32 Brian Street

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing you will be successful.

Troy's passion to real estate is only rivaled by his love for his wife and 3 beautiful children.

Wollongong born and bred, 37 years ago, the oldest of three children, Troy grew up in Balgownie and attended Keira High School. A local state rep in both league and union having played league locally for Balgownie Tigers and Union for Waratahs where he formed friendships which will last a lifetime.

After leaving Wollongong University in late 1987 where he was studying economics, Troy made one of the most rewarding decisions of his life that was to join the family business "Phipps Real Estate". A business that he had watched his father mould into a market leader since 1974.

A forth generation real estate agent, his Grandfather having started business in the early 1900's, Troy was driven to prove himself. After four dedicated years he had stamped his mark on the real estate industry and was made a partner in the firm. At the age of 22 he was the youngest Director / Partner of a real estate firm in Wollongong.

For the next 15 years Troy and his father, Bob, successfully made Phipps Real Estate an icon within the Illawarra real estate market, having high profile clients such as Department of Housing, NSW Education Department, Australian Taxation Deparment, Roads and Traffic Authority, NSW Land & Housing Corporation and NSW Property Services Group.

With Bob deciding after spending 36 years at the helm to return to what he loves best about the job "selling houses". This left Troy with the decision of where to take the business.

This has allowed the opportunity for Troy to join forces with Leigh Stewart, a long time school friend and also the Ray White Corporation to create what will be one of the market leaders in the Illawarra. Being part of the Ray White Corporation means that Troy is dedicated to continual training, customer service and having more marketing opportunities to best showcase vendors' properties.

Over the past 18 years Troy has been highly involved in residential development having personally project managed and marketed over 110 projects. For many of his clients this has been a full service involvement from sourcing the site, architecture and associated consultants to development application and construction certificate stages, fitouts and colour selection, building tenders through to the final marketing of the finished product. His success in this facet of his career is reflected by his broad developer base some of which have been developing exclusively with him for 17 years.

Troy can see this strengthening even further with the marketing diversity he can offer his clients now through Ray White.

Troy has been awarded numerous industry awards over his career and is focused on providing the optimum outcome for every client he deals with. Troy's success can be attributed to his personal style of client service, knowing the needs and desires of all the people he comes in contact with.

This new chapter in Troy's career has provided him with an enthusiastic, positive and highly focused goal that is to provide his clients with a service which is unparalleled in the Illawarra.