Lleyton brings youthful enthusiasm and five years’ commercial real estate experience to ResortBrokers.
Based in Rockhampton, where he was born and bred, Lleyton’s zone goes south to Tannum Sands and as far north as Airlie Beach. Going west, his zone extends to Barcaldine.
It’s a region this local knows intimately and whose fast growth promises enormous opportunity, he says.
“Take Yeppoon, for example,” says the 25-year-old. “There’s unlimited potential there, given the rate at which it’s expanding. Yeppoon used to be one of those places where if you wanted anything more than a basic shop you had to travel to Rockhampton. Now, Yeppoon is on its way to becoming a self-sufficient town, which in turn is having a flow-on effect for Emu Park about 20 minutes’ drive away.”
“Currently underway is a major upgrade of the road into a highway which will be the next step in this region’s evolution. In 15 or 20 years’ time, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was development all the way from Rockhampton to Yeppoon, just like there is now between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. It’s an exciting time to enter the accommodation sector because the opportunities are enormous.”
Lleyton got his start in commercial real estate through his uncle, Rob McArthur, who founded Queensland Commercial Property Agents in 1985. As Commercial Sales & Leasing Associate for five years to 2022, Lleyton was across all aspects relating to commercial industrial property management, sales and leasing, and was the agency’s go-to person for clients when the primary agent wasn’t available.
“Relationships, and being able to deal with people constructively, are what matters,” says Lleyton. “In commercial sales and leasing I had to liaise with different parties — sellers, buyers, landlords and tenants — to achieve an outcome that was mutually beneficial for all.”
“For me, relationships are everything. Nurturing genuine long-term relationships yields much better results than just trying to get a quick dollar. All the more so in the regions. Rocky and regional Queensland are old school. Personal relationships and word-of-mouth really count here. We’re down-to-earth, no-nonsense, straight-talking people, and very community minded.”
Outside commercial property, Lleyton is a health and fitness expert, an interest he leveraged for two years working for Australian Sports Nutrition as an Assistant Manager.
“Some nutrition stores try to pile as much product as they can onto a customer and then lead them to the checkout,” he says. “Whereas our philosophy was that even if the customer walked out with nothing and we didn’t make a dollar off them, 70-80% of the time they’d be back because of the time we spent listening and educating them. It’s the trust you build upfront that counts.”
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