ha landholding
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Landowners representative
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Responsible for Expression of Interest process and developer partner selection
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Ongoing role as Landowner Representative for 1,600 dwelling development.
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YARRA VALLEY WATER
KEY CLIENTS AND PROJECTS
CONTACT
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o get in touch with us, please fill in the below form, alternatively we can be contacted via the details below.
PO Box 399
Flemington VIC 3031
Prentice Studio
3 Prentice Street
Brunswick VIC 3056
