ISBE Development
Your Dependable Property Development Partner
Transparent, Professional & Certainty
ISBE Development is an award-winning development management consultancy with deep, proven experience across the property sector. As an integral part of ISBE’s full-service offering, we take charge of the entire development process on behalf of our clients. Our transparent, open-book approach ensures fairness, accountability, and public auditability—keeping clients fully informed and engaged throughout their project while mitigating risk and avoiding unnecessary cost and time overruns on the path to shared success.
Portfolio of Successful Projects
Hight Rise Luxury Developement
Project address: 168 Walker Street, North Sydney
The AURA development has been named the Winner in the ‘Development of the Year – High Density Residential (200+)’ category at the 2025 The Urban Developer Awards for Industry Excellence. It is a mix-used project next to the new North Sydney Metro Station (Victoria Cross Metro Station). It is a $1 billion development project with 386 luxury apartments in 4 tower buildings (28 stories) with 3,199 m2 commercial/retail area. It’s a bold example of design-led living in one of Sydney’s fastest-evolving urban centres.
Housing & Land, Golf Course
Project Address: 1 Magenta Dr, Magenta
The Magenta Shores development won the MBA award for Environmental Management – Housing. This development is a 100-hectare integrated tourism and residential master-planned community. It comprises 420 residential lots and resort villas, a five-star resort hotel with associated conference and recreational facilities, parks, playgrounds, and an 18-hole resort golf course.
Landmark Retail Development
Project address: 123-133 Burwood Road, Burwood
The Burwood Chinatown development won 2024 Australian Best Retail Development Award at the Property Guru Development Awards. This development is an exciting new dining and retail precinct located in the heart of Sydney's inner west. This development spans a significant site area that has been meticulously transformed into a vibrant hub celebrating Asian culture through its culinary offerings and unique design. With its lively atmosphere and eclectic design, Burwood Chinatown has quickly become one of Sydney’s most iconic culinary destinations, attracting over 150,000 visitors weekly, including high-profile figures and food lovers from around the world.
Boutique Residential
Project address: 19-21 Turramurra Ave, Turramurra
The Heysen development won the Excellence in ‘Medium Rise City Apartment’ Award at the 2019 Urban Taskforce Development Excellence Awards.
It is a boutique development of thoughtfully designed apartments inspired by the leafy surrounds of Turramurra. This development is a medium-density residential development consisting of a five-story building with two underground levels and 45 boutique residential apartments.
Residential, Retail & Supermarket
Project address: 23-41 Lindfield Ave, Lindfield
This development, located on the north side of Sydney, is a mixed-use project with a total investment exceeding 200 million Australian dollars. It features four underground levels and 4,000 square meters of retail space, including a large IGA supermarket approximately 2,000 square meters in size. Additionally, the project comprises 141 residential apartments. Through carefully designed living spaces and convenient amenities, it meets the clients' demands for high-quality living and comfortable environments.
Residential mix-used
Project address: 225 Hume Highway, Greenacre
Eden Greenacre is a $100 million mix-used project with 14 townhouses, 177 apartments and 2,500sqm commercial area across 5 separate tower buildings with separate basements, two rows of townhouses and associated landscaping and internal roads.
Restaurant & Bar
Project address: 1 Elizabeth St, Sydney NSW 2000
Loulou’s Martin Place bistro and bar development flows over two levels and spills out along Elizabeth Street in CBD, the perfect Parisian-style vantage point for people watching.
Student Accommodation
project address: 413-415 Sussex Street, Haymarket
This is a high-end student accommodation project in the heart of Sydney CBD, which is a 17-story mixed use development with 3,352 m2 retail area and 306 luxury student accommodation units including a rooftop garden as the public communal area, together with 1,038 m2 heritage conservation works to the existing heritage buildings.
Residential & Commercial
High Rise Mix-used
Project address: 100 Christie Street, St Leonards
This project is a development as 40-storey mixed use building with a maximum GFA of 24,174 m² comprising 7 levels basement, 5,708 m² retail & commercial premises within a 6-storey podium and 194 high end residential apartments in 34 stories, including 4 luxury penthouses
Building Cost Estimation
Estimates of the current range of costs across Australia for key building types
Data within this website for Building Costs are current as at Q2 2025 and are subject to change. The results shown are indicative only and are to be used as a guide only.
Development Specialist
Truly Top-Notch
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Houses, townhouses and apartment buildings
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Office, retail, food & drink market, pubs & bars
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Mix-used development (a building or place) made up of two or more different land
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Subdivision for torrens title, strata title and community title schemes
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Hotel, serviced apartments, student accommodation
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Urban master plans
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A Practical Guide to Property Development
Preparation before your development is critical. It helps you avoid policy blind spots and prevents you from being led by agents, designers, contractors, or government approval processes. Development is rife with potential pitfalls such as information asymmetry, approval hurdles, cost overruns, and market volatility. During delivery, some contractors or partners may introduce “hidden costs,” add contract riders, or alter scopes mid-construction—pushing projects into loss. For less experienced developers, falling into these “traps” can mean losses from tens of thousands of dollars to severe disruption of your broader investment strategy.
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ISBE Founder and Managing Director — Masson Chen
Time, cost and quality are the core of our development-management philosophy. As a proactive, hands-on manager, Masson is relentless in protecting and maximising client interests. From project inception through to final handover, we coordinate seamlessly with internal teams, external contractors and relevant government authorities to keep every stage moving smoothly.
We understand your project’s requirements and constraints, and we provide swift, well-grounded advice. By exploring options at every step of the development process and refining each detail, we aim to elevate project value while building open, transparent and trusted relationships—so we can achieve your development goals together.
How We Help You Deliver, Efficiently
Ensuring professionalism, transparency and certainty across the full development lifecycle
In Australia, site acquisition and development involve complex regulation, financing structures, construction delivery and market operations. The development process is highly interdependent—an error in a small step can cascade into critical failures, causing direct financial and time losses, and in some cases even breaching legal boundaries.
High complexity in the development process
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Intricate land-use and building regulations; lengthy approval pathways.
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Market fluctuations and shifting financing conditions make rapid, informed decisions challenging for non-specialists.
Challenging cross-functional coordination
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Requires alignment across architects, planning authorities, contractors, and sales teams.
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Without experience, you can easily be trapped by contract execution risks, construction management issues, and sales missteps.
Specialised cash-flow and financing management
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Unstable cash flows or poorly structured finance can push projects into financial distress.