Paul Ephron Colliers

09/01/2026

After a well-deserved rest and break I look forward to a great new year.

2025 was an exceptional year for the Colliers Sydney Development Sites Team.

Now with 10 operatives, we are proud to be the largest dedicated Development Sites team in Sydney.

With our strong geographical coverage, we capitalised on a reinvigorated planning environment to successfully deliver major transactions, navigate complex projects, and strengthen long-term partnerships across the city.

By working closely with our clients, we unlocked value and advanced development strategies with confidence and precision.

This year-end wrap highlights the key milestones and shared achievements made possible by the trust and collaboration of our clients, partners, and colleagues.

Thank you for your continued support—we look forward to building on this momentum in 2026.

2025 has been an exceptional year for the Colliers Sydney Development Sites Team. Now with 10 operatives, we are proud to be the largest dedicated Development Sites team in Sydney. With our strong geographical coverage, we capitalised on a reinvigorated planning environment to successfully deliver m...

20/12/2025

The hatred was never loud at first.
It crept instead—quiet, inherited, passed down like an old superstition people never bothered to question. It lived in sideways glances, in jokes disguised as “opinions,” in the comfort some found blaming a people they had never truly met.

Yet everywhere the world turned, Jewish fingerprints were already there—not hidden, not secret, just woven into the fabric of daily life.

A child took their first breath because a vaccine existed.
A heart beat again because a machine knew when to shock it back into rhythm.
A message crossed oceans in milliseconds.
Food grew where soil had once been dead.

The irony was heavy: many who harbored hatred benefited daily from the work of Jewish minds, Jewish hands, Jewish persistence. They walked through shopping centres built by Jewish families, relied on medicines discovered by Jewish scientists, and lived longer lives because Jewish doctors refused to accept death as inevitable.

And still, the hatred lingered.

It was never really about what Jews did.
It was about what others feared.

Fear of difference. Fear of endurance. Fear of a people who survived exile, persecution, and attempted erasure—and still chose to build rather than destroy. Hatred found its strength not in truth, but in myths repeated so often they began to feel familiar. Easier to believe a lie than confront complexity. Easier to blame than to learn.

The narrator of history often forgot to mention this part: Jewish people were not asking to be admired. Only to be left alone. To live, to contribute, to walk into the world without carrying the burden of someone else’s ignorance.

If someone chose not to support Jewish-owned businesses, that was their choice. Choice implied distance, not violence. Preference, not prejudice. But hatred—hatred was different. Hatred poisoned everything it touched, including the one who carried it.

The truth stood quietly, unshaken:

Jewish people had helped shape the modern world not out of dominance, but out of necessity—to survive, to heal, to create meaning where suffering once stood. And no amount of hate could undo that. It could only expose itself for what it truly was: fear standing in the shadow of contribution.

History would remember who built.
And who only knew how to blame.

13/12/2025

Tales from The Eph

13/12/2025

Flowers are the best 👍 given at any random time.

13/12/2025

“The best wash is my car wash. The second best is Star Car Wash. If you’re already parking in Bondi Junction, you may as well do both together — drop the car off, come back later, and it’s clean.”

12/12/2025