Kyle Handy

MARCH 28, 2023

In this blog post, I’ll share 11 smart ways to find real estate leads on LinkedIn in 2023. Finding new leads can be challenging as a real estate agent, especially in a competitive market. Traditional methods like cold calling and door-to-door prospecting are time-consuming and often yield little results.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I remember bidding on condos in a hot market in the summer of 2006. And imagine the bid increments? But when you had bid $322,000 on that $299,900 listing, what did you do? TorontoRealtyBlog. ” I mean, that’s like asking who invented the Internet. Not every listing, but most. ” Granted, a $1.5M

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Low inventory collided with low interest rates and made bidding wars a regular thing. Low inventory collided with low interest rates and made bidding wars a regular thing. Bidding wars more common than ever. Our first year is in the books, and what a year it was! Join our Walkthrough Listener Community. Full Transcript.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

And only three blog posts per week! If only it were 2011 when I posted four times per week, right? Today, I want to talk about an inevitability that finally happened. Well, the former is true, and we’re only two weeks into the year. But the latter is also upon us, and it came exactly where many of us thought it would.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

You see, Henry, after the conclusion of the First World War, the USA, and Russia went from being allies who defeated Germany and tried to restore Europe, to being enemies who subscribed to different systems of government. We know what happened. But what did Stan tell Henry? I’ve played this over in my mind a dozen times. Did he start slowly?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Here are some tried and true digital marketing strategies: Backlinking Learn how to set up backlinks (or hire an agency who specializes in this) so that your website appears in articles and blog posts on other sites. Particularly in the 2023 economy, with interest rates on mortgage rates stubbornly perched around 7.5%

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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 ? Perhaps next year we’ll come up with a system. But I also like to consider how these blog posts age , and whether or not the content turned out to be relevant, eye-opening, or predictive. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New findings from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) show a fresh picture of who’s buying and selling homes, with more first-time buyers entering the market and families looking for homes that fit multiple generations. For real estate professionals, the changing landscape is a call to action.

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A new job, a desire to live somewhere else, or the opportunity to seize your dream home can create an agonizing decision: Should I sell my house or rent it out? If you go the rental route, you could get stuck with a property that becomes too expensive or time-consuming to manage. Bad renters turn investment sour. A missed $185k opportunity.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

A reader emailed admin@torontorealtyblog.com and said, “Whaa no blog today?” ” True, I never post blogs on holidays. TorontoRealtyBlog. And how was your long weekend? How did you possibly get through Friday without new content on TRB? And this time around, who would be reading? I know that’s what I do.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But I had a lot of fun here on Toronto Realty Blog as I always do, and I had even more fun sitting down to go through the year’s blog posts. Here are the Top Five Blog Posts of 2022 as we see them… #5: TRB Special Guest Posts: Chris Cansick, Matthew Morrison, & Tara Amina. It was a long, long year! April, 2022.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But the next time that I say, “I live and breathe real estate,” perhaps you’ll have a better understanding of what I mean. 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. Intimately. ” 2019: Help.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog I was having a conversation with a prospective seller on Sunday who was one of those “all real estate agents are the same ” types. Sometimes, I feel like I would have to spend six hours with a person to properly, accurately, and fully convey my value to them. Other times, I could do it in six minutes.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In our spare time, we used hindsight to determine what Miles Dyson could have done with Skynet or how Kyle Reese could have better protected against the machines gaining control over the human race. My point is this: today’s blog isn’t one that can be written by A.I., to do it for you.” to comprehend. to comprehend.

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HomeLight

JANUARY 4, 2022

Your scheduled home appraisal is nearing, and no matter the circumstances, it’s always an intimidating event. Whether you plan to buy, sell, or refinance your home, an appraiser’s opinion holds a lot of weight. What hurts a home appraisal and is there anything you can do about it? Source: (Wander Fleur / Unsplash). How much is your home worth?

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Is this a “can of worms?” ” Is it a “ticking time bomb?” ” Would “powder keg” be more appropriate to describe the situation? Or may we use “recipe for disaster?” ” Are we simply waiting for a “boiling point?” And the truth is: I’m still not sure.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

TorontoRealtyBlog. I find the timing of this post somewhat ironic, considering I’m about to debate the pros and cons of offer instructions, while I just completely ignored a different set of instructions altogether. Which instructions? The ones that came with the IKEA Pax Wardrobe. and thus we had to find a new home.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Gawrsh, I mean, with only two posts per week now (insert emoji of blushing individual looking, for lack of a better term, “sheepish”), I really need to plan out my topics and stories with some sort of schedule! TorontoRealtyBlog I bought a condo last week. Shall we start there? What was it called again? What a complete waste.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Do today’s children still benefit from the usage of firearms when attending summer camp? That’s a serious question. As a society, we’ve increasingly bubble-wrapped our children to protect them from the cruel, cruel world, but given my kids are not yet camp-age, I don’t know what activities are offered out there in 2022.

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HomeLight

APRIL 25, 2022

Enjoying this episode? Be sure to follow The Walkthrough to get future episodes delivered automatically: Apple Podcasts/iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube. The market has changed. How you do business has changed. Change is all around you. On this week’s Walkthrough , host Matt McGee says there are plenty of constants all around you.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

– Scenario #3: An Ottawa couple bid $400,000 over the asking price of a house and lost to a higher bid. We’ve been looking and looking for over a year and we bid over $400,000 over the asking price.” Let’s play a game, shall we? These usually go over well. ” Cool? My colleague has the listing.

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HomeLight

JANUARY 11, 2021

Change as in things being different, being better. A new year is here! And after real estate thrived through an entirely unpredictable 2020, we need to ask what’s coming our way in the next 12 months. Will sellers re-enter the market and ease the inventory crunch? Will interest rates stay low? Join our Walkthrough Listener Community.

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HomeLight

APRIL 19, 2021

The real estate headlines are scary right now. All across the country, inventory is at or near all-time lows. Buyers can’t find homes, or when they do, they have to compete against 20 other buyers to get the home. Often, more than 20!) There’s no end in sight. Or is there? Join our Walkthrough Listener Community. Full Transcript.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

I vehemently defended myself and said that the average blog post takes two hours to write, plus we’re in the thick of an insane spring market, I’ve had four listings generate a combined 41 offers in the past two days, and I’m working with buyers, and planning ahead for further listings. TorontoRealtyBlog. ” Huh.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

She doesn’t want to get in trouble for anything, so she has him do her bidding. I know better, but I do it anyways. My son, on the other hand, loves to get a reaction. He’s not using swear words, but as most 3-years-old boys do, he loves naming body parts just to witness the shock value on full display.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with two of Toronto real estate’s finest agents; one lady who owns a ‘hood on the east side, and one fine gal who’s a pillar of a community out west. On the east side, my clients submitted a bully offer that was a whopping $525,000 over the $1.2M How much were we beat by? ” Half.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Oh, the stories I could share, if only I had my own television show, radio program, podcast, or……… blog? I remember attending a condo “launch” some time around 2007 or 2008, and the project was only the second or third by this developer, so they were still working out the kinks in their systems and processes.

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GeekEstate

DECEMBER 29, 2022

[Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of our 237th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 600 GEM members on December 22th, 2022. Below, I look back on a year that saw iBuying turmoil, carnage in the public markets, 3D printing milestones, and huge advances in generative AI. Yeah, that happened.

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 17, 2022

[Editor’s Note: We publish a Weekly Transmission for GEM members , a series of long-form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Last year’s central prediction theme was de-carbonization. It’s an imperative: We must act now.

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