Index has over 35 years experience in suburban commercial property.
We specialise in retail shops, showrooms, fast food and servos.

Retail

Index Retail Property has extensive experience across all sectors of retail property. Our Principal Richard Lord has experience in leasing over 60 greenfields and brownfields redevelopments of neighbourhood and sub-regional shopping centres throughout Queensland and northern NSW.

Index wrote the market plan for Burger King Corporation for much of the east coast of Australia.

Some of the more recent and notable projects we have been involved with include Woolworths at Greenbank, Pimpama, Kippa Ring, Plainlands and Coles at Murrumba Downs, Mudgeeraba and Bracken Ridge; Park Ridge Town Centre and both Coles and Woolworths at Cleveland..

Clients include major developers and investors including:

Coles, Woolworths, Clarence Property, Parmac, Australia Post, Arkadia, Kilcor, Aveo (formerly FKP) Ltd, Consolidated Properties, Haben Funds Management, Keystone Private, Rifici Property Group and numerous individual investors.

Showrooms

Index Retail Property has an extensive record of success in the bulky goods / large format retail sector over the last 15 years.

We understand the elements that go into the decision by major retailers to lease new premises. This includes

  • trade areas
  • sales cannibalisation
  • demographic shift
  • appropriate frontage to depth ratios
  • access, egress and loading
  • signage and exposure

We have completed transactions with many leading retailers such as;

  • Super A Mart
  • JB Hi Fi
  • R T Edwards
  • Baby Bunting
  • Fantastic Furniture
  • Rays Outdoors
  • BCF
  • Rivers
  • GlamaCo
  • Lifeline
  • Bunnings
  • The Reject Shop
  • Nick Scali Furniture

Our clients include

  • Blackstone
  • John Van Lieshout
  • Lancini Group
  • Sentinel Property
  • A Mart Furniture
  • Home Focus Group

Fast Food & Servos

Index Retail Property has a comprehensive understanding of the QSR Fast Food and service station sector and what makes a great main road convenience site. Factors include

  • AADT traffic count, stressed traffic, access from all directions
  • near / far corner, outbound, convenience lines
  • trade areas and cannibalisation
  • site lines, pylon sign placement, easements for access, signage
  • division of pedestrian and vehicular traffic

Our principal Richard Lord has completed transactions with

  • McDonalds
  • Hungry Jacks
  • KFC
  • Burger King
  • Guzman Y Gomez
  • Origin Kebab drive thru (Logan Village, opening October 2022)
  • Zarraffas
  • Stella Rossa

He is a former development manager for McDonalds responsible for 35 stores, as well as being the oil alliance manager.

He wrote the market plan for Burger King Corporation USA for Qld, NNSW, ACT, NT and Tasmania and then started implementing it with 12 sites.

In 2020 Richard fully pre-committed a travel centre at Bethania in Brisbane's southern suburbs with United Petroleum, Pie Face, Zarraffas, GYG and KFC.

He is currently (October 2022) pre-committing a similar site at Taigum with a servo, 2 x Fast Food, coffee operator, childcare and medical centre, and a sale of an adjoining site to McDonalds.

Richard is also currently transacting a servo at Ningi (Bribie Island).

Clients include McDonalds, Palm Lake Developments, Burger King USA, Parmac, Hopscotch Projects, Mullin Investments, Sinclair family investments, Citimark, Heritage Pacific