Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

And on Sunday, I sat down to collect statistics on the 2022 market thus far and examine listing terminations. 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”. I watched Terminator 2. That’s high.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Tell me that you hate the title of today’s blog and I won’t fault you for that. ” I wrote a large portion of today’s blog with that title adorning the top of my page, but about two-thirds of the way through, I thought to myself: “I’m not wrong here.” ” You like that?

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RIS Media

MARCH 4, 2022

By Caysey Welton March 4, 2022. By RISMedia Staff February 25, 2022. By RISMedia Staff February 11, 2022. By RISMedia Staff February 4, 2022. By RISMedia Staff January 28, 2022. By RISMedia Staff January 21, 2022. Headliners Week of 1/10 – 1/15. January 14, 2022. Previous Headliners.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 28, 2022

By Caysey Welton January 28, 2022. By Jesse Williams January 28, 2022. By RISMedia Staff January 21, 2022. Headliners Week of 1/10 – 1/15. 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. s top residential.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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 this newsletter (others like GDP and employment will be on my blog). First, a brief history.

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Real Trends

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The company’s founder and CEO, Eric Wu, wrote in a blog post that the workforce cuts were due to “navigating one of the most challenging real estate markets in 40 years” and that they “need to adjust [their] business” in response. This announcement came just one day before Opendoor is set to announce its third quarter 2022 earnings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2022

Notes from the Fed’s March gathering of its Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) indicate that there is consensus around a plan to cease replacing up to $35 billion of maturing MBS assets each month. of total agency gross issuance for the month. As of January 2022, Fannie’s asset portfolio stood at $108.5 The Feds existing $2.7

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While some recent commenters here on Toronto Realty Blog might suggest that, whether it need to directly pertain to real estate, or not, it might be me who is the greatest hype man of all time. Having said that, I’ve been saving this blog post for a while now. I know my place. That first week of January was quite slow.

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GeekEstate

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the last 10 years, home builders have been busy. As a result, months of supply from new construction is >400% that of resale units! Currently, we project: 12% Appreciation in 2022. Some might correct by 5-10%. Figures could be rounded by +-10% for improving readability. Appreciation in 2023. Correction ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

I don’t believe that, in 2022, it’s the writers’ fault. So today, I want to focus on the province of Ontario and look at how prices have fared in 2022. You can’t look at a neighbourhood with 65 sales, and then 45 the next month, and say, “The market is down 25%.” 10) Lakelands.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Because when I look at the number of active buyers I have right now, all of whom have zero options on the market, and I think of how many buyers the 72,000 other agents in the GTA must have on their roster, I can’t see any reason why prices don’t escalate in the next 3 1/2 months. decline takes us to $726,500 this past month.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2023

No more heading over to the shop and praying that there aren’t six guys sitting inside, reading a newspaper from last month, all waiting their turn. And yet only four months later, the house sold for $1,200,000 in competition. increase in value in four months. The listing is terminated on April 27th, 2022.

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 7, 2023

This blog post will explore the current state of the Vancouver housing market and what it means for both buyers and sellers. lower than the all-time high of $1,264,700 in April 2022. compared to 7,868 listings at the end of February 2022. decrease from the 4,405 sales recorded in March 2022 and 28.4% monthly increase.

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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! They must be absolutely mortified and embarrassed beyond belief that, in 2022, we don’t have any of these: Or these: Flying cars and hoverboards aside, not everybody is in a position to look into the future with any guarantee of accuracy.

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GeekEstate

AUGUST 14, 2023

billion in stock repurchases over the trailing twelve months. in Q2 2022. Market cap: 349M Notable Takeaways Gross profit margin was approximately 55%, up from 39% in Q2 2022 primarily due to expansion in its Blend Platform. Professional services revenue increased 10% year-over-year to $2.2M. from Q2 2022 to Q2 2023.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Part II doesn’t get much love, but I was obsessed with the notion of “the future” during my childhood, and it’s for that reason that I’m disappointed we don’t have flying cars and hoverboards in 2022, let alone 2015. It should come as no surprise that I love writing blog posts in trilogies.

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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. Twenty percent of all members get 1-5% of their business from social media, and 10% get 6-10%. The average incubation rate for online real estate leads is six to 24 months. And they want more of it.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Do you remember a twelve-month period where we talked about interest rates any more than we have since this time last year? An eighth rate hike came after the page turned to 2023, but all told, we saw the policy interest rate go from 0.25% in March of 2022 to 4.50% in January of 2023. last month.

