We know how the right real estate can add vital flexibility to your logistical needs, so we look beyond just rent to the equally important costs associated with transportation, fuel, and labour.
Cresa's industrial team takes a data-driven approach to develop alternative business scenarios and then overlays the relevant ground truth as we move into a down-selected list of geographies and properties resulting in holistic solutions that ensure our clients' long-term success. Our comprehensive approach integrates supply chain and distribution network modelling, inventory rationalization, lean and six sigma operational improvements with labour analytics, utilities, taxes, and incentives to deliver scenarios that meet operational demands, delivery times, and quality assurance while minimizing cost.
Are you starting early enough to negotiate from strength?
The GTA industrial market is tightening fast, and the occupiers with leverage are the ones who planned for it. Tell us about your requirement and we'll build you a real strategy.
Success Story
Moving at the Speed of Business: From Search to Occupancy in 60 Days
Initially seeking a smaller premises in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the Client began its Ontario search in early May with a firm move-in deadline of early July. As the process unfolded, the company's business quickly scaled, meaning its required footprint expanded to 75,000 SF.
Success Story
Breaking new ground with Hilman Group Canada
A US-owned manufacturer with a long-standing Canadian presence came to us after a series of acquisitions left it with seven facilities scattered across the GTA and roughly 500 employees working in silos. The goal was to bring those operations together into a single space, or at least a single functional group.
HOW IT WORKS
Our Strategic Approach
01. Needs Assessment and Strategic Planning
We start by understanding your business, reviewing your workplace results, identifying the drivers behind the move, and setting a realistic timeline and budget before the search begins.
02. Market Analysis
Our research team gives you a detailed view of the market, including availability, pricing, and practical insight on location and commuting patterns.
03. Analysis of Options and Site Tours
We generate a list of prospective locations, present a Market Survey Book of every available option, shortlist the strongest sites, and facilitate the tours.
04. Feasibility Planning
We test each shortlisted space against the workplace you have in mind to determine which buildings can realistically support it.
05. Financial Analysis
Each option receives a thorough qualitative and financial analysis, presented side by side so you can see the full cost picture.
06. Negotiations
We counter offers, negotiate the Letter of Intent, support your legal counsel through final lease review, and prepare a lease abstract for your property administration system.
YOUR NEEDS
Core Service Offering
Tenant representation
Whether looking for a new environment, or optimizing the one you already have, we are experts in negotiating lease terms that help you meet your business goals. We can find space that will fuel your business, supporting commercial and brand vision, or renegotiate the terms on exiting space to secure the best rates and incentives.
acquisitions & dispositions
If you are looking to lease or purchase space, or offload existing space through sublease or sale, we can assist. Once we understand the business drivers prompting the transaction, we work with you to develop and implement a strategy that supports your financial goals and long-term business objectives.
Market assessment
With advisors expert in their markets, supported by a full research department and analytics stack, we are able to provide in-depth analysis and insights on the commercial real estate market in each of the cities we serve.
financial modeling
We help you understand how any lease transaction – or portfolio of leases – will impact your financial statement metrics. Such information is essential for compliance and for making better leasing decisions and identifying opportunities for cost savings.
site selection analytics
We offer insight on location, proximity to talent, salary benchmarks and points of negotiation, helping you identify the optimal location for your new space.
COLOCATION, DATA CENTERS & MISSION CRITICAL FACILITIES
As technology continues to evolve, so does the need for the specialized real estate that accommodates the infrastructure that operates those systems. Our experts can help you identify the right solutions and fail-safe infrastructure to keep you up and running.
Pent-up demand. Requirements did not disappear during 2025, they were paused. As occupiers accept that uncertainty is the operating environment rather than a temporary condition, those paused decisions are moving forward. Third-party logistics providers are a significant driver of current activity.
Longer than most occupiers expect, and the window is closing. Site surveys that produced four or five viable options a year ago are now producing two. The development pipeline offers little relief, since projects are either finished or have not broken ground, with very little in between. Occupiers with near-term expiries should start early. Waiting means choosing from a shrinking set of options with no leverage.
Not materially. Trade uncertainty is what froze the market through 2025. Occupiers have since adjusted and are making decisions inside that instability rather than waiting it out. Deal velocity has picked up despite ongoing trade noise.
Because a broker who also represents landlords cannot be fully objective. Full-service firms earn the large majority of their revenue from landlord representation, which means the incentives are not aligned with yours. Cresa never represents landlords or developers.
Cresa provides tenant representation, acquisitions and dispositions, market assessment, and financial modelling, supported by supply chain and distribution network studies, labour analytics, site selection, economic incentives, project and development services, portfolio solutions, and lease administration.
EXPERTISE
Our Experts
INDUSTRIAL REAL ESTATE
Experts in Optimizing Your Network from Points A to Z.
We know that for most organizations, a hybrid structure is inevitable. But a hybrid model isn’t one size fits all – it’s a spectrum. Understanding where your organization falls on the spectrum is the key is creating a sustainable workplace strategy.
Game-changing forces such as e-commerce and omni channel are changing the industrial landscape. Now more than ever, identifying emerging markets, strategically locating your distribution centres and tapping the best labour pools need to be part of your industrial real estate strategy.
Maybe you need to modernize, tap a more capable workforce, find economic incentives, integrate recent acquisitions, or even back shore your operations. We have experience in your world and know how to apply our operations experience, real estate expertise and a deep understanding of supply chain, distribution, and inventory rationalization to source the best solutions for your unique needs.
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