Pre-Lease Feasibility Analysis
Know the Space Before You Commit. Plan with Clarity Before You Sign.
Leasing a commercial space without proper due diligence can lead to costly surprises, design limitations, permit delays, and upgrade requirements that may significantly affect your budget, timeline, and business plan. Our Pre-Lease Feasibility Analysis service helps clients make informed decisions before committing to a lease by understanding exactly what they are stepping into.
Before a lease is signed, we carefully assess the suitability of a space for its intended use by analyzing the existing conditions, occupancy considerations, code implications, accessibility requirements, life safety considerations, functional fit, and probable tenant improvement scope. We help identify the advantages, constraints, risks, and hidden costs of a property early—so our clients can move forward with confidence, renegotiate from a stronger position, or walk away before making a costly commitment.
Our review often includes requesting and examining available existing building records, drawings, and permit history from municipal files, then comparing them with the apparent site conditions to identify discrepancies, undocumented alterations, and possible unauthorized construction that may affect the project. This early-stage analysis can be critical in understanding whether a space is genuinely viable, what upgrades may be required, and whether the proposed business use is practical within the physical and regulatory limitations of the property.
This service is especially valuable for commercial daycare facilities, restaurants, cafés, clinics, offices, retail units, and other small to mid-sized business occupancies planning to lease a space and undertake tenant improvements. We provide practical insight into likely permit challenges, upgrade projections, code and bylaw implications, and the overall feasibility of proceeding—helping clients clearly distinguish between a promising opportunity and a no-go project.
Our goal is simple: to equip you with the right information before lease commitments are made, so that your business decisions are grounded in strategy, not assumption.
Before you sign the lease, do you know what the space will truly require?
Typical Scope of Services
- Pre-Lease Feasibility Analysis
- Existing Space Suitability Review
- Lease Space Due Diligence
- Building Record and Permit History Review
- Existing Condition vs. City Record Comparison
- Unauthorized Construction Risk Review
- Occupancy and Use Feasibility Review
- Code and Bylaw Constraint Analysis
- Accessibility and Life Safety Review
- Upgrade Projection and Risk Identification
- Tenant Improvement Feasibility Review
- Go / No-Go Decision Support
