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Introducing Frasers Property Australia

Since 1924, Frasers Property Australia has created stronger, smarter, happier neighbourhoods that enhance the way people live life together.

International in scale but local at heart, we understand the human side of property to create award-winning communities. We design, develop, build, manage and provide clean energy to the properties and communities we create, and we’re active in the mixed use, residential, commercial, retail and build-to-rent sectors.

In 2024, we’re celebrating 100 years of our Australian property development history. And though it’s not our birthday per se, it is a reflection on a century of experience and lineage that extends from the days of real estate entrepreneur T.M Burke in 1924 to Frasers Property Australia today.

Like any story played out over ten decades, it has its fair share of twists and turns. Major plot points. Colourful characters. Mergers and demergers. Through it all, one thing stayed constant: a desire to create the kinds of places people are still drawn to many generations later.

By all accounts, Thomas Michael Burke was an indefatigable champion of Australian development.

Born near Ararat in 1870 to Irish and Scottish settlers, Thomas worked as a railway clerk as a young man, before founding the Civil Services Co-Operative Society in 1903, a large member-driven cooperative store in Melbourne’s Flinders Street, with several suburban and rural outposts across Victoria. An early advocate for the federation of the colonies, Burke would go on to play a leading role in the country’s first ever ‘Made in Australia’ Exhibition in 1904.

As the country marched to war in the mid 1910s, Burke bought land in the depressed market and turned his hand at subdivision. In the post-war years, he sold those subdivided properties to returning servicemen and their families on nominal deposits and modest terms, spreading the “new gospel” of “8d. a day” to secure a slice of an expanding Australia.

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