Ben Mostyn leads Knight Frank’s Illawarra office as Managing Director and Founding Partner, advising private and institutional owners on the sale, leasing and development of major commercial and industrial assets across the region.

Rather than treating a listing as a marketing exercise, Ben starts every campaign by identifying who is actually in the market to buy the asset, the specific private, syndicate, institutional and offshore capital most likely to transact, at that price point, in that timeframe. He draws on AI-assisted market research and data analytics to build and continuously verify a live map of active purchasers, backed by a proprietary database developed over more than a decade of transactions in the region, and pairs that targeted outreach with best-practice digital marketing.

For all that digital sophistication, Ben remains an old-world believer in doing business face to face. He maintains an extensive network of relationships across Australia and offshore and travels extensively to sustain them, treating a phone call as a poor substitute for sitting across the table.

Under his leadership, Knight Frank Illawarra has become one of the most awarded agency offices in the region, delivering a genuinely vendor-first process from listing through to settlement.