(45) How To Think About Risk, Leverage, And Timing In Real Estate Development - Mazyar Mortazavi - TAS Impact

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Mazyar Mortazavi shares his journey and insights on risk, leverage, and timing in real estate development.

Send us Fan Mail In this insightful episode, Payam sit down with Mazyar Mortazavi, the President and CEO of TAS, a Toronto-based real estate company. Mazyar shares his inspiring journey from immigrating to Canada to working in real estate development and asset management. They delve into the core principles and lessons learned from scaling a real estate business, the importance of financial discipline, risk, leverage and timing. Mazyar also discusses the paradigm shift currently impacting the...

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Host: Payam Noursalehi

Guest: Mazyar Mortazavi

Topics covered

• risk management
• real estate development
• financial discipline
• leverage
• timing
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• real estate
• risk
• leverage
• financial discipline
• asset management
• entrepreneurship
• Canada

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TAS

Places: Canada, Toronto

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