About us
Twenty-two years of building for people who hold their assets.
CFM Development is a commercial construction and property development company delivering industrial, commercial and mixed-use projects across Australia.
Our story
From civil contractor to end-to-end developer.
CFM Development began with a single excavator and a subdivision earthworks contract. The discipline learned in civil works — where tolerance is measured in millimetres and weather is a line item — still shapes how we run every project.
Today the business spans development origination, capital structuring, design and construct delivery and long-term asset management. We build for institutional funds, private landholders, councils and national tenants — and increasingly for our own balance sheet.
Our teams are directly employed. Our plant is our own. Our supervision does not get subcontracted. That is why our programmes hold.
What we stand for
Four commitments that survive contract negotiation.
Certainty over optimism
We commit to numbers we can stand behind and report against them weekly, not quarterly.
Own the outcome
One project director from feasibility to defects. No handballing between divisions.
Build for the long hold
Specification decisions are tested against thirty-year operating cost, not just capex.
Respect the ground
Low-carbon materials, waste diversion and site rehabilitation as standard practice.
Why CFM Development
Track record, measured.
Twenty-two years of continuous delivery, from single-tenant warehouses to nine-hectare industrial parks.
Projects Delivered
Across four states since 2004
Years Experience
Continuous commercial delivery
Industrial Space Delivered
Warehousing and distribution
Client Satisfaction
Repeat and referred engagements
Leadership
Senior people on site, not just on org charts.
Every CFM project has a director personally accountable for its cost, programme and quality.
Michael Cardone
Managing Director
Sophie Grant
Development Director
Ravi Menon
Construction Director
Ellen Boyd
Chief Financial Officer
Our process
A deliberate path from land to lease.
Each stage has an owner, a cost position and a decision gate. Nothing moves forward on optimism.
Feasibility & Advisory
Highest and best use analysis, cost planning and programme modelling before a dollar is committed.
Stage 1 of 5
Let's build
Have a site, a brief or a business case? Bring it to us early.
The earlier we are involved, the more value we can engineer into your asset.