David Melton serves as the Principal Broker of Pointe Commercial Real Estate (PCRE) and Vice President of Operations for Pointe Property Group, based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. With more than four decades of experience, David has established himself as a trusted commercial real estate advisor to private investors, family offices, and institutional clients throughout Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Under his leadership, PCRE has built a strong presence in Chattanooga, Cleveland, TN, and Dalton, Georgia—offering comprehensive investment sales and landlord representation services across a wide spectrum of asset classes.
As a seasoned commercial real estate investment broker, David specializes in identifying, marketing, and negotiating high-performing real estate opportunities across various sectors, including office, retail, healthcare, industrial, and automotive. His strategic insight into 1031 Exchanges, sale-leaseback structures, and value-add repositioning makes him a vital resource for investors seeking to grow or diversify their portfolios. David’s collaborative approach extends to working with CPAs, attorneys, and financial planners, allowing his clients to benefit from fully integrated advisory services. His guidance is grounded in market intelligence, financial modeling, and a relentless focus on creating long-term value.
David is licensed in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, and manages a team of brokers who bring local expertise to every engagement. Whether guiding investors through the disposition of stabilized assets or structuring sale-leaseback transactions for owner-occupiers, David ensures that every detail aligns with his clients’ capital strategies. His deep understanding of submarket trends across the Southeast has earned him a reputation for delivering results, even in the most complex real estate scenarios. With off-market deal sourcing, tailored marketing strategies, and one-on-one client service, David remains a go-to resource for investors navigating the commercial real estate landscape.
Below are David’s core areas of specialization across asset types:
David has spent decades advising office property owners on investment sales, leasing, and repositioning strategies. Whether working with suburban office parks or urban mid-rises, he applies a disciplined approach to underwriting, tenant mix, and capital improvement planning. His work includes both stabilized office investments and value-add repositioning opportunities, with a focus on maximizing occupancy and cash flow. David also provides landlord representation services for both single-tenant and multi-tenant properties, ensuring lease structures and tenant retention strategies are aligned with ownership objectives.
From Chattanooga’s central business district to growth corridors in North Georgia and Southeast Tennessee, David has helped office investors navigate shifts in workplace demand and trends in space utilization. His insights are especially valuable to owners looking to stabilize assets post-COVID or pursue build-to-suit development for medical and professional tenants.
Retail investment is a cornerstone of David’s expertise. He advises national franchisees, developers, and shopping center owners on acquisition, disposition, and redevelopment strategies. Whether managing a net-leased portfolio sale or representing a landlord in securing national credit tenants, David’s focus remains on tenant quality, lease terms, and long-term asset performance. He also assists clients with site selection and real estate expansion strategies for QSR, convenience, and service-based retail brands throughout Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.
David’s deep relationships with franchise operators and retail investors allow him to bring off-market retail investment opportunities to clients before they hit the broader market. From anchored shopping centers to standalone pads, he understands how to position retail properties to attract strong buyer interest and drive competitive pricing.
Healthcare real estate remains a fast-growing segment, and David has positioned PCRE as a key advisor for medical office and healthcare facility owners. He assists clients with the sale of single-tenant medical buildings, urgent care centers, dental offices, and surgery centers—providing valuation insights that reflect the unique needs of healthcare tenants and institutional buyers. Whether working with physician groups, private equity-backed practices, or REITs, David understands the compliance, tenancy, and build-out factors that impact the value of healthcare properties.
David also helps healthcare providers execute sale-leaseback transactions to unlock equity for expansion or succession planning. His approach balances financial strategy with patient access considerations—ensuring operators can remain focused on care delivery while capitalizing on their real estate holdings.
David brings a strategic perspective to industrial investment, particularly in logistics, manufacturing, and light industrial assets. His experience spans warehouse dispositions, build-to-suit leases, and industrial land development across Southeast industrial corridors. David understands the supply chain dynamics, transportation access, and labor market conditions that drive industrial demand, and he uses this knowledge to support clients in both investment sales and long-term leasing.
For owner-users and developers, David structures sale-leasebacks and land assemblages that support expansion while maximizing capital efficiency. He also advises on adaptive reuse opportunities and repositioning legacy industrial sites for modern logistics or flex uses. With the rise of e-commerce and last-mile distribution, David remains at the forefront of helping investors and operators tap into the industrial sector’s growth trajectory.
With a 40-year background as an automotive executive, David brings a unique level of expertise to the acquisition, disposition, and repositioning of automotive dealership and aftermarket properties. He works directly with owner-operators, dealer groups, and private equity firms to structure real estate transactions that align with long-term business objectives—whether through M&A support, sale-leaseback execution, or site consolidation. His in-depth understanding of franchise relationships, facility image programs, and OEM requirements allows him to unlock hidden value within automotive portfolios.
Through Pointe Automotive, David also provides capital advisory and business brokerage services tailored specifically to the automotive sector. He helps clients evaluate real estate performance within the broader context of operational profitability and exit timing. This integrated approach has made David one of the most trusted automotive real estate advisors in the country, with a track record of delivering off-market deals and strategic insights for every stage of the dealership life cycle.
Providing Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Services for Chattanooga, Cleveland and Dalton
Office • Retail • Healthcare • Hospitality • Industrial • Warehouse • Land • Multi-Family