Winner of the Property Person of the Year 2014

Mr Tony Perich AM

Tony Perich is one of the main drivers of residential development on Sydney’s South West fringe. He began as a dairy farmer and moved on to the development of Narellan Town Centre followed by Oran Park with 5,600 homesites and Gregory Hills with 2,500 homesites. He is Managing Director of 10 companies and joint Managing Director of another three and a Director of another 9 companies. He heads up the Leppington Pastoral Company which milks around 2,200 cows at Bringelly and has crops in excess of 6,000 hectares of grain and hay in the Central West of NSW.

Urban Taskforce’s previous Chair, Noel Hemmings QC, commented, “I have known Tony for many years and have admired his ability to run both a massive dairy and a booming development business. This award, of course, is for what he has achieved as a developer and there is no doubt that he has set very high standards for the development of new town centres and whole suburbs on the fringe of Sydney. I congratulate him on winning this award and for all he has achieved.”

According to Chris Johnson, Urban Taskforce CEO, “Tony Perich has prepared the groundwork for development around Badgery’s Creek airport through his extensive developments. As well as the housing estates Tony is developing the Central Hills Business Park and has developed the Narellan Town Centre which is a large shopping centre.”

While Tony Perich has been the driver of the major projects in South Western Sydney he has formed joint-ventures with Landcom at Oran Park and worked jointly on other sites with partners. Tony Perich was born in Liverpool in 1940 to Croatian parents and is married to Catherine and has two sons who, along with Tony’s brother Ron and his family, are all involved in the family’s businesses. Tony’s father grew tomatoes for sale at the Sydney Markets and in 1953 the family moved into dairy farming which has evolved into one of Australia’s largest dairy farms.

Tony Perich is a great contributor to the community. He was Chairman of the Fundraising Committee for the Spastic Centre’s Growth Point Project at Liverpool, President of Narellan Rotary, Vice President of the Narellan Chamber of Commerce for 10 years, Board Member of the Greater Western Sydney Economic Development Board. He established the Cancer Health Research Foundation Sydney South and has raised funds for Prostate Cancer Research. He received an AM- Member Order of Australia in 1999 for services to the community.

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