Alceon Qld was initially established as Harvest Property and commenced trading as of 1 May 2008. Harvest Property was created as a boutique property syndication and investment management business, established to enable the founding partners to invest in the property asset classes that each had worked on for the prior 16 years. The syndication model allowed other investors and industry experts to also participate in these investments, establishing a diverse investor base and a management platform that drew from the experience of that investor base.
Initially focused on SEQ, Harvest primarily targeted value add assets that met specific Investment criteria. After several successful acquisitions, it was quickly identified that the business was going to need a longer-term Investment Partner and in September 2011, Harvest completed its first acquisition in Joint Venture with Sydney based, Private Equity Real Estate Group, Alceon. After several subsequent acquisitions with Alceon, it was determined that the best way forward was to formally merge the Qld Operations and Alceon Qld was formed in December 2012.
Today Alceon Qld continues to operate as a 50/50 Joint Venture between Founding Director, Todd Pepper, and Sydney based Alceon Group. Since inception, the Joint Venture has undertaken 56 Direct property acquisitions worth in excess of $558M, financed $245M in preference equity across 42 separate property deals, and raised in excess of $406.5M in equity. Alceon Qld also founded the Gateway Lifestyle manufactured home park Business in Dec 2009 which culminated in a successful IPO in June 2015 with an enterprise value of $541.2M
The group continues to not only look for and acquire stand-alone property assets that have the ability to provide superior risk-adjusted returns but provide partnership capital to some of Qld’s leading development partners across nearly all property sectors.