We provide litigation support and transaction advisory, delivered with personal service by experienced professionals, each with vast experience in individual specialist fields.
Established in 2002, Extensor delivers innovative solutions to complex occupation and ownership issues through to expert valuation assistance across a range of transaction structures.
Our Services
Litigation Support - Real Estate
We provide expert valuation evidence, full arbitration and mediation services, valuation and rental disputes and specialist asset pricing.
Advisory - Negotiation
We assist with negotiating sale/purchase and leases, ownership and transaction structures and benchmarking, links with tax and accounting advice, and more.
Advisory - Valuations
We advise on commercial and industrial property, rental assessments and negotiation, provide non-market valuations and statutory assessments.
LITIGATION SUPPORT - REAL ESTATE
- Expert valuation evidence from commercial matters to statutory compensation
- Full arbitration and mediation services
- Valuation and rental disputes
- Specialist asset pricing
ADVISORY - NEGOTIATION
- Transaction management - negotiating sale/purchase and leases
- Ownership and transaction structures and benchmarking
- Linkage with tax and accounting advice
- Practical real estate assistance across all fields
ADVISORY - VALUATIONS
- All commercial and industrial property
- Specialist property valuation
- Rental assessment and negotiation including full representation service
- Non-market valuation
- Statutory assessments
Extensor has an enviable and extensive client base across all significant forms of real estate
We have an unrivalled track record to back up our promise to deliver results; the best client outcomes from innovative ideas, experience and knowledge.
Working globally, we have undertaken varied assignments for:
- Individuals and individual portfolio holders
- Bodies corporate
- Major corporates
- Central government
- Local government
- Maori trusts
- Property companies and listed property trusts
- Primary and essential industries
- Infrastructure-owning entities
Our Experience
Extensor delivers premium advice for litigation support and negotiation for real estate matters.Sectors we specialise in include:
- Commercial real estate and CBD Auckland through its specialist division
- Industrial real estate, nationally
- Healthcare, through Extensor's healthcare property experts
- Specialist real estate where non-market drivers define value
- Leasehold property and ground rent reviews
- Compensation assessments for compulsory acquisition under the Public Works Act
Our Team
Extensor comprises of a growing team of real estate experts with diverse backgrounds and skills, each with specific areas of interest and capability
Brett Smithies
Brett Smithies
DirectorVal Prof, FNZIV, FPINZ
DDI: +64 9 222-0696
Mobile: +64 21 925-800
Email: brett.smithies@extensor.co.nz
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Brett has practised as a valuer for more than 40 years and is recognised for his expertise both nationally and internationally. He has an enviable record of experience in litigation-based valuation. Brett is widely known as an expert valuer across all forms of real estate. A number of major corporates and investment institutions seek his advice on matters ranging from occupancy
and investment strategies through to property leasing, acquisition and disposal. Brett is an experienced expert witness and arbitrator and is regularly consulted on matters of land compensation, rental determination, finance and commercial disputes. Brett is a keen golfer and jogger and lives on a lifestyle property.
Gary Cheyne
Gary Cheyne
DirectorBCom, Dip Urb Val (Hons), FNZIV, FPINZ
DDI: +64 9 222-0695
Mobile: +64 21 932-761
Email: gary.cheyne@extensor.co.nz
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Gary is dual qualified in commerce and valuation and has extensive litigation support and arbitration experience, which draws upon lengthy career knowledge in valuation and real estate/financial consulting. Gary provides guidance and advice to clients in transactions such as sales and leasing. He has negotiated successful
conclusions to transactions for numerous clients, from government entities to local authorities, national companies and individuals. Gary also provides mediation services for disputes where arbitration and the Courts can be avoided. Gary enjoys alpine trekking and mountain climbing.
Vikki Nettleship
Vikki Nettleship
DirectorMNZIV, MPINZ, MRICS
DDI: +64 9 222-0699
Mobile: +64 21 956-669
Email: vikki.nettleship@extensor.co.nz
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Vikki completed a property degree in the UK in the mid 1990s before moving to New Zealand in 1997. She began working as a valuer in 2000, became a chartered valuation surveyor in 2001 and a registered valuer in 2003. Since then, Vikki has completed a wide range of valuation work, more recently specialising in valuation of large format retail property throughout New Zealand.
She has assisted major clients such as The Warehouse group, Farmers, Mitre 10, Clearance Shed and Number One Shoes. Vikki's experience includes a range of valuation work, with specialised interest in large format retail property, arbitration and litigation. Outside of work, Vikki focuses on family time and enjoys rollerblading, dancing and walking.
Sean Molloy
Sean Molloy
DirectorFNZIV, FPINZ
DDI: +64 9 222-0698
Mobile: +64 21 877-340
Email: sean.molloy@extensor.co.nz
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Sean is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Valuers and of the New Zealand Property Institute. He was first registered in 1974. Throughout his career in private practice, Sean has concentrated on valuation and consultancy in the Auckland CBD. He has extensive experience in the valuation of supermarkets and rental arbitrations relating to supermarket rentals, prime retail space and major office tenancies in central Auckland.
Sean's experience includes reviews and arbitrations of ground rentals in the Viaduct Precinct and Wynyard Precinct and land valuations in Quay Park. Sean has acted as a representative on behalf of tenants relocating, renegotiating and extending leases. In his spare time Sean tries to spend as much time as possible at Sandy Bay in Northland.
Lyn Dunn
Lyn Dunn
Office Manager
DDI: +64 9 366-9444
Mobile: +64 21 132-1781
Email: lyn.dunn@extensor.co.nz
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Lyn's role includes office management, word processing and accounting. Lyn is the initial point of contact for most clients and suppliers. Lyn has been involved in the property profession for some 30 years, beginning in England in the 1980s where she worked for Gatwick Airport before moving back to New Zealand and joining Darroch Limited in 1993.
Lyn joined Extensor in 2003 when the business was set up by Gary and Brett. Out of the office, Lyn enjoys walking, gardening and travelling within New Zealand and overseas with husband Peter, in particular visiting their children in Australia and following rugby league team, The Warriors.
Diana Koomen
Diana Koomen
DirectorBBS VPM (Hons), SNZIV, SPINZ
DDI: +64 9 222-0697
Mobile: +64 21 877-338
Email: diana.koomen@extensor.co.nz
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Diana is a Senior Member of the New Zealand Institute of Valuers and a Senior Member of the Property Institute of New Zealand.First registered in 1986, Diana has been in private practice for more than 25 years focusing on commercial property and, in particular, the healthcare sector including hospitals, rest homes, medical centres and retirement villages.
Diana is widely consulted on matters ranging from leasing structures through to asset valuations and forward planning for both public and private sectors. Diana's experience includes a comprehensive range of appraisals throughout New Zealand for both the public and private sectors.