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BUILDING A LEGACY:
THE

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each and every project.”
Mr Hanan has spent more than
30 years in property, starting out
in office leasing at Colliers before
progressing to Savills, Investa, UBS
THE Warburg, before landing at Mirvac
in 2016 as Head of Commercial,
then moving to Head of the
Integrated Investment Portfolio,
incorporating Office, Industrial,
Retail and Build to Rent.
TOP As Campbell Hanan takes the reins business was Mr Hanan’s first direct
The burgeoning Build to Rent

exposure to the housing sector
at Mirvac, the newly appointed
and learning more about Mirvac’s
Group CEO & Managing Director
residential business has been a
key focus visiting the majority
of the 50-year-old company, faces a
market that presents opportunities
of Mirvac’s projects in Western
Australia, Queensland, Victoria
but also significant challenges for
the property industry.
and New South Wales in the first
months in his new role.
A less experienced leader might feel
bowed by such headwinds but Mr It’s an experience that has
Hanan instead sees opportunity heightened his fascination with
for Mirvac to draw upon its many the architectural beauty of city
resources and sail through the skylines, drawing his gaze to what’s
storm. happening on the ground at the
Campbell Hanan continues “I don’t shy away from community level.
“The thing that really attracted
more challenging economic
the Mirvac legacy of design environments,” explains Mr Hanan. me early on to real estate, was
“This is one of the few times that
the way the built form talks to its
excellence and quality you get truly tested, when all your surroundings,” says Mr Hanan.
hard work is differentiated from
“There is something in the
construction as the newly your competitors. architecture that always gripped
me and wherever I go, I have to look
appointed Group CEO & “That doesn’t always happen when at it.
you have the wind behind your
Managing Director. back. We are in an environment “In residential you see architecture
talking to the ground plane, and it’s
now where quality speaks. Mirvac’s
ability to design internally, to build in that intersection that you have
in-house, to respond quickly to the opportunity to integrate design to
changing needs of the customer, create vibrant community spaces
combined with our enduring and do development well.
philosophy around quality and
legacy, gives us an enormous “When a developer like Mirvac
advantage. has a blank canvas in a large
development, we have an
“We see that in the repeat business, opportunity to curate and create
in the community of customers the experience from end to end.
who believe in what we are doing. That is exciting for a group like us.
We were incredibly proud to be Ultimately, vibrant communities
the first, and so far, only, property are about people integrating
group in Australia to be awarded themselves where they feel
extremely welcome and safe.”
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