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Real estate veteran Tom Ryan has rejoined Knight Frank as the firm’s new partner and head of investment sales in Victoria, ahead of expected commercial sector growth in 2025.
Ryan brings over two decades of experience in commercial real estate, where he has worked across all asset classes for government, institutional and private clients in Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
He previously spent six-and-a-half years at Knight Frank after joining in 2014 and progressing to the position of director, capital markets, based in Melbourne.
After spending four years at CBRE as director, capital markets, where he managed the sale of several “major metropolitan office buildings”, Ryan is returning to Knight Frank to head its investment sales team in Victoria.
Knight Frank’s managing director of Victoria, Dominic Long, said he was “excited to welcome Tom back to Knight Frank” and shared that he looks forward to a “strong year ahead” with Ryan on board.
“Not only is Tom familiar with many of our people and how we operate, but he will bring with him more than two decades of experience to lead the investment sales team,” he said.
Long highlighted that Knight Frank expects a rise in commercial property transactions in 2025, and noted that Ryan’s appointment will strengthen the firm’s Victorian investment sales team ahead of this anticipated market growth.
Reflecting on his return, Ryan remarked that he has “spent more time working at Knight Frank than anywhere else in my career”, sharing that he is “looking forward” to rejoining the firm after a four-year hiatus.
The new appointee noted that market momentum in Melbourne continues to build, and highlighted the rising transaction volumes in forecasting that activity would be “bolstered next year as the market moves in the right direction”.
Looking towards the future, Ryan shared that he aims to collaborate with Knight Frank’s national capital markets team and “multiple other business lines” in order to capitalise on what he described as “an exciting period of change for Knight Frank Australia, particularly in Victoria”.
This appointment follows Knight Frank’s recent announcement of Craig Shute as CEO for the firm’s Asia Pacific operations, succeeding Kevin Coppel, who will retire in March 2025.
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