Tim Crooks

Tim plays a key role in driving the growth of ResortBrokers, founded by his father, Ian, in 1985.

Since joining ResortBrokers in 2008, he has earned a reputation as one of Australia’s foremost experts in off-the-plan permanent residential and short-term accommodation management rights and hotels in major apartment projects.

During his 18-year career in the sector, Tim has settled over 250 deals of accommodation assets with a combined value of more than $620 million.

Tim’s notable career transactions include the 2025 sale of the management rights to the 667-apartment, 65-storey Queen’s Wharf Residences to Minor Hotels. His landmark 2017 sale to Mantra Group of the management rights to Gurner’s FV high-rise in Brisbane for $28 million remains the largest off-the-plan management rights transaction in Australia. That same year he sold Deague Group’s Art Series Hotel portfolio of five hotels and two management rights, also to Mantra, for $52.5 million.

Tim’s expertise includes the evaluation, set up, marketing and sale of management rights businesses and associated real estate. He regularly consults for leading developers and hotel groups across Australia.

In recent years, Tim has been instrumental in growing the management rights market beyond its traditional Queensland base. The increasing acceptance of the management rights model by the hotel industry has resulted in Tim’s expertise being actively sought by hotel operators across Australia.

Tim is one of the principal authors of ResortBrokers’ annual Management Rights Report , the only quantitative study of its kind to examine the vast impact of the industry across the country, now in its fourth edition.

Tim’s excellence in the management rights sector was recognised by industry when he won the top prize in the real estate category for The Urban Developer’s 2025 Urban Leader Awards.