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    Representative closed deals across buying, selling, leasing, sale-leaseback, and landlord placement. Names and identifying details are generalized to protect client confidentiality.

    What Summit does — and doesn’t

    Summit is a real estate brokerage specialising in franchise locations across Canada. We help you secure, hold, and exit the real estate underneath your franchise. We are not a franchise consultant or recruiter.

    We handle

    • Site search and site approval coordination for your franchise locations
    • Commercial lease review, negotiation, and renewal
    • Resale brokerage when it’s time to sell — confidential marketing, buyer prequalification, lease assignment
    • Coordination with the landlord, lender, lawyer, and franchisor real estate team

    We don’t handle

    • Franchise applications, brand approval, or franchisor selection criteria
    • Training, supply chain, operations, or marketing programs — those stay with the franchisor
    • Picking a brand for you — that’s a business decision we’ll respect, not influence

    Recent representative deals

    The deals below cover the range of transactions Summit handles for franchise operators across Canada. Each one names the deal category, region, and outcome bullets so you can quickly see how the practice operates.

    Sell-sideQ1 2026

    Sold a four-unit QSR sub-sandwich portfolio in Southwestern Ontario

    Category
    Quick-service sandwich
    Market
    Southwestern Ontario
    Size band
    Portfolio transaction in the low seven figures

    An owner approaching retirement engaged our franchise team to exit a four-unit sandwich franchise portfolio. The financials had been kept clean, but lease term remaining on two of the four units was thin. We negotiated extended renewal options with the landlords before listing, then ran a confidential marketing process to a qualified buyer list. A multi-unit operator from a neighbouring territory closed the deal.

    • Closed at 3.2× normalized EBITDA — above the regional median for the category
    • Lease assignments completed in 47 days across all four units
    • Franchisor approval secured in 51 days with no first-right-of-refusal exercised

    Takeaway

    Pre-clearing lease assignment before listing changes a franchise resale from 'maybe' to predictable. Sellers who do this almost always close faster and at higher multiples.

    Sell-sideQ4 2025

    Resale of a single-unit casual-dining restaurant in the Greater Toronto Area

    Category
    Casual dining
    Market
    Greater Toronto Area
    Size band
    Single-unit sale in the high six figures

    Owner needed to exit due to a family relocation. Confidentiality was critical — staff and surrounding tenants could not know. We ran a closed marketing process, prequalified buyers under NDA, and structured the closing so that lease assignment and franchise transfer happened on the same day.

    • Listed and closed in seven months from first call to keys handed over
    • Buyer prequalified before any disclosure of the underlying restaurant identity
    • Lease assignment included a partial release of the seller's personal guarantee

    Takeaway

    Confidentiality and prequalification are not optional in casual-dining resales. They protect staff, customers, and the seller's leverage during negotiation.

    Sell-sideQ3 2025

    Multi-unit pizza portfolio exit packaged for a single multi-unit buyer

    Category
    Pizza delivery & takeout
    Market
    Greater Toronto Area
    Size band
    Portfolio transaction in the mid seven figures

    A multi-unit operator wanted out of pizza to free capital for a different concept. Selling unit-by-unit would have taken 18 to 24 months and exposed the operating business to staff disruption. We structured the deal as a single portfolio package, ran a targeted process to known multi-unit pizza buyers in the GTA, and closed with one buyer.

    • Six units packaged and sold to one multi-unit operator in a single transaction
    • Closed without lease re-negotiations — all six assignments cleared first time
    • Seller exited fully within nine months of engagement

    Takeaway

    Portfolio exits priced and structured for a single buyer can clear faster than unit-by-unit when the buyer pool is dense. Knowing which multi-unit operators are in acquisition mode is the difference.

    Buy-sideQ2 2025

    Drive-thru pad site acquisition for a new QSR franchisee in Brampton

    Category
    Quick-service drive-thru
    Market
    Brampton, ON
    Size band
    Build-out budget in the low seven figures

    A first-time franchisee with brand approval was struggling to find a drive-thru pad site that would clear the franchisor's traffic and demographic thresholds. We identified three approved sites within four weeks of engagement. Lease negotiation on the chosen site focused on build-out abatement, exclusivity, and renewal options.

    • Cleared franchisor site approval in 38 days from initial submission
    • Negotiated eight months of rent abatement during build-out
    • Secured a 20-year initial lease term with two 5-year renewal options

    Takeaway

    Site approval is a structural filter, not a personality test. Brokers with current franchisor relationships can pre-filter sites in days rather than months.

    Sale-leasebackQ1 2026

    Sale-leaseback of an owner-operated restaurant property in Calgary

    Category
    Casual dining — owner-occupied
    Market
    Calgary, AB
    Size band
    Sale-leaseback in the mid seven figures

    A franchise operator who owned the underlying land at one location wanted to expand to a second unit without taking on new bank debt. We ran a confidential sale-leaseback process to net-lease investors. The capital from the property sale funded the second-unit build-out; the operator stayed on as the tenant of the original location.

    • Freed capital used to acquire a second franchise unit in the same brand
    • Lease structured at fair-market rent with 15-year initial term and two 5-year options
    • Tax-efficient structure achieved with the seller's accountant

    Takeaway

    Sale-leaseback turns trapped real-estate equity into operating capital without changing day-to-day operations. For franchise operators who own underlying land, it is one of the most under-used moves in Canadian franchising.

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    Coldwell Banker Summit Realty — Franchise Real Estate Practice

    Coldwell Banker franchise · Licensed in Ontario

    Coldwell Banker Summit Realty, Brokerage runs a dedicated franchise real estate practice serving operators across Canada. We handle the operator-side real estate work on franchise deals — securing sites at the start, reviewing and negotiating commercial leases, and brokering the exit when it is time to sell. Backed by the Coldwell Banker brand, an independently owned and operated franchise with deep commercial and residential reach, our team reads a lease the way the operator does, scopes a site the way the franchisor does, and structures the exit the way the buyer will underwrite it.

    • Operator-side franchise real estate across food, retail, hospitality, fitness, and service categories
    • Site selection, lease review, and lease negotiation aligned to franchisor criteria
    • Resale brokerage, location takeovers, new-build site work, and sale-leaseback structuring
    • Backed by Coldwell Banker — an established global real estate brand and franchise network
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