Nick is a Partner at N. Barry Lyon Consultants Limited who specializes in the housing market, employment market, and urban economics. He holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Queen’s University and is a Registered Professional Planner (RPP) and Land Economist (PLE). Nick has extensive experience assessing housing issues and regularly completes a wide range of assignments for both the public and private sector. These projects include highest and best use studies, market and financial feasibility analyses, affordable housing solutions, assessment of current supply and demand characteristics and projections, social housing regeneration initiatives, and market and land value analyses in support of expropriation hearings. Nick also has experience evaluating the impacts of major transit projects on real estate markets, the impact of financial incentives to encourage private sector investment, and providing market and economic support to the development of planning policies and guidelines. Nick is qualified as an expert witness at the Ontario Land Tribunal. Expertise:Real Estate Market ResearchDevelopment FeasibilityFinancial (pro forma) AnalysisLand Use PlanningDemographic AnalysisHighest and Best UsePlanning Act ApprovalsAffordable Housing (RGI, AMR)Social Housing Regeneration StudiesLand Needs and Growth ManagementImpact of Transit on Real Estate MarketsProperty Value Uplift AnalysisLand Value Capture AnalysisFinancial Incentive Analysis and Community Improvement PlanOLT Expert Witness