From a first subdivision at seventeen to a working life across property, capital and land.
Mark Tonge began developing land in 1997, at the age of seventeen and still at school. He has been building communities, businesses and the structures behind them ever since.
What followed was close to thirty years of hands-on property development across Queensland and New South Wales — residential estates and gated communities, townhouse and dual-key projects, industrial and marine-industry subdivisions, and commercial strata conversions in Sydney and on the Gold Coast. More subdivisions, in truth, than are worth counting.
That long apprenticeship in feasibility, approvals, civil works, titling and sale gave him an understanding of the entire stack. He has acquired raw green-acre sites and carried them through council approvals, rezonings and registration, and repositioned existing buildings to obtain the strata approvals to separate and sell them.
Over time he built outward from development itself. Where a developer needs capital, he came to understand capital, and now arranges it. Where land carries an operating business, he has owned and run those businesses. Where others needed help structuring or delivering their own projects, he has quietly guided them through it.
The result is several separate businesses, each standing on its own — property development, private capital, land and agriculture — held by a principal who has done each discipline himself.
Separate firms. One principal.
- Property DevelopmentCenturion GlobalGated estates, residential subdivision and approved high-density sites across Queensland and New South Wales.
- Private CapitalSolara Global Capital PartnersDevelopment and construction finance, private credit and structured capital for principals and family offices.
- Community DevelopmentAussie Prime LandA family-owned firm turning raw land into well-planned residential neighbourhoods.
- Agriculture · Co-investmentAussie Prime FarmsBuilt on hands-on farming, developing toward co-investment in quality Australian farmland.
Current and recent.
Approvals secured: Centurion Global has secured high-density approvals in Townsville, including a twin-tower apartment development and, at a separate Strand site, a twenty-five-storey apartment building.
- Magnetic Views EstateCAPE PALLARENDA, TOWNSVILLEA thirteen-lot boutique gated estate on elevated coastal land beside the Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park, looking across Cleveland Bay to Magnetic Island. Civil works complete and titles registered.
- Castle Hill EstateTOWNSVILLEA thirty-three-lot residential estate on the eastern slopes of Castle Hill, with views to Magnetic Island and the city.
- Waterford CentralWATERFORD, LOGANA relocatable-homes estate in the established Logan growth corridor.
- Holmview EstateHOLMVIEW, SEQA sixty-four-lot residential subdivision delivered through DA and material change of use approvals to completion.
- Sicura ResidencesHILLCREST, SEQEighteen townhouses and ten residential lots alongside an existing home; civil works and subdivision completed.
- Limestone Estate · CondonFifty-four-lot residential subdivision. Completed and fully sold.
- Upper CoomeraSeventy-nine-lot subdivision; MCU and DA secured through the Land and Environment Court.
- Brygon Creek Road · CoomeraThirty-nine-lot subdivision from a green site through approvals, civil works and registration.
- Lorenzo Drive · CoomeraThirteen-lot subdivision; DA repositioned from townhouses, civil works completed.
- Beattie Road · CoomeraTen-lot industrial subdivision rezoned to marine industry; all lots sold via Colliers.
- Foxwell Road · CoomeraTwenty-eight-lot subdivision from a green-acre site; approvals gained and sold.
- Cox Road · PimpamaTwenty-seven-lot subdivision; approvals secured and sold in one line.
- 46 Cavill Avenue · Surfers ParadiseCommercial and retail strata conversion to thirty-nine suites.
- 1–15 Barr Street · BalmainStrata conversion to thirty-two commercial suites; renovated and sold lot by lot.
- 156 Johnson Street · Byron BayIndustrial building converted, with approvals, to retail use and sold.
A selection only. Many further subdivisions and projects have been delivered over the period, together with roles assisting other developers to structure and deliver their own schemes.
Investment
Mark has invested in early-stage ventures, including a frozen-yoghurt franchise business, and in finance companies. That investor’s vantage point now informs Solara Global Capital Partners.
Agriculture
Mark has owned and run a 3,300-acre farm carrying olives and olive-oil production, sheep and Black Angus cattle. That experience is the foundation for Aussie Prime Farms.
Hospitality
Mark has owned and operated restaurants and venues across two states, including Milan on Main and Tapas at Main Beach on the Gold Coast, and Evol in Surry Hills, Sydney. Each was built up and subsequently sold.
Views formed on projects delivered first-hand, across every stage from site to title.
Capital and approvals arranged to absorb the surprises every project brings.
Conversations kept private. Counterparties kept confidential.