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To buy development land in Ontario, a buyer should establish what can legally be built, how long and how costly the approvals will be, what servicing and environmental conditions attach…

To sell commercial property in Mississauga, an owner should understand what sets the city's market apart: employment areas organized around major corporate centres, a highway network and a major airport…

Commercial real estate investment in Mississauga spans industrial buildings in employment areas around the airport and highway corridors, retail plazas serving established neighbourhoods, office buildings in corporate centres, multi-residential buildings…

To value an industrial building in Ontario, appraisers and buyers combine three approaches: the income approach, which capitalizes the building's net operating income; the direct comparison approach, which looks at…

To sell a retail plaza in Ontario well, an owner needs three things in order: a defensible valuation built from the plaza's actual leases, a clean and complete information package…

To buy a retail plaza in Ontario, an investor should underwrite the income first and the building second: verify the rent roll against the leases, rebuild net operating income from…

To calculate NOI in commercial real estate, take a property's effective gross income and subtract its operating expenses. Net operating income is the number that sits underneath almost every pricing…

A commercial real estate due diligence checklist in Ontario should cover six areas: title and legal, leases and income, financial records, physical condition, environmental condition, and zoning and planning. Due…

Multi-residential is the asset class every Southern Ontario commercial investor eventually asks about — and for good reason. Apartment buildings offer some of the most durable income streams in commercial…

Development land is the one commercial asset class with no rent roll, no NOI, and often no income at all — which means it gets priced by an entirely different…