The Close

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I once had a client who wanted to put in an offer on a home with a pool. I’ve compiled a list of my top tips on how to win a bidding war on a house to help you outsmart your competition and get your clients into their dream homes. Example: I had some clients move from another state where they had just sold their previous home.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

He asked about the closing date, the rental items, and the inspection. But really he was just buying time to ask about the price. In any event, I said to the agent, “Look, you’re angling toward price right? In any event, I said to the agent, “Look, you’re angling toward price right?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Perhaps one of the biggest changes, unfortunately, is with respect to prices. The first condo I ever sold was for $246,500. The first condo I ever sold to a first-time buyer was for $216,900. In fact, I really didn’t learn much from it, other than perhaps the notion that I needed to pen a similar blog post.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 4, 2022

I remember reading an interview with him once where he said, “In the future, you’ll come home and you won’t have to pick what to view; your television will already know what you want to watch.” Just ask Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. Well, now you found this blog! But I wanted the disc anyways. ” Very true.

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Fancy Pants Homes

MAY 24, 2023

And along with them come more million-dollar deals, some fresh new faces, and all the drama you’d expect from the Netflix series best described as ‘ Real Housewives meets Million Dollar Listing. Cue up your favorite girlboss anthem, because the high-powered female brokers at the Oppenheim Group are back! Selling Sunset. (L

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Sales are down, prices are flat, the sexy “bidding war” stories aren’t being told with regularity by newspaper columnists, and thus there’s nothing for us to get all riled up about. Involve a major Toronto sports team, and you’ve got keywords, clickbait, and more eyes on the story. But what about now ?

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Sales Marketing As-is Finance 73

HomeLight

APRIL 29, 2022

If you’re planning to sell your home in 2022, you may be weighing the possibility of working with an iBuyer such as Offerpad and be curious to learn more about this option. People searching for a home can also browse Offerpad-owned listings and work with one of the company’s transaction managers to make a purchase.

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Purchase and sale agreement Closing costs Closing Staging 84

HomeLight

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Figures on maintenance costs vary, but one quick rule advises homeowners to budget 1% of their home value in annual upkeep costs when tackling a home maintenance checklist. That means that with the median home price at the end of 2021 reaching just over $400,000, owners should expect about $4,000 in annual maintenance costs.

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HomeLight

JULY 28, 2022

Individual program details can also frequently change — please visit a company’s website for the most up-to-date- information on each program’s fees, market coverage, business model, and more. If you need to sell your Kansas City home quickly, a We Buy Houses for Cash company could be the best solution. Request Offer.

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Closing costs Purchase and sale agreement Closing Staging 73

Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

This article is part of our housing market update series. At the end of this series, you can join us on May 10 for a Housing Market Update webinar. Currently, bets are on two, 50 basis-point hikes in May and June meetings, followed by 25 basis-point increases through the end of the year. To register for the HW+ event, go here.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog While I do love writing these multi-part posts, I would love them a lot more if I finished them on time! My son is still one year away from Junior Kindergarten, but as a February baby, he’ll be more than ready by the time next September rolls around. I suppose this depends on who you ask!

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Marketing Land Development Banks 80

Point2Homes

JULY 14, 2021

We looked at the share of homes above $1 million, $3 million and $5 million (where available) to rank these places according to the availability of luxury housing. Here are the main takeaways: Demand for and sales of luxury homes exploded. Big cities : Given that the median price in San Francisco is $1.5

Sales 118

Sales Marketing Development MLS 118

The Close

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Current home sales in 2022 are the second highest tally since 2007, trailing only 2021. We’ve researched multiple sources to bring you 111 of the most compelling real estate stats from across the industry—covering everything from market performance, agent demographics, marketing, teams, brokerages, and more. Home Selling Statistics.

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Equity Agents Brokerage Closing 139

Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is likely more subjective than the top five blog posts , but then again, we run into many of the same themes over and over. I don’t have any statistics on the ratio of condo-to-freehold being built in the GTA, but I would be willing to bet it’s a 10-to-1 ratio or more. Pre-Construction.

Pre-approval 83

Pre-approval Construction Development Agents 83

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

We would pick our box, then head home and decorate it! I distinctly remember playing with my brother and sister in the upstairs of our Parkhurst Boulevard home pretending to open presents, and pretending to put them in our Christmas Boxes. Perhaps a better question: what did you get for Christmas? I got nothing.

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Marco Santarelli

JUNE 29, 2022

However, this city on the prairie has a number of good things going for it, and they go well beyond being the home of Warren Buffett. New 2020 Census numbers showed the City of Omaha with an official population of 486,051 — a higher figure than officials had estimated. Median Home Value. Home Owners. Home Renters.

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Marketing Investor As-is Closing 97

Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Then I think about how my holidays go, and I realize: many people are more likely to check their phones and/or read TRB and other social media and news sites on a holiday than on a workday! My little guy is fussing and it takes me a half-hour for the lightbulb to ding, “Maybe he needs some water or a snack?”

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Somebody asked me last week, “What’s this ‘Monday morning quarterback’ thing all about?” ” When it comes to gambling, I never met an adult male who said, “I lose much more than I win, and I’m definitely not better than the casinos and the sports book.

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Inspection Purchase and sale agreement Pre-approval Finance 78

Notorious ROB

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

So the recommendation is for sellers to get realistic about pricing. First, you have leading indicators: Fewer people searched for “homes for sale” on Google. Then you have lagging (aka, data from the past 4 weeks) indicators: The median home sale price was $369,250, up 7% year over year. from the prior four-week period.

