Warehouses for Lease in Newmarket, ON
Represented by Michael Law — industrial broker, Lennard Commercial Realty
Region
North GTA
Avg Net Rent
$15.50/SF(Q1 2026)
Availability
5.4%
Clear Heights
24'–40'
Highway Access
Highway 404, Highway 400, Highway 9
Newmarket Warehouse Market
Newmarket anchors the northern end of the York Region industrial corridor, positioned at the Highway 404 and Highway 9 intersection approximately 45 kilometres north of Toronto. The submarket benefits from dual highway access — Highway 404 running south to the DVP and Toronto core, and Highway 400 accessible via Highway 9 running west — giving Newmarket-based distribution operators reach into both the eastern and western GTA markets from a single address. Harry Walker Parkway is the submarket's primary modern industrial corridor, housing a mix of newer distribution-format buildings with 28-32 foot clear heights and mid-bay logistics product. Newmarket Industrial Park on the south side of town provides additional multi-tenant inventory with smaller bay sizes suited to light manufacturing, trades businesses, and local distribution. The town's population of approximately 90,000 and York Region's broader 1.2 million resident base provide a deep labour catchment for warehouse and logistics operations. Net asking rents in Newmarket range from $14.00 to $17.50 per square foot net. The submarket offers a meaningful discount to Vaughan and Richmond Hill reflecting its northern position, while maintaining highway access quality that is superior to markets further north. Michael Law advises industrial tenants and investors across York Region including Newmarket, Aurora, Richmond Hill, Markham, and Vaughan.
Sourcing Warehouses for Lease — My Approach
When I source warehouse space for a tenant, the rent number is the last thing I look at — not the first. The questions that actually drive a successful warehouse lease are: what is the building's true power capacity (often the bottleneck for racking, automation, or refrigeration), what is the trailer storage and yard depth (critical for any 3PL or distribution use), what is the clear height under the joists versus the deck (a common 2-3 foot misrepresentation in listing materials), and what does the dock-to-door ratio actually look like at peak operating volume. I walk every short-listed building with the tenant's operations lead, not just the real estate lead, because the person who actually runs the floor catches things the marketing brochure hides — slope of the slab, location of the column grid relative to racking layout, sprinkler density for the proposed commodity classification. A great warehouse lease starts with the operational fit, not the per-square-foot rent. Rent is the negotiation that comes after we've found the right building.
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