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The ongoing global pandemic is currently having an enormous impact on commercial retailers, restaurants, and other commercial tenancies in, ...

Much like any other business, owning and managing short-term rental property is subject to provincial and municipal regulatory regimes.

The pandemic will have a significant long-term impact on the commercial leasing market as companies re-evaluate the ways they do business and their real estate needs.

In recent years, the RTA has been amended to provide more and more protections to tenants faced with an eviction arising from the sale of the rental property.

When negotiating a lease, a landlord may require that the tenant provide security for the performance of the tenant’s obligations under the lease.

Canada has recently introduced legislation to implement an Underused Housing Tax (UHT).

A typical commercial lease is not a balanced document in terms of rights and remedies for a breach of the lease. There will be long list of tenant defaults that will give the landlord a full range of remedies.

Starting April 30, 2018, landlords and tenants entering into private residential leases must use Ontario's new standard form of lease.

The ongoing uncertainty in the economy and the resultant market slowdown has tenants re-evaluating their space needs.

Long-term commercial leases can pose challenges for both tenants and landlords, particularly when changing circumstances – whether it be financial, operational, or otherwise – render a lease untenable.

Ontario has introduced the Fair Housing Plan which includes some measures that will have an immediate effect such as a rent control expansion, a new standardized lease and a new 15 percent...

In the glow of negotiating a commercial lease, no landlord or tenant wants to think about how it might end early. But recent developments again remind us that a nuanced termination clause will significantly affect if...

The Quebec Court of Appeal has recently handed down a much-anticipated ruling on commercial leases and landlord obligations.

The Condominium Management Services Act ("CMSA") was enacted in 2015. The Condo Management Regulatory Authority of Ontario ("CMRAO"), which derives its authority from the CMSA, is the regulatory...

In NPR GP Inc. v. Higher Experience Inc., 2025 NUCJ 08, the Nunavut Court of Justice found that a chance encounter in a bank lobby resulted in a legally binding three-year commercial lease...

Commercial tenancies end for a wide variety of reasons. Leases may expire, a renewal option may not be exercised (or may be exercised improperly), or a tenancy may be terminated by the landlord due to a breach of the lease by the tenant.

Ontario's highest court has ruled that a landlord cannot arbitrarily refuse to allow a commercial tenant to assign its lease without good reason. The court looked at the applicable facts and information...