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Compass acquisition could worry some California agents

Housing Wire

The buy is Compass’s first since the residential brokerage started publicly trading shares earlier this month. In a blog post, Sebastian Tonkin said the company’s terms of use and privacy policy were updated and the firm will also hire an independent privacy expert to ensure competitors’ data won’t be accessible.

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Risk of mortgage fraud is on the rise in the current market

Housing Wire

According to Boesel, CoreLogic estimates that the current overall mortgage-application fraud rate is at about 1 in 120 loans. For purchase-only loans, that ratio tightens to 1 in 90 loans. “It It becomes a more concerning 1 in 23 if we only look at investment [property] purchases,” she added. month over month.

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What’s Happening With Condo Maintenance Fees?

Toronto Realty Blog

As I’ve written before on this blog many times, I was completely bewildered by the concept of condominium living back in 2004 because this thing called a “maintenance fee” made no sense to me. So back in 2004, when I saw a $300,000 condo that came with a $300/month maintenance fee, the idea just didn’t resonate.

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Quick Hits!

Toronto Realty Blog

I don’t believe I’ve cracked 3,000 blog posts yet, but I’m close. Ergo, I have been looking forward to penning my 3,000th blog post for quite some time. The problem with having written nearly 3,000 blog posts over fifteen years is that every so often, I write a post that I’ve already written.

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June TRREB Stats: A Level Playing Field?

Toronto Realty Blog

I’ve often mused on this blog that there’s nothing I love more than watching a movie I’ve seen a dozen times! But so too was my original title for today’s blog: Expect The Expected. Last month, I wrote a lot about what typically takes place in the Toronto real estate market in the summer. Or is it both?

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Is “Price Stigma” Real?

Toronto Realty Blog

“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.” The fact is, this house was “worth” way, way more than $777,000 when it sold in October of 2013.

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Increasing Development Charges Will Drive Condo Prices Higher!

Toronto Realty Blog

Perhaps this could have been included in Monday’s blog as a third tenet, except that this isn’t “new legislation,” nor is it going to kill condominium development. Now having said this, the actual point of today’s blog was supposed to be about development charges in the city of Toronto. Well, 48.8%.