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Every year we execute hundreds of real estate projects in primary, secondary and tertiary markets worldwide.
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Ensure protection of your real estate interests across all markets.
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Leverage an established network of trusted partners including local realtors, architects, lawyers, engineers, and much more.
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Maintain a single point of contact for ALL projects.
Landmark transacts in over 300 markets across Canada
CASE STUDIES
Lease Audit
PUTTING MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS
Our client, with numerous office leases across Canada, had not audited any of their leases for several years. They felt that considerable overbillings could have been recovered from their landlords to generate significant savings.
New Development
DISTRIBUTION CENTRE IN MONTREAL, QC CANADA
Our client owns and occupies a 240,000 sqft Canadian Head Office and distribution centre and requires an additional 150,000 sqft. Since the property is not expandable due to lack of excess land, relocation became the only viable alternative.
Transaction Management
LEASE RENEGOTIATION LEADS TO COST REDUCTION
Our client was occupying 17,600 square feet at an annual occupancy cost of approximately $190,000. The business environment changed since the initial lease was signed in 2013 and the client determined that only half the space was required for the current business.
Lease Renewal
COST SAVINGS THROUGH LEASE NEGOTIATION
Our client was obligated by a twenty-year lease which stipulated they were responsible for maintaining and replacing all components of the building.
Relocation
OPTIMIZING OUR CLIENT’S OPERATIONS THROUGH RELOCATION
In order to optimize our client’s operations in Calgary, AB, Landmark recommended and helped to achieve a repositioning of the client’s store.
Relocation
RELOCATION ISSUES RESOLVED
Our client was pursuing a relocation in the Winnipeg market. An ideal location was found which matched the client’s need for location, size, visibility, yard storage and more. However, the zoning did not permit the client’s use.
New development
NEW CLIENT’S BRANCH OPENED IN MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Our client was faced with the challenge of being unable to capture market share purely as a result of having no place to open a new branch.
Transaction Management
A CHALLENGING RELOCATION LEADS TO A TREMENDOUS LEASE UPGRADE
Our client occupied a 20,000 square foot building in Beauport, QC, fronting highway 40. The client did not have an option to renew the lease and the building had recently been purchased by a customer and owner/operator of several car dealerships. His intent was to demolish and redevelop the site, forcing our client to relocate.
Market intelligence.
Transaction Management.
OBTAINING CONSTRUCTION SAVINGS AND BETTER LEASE TERMS FOR A SHOWROOM
Our client had budgeted over $100,000 in capital expenditures to revamp their whole showroom in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC. The landlord offered to complete the work but to amortize the costs in the base rent over the term, therefore increasing the base rent amount from $14.00 per square foot to $18.00 per square foot.
Legal & Consulting Services
OPERATING EXPENSE RECOVERY AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Our client’s retail operation was facing three challenges that, individually and combined, threatened the continued operation of the business as well as involving overcharges of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Lease Renewal
DISTRIBUTION CENTRE IN EDMONTON, AB CANADA
Our client occupies a 115,000-sqft dilapidated building with mold infestation in the front envelope along the office space. Relocation was not an alternative for various business reasons.
Lease Renewal
SECURING FAVOURABLE LEASE TERMS FOR CLIENT’S STRATEGIC PROJECT
Our client was looking to create a strategy in the Edmonton area market in which they were centralizing and modernizing their Distribution Center operations. This required aligning a number of separate lease expiration dates.
Lease Administration
ANNUAL SAVINGS OF $60,000 FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL TAX CONTESTATION
Out client received a notice of a property tax assessment. The City proposed increase in the assessed value.
Sublease
COORDINATING THE LEASING OF THE SPACE
Portage La Prairie is a small community in Manitoba with a limited commercial leasing market. Our client owns a property in this market.
Transaction Management
OBTAINING A $119,059 SAVINGS IN BASE RENT
Our client had planned to refresh/remodel their showroom and budgeted $120,000 in the capex for such renovation. They had already started the work once Landmark got involved in this transaction.
Transaction Management
NEGOTIATING SUBSTANTIAL LOCATION IMPROVEMENTS
Our client’s lease was approaching expiry for a high-traffic and high-visibility location in an area experiencing escalating rental values. The building was outdated, requiring investment into the exterior envelope and site.
Market intelligence.
Transaction Management.
THE POWER OF MARKET INTEL & NEGOTIATIONS: $119,000 IN SAVINGS AND MAJOR LANDLORD’S WORK
Our client was investing over $100,000 in revamping their whole showroom in Quebec City. They started demolition with 1 year left in the current term and 1 option to renew the lease for 5 years.
Legal services. Transaction management.
IN-DEPTH MARKET KNOWLEDGE AND SOLID NEGOTIATION SKILLS LEAD TO BENEFICIAL LEASE TERMS
Our client was investing over $100,000 in revamping their whole showroom in Quebec City. They started demolition with 1 year left in the current term and 1 option to renew the lease for 5 years.
Lease Administration
OUTSOURCING FOR EFFICIENCY
Our client experienced growth in real estate due to acquisitions. High turnover in their real estate department over a 12-month period left them exposed to many vulnerable situations that required immediate action.
Market Intelligence
NAVIGATION OF THE MUNICIPAL MINEFIELD
Our client’s tenancy at a location in a very tight and desirable market was threatened when they were unable to secure a valid business licence and found out that, in fact, the zoning did not permit their use at this location at all.
Lease Renewal / Tax Appeal / Audit
CUTTING CLIENT’S REAL ESTATE COSTS
Landmark engaged an external tax consultant to assist in an audit of previous tax payments while simultaneously contesting the current tax assessment, all with the objective of reducing its client’s future tax obligation.
New Lease, Project Management
PROJECT MANAGEMENT ON TIME AND ON BUDGET
Our client was located in a building inherited through an acquisition in the past in the small municipality of Dryden, Ontario. There were several major real estate challenges associated with this location.
Lease Negotiation
NEGOTIATING FAVOURABLE LEASE TERMS
For this 100,000-square-feet-location, Landmark negotiated a number of highly favourable terms.
Transaction Management
EXPANSION RENEWAL FOR GREAT LOCATION FEATURES
Our client was seeking to expand its current premises located in the Longueil industrial park, just south of Montreal. The client was already occupying 15,154 sq. ft. in the building.
Transaction Management
NEW DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN A HIGHLY SOUGHT-AFTER MARKET
Landmark was tasked to find a 60,000 square foot location in the Port Kells Industrial Park, British Columbia, a highly sought-after market with historically low vacancy rates (under 1%). There were no options available on the market at that time.
Lease administration
SUCCESSFUL ARBITRATION LEADS TO $96,000 IN SAVINGS
With an upcoming expiry date, the landlord had mandated an appraiser to establish the value of the property including the rental value of the premises leased by our client. The report from the appraiser established the rental value of the premises at $11.28 per sq. ft.