Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In fact, the downtown condo rental pool is primarily comprised of individual investors, many of whom are exiting the space because they can’t wait twelve months for hearings at the LTB for their tenants who aren’t paying rent, or who aren’t allowed to sell their condos because the tenants refuse to move out.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

on a month-over-month (m-o-m) basis in October. Among the larger markets, activity was up on the month in Montreal, the Fraser Valley, Calgary and Edmonton. It was a new record for that month by a margin of more than 14,000 transactions. from the first 10 months of 2019. year-over-year (y-o-y).

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Realtor.com

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Just a few months ago, home prices hit record heights, investors were gobbling up scores of homes, and buyers were racing to purchase whatever they could before prices rose even further. Last month, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the COVID-19 pandemic market had been in a “housing bubble.” Sound familiar?

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Easy Agent Pro

DECEMBER 29, 2021

But, consider this: Between 10 percent and 25 percent of the contacts in your real estate CRM contain critical errors, according to SiriusDecisions, a Connecticut marketing company. That number, by the way, was determined by IBM in 2016 so it’s safe to say that it is far larger now. When it’s properly maintained, it’s a gold mine.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

But for myself, my wife, and my 5-year-old and 20-month-old, the experience was beautiful! ” Have you ever seen a 20-month-old child run, full-speed, downhill? I think December 1st is the acceptable date, and if you really want to stretch it out, then November 25th, or one month of lead-up to Christmas, is fine.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Three months pass, and the the closing date is here! Then a month. on October 11th, 2016, and this transaction was scheduled to close in November 9th, 2018. Then a month. 47 minutes before the closing deadline, the buyers’ lawyer finally sent a written request for an extension of the closing until January 10, 2022.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I noted in a CTV Your Morning interview last month that about 35% of the cost of a new condo is taxation. But as far as today’s blog post is concerned, let’s discuss the notion of “increasing affordability” which ultimately leads to increasing prices. Take a $750,000 condo in Toronto. Oh – and new taxes.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

” But if you recall my blog post, I didn’t take issue with the fact that the Toronto Star seems to believe that Realtors shouldn’t be allowed to invest in real estate, but rather that they’re seeking to blame Realtors, at least in part, for increasing the price of real estate, instead of investigating actual causes.

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Lab Coat Agents

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Originally Featured On The Follow Up Boss Blog. Start a blog. I have had the best month in my four year real estate career so far in October. I have closed 10 transactions 30% of my business from my weekly email this year.”. 10 transactions from an email newsletter? Door knocking. But let’s be real.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

This was a 1-bed, 1-bath, no parking, no locker, $400/month fees which include zero utilities, and it was barely 500 square feet. Maybe you don’t love the idea of temperatures around -10 being “mild” outside. The post Spending “Toronto Money” Across Canada appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The former was the case for Nancy Sanborn , a real estate agent in the LA area with nearly 40 years of experience, when she got hired to sell what she thought was a regular old probate listing in a wealthy LA neighborhood in 2016. 101 (2016). million between April and June 2016. Connecticut. South Dakota.

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Redfin

OCTOBER 11, 2022

They serve a Sesame-Chili Cauliflower Florets appetizer that had me dreaming about it for months,” says Savvy Leigh of Savvy Leigh Photography , a Charlotte wedding photographer. As a native to the city, I’m happy to share some of the best,” says Rachel Brown of Queen City Chic , a lifestyle blog. ” . .

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I was called in to price a King West condo this week, and has been the theme here on TRB over the last two months, the data that I provided to the sellers did not line up with their expectations. Speaking of which, should I sit down and watch CNN before bed, or is this going to be like 2016 all over again?

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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

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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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This is, after all, the Toronto Realty Blog. in seventeen months? The town of Tillsonburg had 15,872 residents according to the 2016 census. There’s probably about 25,000 – 30,000 residents, if we take the 2016 census and round up a little. TorontoRealtyBlog. March, 2020: $256,200. September 2021: $485,200.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

How about some headlines from this past month? Not only did the market fail to crash, but it more than doubled by 2016. But here’s an actual person, commenting on Garth Turner’s blog post, detailing his patience as it pertains to the “bubble burst.” Everywhere I look, I’m reading about the crash.

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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.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

Would you read some random real estate agent’s biased blog? “Leafs play awful, miserable game,” followed by “Toronto beats Winnipeg 10-1.” This is less than March and April, which were the #1 and #2 months for sales in the history of TRREB. Where would go turn to? It makes no sense.

