
Sally Dare
Director & General Manager, City of Sydney Portfolio | Real Estate Management Services
About
Professional Summary
I am a highly dedicated and experienced Property Manager motivated to deliver service excellence and strong leadership to Clients, Tenants and Colleagues at the same time as driving strong financial outcomes from the asset with a focus on collaboration, sound communication, tenant retention and major refurbishment.
Accomplishments
Negotiated over 83,000m² in new lease transactions with existing tenants
Negotiated over 40,000m² in market rent reviews
Negotiated over $3.1 million dollars for makegood in lieu of settlement payments
Lead co-ordination role in a number of legal actions involving Westfield Limited, Stockland & Colonial First State in respect of Westfield’s Sydney City development through to the High Court of Australia
Preparation of documentation for Due Diligence purposes including 60 Margaret Street/MetCentre Shopping Centre (40,720m², over 100 tenants).
Implementation of best practice precedent leases incl transition from gross + increases in outgoings to net + outgoings and introduction of environment & sustainability clauses
Implementation and reinforcement of strong recycling practices
Managed the vacating and surrender of 16 retail, commercial and telecommunication tenants in line with critical path for major construction work achieving an early works agreement which allowed construction to commence 4 months early
- Negotiated early surrender with Macquarie Bank of 3,650m² to enable fitout & occupation by Brookfield Multiplex - 10 months ahead of budgeted vacancy
Achieved target dates for the occupation of Macquarie Bank in 10,950m² & vacating Mirvac & McGrath Nicol to handover of 10,000m² to ING Bank within a tight time line avoiding non performance penalties
Independent tenant surveys carried out in Feb ’07 and Feb ’08 rated performance of Building Management team at 87 over benchmark average of 77 with GM’s rating at 91 over benchmark average of 79
AWARDS
- 2016 - Outstanding Revenue Achiever Award (Colliers)
- 2011 - NSW and National Outstanding Professional Services Award (Colliers)
- 2006/2007 - Chairmans Award (Knight Frank)
- 2006 Finalist - REI Award of Excellence. Commercial Property Manager
Education
Graduate Certificate (PCA) Commercial Property Management 1 & 2 1997 & 1998
Associate Diploma of Business - Valuation 1983 – 1985 (Incomplete)
Memberships & Involvements
Current Season Subscriber to
Belvoir Street Theatre
Sydney Theatre Company
Australian Ballet Company
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My Team
My Team
Harsha Ratnasekara
Associate Director, 151 Blackstone Finance | Real Estate Management Services
Sydney
Harsha has a Financial and Management accounting career spanning over 12 years in Real Estate, Leisure and Property sectors. He has in depth knowledge of all accounting functions and provides excellent support to stakeholders.