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Melinda McDonald

SENIOR PROPERTY MANAGER

Melinda boasts a robust professional career in real estate, specializing in commercial property management for over two decades with a prominent global property agency. Throughout this extensive tenure, she has gained significant exposure to the commercial, retail, and industrial sectors within the Newcastle and surrounding regional market. Melinda is dedicated to delivering a personalised and attentive level of service to her clients.

Her expertise spans a comprehensive range of responsibilities in commercial property management. This includes facilitating and overseeing leases, managing lease renewals and new leases, conducting rent reviews, handling outgoings and budgets, providing financial reporting, conducting property inspections and reporting, managing repairs and maintenance, overseeing arrears, addressing vacant possessions, and resolving disputes.

Hear what our clients say

I've been incredibly impressed with working collaboratively with Ryan and Mel on our lease renegotiations that have concluded (very successfully) today. Ryan has been an absolute gun, provided fantastic market insight and a solid strategy to extract the best possible outcome. He is also a great listener, sincere and honest. Mel, as always, has been on the button with all facets of the asset. Her timely review provided me with outstanding insight (that I’ve not previously had). It has also set us up to initiate a proactive maintenance programme so that we can make the most of the asset, rather than just “fix things” reactively. This will no doubt add significant value to this asset moving forward. They have both been available at all times to discuss my concerns and ideas and I felt supremely comfortable being allowed to participate on a Zoom call with our esteemed tenant. The extra mile in deeper research that Ryan applied helped seal the deal. At no point did I feel that our best interests were not being fought for. They are both a credit to your team. It is also a credit to yourselves for obviously providing an environment that allows your team to absolutely excel.
Robert Nachum
I have developed, leased and sold industrial assets for 30 years in the Newcastle Region. I have recently transitioned 90% of our property portfolio of industrial assets to Commercial Collective from a competing corporate real estate agency as we have found Byrne Tran, Melinda McDonald and the team at Commercial Collective provide a more personalised approach to the management and leasing of our assets by understanding objectives and helping to achieve them. Their knowledge, experience, property advice and wholistic approach is first class.
Juan Gonzalez
First Class Management! Melinda’s great strengths are her thorough knowledge of commercial property management, she is prompt & thorough with a high attention to detail and keeps me well informed of any matters that arise. I was very impressed with the audit process carried out on our assets during the transition from the previous managing agent, this included building & lease audit to ensure our asset was managed at it’s optimum moving forward & any outstanding items or issues discovered were quickly resolved. As a result, I am relaxed and confident that our properties are in good hands. I have no hesitation in recommending Melinda and the team at Commercial Collective.
Stewart Kenworthy