Development Project Management Sydney
Find out how much more your site could deliver, without buying another square metre of land.
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Protect project delivery from feasibility through to handover
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Your interests represented exclusively, not the architect's or builder's
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Coordinate consultants, contractors and approvals under one accountable team
100%
Client-Side Representation
15+ Years
of Complex-Site Delivery
$580M+
Delivered in Built Form
Trusted by Sydney's leading developers and design consultants
We bring real estate strategy and property advisory experience to every project, alongside government engagement with local councils and state agencies, so planning approvals are managed with the local context in mind.
For developers weighing up commercial property opportunities in a tightening market, local knowledge is often the difference between a DA that gets approved and delays.
Client-Side Project Management With Considered Planning for Sydney
Sydney's planning environment can be challenging for development. Local councils can hold up a development over minor setback or design objections, and DA timeframes, even with recent NSW planning reforms. A property development that isn't planned around these realities from the outset tends to lose time and money it can't get back.
Development Project Management Wherever You Are In Your Journey
APM Services provides development project management across Sydney. We help developers from the early feasibility stage, planning approvals, through to design management, procurement, and construction delivery.
We've delivered over $580 million in built form across some of the country's most constrained and complex sites, working directly for private developers to generate high-yielding assets.
Why Choose APM Services For Your Development
The decisions that determine whether a development is profitable are rarely made on site. They are made months earlier, and by the time they surface as a cost overrun or a stalled approval, they are far more expensive to fix.
Our difference:
Design efficiency: challenging over-design, reducing abortive work, and aligning consultants to a clear scope
Cost certainty: identifying gaps early, stress-testing assumptions, and avoiding budget blowout
Buildability: making sure what gets approved can actually be built
Procurement strategy: choosing the right delivery model to suit risk, market conditions, and complexity
Time: faster decisions, fewer RFIs, fewer variations, fewer delays
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps to a client-side project manager on your project
Step 1: Tell Us About Your Project
Complete the enquiry form with your site details, where you are in the project lifecycle, and what you're trying to achieve. The more detail you give us, the more useful the consultation.
Step 2: We Review Before We Meet
Simon Kassis reviews every submission personally before confirming a time. You get a considered read on your project, not a generic pitch.
Step 3: You Get a Clear Read on Your Project
In the consultation, we cover where a client-side project manager would add value on your specific site and what it would look like in practice.
What working with APM looks like
We manage the process through DA, design documentation, tendering, and construction, coordinating consultants and contractors under one accountable senior team.
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Turned a zero-profit site into a $5 million return, without buying more land
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Saved $2-3M on design decisions most developers only catch after construction starts
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Secured DA approval up to 37% above planning controls
Superintendent services and client-side project management
Administering the contract on your behalf, watertight payment schedules and maintaining project records.
Programme management
Programme and phasing, project oversight, and change management to keep scope creep and change control in check.
Quality management
Quality assurance inspections, defects management, and HSSEQ management through to handover.
Development Project Management Services
Feasibility and due diligence
Site analysis, floor space ratio assessment, cost planning and financial forecasting to confirm a project actually stacks up before you commit.
Development management and project strategy
Business case development, project briefing, and project governance from day one.
Planning approvals and town planning
Managing the DA process, master planning and stakeholder management with local councils and state agencies.
Design management
Coordinating architects, engineers and consultants, with value engineering and alternative design solutions built in so the finished building is buildable, not just beautiful.
Procurement and tendering
Developing procurement strategies, running tendering processes, and leading contract negotiation with contractors and subcontractor networks.
Cost control and budget management
Cost planning, risk evaluation, risk mitigation, and ongoing financial forecasting through delivery.
Sectors we work across
APM Services delivers project and development management across residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use projects, with experience spanning healthcare, education, retail, hospitality, infrastructure, aviation, and heritage planning.
We also manage refurbishment and commercial fit-out projects, where working around existing structures and operational constraints adds a different layer of risk to construction project management.
About Us
Who you'll work with
Simon Kassis is the Managing Director of APM Services and has consulted on Sydney's most complex development sites, spanning new build and complex refurbishment projects.
His career started on the contractor side, as a contracts administrator at Built, before leading the engineering team at Toga on a 194-key hotel at 80 George Street, on a 500 sqm CBD site with light rail construction running alongside it.
He then moved client-side at Generate, representing the client on projects including 333 Kent Street and the DA for Canva's Sydney headquarters, before co-founding APM Services.
Client-side project management, in our view, only works if the person doing it has sat on both sides of the contract. That's the experience that shapes how we approach every project.
Frequently Asked Questions
The questions we get about development management
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APM Services scopes its fees to each project's size and stage rather than charging a fixed rate, and the first consultation is free. Value is measured in yield protected, costs avoided, and approvals secured, rather than a fixed percentage promised upfront.
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A development feasibility with APM Services typically takes a few days once site details are provided. This confirms whether a project stacks up financially, what the site can deliver, and what the next steps should be before further capital is committed.
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APM Services works with private developers across Sydney on commercial, residential, industrial and land subdivision projects. This includes developers assessing a site before purchase and those seeking a second opinion on a project already underway.
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Yes. APM Services has redesigned developments within their existing footprint to increase yield. On one Sydney project, this involved taking a 21-apartment scheme to 28 apartments on the same site, verified by an independent quantity surveyor before construction began.
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Simon Kassis, Managing Director of APM Services, reviews every enquiry personally before confirming a consultation time. The consultation covers where a client-side project manager would add value on the specific site and what that involvement would look like in practice.
Your project deserves someone working only for you.
If you're assessing a site, reviewing the strategy for an existing asset, or looking for a second opinion on a project that's already underway, get in touch for a consultation.
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One team across the entire project lifecycle, from feasibility to handover
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Construction and contractor-side experience behind every decision we make on your behalf
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Resolving development issues across Sydney's most complex sites
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No obligation 30 minute consultation, reviewed personally by Simon Kassis before you meet
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