Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog In my life, I have sold and closed on two properties that were a “primary residence,” and both times, I decided to welcome the new buyer with a kind gesture. Secondly, I left a hand-written note and a bottle of champagne for the buyer, addressing them by name.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 26, 2023

An aggressive buyer submits an offer on June 11th before the scheduled offer date. When the market slowed down during the Financial Crisis in 2008, buyers stopped making bully offers. But so too has the explanation on behalf of the buyer agent for making the bully offer in the first place. As I said: the process has evolved.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Is it weird that the “Top Five” blogs, that I have written, are being chosen by me ? In any event, I’ve been running this feature now for over a decade, but in its current form, with the top five blogs and the top five stories each being featured in their own post, I think we’re into our sixth or seventh iteration.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But as for the most common mistakes that sellers make before, during, and after closing, here are the ten I have witnessed most often… 10 Leaving the lockbox and ‘FOR SALE’ sign up for weeks, if not months As I will explain in the next point, leaving the lockbox on the property for the day of closing is essential.

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HomeLight

APRIL 26, 2023

With millions of homes sold each year, a modest portion of sellers — about 7% in 2021 and 10% in 2022 — choose to list “For Sale By Owner” (or FSBO — pronounced fizz-bow). Of those, 50% already knew the buyer of the home, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Unsure About Selling FSBO in Alabama?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog. A colleague of mine emailed me this essay last week. I was blown away. Not only by the sheer amount of content, which was twelve pages in a PDF, but also because of the research involved. Thirty-seven footnotes, for one thing. But sourcing a variety of newspapers, interviews, staff reports, legal journals, and more.

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 30, 2021

Real Estate Investing makes people think of money. You will see a lot of good reasons for this. Real estate is only available in limited quantities. After all, manufacturing more land is impossible. As a result, real estate is nearly universally thought to be a sound investment. They think there is no money there anymore.

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