About our CEO
Philip Oates enjoyed a successful career of over 20 years as the head of Property for the Automotive Holdings Group (AHG) up until 2018. During this time his role was to develop, drive and manage the groups sizeable property expansion programme across both Australia and New Zealand, with a asset value in excess of 1 billion. Philip created a property team that transformed what was a small Perth based automotive business into a dynamic national and International player with over 300 leases in automotive and refrigerated logistics.
Working closely with operational executives, corporate and private landlords, builders, contractors, agents, engineers and architects Philip has developed an extensive professional network in the property industry.
Philip managed AHG’s successful placement of an Automotive centric unlisted property trust, which was an Australian first, and subsequently delivered 2 more working with Charter Hall. The AHG experience has provided Phil with a unique perspective of being the developer as well as the end user of the property assets.
Lessons learnt include the pitfalls of cost cutting during construction and ignoring life cycle cost on property investments. This is an important point often forgotten when people strive for the cheapest quote but ignore ongoing operational costs.
Philip founded Form Property in 2018 as identified a need in the market to provide property services that are more in line with long term strategic objectives and less about short term quick wins. Philip Oates has a long history of delivering portfolio enhancement, property development, construction, and management for key stakeholders and is grounding in accounting ensures that a keen control of numbers is at the forefront of any project.