Tom has become the ‘go-to broker’ for commercial and industrial property investors and developers. He has unrivalled knowledge of square meter rates, yields, financial documentation, the town’s growth and what’s happening ‘in the background’ in the local market.

In January 2020 Tom started Lyons Asset Brokerage which was to be launched in April 2020. The Covid lockdown put these plans on hold, however, it gave him an extra month to perfect his back-end systems to ensure less time in front of a computer and more time ‘in the field’. He utilises bespoke software and digital marketing techniques to put people at the forefront of his business with the view that relationships should outlast a transaction.

Tom has a double degree majoring in accounting and IT infrastructure. Before setting his sights on the property industry he managed current assets and audited information systems for a giant in the e-commerce and payment industry, travelled the world living in Italy, Canada, and the USA, working as a deckhand on superyachts, a farmhand and a white water rafting guide. After the travel bug had been put to rest he built his first business in Auckland specialising in detailing, and valeting vehicles in the high-end market and subsequently won a substantial entrepreneurial grant.