Matthew Hyder is the CEO of Legacy Property, a business he founded in 2009 with the goal of creating high-quality apartments and residential communities across greater Sydney. While Australia has been his home for many years now, Matthew’s formative years were spent in Fort Worth, Texas, before attending the prestigious Princeton University.

His career in property began as a development manager at Medalist Developments, a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank, which he took up following a move to Sydney in pursuit of his soon-to-be wife. In early 2005 Matthew moved back to Texas (with his now official wife) where he involved himself in the property development market and explored vertical apartment construction. But it wasn’t too long before the call of Australia’s eastern shores grew too strong to ignore.

Now more than ten years into the founding of his own venture, Matthew is proud to have a built a strong and stable business that has delivered more than 5,600 dwellings across greater Sydney. We recently sat down with Matthew to explore his Trans-Pacific property experience and how he first established and then grew Legacy Property during one of the most difficult financial periods of the 21^st Century.