Markham Business Blog
Local business insights, community news, and tips for Markham & Richmond Hill
How to Sell Your Small Business in Markham: The Complete Guide (2026)
Canada is entering the largest business handover in its history — and Markham owners are at the centre of it. Here is the step-by-step process for selling well: valuation, confidentiality, finding real buyers, and closing.
Finding the Right Tutoring in Markham & Richmond Hill: A Parent's Guide (2026)
How to actually choose among Markham’s tutoring options — the formats, the questions that matter, the red flags — plus what our directory holds, from academic centres to music and driving instruction.
Back-to-School in Markham: The 2026 Local Checklist
The appointments that book out before Labour Day — eye exams, dental checks, haircuts, tutoring — with the best-evidenced local picks, plus a sane approach to the supplies run.
New on MarkhamBusiness.com: The July 2026 Directory Roundup
What the directory gained in July: two owner-claimed listings — a psychotherapy practice and a family dental clinic — and where the directory stood at month-end.
Seven Signs It's Time to Raise Your Prices
Most owners wait for permission that never comes. Meanwhile costs climbed, the calendar filled, and nobody complained about price in a year. Read the signals.
Markville Mall and Markham's Plazas: Where the City Shops (2026)
CF Markville anchors the mall end of Markham shopping — but the city really runs on its plazas. Here is the map, grounded in the 400+ businesses our directory holds across 14 plaza pages.
Franchise or Independent? The Honest Trade-offs
One buys you a playbook and a landlord who returns calls. The other buys you freedom and every mistake at retail price. How to decide which buyer you are.
Cash Flow Kills Healthy-Looking Businesses. Here's How to Watch It
Profitable on paper and unable to make payroll: it happens constantly, and it is survivable if you see it coming. A practical system that takes twenty minutes a week.
Markham Farmers' Markets 2026: Where, When, and What's Fresh
The verified 2026 schedule for the Main Street Markham Farmers’ Market — Saturdays 9 to 1 through Thanksgiving — plus the honest status of the Unionville market and what’s in season.
Commercial Leases: The Clauses Markham Tenants Sign Without Reading
Residential tenants have a standard form and a tribunal. Commercial tenants have whatever they signed. A tour of the clauses that decide whether your location is an asset or a trap.
Where to Take Out-of-Town Visitors in Markham
Hosting friends or family from out of town? Here is the perfect 24 hours in Markham — food, sights, and surprises.
Twelve Questions to Ask Before You Buy Any Business
The listing says 'profitable, owner retiring.' Every listing says that. What separates buyers who do well from buyers who inherit problems is what they ask next.