Northmark is a boutique advisory practice for investors who understand that the quality of a decision is determined before the deal is on the table — not during it.
Most advisory relationships start with the answer already assumed. A client arrives with a mandate — buy, sell, refinance — and the advisor executes it. Northmark operates differently. We begin upstream, with the conditions that will determine whether that mandate is correct at all.
That distinction matters most in complex markets. The Canadian CRE landscape is navigating simultaneous pressure from rate normalization, repriced risk premiums, structural demand shifts, and tightening credit conditions. In that environment, the value of an advisor is not access to deal flow — it is the capacity to see the landscape more completely than the client can on their own, and to translate that clarity into a decision framework they can act from with confidence.
Northmark's foundation is economics — not as a credential, but as a method. Every mandate is anchored in a rigorous reading of macro conditions, applied to the specific asset, market, and capital context at hand. The result is counsel that is harder to reach, and more durable, than what conventional brokerage can provide.
Four integrated disciplines, deployed across the full investment lifecycle.
Sophisticated mandates require a structured approach that accounts for what clients don't yet know to ask about. Every Northmark engagement moves through three deliberate phases — each one informing the next, none of them skippable.
Northmark works with a deliberately limited client base. The depth of analysis we provide is not scalable to a high volume of mandates — and we don't try to make it so. What we offer is complete advisory attention, not a service line.
We take on a small number of mandates each year. If you are navigating a complex transaction, a capital allocation decision, or a question that hasn't found a satisfying answer elsewhere — this is where that conversation begins.