Goodmans Real Estate Group is one of the most extensive and comprehensive real estate law practices in Canada, with a deeply rooted Municipal and Land Development practice. As such, Goodmans was named 2025 “Law Firm of the Year” for Real Estate Law by Best Law Firms - Canada.
Our real estate clients include developers, owners and managers, contractors, consortiums, financial institutions, investment dealers and intermediaries, governments, government agencies and crown corporations. We assist our domestic and cross-border clients with financing and refinancing real estate assets, transactions and acquisitions, structuring public/private partnerships and joint ventures, real estate syndications and securitizations, REITs, co-tenancy, general partnership and limited partnership agreements, tax structuring, restructuring real estate assets, and construction litigation.
Our administrative law practice provides legal advice and representation across the development approval process and often extends to complex planning issues related to the environment, natural and cultural heritage, servicing, civil engineering, infrastructure financing, transportation, market impact, community services and growth management; among many others. We regularly appear before municipal committees and councils, administrative tribunals and courts in respect of development appeals, property tax assessment disputes, expropriation proceedings, and a wide range of other municipal and regulatory matters.