Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This past month we saw a modest decline in the average home price as follows: Recall that the “peak” in April of 2017 was just over $920,000. drop month-over-month, it’s still significantly higher than the pre-pandemic “peak.” And what should we expect in the month of November?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2023

While my “OG” barber, Leo, cut my hair for thirty years, from my first haircut through Leo’s retirement around 2012 or 2013, I started going to another classic Italian barber thereafter. And yet only four months later, the house sold for $1,200,000 in competition. increase in value in four months.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

If the explosive month of June, which saw the GTA average home price reach an all-time high, is any indication, the summer months in 2020 are going to replace the time we lost in the real estate market at the height of the pandemic. We have a slew of listings this month, and buyer activity is the busiest it’s been all year.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

“David must be having a slow month,” you’re assuming. “He’s probably got some meth lab coming up for sale and he’s just trying to grease the…… tray.” Oh, and they were now listed for sale $60,000 lower than the firm offer they turned down eight months prior. But no takers.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

” “Got anything coming onto the market next month?” Now, to be fair, we’re comparing 2002 through 2022 for the GTA and 2012 through 2022 for the City of Toronto. Doing so shows us a better picture of how the property types change by month: This is exactly what I suspected! in June, then 26.8%

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

Even a quick glance at the stats showed that not much was happening in the Toronto market in the month of July, as the real estate playground was empty! I typically look at price first, but I knew the average home price was going to decline by 3-5%, month-over-month. Not a chance!” So what was that figure?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

After writing the America is Back recovery model on HousingWire, I wrote an article on my blog about what it would take to crash home prices on April 10, 2020. The velocity of inventory rising in the next three months is limited. months isn’t going to do that. months during this six-year period. before COVID) stage.

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Redfin

AUGUST 30, 2022

1) The endless activities to partake in. Boston Tourism Made Easy , a sightseeing blog, explains what makes the Boston Tea Party Museum so great. During the warmer months, Evan recommends checking out the Swan Boats, riding the carousel, and checking out the Frog Pond. 1) Partake in endless activities no matter the season.

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GeekEstate

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Finding the most productive ways to deliver outstanding client success in Real Estate by excelling at virtual showings is no longer a must-have business skill reserved only to the top-producing 1% of all agents. There is hope for the Real Estate industry to thrive with Real Estate client showings in the months, years and decades to come.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s just really, really hard to describe an entire year’s blog posts or an entire year’s real estate stories in a standard blog-post length. 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.

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 2, 2022

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

” How in the world did I get 2 1/2 weeks off? As I wrote in my year-end blog, my wife and I had consulted with our family doctor and resident COVID expert to put together a plan enabling us to see my mother over the holidays, and thus I haven’t been “out there” in eighteen days.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Thanks to the readers for suggesting blog topics before the long weekend! As you saw in Tuesday’s blog post, I took one such suggestion to heart. I started blogging (ranting?) about the pre-construction condo industry just as soon as this blog was launched back in 2007. We passed by the St.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

As you’ll see in today’s blog, many of the reasons for cancelations are often rooted in the same problems that caused delays, but some are extensions, and some are completely different reasons altogether. After a month of carrying units unsold, with few showings and zero interest, they decided to raise their prices.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When I look back at how COVID has affected the Toronto real estate market over the past eighteen months, I’m amazed. But by March of 2021, I was seeing 100+ showings booked on some of my 1-bed, 1-bath condo listings, and prices had not only regained lost ground from 2020, but new records were being set. Not even close.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

