Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

But it adds context to both today’s blog, today’s blog challenge, and of course, blog reader Derek ‘s comment from last Friday. Back in April of 2018, it was blog reader Derek himself that posed a question to the readership: Should we try to amuse ourselves with a game? The challenge was accepted!

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RIS Media

JANUARY 28, 2022

Headliners Week of 1/16 – 1/22. Headliners Week of 1/10 – 1/15. RISMedia Blog and Social Media Editor Jameson Doris delivers this week's Headliners, a video recap of the week's top stories. RISMedia Blog and Social Media Editor Jameson Doris delivers this week's Headliners, a video recap of the week's top stories.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

I wonder which narrator blog reader, Derek, was thinking of when he made his comment on last month’s “January TRREB Stats,” because personally, I heard Morgan Freeman. ” If you recall, I spent most of my time in this space last month arguing that the TRREB numbers “made no sense.”

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RIS Media

JANUARY 14, 2022

RISMedia Blog and Social Media Editor Jameson Doris delivers this week's Headliners, a video recap of the week's top stories in real estate. After just four months on the market, a property on Star Island—a neighborhood in Miami Beach, Florida—sold for $75,000,000. By Jordan Grice January 14, 2022 1. December 17, 2021.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

“Weak Condo Market In Downtown Toronto Leads To Dip In Rental Rates, Increased Vacancy” Globe & Mail February 7th, 2024 That headline definitely jives with what I saw and felt over the past three months, and you’ll see this shortly in the Q1 rental stats. Well, let’s say that this was a 2-bedroom, 1-bathroom condo.

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RIS Media

MARCH 4, 2022

Headliners Week of 1/31 – 2/05. Headliners Week of 1/24 – 1/29. Headliners Week of 1/16 – 1/22. Headliners Week of 1/10 – 1/15. RISMedia Blog and Social Media Editor Jameson Doris delivers this week's Headliners, a video recap of the week's top stories. December 17, 2021.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

As I mentioned in last Wednesday’s blog post, this article appeared in the Toronto Star: “Toronto Property Listings Are Being Cancelled At ‘Unprecedented’ Rates”. So I had to use MLS, search unavailable listings by “terminated date,” and then filter by each month. To answer that, we’d have to compare to 2021.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This is a quarterly feature here on the Toronto Realty Blog and I’m having trouble believing that the last time we worked through these numbers, the summer had ended and it was just after Labour Day. higher than the preivous high -point of 2021. TorontoRealtyBlog Better late than never here, I suppose? 2,577 listings is 58.9%

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

So when we’re talking about $1,400/month basement apartments in prime areas like Riverdale, High Park, or Trinity Bellwoods, there are going to be all sorts of inquiries on the property. ” You don’t get people calling on your $3,000/month rental offering $1,500, but it happens in the low-low end.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 12, 2023

” Imagine submitting an offer on a $3,200/month condo with your friend and roommate, offering $38,400 up front, and being told that you’re not doing anything different than the six other people you’re competing against. ” That’s what I mean by “impossible market conditions.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Are you tired of the stats blogs yet? My year-end “MLS Musings” is due Friday, and I’ll dump out everything I have left from 2021. If you’ve ever heard the term “Months of Inventory,” consider that sales-to-new-listings, or SNLR, is simply the inverse of MOI. Well, hang in there.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I have penned several blogs this year on TRB about properties listed “over and over,” so today’s post is seemingly nothing new. But I want to use the TRREB data, namely the “average 416 sale price” from selected months to examine how, where, or how some of these listings could be poorly priced.

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GeekEstate

OCTOBER 29, 2021

[Note from the editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog ]. Venture capital activity in real estate has also remained quite strong — investment in the category reached $8 billion through the first 9 months of 2021, a record. Expanding access to home financing options.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

We never know exaclty when the stats will be released, but it’s usually around the 4th, 5th, or 6th of the month. To publish a statistical analysis of last month , you’d need a day or two after the month has concluded. On average, I’d say that the TRREB Market Watch is released around the 5th of the month.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 10, 2022

Tip #1: Offer value to your readers. Newsletters are often used to promote the valuable content on your blog or YouTube channel. Make the newsletter itself a thing of value, not just a tool for promoting the value on your blog or website,“ says McGee. McGee says to stay away from “selfish content” in your newsletter.

