Author name: Jatin Dua

How lease assignment works when you sell a restaurant in Ontario: landlord consent, s.23 of the Commercial Tenancies Act, and the clauses that sink sales.

Selling a franchise restaurant in Ontario: franchisor consent, transfer fees, buyer training, and how the Wishart Act’s resale disclosure exemption works.

How Ontario restaurants are really valued: the three BDC approaches, normalized earnings, lease and licence factors, and why there is no standard multiple.

The costliest mistakes I see Ontario restaurant sellers make: hearsay pricing, late lease and AGCO work, messy books, and tax questions never asked.

How a liquor sales licence transfers when you sell an Ontario restaurant: the buyer’s iAGCO application, your consent, and operating while it is pending.

Does HST apply when you sell a restaurant in Ontario? How the section 167 election and Form GST44 can remove it, the conditions attached, and who files what.

How restaurant owners in Ontario sell confidentially: blind listings, NDAs before names or numbers, staged information release, and quiet showings.

Asset sale or share sale for your Ontario restaurant? What each structure means, why buyers and sellers pull opposite ways, and where the LCGE fits in.

Bully offers, competing offers and open offers under TRESA: Ontario’s confidentiality rules, what sellers control, and what buyers must be told by law.

Is home staging worth it? What NAR’s 2025 and 2023 surveys actually show about offers and days on market, and when staging makes sense for Toronto sellers.