McKissock

DECEMBER 7, 2020

At Raleigh Realty , our website generates over 30,000 web visitors a month and often ranks above the national billion-dollar companies like Zillow , Trulia , and Realtor.com for a lot of popular searches. Real estate blog. If your real estate website is your foundation, then your blog is the framing. Real estate website.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

But the point I wanted to make was this: after the two units we had listed went unsold for two months, we approached the developer’s VP to talk about a price reduction. I offered him $10 for the card and he scoffed. The Julius Erving is going up to $18 because that’s what book value has it at in next month’s edition.”

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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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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Disclaimer: Information in this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only and provide a high level overview of some of the top iBuyer programs. Close in as few as 10-14 days. Our platform enables you to sell your home as quickly as 10 days rather than what can be weeks or months. Request a cash offer.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Three months pass, and the the closing date is here! Then a month. ” In this blog post, I summarized a few court cases that proved, once and for all, that if a buyer simply decides to walk away from a firm purchase, and the seller re-sells the property for less , then that original buyer is liable to make up the difference.

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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

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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Realtor.com

APRIL 30, 2021

He looks at the top 10 coins, and goes from there. Some of his investments were in bitcoin and Ethereum, but the bulk of his money went toward purchasing Chainlink, a cryptocurrency launched in 2017 that sends real-world data to blockchains. I’m looking for the Googles, the HPs, the Oracles, ” he said.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve been writing about the perils of the pre-construction industry since the late-2000’s, so while I don’t want to regurgitate everything I’ve ever written or said, I do realize that there are a lot of newer readers on Toronto Realty Blog, many of whom have never even heard my opinions on this subject.

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 31, 2020

He had trouble attracting tenants with decent credit and rental histories, so after the house sat empty for a few months, he relaxed his criteria and got a tenant. Everything seemed OK for three months, and then the problems started: late rent, excuses, and finally, a drawn-out eviction. At the time, he owed around $80,000.

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App Folio

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In addition, about 10% of the United States population moved that year, with the majority moving to states in the South. According to the 2017 American Community Survey , Florida had the biggest influx of new residents, with New York contributing the majority of this population increase. Where and Why People Moving.

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Redfin

AUGUST 30, 2022

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. 10) Being the mecca of American higher education. 4) The Boston Tea Party Museum.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 31, 2020

If you incur that 100% penalty, then you’re up to $10,000 plus 12% interest per month. For income taxes, the federal government charges 5% of the tax owed for each overdue month or part of the month. I have one that started in November of 2017, and we finally got it cleared in August of 2018,” recalls Cornell.

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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. appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog. Perhaps one more example, just to drive the point home?

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

” You know that 10-foot wooden rig on the dock that would sway wildly on windy days? So let’s start there first, and then look at what other stories could be told… In my eNewsletter last month, I wrote the following: “Personally, I expect a very busy fall, and the stats will show this as we finish September.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

JANUARY 2, 2024

Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2024. Some of these questions concern real estate ( inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales ), and I’ll post thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will be on my blog). The Composite 10 SA was up 5.7%

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

December was a tough month for old Dave-o, let me tell you. As is the custom with my start-of-the-year posts, I like to look ahead to what is or may be topical over the next twelve months. The beginning of last year saw a two-part blog series called, “Burning Questions For 2022.” I did get one thing.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I wrote about this on my blog last year as there was one of those “letters to the seller,” which was so incredibly misplaced as it was submitted with the lowest offer I have seen in my entire career. Three months. That’s all it took for the condo market to completely turn around: three months. Overall Sales.

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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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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Is it weird that the “Top Five” blogs, that I have written, are being chosen by me ? In any event, I’ve been running this feature now for over a decade, but in its current form, with the top five blogs and the top five stories each being featured in their own post, I think we’re into our sixth or seventh iteration.

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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. That was a 20.3%

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

In 2017, the market actually did crash, momentarily. How about some headlines from this past month? But here’s an actual person, commenting on Garth Turner’s blog post, detailing his patience as it pertains to the “bubble burst.” 2008, for one. The early-2010’s for sure. The bubble.

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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 2017 : 5) International Real Estate. 4) The 2017 Market. And lots of links to blog posts in each section too. TorontoRealtyBlog. Cards and envelopes!

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GeekEstate

MAY 24, 2023

Below is this month’s sample Transmission. This month’s essay is the written version of a seven minute presentation I gave at 1000watt’s Turn On in March. I experienced my first jolting failure in 2017: the end of the road for my travel startup. Geek Estate Blog launched inside of Zillow way back in 2007.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Arkansas Code 17-10-101 states no cause of action can arise against an owner or real estate agent for failing to disclose a property’s history of psychological impact , such as a death, homicide, suicide, or felony that occurred onsite. The Los Feliz Mansion closed on July, 18, 2016, and was snatched up in a probate sale the month before.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I’ve had this blog topic in the queue now for quite some time. Maybe months. Ah, yes, and there it was, in all its glory: “Toronto Mayor’s Executive Committee Endorses 10% Speculation Tax On Foreign Home Buyers” CBC News January 30th, 2024 This is simply incredible. Alright, sorry. Maybe weeks.

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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. ” I nearly spit my coffee back into those awkward, oversized cups that always spill… 2017: The market insanity from January to April. In organized real estate?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

And we did this to start off January 2021, not just as a stand-alone blog, or even a two-part series, but rather a three-part series that spanned the entire first week back! showing, as I’ve clearly been away from blogging for far, far too long and I’m a bit rusty… But we are, in fact, back to life, and back to reality.

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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. Q3 of 2017: 0.30%. Leave politics out of your blog.”

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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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Construction Investor Equity Land 101

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Statscan said these declines coincided with the Bank of Canada’s resumption of monetary policy tightening in June, after a five-month pause. But to print headlines reading, “Toronto Home Prices Drop 8% Last Month” will be misleading, as it always is. August is a depressed month. The contraction was led by a 2.1-per-cent

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The average home price in Toronto in December of last year was $1,157,849, which was the second-highest of all time, trailing only the previous month, November, which was $1,163,323. in a single month. in a single month, so don’t take this blog post as any sort of grandstanding. improvement we saw in 2017.

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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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Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, Hurricane Harvey flooded more than a hundred thousand homes in August 2017 which kind of froze the Houston real estate market. By the time 2017 drew to a close, buyers closed on 3.5% The forecast by Zillow also points in the same direction — a rise in home values over the next 12-months. year over year.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

March 9th, 2020, I wrote this blog: “February TREB Stats: Chaos Is A Ladder” The market did feel, by definition, chaotic. The first time you can get in is on Sunday at 10:30am, and if you don’t book it now, that slot might get filled too. in a state of complete confusion and disorder. I’m not kidding, folks.

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