Most people in the restaurant and bar business in Toronto know Jack. One of the top restaurant and bar real estate agents in the Greater Toronto Area, Jack has been helping people buy and sell restaurants in the city for over fifteen years. Professional, connected and experienced, Jack has sold more than 200 hundred food businesses including pubs and sports bars, franchises, casual and fine dining restaurants.

“I enjoy putting the deals together. There’s this sense of satisfaction you get when it finally clicks, the deal’s done and you see people doing well,” says Jack.

His contact list is long and impressive and it comes not just from connecting the right people, his understanding of the importance of confidentiality and his win-win approach to business, Jack also knows how restaurants and bars work from the inside out.

The co-owner of Joe DiMaggio’s Wet Paint Cafe, one of the most talked about restaurants in Toronto, Jack learned a lot about all aspects of the restaurant business.

“It was packed all the time for lunch and dinner. People loved it," says Jack. "There was art everywhere from the Renaissance and beyond. Customers dined on delicious food while artists painted scenes that they often bought and took home.”

Knowledgeable about running a restaurant and intrigued by the real estate business, Jack joined Marsh Realty in 1999 spending 12 years with the pioneering firm that specialized in hospitality real estate. In 2010 the 60-year-old company merged with Royal LePage Your Community Realty Canada’s oldest and most established real estate company.

Jack’s experience, his commitment to staying on top of market trends, changes in real estate law and in touch with buyers and sellers has made him a go to expert in Toronto’s hospitality real estate market.