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The 2023 housing market is at odds with itself

Housing Wire

On the one hand, elevated mortgage rates continue to erode buyers’ purchasing power, and in some markets, home prices are falling. The number of new listings coming on the market this spring is lower than it has been in more than a decade. This article is part of our ongoing 2023 Housing Market Forecast series.

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What’s On Your Real Estate Mind For 2024? (Pt2)

Toronto Realty Blog

Let me throw some skin in the game here: my mortgage comes due in November of 2024. It’s been at the back of my mind since the spring of 2022 when interest rates started increasing, but it’s not something that I think about every day. I’m on a 2.59% fixed-rate mortgage. What do I mean by that?

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Is It Time To Blame Investors For High Housing Prices?

Toronto Realty Blog

In fact, we’ve always needed one… It’s been eight years – June 10th, 2015, to be exact, since I wrote a blog post here on TRB called “The Blame Game” Eight years ago, I offered the following culprits that could be responsible for high housing prices. What fun would that be? We need a scapegoat!

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Why an Economic Downturn Represents the Best Time to Invest in Real Estate

The Close

Related Articles 7 Critical Parts of Every Real Estate Investment Business Plan How Smart Investors Decipher & Respond to Real Estate Market Cycles 9 Skills Agents Need to Work With Investors & Close 50-100 Deals a Year Is Right Now Really a Good Time to Invest in Real Estate? But first, let’s get a handle on the basics.

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Top Five: Blog Posts Of 2020!

Toronto Realty Blog

Don’t say I didn’t warn you! I specifically didn’t post new content on Friday because I knew you’d all need to be fresh, eager, and well-rested this morning in order to power through this week’s blogs. Those long-term readers among you will recall the length of these “year-end” blog posts.

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Burning Questions For 2022!

Toronto Realty Blog

I mean, “Burning Questions” again? We did this after Labour Day, right? To start the fall market? And we did this to start off January 2021, not just as a stand-alone blog, or even a two-part series, but rather a three-part series that spanned the entire first week back! Well, what can I say? I just like photos of burning logs.

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Top Five: Real Estate Stories Of 2023!

Toronto Realty Blog

” Stories, topics, subjects, themes, issues, or however you wan to define it, but essentially what were the most important and most discussed real estate matters over the last year. .” TorontoRealtyBlog Do I bother starting with the obligatory, “I’ll try to make this post shorter this time around?” ” Nah.