KM per month. I could use those months to play catch-up. 1-bed, den, 1-bath, 635 square feet, with parking. Many are agent websites, some are property management companies, and interestingly enough, the now-defunct Urbancorp still has an active website with their floor plans dating back to 2012. How can that be?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Not only are my fingers tired from writing Monday’s blog, but also from hand-writing three-hundred Christmas cards! 1) The Market. 1) Spring Insanity. 1) Spring Insanity. 1) The Future Of The City Of Toronto. And lots of links to blog posts in each section too. TorontoRealtyBlog. Cards and envelopes!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Looking back on it, I suppose I didn’t “need” to write a thousand words or more about my holiday break in Thursday’s blog post, thereby extending the length of the blog and only allowing us to examine two of the ten discussion points for 2023. Leave politics out of your blog.” TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Well, maybe Thursday’s blog was a mouthful. All that time off over the holidays without an outlet for my thoughts – both about real estate, and not, and you had to know that the first blog back in January would be lengthy. It’s blogs like these that often make me feel guilty of being unoriginal, however.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

And as I noted in today’s front page excerpt, a follow-up post on Tuesday’s blog about Durham Region is, in fact, very necessary. Prices in Durham Region are up 31.9%, year-over-year, in the month of September. In past blogs, you’ll notice that I only look at Halton, Peel, Toronto, York, and Durham.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 27, 2021

You’ll also hear from tiny house expert Ryan Mitchell, whose blog, The Tiny Life , and whose multiple books offer advice backed by more than a decade of tiny house experience. Constructing his solar-powered 150-square-foot home took him about 18 months of nights and weekends and cost $25,000. Source: ( Jed Owen / Unsplash).

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

Billion in 2012. Just not a rabid fan of the game of hockey as it was in 2012, or the Toronto Maple Leafs in the same way as when I was a child, a teenager, and then a young adult. The Leafs blew a 3-1 series lead to an inferior team. The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan sold MLSE, including the Toronto Maple Leafs, for $1.32

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HomeLight

JUNE 8, 2023

DISCLAIMER: As a friendly reminder, information in this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only, and is not to be taken as legal or tax advice. In 2012 he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Say you bought a beach house for $100,000 and sold it for $1 million. What is the cost of doing a 1031 exchange?

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HomeLight

MARCH 21, 2022

With Simple Sale, you can get an all-cash offer in as few as 48 hours and sell your home in as little as 10 days, skipping the months it takes to sell the traditional way. The company says that it is trusted by over 1 million homeowners. Fees: Opendoor charges an estimated 5% service fee and estimates closing costs of 1%.

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Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Since 2012, Houston's home values (middle price tier of homes) have appreciated from $117,000 to $199,976, according to Zillow’s Home Value Index. During the latest twelve months, the Houston appreciation rate was nearly 2.61%, and in the latest quarter, the appreciation rate was 1.33%, which annualizes to a rate of 5.45%.

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Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This ratio is ten points higher than it was before the Great Recession of 2007-2012. Average Rental Property Income: $1,259/month. The average rent in Green Valley South is 1 % lower than the Henderson average. Rental rates in Pioneer Park are around 1300 dollars a month. Green Valley, Henderson, Nevada.

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App Folio

APRIL 22, 2020

And since November of 2012, I’ve been operating D2 Demand. And, in fact, we’ve talked about, blogged about, and even had a webinar, where we use the analogy of the economy as a set of pipes through which water, the metaphorical money, flows. Maybe a few longer, a few shorter, but most of them are on 12-month leases.

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HomeLight

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

According to a 2012 crime report by the Center for American Progress, an independent, nonpartisan policy institute, a reduction of one homicide in one year in a zip code results in a 1.5% and Canada, awarding a “livability score” on a scale of 1 to 100, segmented into an A to F grade. The same report indicates there were 1.2

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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? They scheduled two different “openings” on a Saturday: one at 10:00am and one at 1:00pm. It’s not like I wrote a real estate blog at the time, right? May 10th, 2012. ” Sure.

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Realtor.com

MAY 4, 2021

In a recent blog post , he outlined how changes to the capital gains tax could make it a “carrot” to lure sellers into the market, while at the same time benefiting first-time buyers. McLaughlin’s vision differs significantly from the tax policies President Joe Biden proposed last month to pay for his broader economic agenda.

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