Thomas Tamine named 2026 Young Business Champion
Entrepreneur of the Year at the Australian Champion Business Awards
Thomas Tamine, Principal of The Gallery Real Estate, a boutique property management agency in Redfern, Sydney, has been named 2026 Young Business Champion, Entrepreneur of the Year, at the Australian Champion Business Awards. The winners were announced at a gala evening at The Star Sydney.
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The Australian Champion Business Awards are run by Precedent Productions and are now in their 28th year. According to the organiser, more than 8,500 business owners registered for the 2026 program, 1,585 finalists were selected across 109 categories and the gala evening, hosted by Peter Overton, was attended by more than 1,000 small business operators from around the country.
The independent judging panel pointed to commitment, leadership, business acumen, creativity, people skills, vision and social awareness. Steve Loe, founder of the Awards and managing director of Precedent Productions, described those as the qualities running a small business demands today:
"All qualities our independent judging panel identified as key reasons for selecting Thomas Tamine as the 2026 Champion of the Young Small Business Champion Entrepreneur category."
A note from Thomas Tamine
When I started this agency I genuinely doubted whether it would work. What I've learnt since is that you can only get so far in business on your own. The rest comes down to a great team and the perseverance to keep going when it's hard.
The decision that shaped the agency was to focus solely on property management. In our experience it is often the afterthought to a sales business: tenants bounced between juniors, landlords getting auto-replies, maintenance slipping through. It ends up feeling transactional, when it should be one of the most relational parts of owning an investment.
We set out to build the opposite. A boutique agency where property management isn't a side product. It's the only thing we do. Where every property is known by name, not by file number. Where the person you email knows your tenant, your property and your history.
The award technically has my name on it but anyone who knows how this agency runs knows it belongs to the whole team. Thank you to our lovely clients, our suppliers and our family for being part of it.
Thomas Tamine
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