PORTFOLIO
Investment 1:
Early Learning Property
The Macarthur National Property Trust is the owner of the early learning properties owned by Macarthur. The properties comprises of a Head Office and Conference Centre located in Melbourne, 4 Montessori Beginnings Early Childhood Learning and Day Care centres and 1 non-affiliated childcare centre. All centres are purpose built to support the quality education and care of children 6 weeks to 6 years.
Investment 2:
Early Learning Education & Childcare
Macarthur intends to build its exposure in the Early Learning Education and Childcare sector, promoting the unique Montessori Beginnings brand.
- Montessori Beginnings was established in 2018 in Melbourne Australia, to satisfy its core belief of combining vision and substance to provide an enhanced early learning experience for young children in a long day care setting.
- This ideal has now become the charter and mission of Montessori Beginnings to provide services and facilities that inspire children at an early age.
- The Montessori ethos or philosophy will provide distinct choice for parents seeking a different offering in a space often considered mundane or viewed simply as paid child minding.
Montessori Beginnings comprises of a Head Office and Conference Centre located in Melbourne and eight Montessori Beginnings Early Childhood Learning and Day Care centres. Seven of the centres are located in Melbourne and one in regional Victoria. All centres are purpose built to support the quality education and care of children 6 weeks to 6 years.
Investment 3:
Land Lease Community
Recent innovation in the continuously expanding Retirement Living market has centred on a growing need to service a band of people either semi-retired or retired, often city dwellers, wishing to downsize or often needing to liberate equity and stored wealth in their current home. Although Land Lease offerings are popular overseas the sector is relatively young in Australia and will hold significant attraction for many retirees by providing the surplus cash for enhanced retirement living whilst simultaneously providing security of home ownership within a gated community set on long term leased land.
Homeowners buy the house at an affordable price and lease the land for an annual fee for approximately 90 years from Macarthur. Without such opportunities soon to be offered by Macarthur, many retirees will remain asset rich and income poor, thereby compromising life enjoyment in their later years.
Although in its infancy and acknowledged as not for all, this segment is expected to grow quickly in the decades to come. The post COVID-19 era is likely to accelerate interest in this sector. Macarthur intends to focus development in attractive country locations and rural communities where additional resort style amenities can be incorporated alongside housing.
INVESTOR
CENTRE
Registry Direct Limited
PO Box 18366
Collins Street East
Melbourne VIC 8003:
T: 1300 55 66 35 (within Australia)
T: +61 3 9909 9909 (outside of Australia)
F: +61 3 9111 5652
OUR TEAM
Henry Townsing
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Qualifications
Associate Diploma of Valuation
Experience
Mr Townsing brings over 35 years’ experience in investment management across real estate, private equity investment in early stage companies and corporate finance.
His real estate career has spanned residential, commercial and agricultural real estate sectors. His recent residential real estate experience has focussed on the creation of new residential communities within established metropolitan areas where he has led large scale in-fill urbanisation and high rise residential projects.
He is Chairman of Vita Life Sciences a company listed on the ASX.
Dr Les Fitzgerald
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Qualifications
RN., RM., Dip Teach Nurs., BEd., MNursStud., PhD
Experience
Dr Fitzgerald has over thirty-eight years of education experience in the higher education and health sectors.
He has extensive experience in curriculum design and development of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and their professional accreditation and qualification. In a senior leadership role he has implemented online learning, inquiry based learning, clinical practice simulation and flexible learning models throughout major metropolitan and regional hospitals. Currently he leads the development and implementation of a Montessori based education curriculum for early childhood learning and a training program for staff.
He is an accomplished writer and national and international speaker with thirty peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and papers to his name.
Dennis Wilkie
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Qualifications
MBA.
Experience
Mr Wilkie has over 40 years’ experience in Australian and international capital markets.
He has specific experience in corporate advisory, private equity and all forms of capital raising both listed and unlisted, including raising capital for three large scale renewable energy infrastructure projects in Australia and overseas. He has a strong understanding of the challenges of start-up and early stage growth companies, including acquisition and disposal. He is active and experienced Board Director well versed across a diverse range of industries including IT, labour hire, property and hydro power generation.