When you need more space
Outgrowing your premises in Brisbane? Your real options
Direct answer
If your business is outgrowing its premises in Brisbane, you have four options: lease a bigger space, buy a building, wait it out — or approach a long-term property partner directly to acquire or build the right facility and lease it back to you. The fourth is the least known and often the best for a growing business.
Running out of room is a good problem — it means the business is working. But the usual fixes (scramble for a bigger lease, sink capital into buying, or make do) each carry a cost. Here are all four options laid out honestly, including the one most owners never hear about.
Key facts
- Best for
- Businesses growing out of their current premises
- Capital required
- None — you lease, we own
- We provide
- Acquire-to-suit · build-to-suit · sale & leaseback
- Where
- South-East Queensland industrial
- Tenure
- Long-term, with room to grow
- How to start
- A direct conversation about your requirement
Your four options, compared honestly
There's no single right answer — it depends on your capital, your growth runway and how purpose-specific your operation is. Here's the trade-off in each.
| Option | What it is | Upside | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lease a bigger space | Find and lease a larger premises on the open market. | Flexible; no capital tied up in property. | You're limited to what's listed today; you carry the move; and lease-end uncertainty repeats every few years. |
| Buy a building | Purchase a larger premises to own and occupy. | Control and security; an asset on the balance sheet. | Large capital — often with debt — locked into property instead of the business, and you carry all the property risk. |
| Wait it out | Stay put and make the current building work a while longer. | No cost or disruption today. | Constraints compound — capacity, efficiency, staff — and you face the same decision later with less runway. |
| Approach a partner directly | Brief a permanent-hold owner to acquire or build the right facility and lease it to you. | Purpose-fit premises, no capital tied up, long tenure, and a partner who re-homes you as you grow. | It takes a conversation and some lead time — and it's the option most businesses don't know exists. |
Why owning ties up capital at a poor return
Owning your premises feels safe, but it's rarely where your capital works hardest. Money sunk into bricks and mortar typically earns a property yield; the same money reinvested in the business — stock, plant, people, sales — usually earns a multiple of that.
That gap is the real cost of owning. For a growing business it can be the difference between funding the next stage from your own balance sheet and having the capital trapped in a shed.
What a direct partnership actually looks like
Three shapes, one principle — we provide the property so your capital can stay in the business:
- Acquire-to-suit — We buy the right larger building to fit your requirement and lease it to you, with room to grow into.
- Build / develop-to-suit — If the right building doesn't exist, we fund, acquire and build it around your operation, then hold it long term.
- Sale & leaseback — If you already own and need the capital, we buy your building and lease it straight back — then help you into the next one when you outgrow it.
What you keep
- Real tenure — long leases with genuine renewal certainty.
- Fair, transparent, market-evidenced rent reviews — no games.
- A landlord who reinvests capex into the asset over the hold.
- A partner who'll find or build your next building and move you across the portfolio when you outgrow this one.
Common questions
Do you have a bigger building available right now?
How far ahead should I start the conversation?
Can you work with my agent?
What size and type of premises do you focus on?
Start a conversation
Tell us your requirement
Talk to us directly about the premises your business needs — to outgrow, to free up capital, or to have built. One conversation with the people who decide.
We work with agents. If you’re an agent with a tenant requirement you can’t place or an off-market opportunity, bring it to us.