Director’s testimonial
I migrated to Adelaide, Australia in September 2007 with my family. I had past experience in project initiation and management, business development, residential development, project auditing, system analysis and research. I was Director of an IT company and a residential development company abroad.
I knew it would take time to build up a business and since we had to, in a way, start all over again, I knew that I had to look at getting an income sooner than later. I applied for various construction project management positions to sales positions. I went for an interview at the commercial construction company Tagara Group. I was then interviewed by the Director Michael Hickinbotham of Hickinbotham Group for a position as project manager and he said that he had to choose between me and another man from Sydney. I do not want to suggest he made the wrong decision and I am glad today that he did not make me an offer -- this motivated me to start my own company. For some reason, although I realise it may have been to show me away in a not too unfriendly manner, he said to me, “You know I realise that you can do anything, even the work that I do, but you don’t seem to sell yourself very effectively.” One of the real estate agency principals who interviewed me said to me , “You are over qualified.”
I did not know if it was my accent, being female or my age that made my results less positive. But without looking back, I soon got involved with what I was really good at – research - specifically in the real estate industry. While obtaining my qualifications in real estate and my license as land agent, I felt particularly enthusiastic because I realised that the real estate industry is truely my passion.
During 2009, when spending endless time on property market research, I entered the property market as property owner and as investor and developer. I applied two of our property investment and development models myself. This assisted me to raise some capital for O'Reilly Real Estate and O'Reilly Property Investments Pty Ltd.
I use my knowledge, skills and experience in property market research, development project initiation, feasibility studies, due diligence, negotiations, buying of excellent value properties, project management and marketing to provide opportunities for our clients. After operating O’Reilly Real Estate for 8 months, I developed the business concept, models and systems for O’Reilly Property Investment Pty Ltd. O’Reilly Property Investments was launched in Dec. 2009 and within the first 4 months of operation, I obtained 8 orders from clients for residential development projects with a total gross release value of $2,710,000.
It is my passion to assist clients through my experience in property development and real estate market research.