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Marco Santarelli

MARCH 31, 2023

In this blog post will analyze mortgage rate predictions for next week and what it means for buyers and sellers. Johnson, a real estate economist at Florida Atlantic University, also predicts that mortgage rates will go down, citing the 10-year Treasury yield, which has been mostly trending downward since the beginning of March.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

Before you read the following, ask yourself this simple question: “Will the areas outside the province of Ontario show a better or worse market that what we read about in Wednesday’s blog?” respectively, so it would seem that the Canadian regions and the Ontarian regions have moved in tandem through 2022.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If I take a long Sunday run of 10-15KM, I’ll finish, and my mind is clear. I thought “inflation” was going to be the word of the year for 2022, but by this point, it’s all about interest rates. I scoffed at the notion of five interest rate increases in 2022 and basically said that it would never happen.

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The Close

APRIL 12, 2022

97 Infographics Designed for Buyers, Sellers & Real Estate Agents in 2022. The Best Hard Money Lenders in 2022 (Interest Rates, LTV, Fees & More). 10 Infographics for Selling Real Estate. The 30 Best Real Estate Closing Gifts for 2022. 10 Infographics Just for Agents. around $10 per month?to

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The Residential Specialist

APRIL 27, 2023

This repeat exposure can pay off: Johnson recently met one of his cold leads, who showed up at an open house after receiving his emails for months. Johnson was spending $20,000 a month on paid leads, but when he started analyzing his ROI, “I was barely breaking even,” he says. He sees a 10% annual return doing this.

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The Close

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Agent Crate is a real estate marketing company that offers real estate salespeople customizable templates for social media posts, email, print marketing, videos, and blogs. Growth $69/month Everything in essential + auto-posting to Facebook and Instagram. Elite $109/month Everything in growth + customizable website and hosting.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Last Friday’s blog post was about this progressive idea hatched in The Netherlands that would see rents tied to income, and I went off on a few wicked tangents, as I always do. As I wrote in the year-end blog in 2022, the one-time start-up cost for this tax was $11 Million and annual operating costs were estimated at $3.1

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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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HomeLight

MAY 16, 2022

Well, consider this: Ryan says they get between 20 and 30 leads per day, depending on the month. And Ryan says 85% of their business comes from SEO from blogging and content marketing. Matt: What percent of your business comes from people who find you via the blog? I started the website, started the blog. of those leads.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Three months pass, and the the closing date is here! Then a month. I wrote about this at length last year: June 29th, 2022: “What Happens When A Buyer Doesn’t Close?” Then a month. the buyers’ lawyer asked for a further extension to January 20, 2022. A week passes, then another. At 5:12 p.m.,

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

But what’s new, as I’ve ranted and raved about on this blog so far in 2022, is that buyer agents themselves are simply giving up. Is it the fault of the market Gods for pushing prices up 7% every month? month-over-month increase from December to January. They have no clue what properties are worth.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 18, 2022

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. He also had 10 shutouts in 2003-04, and that number fell to zero in 2005-06. TorontoRealtyBlog. in 2003-04 to a whopping 3.29 918 to a paltry.892.

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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

APRIL 19, 2023

The thing about writing three blogs per week, going on seventeen years, is that when you have an idea for a post, you’ve got to sit down and write it. I didn’t realize it at the time, but it’s a blog-worthy story. Irrevocable at 10:00pm? And not just worthy but rather necessary. Some buyers move quickly.

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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. Here’s a point-by-point comparison of what I said before April 10, 2020 and where we are today. April 10, 2020: We needed a lot of inventory, fast.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

I read the comments on the blog most of the time, just so you know. I recognize how political in nature my blogs have become and while this might have come with age and maturity, I also think it’s a by-product of where we are as a society, and how much the topic of “real estate” affects us. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Easy Agent Pro

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

million first-time homebuyers will enter the mortgage market between 2020 and 2022.”. These pain points serve as brilliant fodder for blog posts, social media shares and more for the agent who hopes to pursue Gen Z homebuyers: Few understand the homebuying process. What do the top 10 real estate websites know that you don’t?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2022

A blog by two Fannie Mae researchers — Rachel Zimmerman, market research advisor, and Kim Betancourt, senior director of economics and multifamily research — published this week said that consumer perception around housing affordability is in part contributing to inventory constraints.

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GeekEstate

AUGUST 11, 2022

Last Updated July 7th, 2022. Traction: Increases of 10X revenue and 6X customers Year over Year (YOY), from May 1 2021 – May 1, 2022. Recognition as an industry innovator is part of the playbook as well, for instance taking home a 2022 HW Tech100 spot and a 2021 API World Award for API infrastructure. BY DREW MEYERS.

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