As the founding Principal of the Award Winning Agency, Klaric Partners Property Consultants, established in Sydney in 1997, Leonie Klaric took enormous pride in his reputation to provide a dynamic, innovative and progressive property Advisory and Advocacy service. In 2011 Leonie and Robert Klaric were recognized by one of the Country’s biggest leading Real Estate agency McGrath Estate Agents founder by John McGrath to acquire their business ‘Klaric Partners Property Consultants’ which by this point was respected as the market leader in its area. 

Leonie is widely recognised as one of New South Wales industry leaders in Prestige residential and commercial property management and residential sales. Boasting an impressive professional history covering over 35 plus years in the industry starting her first job at the age of 16 in Real Estate Her high profile real estate companies including Laing & Simmons Nth Sydney in 1988 and one of Australia’s leading and most successful property individuals the Late Henry Pollack, one of the original Founders and directors of the ‘The Mirvac Property and Construction Group’ in Australia, in which Leonie worked directly with the late Henry Pollack as his exclusive Executive Property Manager for the entire Edgecliff Shopping Centre. 

 Leonie has a wealth of knowledge in all facets of real estate and has built up a strong reputation within the industry. Her success in business, prestige sales, marketing and property management is founded on a commitment to continuous improvement and her ability to understand exactly what our clients want from all their property needs. 

 Having owned a Real Estate firm at the age of 21 years, and has experience across NSW including: Sydney CBD, North Sydney, The Inner Western suburbs and Parramatta. 

The personalised service and immense knowledge of Sydney Real Estate is Leonie’s guarantee in providing the best possible solutions and professional advice in any marketplace. 

Recognized as a long-standing industry specialist, & with a superior level of real estate knowledge & experience in Sydney offers a unique and personal Advocacy & Advisory Property service for high net worth clients unparalleled in the real estate industry in Australia. 

Benson Zhou is a Senior Director in CBRE’s Hotels Capital Markets division, bringing more than 13 years of commercial real estate experience across the hotel, retail, development, and office sectors. Widely recognised as a market leader in Melbourne’s commercial property market, Benson has built a strong reputation for delivering complex transactions and exceptional outcomes for both domestic and international clients.

Prior to joining CBRE, Benson led the Hotel, Commercial Sales and Asia Markets team at Savills Melbourne, where he specialised in hotel investment sales, commercial transactions, and cross-border capital flows. His extensive experience across the hospitality and investment sectors has positioned him as a trusted advisor to private investors, developers, institutional owners, and offshore capital groups.

A key strength of Benson’s business is his deep connection with Asian capital markets. He regularly travels throughout Asia to maintain and expand relationships with a network of high-calibre investors, leveraging his language capabilities, cultural understanding, and extensive market knowledge to facilitate international investment opportunities and cross-border acquisitions.

In addition to his transaction expertise, Benson has served as a judge for the PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Australia & APAC), providing him with valuable insight into emerging market trends and strengthening his profile across the Asia-Pacific real estate industry.

Throughout his career, Benson has been involved in numerous landmark transactions and was recognised as Commercial Agent of the Year in 2022, reflecting his outstanding performance, market leadership, and commitment to client success.

At CBRE, Benson focuses on hotel investment sales and capital markets transactions, working with local and international investors to unlock value and deliver strategic outcomes across Australia’s hospitality sector.

With over 20 years in the built environment Australia, Asia and Middle East – spanning international aid, project management, architecture, engineering and advisory, Nik brings extensive experience across the built environment as well as a passion for office, apartments, precincts, mixed-use developments and workplace design.  Nik has been committee member of the Property Council of Australia, helping to launch their renown industry mentoring program and future trends and innovations forum.  Nik presently heads up new business development at global engineering and consulting firm Arup for the Building and Property sector in the Australasian region and leads Arup’s new digital advisory services – a rapidly growing area of the built environment encompassing user experience, technology and data driven design for clients and their developments.   

Over the past twenty plus years Lui has worked on a number of significant landmark and award winning projects across Australia. During this time he has been responsible for the design, delivery and management of a number of building typologies including education, health, retail, commercial, and residential.  

In this capacity Lui has worked in all facets of the project development, from masterplanning, town planning, design to documentation and construction. This entails developing hand sketches and performance briefs at concept design, through to the management and delivery of production documentation, inclusive of performance specifications and glazing schedules to meet with the design intent, technical performance and budgetary constraints of the project.  

His experience has been at the forefront of glass, remedial, envelope development and sustainable solutions in the façade industry. With a background in Architecture, he has worked with façade fabricators, developing expertise in curtain wall design and façade structures. Tony has designed façades on prominent buildings in Australia, in collaboration with the world’s leading consultants.  

As Regional Manager for Western Australia has a key leadership role in interfacing with the design and construction teams, coordinating the requirements of the architectural, services, structural, acoustic and project brief requirements within the façade team. He also appreciates the project management systems and quality assurance system that are necessary for the delivery of large complex projects. 

A personal interest in creating sustainable outcomes for supporting the construction industry drives Lui, pushing the boundaries around how architects and builders deliver superior quality, buildability and efficiency of the architectural vision and design intent.  

Lui’s background as a Practice Director of an Architectural Practice, he also has a keen interest and appreciation of the architectural design, and enjoys working with designers to resolve complex geometries and developing systems that articulate design. 

Education and professional qualifications 

1991Registered Architect  

1989Bachelor of Architecture, Curtin University, Perth 

1985Bachelor of Applied Science, Western Australian Institute of Technology,  Perth 

Professional History 

2013– PresentInhabit, Perth – Regional Manager Western Australian  

2001-2013NHArchitecture, Melbourne – Practice Director 

1998-2001Daryl Jackson Architects, Melbourne – Project Architect 

1991-1998            Bollig Design Group, Perth – Architect 

1988 -1991           Ministry of Housing and Construction, Melbourne – Graduate Architect 

Specialist skills 

• Project Delivery and Administration of Large Complex Projects 
• Design Delivery / Lead Coordinator  with Design Team 
• Project Management and QA Systems 
• Package Management between façade and other trades 
• Performance Specifications 

• Team Leader 
• Buildability and Onsite works