Glen Smith

Glen Smith is a real estate practitioner and has broad experience in valuation, corporate real estate, asset management and transactional advisory, with a broad cross-section of competencies including identification, analysis, strategy and delivery of repositioning projects.

Glen is proficient in real estate transaction advisory in all stages of the business cycle, most recently in stressed or distressed situations, but has also been in growth and repositioning roles. Glen has a firm understanding of the fundamentals of real estate and its legal and regulatory environments.

Glen’s experience allows him to identify real estate issues early on, and set about resolving them, in addition to ‘speaking the same language’ as third party property advisors so that all parties are aligned to achieve an improved outcome.

Glen joined FTI Consulting following previous roles at PwC (distressed transactions), FKP Property Group (asset management and acquisitions) and Urbis (tenant advisory) in Sydney. Prior to his Australian experience, Glen worked for BP in London on the integration of real estate assets on large scale company acquisitions across Europe. He began his career as a valuer at Knight Frank in Adelaide, which provided a solid grounding in the basic principles of real estate.

Relevant Experience:

• National Retirement Village Portfolio - disposal of a five asset portfolio, in a market facing significant structural change
• 4 x Retail Lease Portfolios - providing landlord advisory, company-side for four prominent retailers to achieve a repositioning and/or restructuring of their store networks
• Soul, Gold Coast - sell down of over 180 luxury apartments and repositioning of retail centre component (in readiness for sale) of a mixed used development
• Sleep City & Game - orderly unwinding of retail leasing commitments of c.30 large format retail and c.90 stores nationally
• Donovan Oates Mortgage Corporation - sell down of a large property loan book throughout NSW
• Cymbis Mortgage Corporation - sell down of a large property loan book of predominantly Queensland land
• Identification of assets for acquisition and create / deliver repositioning strategy for ultimate sale