About

Tessa Blaby is an Associate Director in the Tenant Advisory Group at Cushman & Wakefield, based in Brisbane. She is a tenant representation specialist focused on office leasing, lease negotiation, and occupier strategy across the Brisbane CBD, fringe, and metropolitan office markets.

With over seven years in property across residential and commercial sectors, the majority of Tessa's career has been spent in commercial office leasing and tenant advisory. She has worked with institutional landlords, leading agencies, and corporate occupiers, giving her a clear understanding of how landlords price, structure, and defend deals. Tessa uses that insight to negotiate stronger commercial outcomes for tenants on rent, incentives, lease structure, and risk allocation.

Tessa advises a broad mix of occupiers, from growth stage Australian businesses to ASX listed and multinational corporations. She represents clients across technology, professional services, financial services, engineering, logistics, design, and not for profit sectors. Her transaction experience spans lease renewals, relocations, new market entries, lease surrenders, assignments, subleasing, market and rent reviews, and lease restructures.

She is known for detailed financial modelling, structured negotiation strategy, and a hands on approach that takes clients from initial brief through to lease execution.

Tessa operates across Brisbane CBD, the inner city fringe including Fortitude Valley, Newstead, Spring Hill, Milton, and South Brisbane, the Brisbane Airport precinct and TradeCoast, and broader South East Queensland including the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. She also services occupier requirements in Cairns and Darwin where needed.

Areas of specialisation

• Office leasing and tenant representation
• Lease renewal strategy and market and rent reviews
• Relocations, expansions, and consolidations
• Lease surrenders, assignments, and subleasing
• Lease restructures and exit strategy
• Make good and reinstatement negotiation
• Flexible workspace and serviced office advisory
• Financial analysis, net effective rent modelling, and incentive benchmarking
• Workplace strategy and right sizing analysis
• Heads of Agreement and lease documentation review

Sectors advised

Technology and software, professional services, financial services and fintech, engineering and infrastructure, architecture and design, logistics and supply chain, manufacturing, government adjacent, and not for profit.

Markets served

Brisbane CBD, Fortitude Valley, Newstead, Spring Hill, Milton, South Brisbane, Bowen Hills, Toowong, Indooroopilly, Lutwyche, Woolloongabba, Eagle Farm, TradeCoast, Hamilton, Northshore, and the broader South East Queensland office market. Cairns and Darwin requirements supported as needed.

Education

• Bachelor of Property Economics, Queensland University of Technology
• Registered Real Estate Salesperson, Queensland (Licence 4401337)
• Member, Property Council of Australia
• Member, Property Council of Australia Queensland Future Leaders Committee 2025/26