
Curtis Ryan
Introducing
Retail Property Rule #6: ‘When you lease to a dickhead, they are now your dickhead.’
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Book 1 - THE MALL
Curtis is ambitious and optimistic, navigating the challenging world of commercial real estate in Sydney. His career has been on a steady upward trajectory, paralleled by a glamorous social lifestyle with his stunning girlfriend.
However, when a pivotal deal collapses, Curtis faces mounting pressure from his tyrannical boss and the demands of their clients: a high-profile billionaire investor, corporate executives with opaque motivations, and a shady developer with underworld connections.
As the clock ticks, Curtis unwittingly uncovers a fraud that could shake the foundations of his company. Balancing relentless cold calls, tense negotiations, and a crumbling personal life, Curtis must also unmask the criminal within his team.
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Book 2 - SIREN
Curtis Ryan has always been able to close a deal—he was sharp, confident, and relentless in the high-stakes world of retail real estate.
After landing Halifax Partners the management of The Brooke, he’s seen as the firm’s rising star. Juggling day-to-day shopping centre operations and the high-stakes leasing deals for his billionaire client’s ambitious development, Curtis is being stretched thin. Curtis needs help. He must hire a new portfolio manager, but with his CEO navigating the fallout of #MeToo, he is now limited to half the market, and none of the candidates are interested.
A developer with ties to Sydney’s underworld tips him off about some illegal activity in one of his centres, and he begins to suspect one of his staff of fraud.
Balancing his demanding clients, shady tenants, his new team, and his love life—something's going to give.
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The Shopping Centre Chronicles
At their purest, shopping centres are a fascinating amalgam of commerce and psychology. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of the ‘father’ of modern shopping centres, Victor Gruen, we have been adapting and reinventing them as the world changes. People all over the world buy groceries, go on first dates, eat gelato, watch movies, buy outfits for special occasions, waste money on candles, and hang out in the food court. Millions of others work in the stores or in support of the shopping centre.
In Australia, there are more than 1,500 shopping centres with over 65,000 tenants. The most successful have sales exceeding one billion dollars each year and collect tens of millions in rents.
Everyone has been in a shopping centre, and everyone has an opinion about them, but not many people know what really happens behind the scenes. Nothing with this much money involved is pure; people bring greed and power, anger and violence, sadness and desperation. It creates a volatile mix. The Shopping Centre Chronicles focuses on this precarious intersection.
Retail Property Rule #1: ‘It’s all about the sales - stupid.’