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Real Estate Finance HQ

JULY 31, 2016

I truly believe that in the next 10 years real estate will be the major industry that gets disrupted by technology. Tweet “The fact that we are still buying houses in 2016 the same way we did in 1956 is absurd.”]. 10 BuilderTrend. The housing styles will also change like they always have. ” Steve Simmons.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Growing from age one to age two represents a fifty percent increase in their time on earth, but it’s merely another twelve months for you. The story broke in the media and later that day, I ran by and watched workers continue to work even though the project was apparently being canceled… 2016: Foreign ownership.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Of course, if we want to compare apples to apples, and look at December vs. December, we can always draw inferences from the month of December. I opened the TRREB stats last month to find a figure that was both surprising and unsurprising at the same time. Now, what happened after December of 2016? That’s important.

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

2020 didn’t care whether you got your license three months or three decades ago. And more importantly, how did it show up in the 40 episodes that we published over the past 9 months? I wanna peel back the curtain for the next couple of minutes and talk about why HomeLight spent the past nine months doing a weekly podcast.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

One of the agents on my team just asked what I was writing about for tomorrow’s blog, and I told him. That’s fine, think of today’s blog post what you will. – I can’t believe I’m wasting this topic in a Friday Headlines blog, but then again, haven’t we already said enough about this?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Chris will always joke with me and say, “You can write blogs from anywhere. Move to Boston and start BRB ; the Boston Realty Blog!” per cent since 2016 and bringing its population to 40,232 from 35,874. In any event, $499,000 for a 3-bed, 2-bath, 10-year-old townhouse is affordable, no?

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Clients A owned the property for 4 years, 4 months, and made a 20.1% Clients B owned the property for 3 years, 11 months, and made a 65.0% People who owned from 2010 to 2016 made a return, but people who owned from 2016 to 2019 absolutely killed it. Listed at $549,900, we sold for $660,000, amid 13 offers. ” See?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Let’s start today’s blog post with a quote: “This is going to be 2017 all over again.” We know that it has declined from February with respect to both prices and sales, but it’s always much easier to define a market several months later, looking back, than it is in that very moment. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Louisville Homes

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Therefore, more expensive houses are out there but weren’t sold in the past 12 months. Year # Sold 2016 35 2017 59 2018 60 2019 69 2020 77. Located near the Hillcrest neighborhood, it’s also situated on almost 10 acres of secluded, beautiful land. After being listed for $10 million, this property sold for $6.5

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

I suppose I could have titled this entry, “The Inevitable April Stats Blog,” but what fun would that be? Plus, you all know that each and every month, I write a post about the TRREB stats and what they mean for the market, so pointing out the inevitability is moot. increase, month-over-month.

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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! Top Five: Real Estate Stories of 2016 : 5) New Mortgage Regulations. And lots of links to blog posts in each section too. I sell real estate in Toronto and I write the TORONTO Realty Blog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

properties which were unoccupied for six months or more during the previous calendar year). 5 months owner occupied plus 2 months vacant plus 5 months being renovated, would still be classified as a vacant dwelling and require a tax payment since no single use lasts the minimum six months).

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RIS Media

APRIL 7, 2022

Maybe it is a recent meteoric rise (from 1,000 agents in March of 2016 to 70,000 at the end of last year). Relatively new to the industry, they were drawn in by eXp’s very affordable $85 monthly brokerage fee ($149 due at sign up, which includes the first month). That $85 a month was really a big plus for me.”.

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Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

more homes than they bought in 2016. 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%. The forecast by Zillow also points in the same direction — a rise in home values over the next 12-months.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2021

Last month, in my “Top Ten: Real Estate Stories of 2020,” I reckoned that the #2 story of the entire year was the condo market. Only 10% of all freehold sales in the 416 were available below $800,000 last year, so if you’re looking in that price point, you would be wise to consider other options. A rough ride.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 20, 2022

DISCLAIMER: As a friendly reminder, this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes, not legal advice. A HomeLight survey of top agents revealed that 67% report that staged homes sell for 1% to 10% more. Typical costs for renting furniture for staging range from $500 to $600 per room per month. Photograph it.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Back in 2016, Forbes conducted a survey and interviewed 237 business owners who had accepted on-air deals in the first seven seasons of Shark Tank and found that 73% did not get the exact deal they made on TV. She wanted $300,000 for 10% of her company. “How about $300,000 for 10% of the company, and 5% in managing shares?”

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Call me a salesperson here, but I told her that a 44% return over what she paid in 2016, was pretty damn good! But then she told me something that was a little out of left field: “I could have bought any number of units back in 2016, and I’d have done better.” – 10) Perplexed. Oh, no doubt.

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