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Marketing Sales Mortgages As-is 89

HomeLight

APRIL 29, 2022

Whether you’re selling your primary residence, listing a relative’s old home, or cashing out an investment property, you may find that qualities in your property make it difficult to offload. As a result, your home may languish even in a seller’s market, waiting for offers that never seem to come. Average Price Point.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 26, 2022

The recent drop in Toronto home prices is solely due to the increase in interest rates. Well, I suppose before we confirm or deny, we must first address this “drop in Toronto home prices,” since many home-sellers are in denial. This property sold for $2,150,000 in the third week of February.

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Fixed-rate mortgage Purchase and sale agreement Banks Mortgages 92

Point2Homes

JULY 23, 2021

We looked at the share of homes above $1 million, $3 million and $5 million (where available) to rank these places according to the availability of luxury housing. Here are the main takeaways: Demand for and sales of luxury homes exploded. Big cities : Given that the median price in San Francisco is $1.5

Sales 66

Sales Marketing Development MLS 66

The Close

JULY 22, 2022

It’s an essential guide that lays out where, how, why, and when you will promote your client’s home for sale. With this plan, you can confidently list any property—including luxury ones—and convince any seller that you’re the agent to get their house sold. Identify the Home’s Unique Selling Features Know Your Listing.

Marketing 94

Marketing MLS Staging Agents 94

Marco Santarelli

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This article has been updated to reflect recent changes in the Atlanta real estate market due to COVID-19. Total residential units sold in August in the 29 county Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) were 9,617, up 8.81% from the previous year (source: GAMLS). The median listing price per square foot was $227.

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Realty Biz

APRIL 4, 2021

Income Versus Home Prices. Income Versus Home Prices. As more millennials approach 40, many are struggling to begin saving for retirement and those who have started saving are now borrowing those funds to make down payments on a home. Of course, dramatically fewer houses means dramatically higher prices.

Marketing 98

Marketing New Construction Lending Mortgages 98

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

So let’s pick up where we left off on Monday… 6) Vacant Home Tax. But when it comes to the vacant home tax, I haven’t personally heard from anybody that likes the idea of the tax to begin with, the implementation, and the way the city of Toronto rolled it out. TorontoRealtyBlog. Did you hear that?

Development 87

Development Land As-is Construction 87

Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It is home to roughly half a million people. However, the Raleigh housing market is much larger than this. The Raleigh metropolitan area – the city and its surrounding suburbs – account for about one and a half million people. If you are looking to invest in Raleigh real estate, you must read till the end.

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Marketing Sales Days on market As-is 106

Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Somebody told me once that when you have children, the years go faster because you start to view your life in terms of your children’s milestones. Growing from age one to age two represents a fifty percent increase in their time on earth, but it’s merely another twelve months for you. My daughter was pulling at my shirt.

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As-is Marketing Title Agents 96

Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

That apartment served me well for the first three years of university, but after my Toronto internship between 3rd and 4th year, I went back and found that John had sold the building. It was 1998. I was 18-years-old, what the hell did I know? He was also a problem-solver and he took landlording seriously. Their parents. This and that.”

Property Management 85

Property Management As-is Investor Agents 85

Marco Santarelli

MAY 31, 2022

Durham, NC is home to roughly a quarter million people. However, Durham is the heart of the Durham-Chapel Hill area, home to about half a million. It is also square in the middle of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill metro area; that’s home to just over two million people and includes the state capitol. year-over-year.

Marketing 75

Marketing Investor Sales As-is 75

Marco Santarelli

JULY 1, 2022

Charleston is home to over a hundred and thirty thousand people. However, the Charleston housing market is significantly larger than this. The Charleston SC real estate market ranges from a somewhat dense downtown full of apartments to luxury waterfront homes and condos to affordable suburban properties. Median Home Value.

Marketing 98

Marketing Investor As-is Sales 98

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Really, really insightful discussion on Wednesday’s blog, and some admissions from regular readers that they may have seen the light, or at least, some light. Comments about the FHSA actually contributing to demand, thereby inflating the price of real estate, are perspectives that I wish certain members of government possessed.

Development 66

Development Brokerage Construction Agents 66

Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Despite the COVID pandemic causing huge unemployment and impaired consumer confidence in real estate buying and selling, the Kansas City housing prices are soaring. Based on the FHFA all-transactions home price index, typical home values in the Kansas City MSA in the 2nd quarter of 2020 rose by 4.8 year-over-year.

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Marketing Sales Investor Days on market 122

Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

If you're considering purchasing a home in Tacoma, Washington as an investment opportunity, you must read this entire article. The second largest city in a state is frequently a better investment than the largest, as demand is strong but not so high that investors fear being priced out of the market or trapped in a bubble.

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Marketing Investor As-is Sales 106

Marco Santarelli

AUGUST 10, 2020

We will discuss the latest Austin real estate market trends & prices and find out how they can affect the investors and homebuyers in the latter half of 2020. Austin housing market has been impacted by the pandemic which led to a decline in home sales due to critically low levels of housing inventory. to $325,200.

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Marketing Residential Investor Sales 141

Marco Santarelli

AUGUST 5, 2020

Here are the updated national housing market trends— home prices, inventory, sales, and forecast. The US housing market has begun to show signs of heating up as more buyers and sellers returned to the market in July. The pent-up demand drove the home prices up 8.1 The pent-up demand drove the home prices up 8.1

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Marketing Fixed-rate mortgage Sales Mortgages 145

Marco Santarelli

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Richmond homes are getting sold in record time and the metro area’s housing inventory has been squeezed significantly over the last two years. Over the last two years, available homes for sale have dropped by more than half. percent for single-family homes, according to the Richmond Association of REALTORS®.

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