Selling vacant widens your buyer pool to owner-occupants who plan to live in one unit, and it lets you present the property in its best light without a tenant's belongings or access schedule complicating showings. It also means carrying the property with no rental income during the listing period.
Selling tenanted keeps rent coming in through the sale but narrows your buyer pool to investors, since existing tenancies transfer to a new owner under provincial law and cannot simply be ended to suit a buyer's move-in date. A clean, documented lease makes this option far more attractive to an investor buyer.
Joel Dyck reviews both paths against your specific property and timeline before recommending one. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.