Where we work
Representation for tenants, buyers and sellers in Markham
From the heritage main streets at Unionville and Markham Village to the towers off Enterprise Boulevard and the rear lanes of Cornell, we stay with a file from the opening conversation to the day it closes or the lease is signed.
There are two Markhams in most people's heads, the office corridor along Highways 404 and 407 and the subdivision grid behind it, and a searcher arriving finds that neither explains what is actually available. The nineteenth century main streets at Unionville and Markham Village survived intact, with frame and brick houses on narrow lots. Around them sit detached houses from the 1990s and 2000s at Berczy Village, Wismer and Greensborough, a rear lane grid at Cornell and condominium towers along the Highway 7 band. Little of the housing is purpose built rental outside older Thornhill, so most of what a renter is shown is a unit or a house held one at a time.
Working against that, the job begins with position: what a specific unit or house sits beside on its own street, because a heritage frame house on Main Street Unionville and a tower unit off Enterprise Boulevard are judged against entirely separate sales. We prepare the property, market it, run the viewings and report what came back. When an offer or an application arrives, or when we are writing one for you, we present it, negotiate the terms and the conditions and carry the file through to closing. York University's Markham Campus and the hospital at Cornell keep enquiries running through the evening. You hold the decision at every point.
This community
- Part of Greater Toronto Area
- York Region
- A registered Ontario brokerage acting for one side of the table.
Talk about Markham
Tell us what you are working towards and we will say plainly whether we are the right people for it.
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What the work looks like in Markham
Tenant work carries the largest share here because of who owns the rental stock. Outside the older apartment blocks in Thornhill, a renter is dealing with individual owners one unit at a time: a condominium at Markham Centre held by one household, a basement suite in a Wismer house, a townhouse at Greensborough between owners. There is no leasing office to call, the terms differ from one to the next and the answer to a reasonable question often depends on who holds the unit. Someone has to set the requirement and ask the same questions of each.
Tenant representation
We set the requirement in writing, search across Thornhill, the Stouffville line stations and the newer subdivisions, book the viewings and negotiate the lease terms with whoever happens to own the unit.
what this engagement coversLetting a single unit
For an owner with one unit to let, we position it against what has let nearby, prepare and market it, run the viewings, screen applications and paper the lease, in Thornhill or out at Berczy Village.
what this engagement coversPricing and readiness review
A written opinion on what a property will support and what it needs done first, with no engagement to list. It reads differently for a frame house on Main Street Unionville than for a 2000s house at Cornell.
what this engagement coversHow the work runs
From the first conversation to closing
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Consultation
A first conversation at no cost, usually forty five minutes. You describe what you are working towards and we say plainly whether we are the right people for it.
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Brief and agreement
We agree the scope and the fee in writing before any work begins, and set out what we will do, what you decide, and how often you will hear from us.
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Marketing and viewings
We price and position the property, prepare it, take it to market and run the viewings ourselves, then tell you what people actually said rather than only how many came.
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Offer, negotiation and closing
On the old main streets at Unionville and Markham Village, heritage designation can govern what may be altered outside, so we ask what applies to the specific property and put the answer in the offer rather than after it.
Across the area
Neighbourhoods and communities
Reading the city by era explains more than reading it by ward. Four layers sit side by side: the nineteenth century villages the subdivisions grew around, the postwar and seventies streets in the south, the large subdivision build out of the 1990s and 2000s and the apartment stock that followed it. What a searcher is choosing between depends almost entirely on which layer they are standing in.
The nineteenth century villages
Two intact main streets kept their frame and brick houses, their setbacks and their narrow lots while the farmland around them filled in. Thornhill's old core does the same on the west side. The decision here is between character and the constraints that come attached.
Unionville · Markham Village · Thornhill · Buttonville
Postwar and seventies streets
South of Highway 7 the streets at Milliken, German Mills and Royal Orchard were built when lots were wider and houses were lower, mostly side splits and back splits under mature trees. A searcher here is trading newer systems for space and a shorter run to Steeles.
Milliken · German Mills · Royal Orchard
The nineties and two thousands
North and east of the villages, Berczy Village, Wismer and Greensborough are subdivision grids of detached houses and freehold townhouses on narrow frontages, while Cornell was laid out with front porches and rear lanes. The trade off is garage access against street frontage.
Berczy Village · Wismer · Greensborough · Cornell · Box Grove
The apartment layer
The newest housing sits in a tight band: condominium towers and stacked townhouses near Enterprise Boulevard, mid rise blocks along Highway 7 and the Cathedraltown slope. Here a searcher is deciding what the corporation looks after and what they look after themselves.
Markham Centre · Cathedraltown · South Unionville
Who it is for
Who we act for in Markham
Renting from one owner at a time
The tower unit off Highway 7, the suite in a Wismer house and the townhouse at Cornell are let by three different owners with three different sets of terms, and none of them runs a leasing office. Comparing them means asking the same questions of each, in the same order.
read more about thisOwners of scattered units
An owner with a condominium off Highway 7 and a townhouse at Greensborough is managing two buildings' worth of rules on one calendar. Each vacancy needs its own positioning, its own screening and a lease that matches what the corporation actually permits.
how we work with this groupSelling an older house here
A frame house on a village lot and a 2000s detached home three concessions away are judged on entirely separate evidence, and the older one usually needs a decision about what to repair before it is shown. That decision comes before the listing date, not after it.
how the engagement runsQuestions
Questions we get about Markham
Nearby
Close to Markham
The same brief often works one municipality over, because the Stouffville and Richmond Hill corridors and the 404 carry the identical trade offs a few kilometres north, south or west.
We can be exact about the layers here: which era built a street, what the villages kept and what a condominium corporation covers. We cannot claim a long record in this city, because the firm is newly established. The quickest test of that is a specific question about a specific address.
Start with a conversation
Tell us what you are working towards and we will come back within one business day with an honest view of whether we can help. The first consultation costs nothing and carries no obligation.