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Rent roll analysis is the process of turning a list of apartment tenancies into a reliable picture of a building's income: what each suite pays, what it could pay, how…

Value-add apartment investing in Ontario means buying a building whose income can be increased by improving the suites, the operations or both, and then capturing that income growth as tenancies…

Selling commercial property in Burlington starts with understanding that the city's planning framework has two layers that a buyer's planner will read together: a new official plan, Burlington Official Plan,…

Selling commercial property in Milton depends more on where the property sits in the town's planning map than on almost any other factor, because Milton is a fast-growing municipality whose…

To value a gas station in Ontario, an appraiser or buyer separates the earnings of the operating business from the value of the real estate, normalizes those earnings to remove…

To value a hotel property in Ontario, an appraiser or buyer starts with what the hotel earns, measured by occupancy, room rates and departmental profit, deducts the cost of operating…

Highest and best use is the use of a property that is legally permissible, physically possible, financially feasible and results in the highest value. It is the starting point for…

A car wash due diligence checklist in Ontario has to cover two things at once: the real estate, with its land, building, servicing and environmental history, and the operating business,…

An apartment building due diligence checklist in Ontario needs to go beyond the rent roll to test the things that determine whether the income is real and durable: the tenancies…

To buy an office building in Ontario, a buyer has to underwrite something more complicated than a building: a set of leases, a leasing plan, a capital budget and an…