Nathan Dunn

Nathan Dunn is a recognised and respected identity in the Canberra commercial property industry, with a career built across almost every corner of the market - industrial, office, retail and, ultimately, running one of the country’s largest agency businesses.

Nathan started out with Barton Property, a boutique industrial-focused firm, where he learned the trade from the ground up. His talent quickly caught the attention of JLL, who promoted him to Manager - the youngest holder of that title nationally at the time - where he handled an office asset client base that included some of Australia’s largest institutional property owners: Lend Lease, MTAA Superannuation, ISPT, Charter Hall, Australian Unity and Quintessential Equity.

It was inside that corporate machine that Nathan had his defining realisation: the bigger the business, the further it pulled focus away from the customer. In 2018, he opened a Belle Property Commercial franchise in Canberra and quickly became the best-performing office in the Belle Property Commercial network.

That track record eventually drew him into Knight Frank, where he rose to Managing Director of the ACT office - becoming the youngest Managing Director across the commercial real estate industry’s “big four” firms nationally. But the same instinct that pulled him out of JLL years earlier stayed with him: that great service starts with the customer, not the corporate structure around them.

It’s that conviction that led Nathan to found Pier Property.