Real Estate Development Insights

About Real Estate Development Insights

What does it take to turn a real estate opportunity into a completed project—and what can go wrong along the way? On Real Estate Development Insights, host Payam Noursalehi draws on two decades in engineering, construction and development management to explore how projects actually get done. Through candid conversations with developers, investors, architects, planners, lenders and construction professionals, we examine the decisions behind development feasibility, financing, approvals, design and construction. Guests share lessons from their projects: the numbers, the trade-offs, the setbacks and what they would do differently. With a focus on Toronto and the Canadian market, we explore multiplexes, missing-middle housing, mid-rise buildings and purpose-built rental developments, alongside broader industry challenges and emerging construction methods. Whether you’re assessing your first site or managing your next development, these conversations help you ask better questions, understand the risks and make more informed decisions. Hosted by Payam Noursalehi, founder of Solnik Construction Group & Mid-Rise.ca

Publisher

Payam Noursalehi

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 May 2024

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

66 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   (63) Building Small Mid-Rise in Toronto: What Developers Need to Know - Heather Dubbeldam & Derek McCallum

   Send us Fan Mail What should you investigate before turning a Toronto major-street property into a small mid-rise apartment project? Heather Dubbeldam and Derek McCallum of Dubbeldam Architecture + Design join Payam Noursalehi to discuss what they are learning from small apartment projects moving through design and approvals across Toronto. The conversation explores how parking, retail space, building height, technical variances, municipal reviews and Hydro servicing interact—an...

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   (62) Toronto Housing Approvals: What’s Changing for Developers? - Jag Sharma - Deputy City Manager - City of Toronto

   Send us Fan Mail What is changing inside Toronto’s housing approval system—and what will developers actually notice? Jag Sharma, Deputy City Manager for Development and Growth Services at the City of Toronto, joins Payam Noursalehi to discuss development review, site plan changes, coordination with utilities, and the effort to move housing projects toward occupancy. The conversation connects City Hall’s reform agenda to the practical concerns of small and mid-sized developers: inconsistent co...

3. 

   9 Sept 2026

   (61) Should You Build a Multiplex? Five Questions to Answer First

   Send us Fan Mail Should You Build a Toronto Multiplex? Five Questions to Answer First I run a construction company, so it may be against my own interest to say this: not every multiplex project should be built. Toronto’s planning environment has created new opportunities to build fourplexes, sixplexes, garden suites and other forms of small-scale housing. But permission to build more units does not automatically make a property financially feasible. A zoning permission is an opportunity to i...

Who has been a guest on Real Estate Development Insights

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mathieu Fleury
• Jake Cohen
• Richard Witt
• Jeff Thomas
• Stuart Wilson

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 21 / 100

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Quality

28

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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