Your Team
Chris Curtis BA LLB, AAPI Certified Property Practitioner
Principal
Our managing director and licensee in charge, Chris Curtis is an Australian lawyer with over two decades Australia wide experience as a buyer, seller and developer of residential, commercial, investment and hospitality properties. A full-time buyers’ agent since 2007 and an Associate of the Australian Property Institute and Certified Property Practitioner, he has consistently been setting new standards in helping buyers realise their property aspirations.
Prior to establishing Curtis Associates, Chris practised for more than 16 years as a barrister in high level property, commercial, finance and building law. Throughout that period, he bought, sold and developed a variety of residential and commercial properties. Chris left the law to become a senior executive of Macquarie Bank where he led a team responsible for conceiving and developing Australian real estate based projects ranging from car washes to retirement villages as well as private residence clubs underpinned by prestige residential real estate around Australia.
He later became the Sydney representative for a Melbourne based firm of buyers’ advocates and property consultants credited with being the first buyers' agency in Australia.
Chris therefore knows all about the so called "tricks" used against buyers in the property market. As a highly experienced negotiator with advocacy skills honed in the tenacious world of litigation, he has little difficulty dealing with them.
He combines the vision and lateral thinking of a successful property buyer and developer with the analytical skills of an investment banker and senior lawyer.
No other buyers’ agent or buyers’ advocate in Australia has these credentials.
As the author of our highly popular CurtiseCall blog articles, his views on the Sydney property market are regularly sought by the media which have included the ABC's 7.30 Report, The Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Bloomberg and Moody's Economy.com.
Cecilia Tolomeo Adv.Dip Val, M.Com (Invest & Dev). Reg Val 024498
Senior Researcher
Cecilia is a registered valuer with a Masters degree in property investment and development. Prior to joining Curtis Associates, Cecilia was employed full time for over six years in valuation and research capacities by major property houses including HillPDA, Estate Master, Herron Todd White and Savills.
With a professional background focusing on the Sydney residential, commercial and industrial property markets, Cecilia brings expertise and knowledge of those property sectors to Curtis Associates.
In addition to searching for on and off market buying opportunities and analysing comparable sales data, Cecilia carries out and oversees extensive due diligence into the economic, environmental, counterparty and regulatory risks associated with each property acquisition. As an indication of the rigor involved, the client reports containing that due diligence typically refer to a hundred or more separate items.
Robert Stevenson MA, BSc
Researcher
Having completed a Masters degree at the University of New South Wales in 2005, Rob moved to London where he spent two years conducting research and analysis of mortgage and property markets on behalf of several leading British banks including Abbey National, Halifax-Bank of Scotland and National Australia Bank.
After a move into the security intelligence sector where he gained further training and experience carrying out detailed risk assessments and intelligence analyses, Rob returned to the property research market with Curtis Associates.
In addition to investigatory work done in the field, Rob’s excellent quantitative and qualitative research as well as analytical skills are integral to the rigorous due diligence we undertake for each client, to assess trends in the Sydney property market and identify future hot spots.