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The Close

OCTOBER 31, 2022

You must continue filling the top of the funnel in your lead generation process to avoid dry months without pay. Wyzowl’s 2021 State of Video Marketing Report reveals that 84% of respondents agree that using video helps with lead generation. Twenty percent of all members get 1-5% of their business from social media, and 10% get 6-10%.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Thankfully , here on the Toronto Realty Blog, we’re not bound by the same “rules of attraction” that govern social media. No, here on Toronto Realty Blog, we can do things slowly. ” Check this out: You would expect to see hundreds of 1-bed, 1-bath condos on MLS on any given day.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog It may come as no surprise to you that I receive a lot of feedback on these blog posts. I just received this email: Hey David, A long time lurker on your blog and audience to your Pick5 videos. The property sold on November 7th 2021. The feedback is everything good, bad, and in between.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It should come as no surprise that I love writing blog posts in trilogies. I got a 3+1 townhouse with heated garage in Calgary (25 mins outside the core, but walkable to LRT, so this would be like something in Etobicoke here) for $400K all in, completes in 2024. ” As of 2021, the metro population of greater Calgary is 1,481,806.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 4, 2022

Did you just stumble upon this blog for the first time? Well, now you found this blog! Bill Gates: 1, David Fleming: 0. So, let’s look at a handful of factors that I think will help us to predict the road ahead… 1) June TRREB Stats. increase, month-over-month, after a 7.3% TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Realty Biz

APRIL 19, 2023

Jeff Tricoli has amassed an impressive 372 sales in the last 12 months, plus 706 excellent reviews on Zillow. Website , Facebook , Contact # 1-561-220-9118 Richard L McKinney is unique among all the real estate professionals we’ve profiled here on RealtyBiz. Mckinney and his team are #1 in the region, with 338 sales in the past year.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 19, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I was in the kitchen at Bosley Real Estate on Wednesday afternoon, putting dry tuna on an ever more dry rice-cake, and an agent who I hadn’t seen in a few months came up and gave me a hug. She looked at me with these sad eyes and said, “I read your blog today. The blog was not. What was this for?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 26, 2021

In last Wednesday’s blog, we looked at Addy and BuyProperly , two sites that have effectively securitized houses and condos so that people can buy “shares” for as little as $1 through Addy or invest in fractional ownership for a minimum of $2,500 through BuyProperly. What about Key Living ? Have you heard of it?

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HomeLight

AUGUST 30, 2022

DISCLAIMER: This blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only, not legal advice. Less than a month after COVID-19 caused shutdowns and unemployment across the globe in 2020, nearly a quarter of American renters didn’t make their April payments. billion in funding for ERA 2 before September 2025.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

But the run up in prices in the last two months is the true story of our market, as we sit here, in March of 2022, even though the “true story of our market” was a completely different tale only two months ago. in two months. That’s almost six-figures in a month. month-over-month and 27.7%

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

I want to try not to make this blog post political since it’s supposed to be about the newly-announced Renters Bill of Rights. But in the meantime, they still have about nineteen months to implement policy, enact change, and of course – spend money! Plus, destroying the country economically. We did that. We know that.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As noted last week, the average sale price in Durham Region in September of 2020 was $734,038, but that rose, in twelve short months, to $968,136. They paid a big price at the time, but as big as that price was – I think around $800,000, it’s crazy to think that only six months later, that house could be worth $920,000.

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Easy Agent Pro

APRIL 18, 2022

Email marketing is the #1 way to stay in front of your SOI, plus it’s the perfect way to reconnect with older leads. For every $1 spent on email marketing , realtors receive an average of $42 in return. Community events calendar for the week/month/season. You know that blog post you’ll send an email about?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But compared to January of 2021 and 2022, it still takes some getting used to. I predicted in last Friday’s blog that we would see about 3,000 sales in January, and as I’ll explain, I wasn’t far off. ” The decline in December was fully expected, as December is typically a slow month. below average.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

The original article I referenced above, showings a 31% drop in “some areas” was based on a tiny sample size, on a month-to-month basis, for which I would never draw any conclusions, if it were me. You can’t look at a neighbourhood with 65 sales, and then 45 the next month, and say, “The market is down 25%.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Can you believe it’s been three months already? “Three months from now… ,” the receptionist says, “… lemme see… hmmmm… that’ll be January.” As you can see, the light-blue line representing 2022 drops below both 2021 and 2019 by September. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 9, 2021

Let’s say that a 420 square foot, 1-bed, 1-bath in this building sells for $440,000 and rents for $1,650. Now let’s say that a comparable unit across the street in a different building, without that poor track record, costs $525,000 but also rents for $1,650 per month. Is it possible it can push higher than 2020?

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Realty Biz

JULY 2, 2021

Courtesy the Hootsuite blog. As of January 2021, Hootsuite puts Tik Tok in 7th position worldwide. In the US alone, the app has 14 million active users every month who spend approximately 47 minutes on the app. 2021, April 29). 2021, April 19). Spectrum News 1. 2021, January 18). 2021, February 19).

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GeekEstate

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, there are already 189 new SPACs that have been created to date. SPACs raise money from investors, and once the company goes public, sponsors have to secure a merger within 24 months. Here are five reasons why SPACs are on the rise: 1. SPACs have created a massive opportunity for investors in 2021.

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McKissock

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

According to the 2020-2021 Appraisal Income Guide , more than 15% of certified general appraisers indicate they will retire in the next 6-10 years. Appraisers who leverage technology tools to streamline their process and make their workflow more efficient are able to complete more appraisals per month.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Today, I’m going to share with you two examples, one from each “side,” that came across my desk at the start of this month. With their 12-month lease now in its last month, the landlord and her agent reached out to the tenants. First, let’s look at a landlord trying to take advantage of a tenant.

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