Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

month-over-month, up 10.5% month-over-month, up 7.1% Now, my cynical side looks at the price for a 2-bedroom and says, “Half of that is just over $1,700 per month, so why not find a roommate and reduce the cost of living? Can you believe it’s been three months already? year-over-year, to $2,620.

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Marco Santarelli

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In this blog post, we will try to answer these questions by looking at some of the factors that influence mortgage rates and some of the expert predictions for the next 10 years. What Factors Affect Mortgage Interest Rate Forecast for Next 10 Years? How much will they affect your monthly payments and your overall affordability?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog If it’s fair to draw just one conclusion from Monday’s blog post, it would be this: maintenance fees have increased substantially throughout the downtown core over the last decade. As I showed you on Monday, I wrote blogs about this way back when. Blog reader Daniel wrote: Very good point!

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Marco Santarelli

APRIL 7, 2023

Vancouver, Canada Housing Market Trends for 2023 Vancouver is one of the largest and most expensive housing markets in Canada. This blog post will explore the current state of the Vancouver housing market and what it means for both buyers and sellers. At the end of March 2023, there were 8,617 active listings in Metro Vancouver, an 8.1%

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Broke Agent Media

JANUARY 12, 2023

ChatGPT—the newest AI that’s making headlines—can help you reclaim the time you spend writing listing descriptions, social media content, emails for your clients and prospects, scripts for videos and phone calls, blogs and web copy for your website, and everything you do that involves putting your thoughts into words. Source: ChatGPT.

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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! Appreciation in 2023. Some might correct by 5-10%. Figures could be rounded by +-10% for improving readability. Crash appeared first on GeekEstate Blog. Correction ?

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The Close

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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Marco Santarelli

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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GeekEstate

AUGUST 14, 2023

billion in stock repurchases over the trailing twelve months. in Q2 2023, down 35% compared to $65.5M in Q2 2023, a YoY increase of 27%. Professional services revenue increased 10% year-over-year to $2.2M. in Q2 2023. from Q2 2022 to Q2 2023. per month or $99 per year (good for the first 250 subscribers).

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The Close

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To help you decide, we created this review that takes a deep dive into Agent Crate’s pricing, design and copy quality, and features for 2023. 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. Related Article.

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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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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 property is listed for $1,788,000 on March 29th, 2023.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

And, alright, maybe it’s not one hundred percent literal, but a market change like the one we’re experiencing now doesn’t happen in a month or a week. Holdover buyers from the 2023 fall market are reading this right now with disdain. It happens in mere days. It happens, seemingly, overnight. It’s a condo.

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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 know it’s the Toronto Realty Blog but watch out here comes Canada’s sunniest city (aka Calgary). If you recall Tuesday’s blog , you’ll note that the average price in The Yukon in November of 2021 was $656,800. Who doesn’t?

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Maybe they’re the multi-million-dollar developers who sell and build condos for a living and I’m just a cynical blog-writer? If this is “one year” from the actual closing , which can take place eight, twelve, or twenty-four months after occupancy, then we’re on to something here. And insane.

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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! Having said that, the fall real estate market is just around the corner, the summer market is taking shape, and both of these markets will likely help determine what 2023 will look like. increase, month-over-month, after a 7.3%

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I’ll be honest: I wasn’t sure how to begin today’s blog post. Discussing the definition of affordable housing is a blog topic unto itself. Is a 10% profit enough? Look ahead 10 years and the projected shortfall grows to $46.5-billion, ” Affordable how? According to what metric?

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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.” nationally in 2023.

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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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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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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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I made a very important decision before writing today’s blog. Today, I came into this blog post with a goal: Only register a 5 out of 10 on the Cynicism Meter. Require banks to reach out to homeowners four to six months in advance of their mortgage renewal to inform them of affordability options.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 23, 2023

I wrote a blog last month about how a listing agent and myself worked together, through honesty and transparency, to get a deal done. If we have 10 agents ask for a copy of the home inspection, we would expect 5 offers. The 10-15% of 65 showings would have seen us obtain somewhere between 6.5 – 9.75

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In fact, we’ve always needed one… It’s been eight years – June 10th, 2015, to be exact, since I wrote a blog post here on TRB called “The Blame Game” Eight years ago, I offered the following culprits that could be responsible for high housing prices. What fun would that be? We need a scapegoat!

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The Close

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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Kyle Handy

MARCH 28, 2023

In this blog post, I’ll share 11 smart ways to find real estate leads on LinkedIn in 2023. So if you’re tired of hitting a wall with traditional lead generation methods, read on to learn how to find real estate leads on LinkedIn in 2023. This doesn’t just apply to blog posts that you write.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If I take a long Sunday run of 10-15KM, I’ll finish, and my mind is clear. My brother and I set a goal of running a marathon in the fall of 2023 and that starts with achieving and maintaining physical health this fall. I’ve always believed that working on your mental health can come from working on your physical health.

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GeekEstate

APRIL 17, 2023

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2023

We estimate that it’ll take three to six months to get up and running as a licensed real estate agent in the Lone Star State. With the potential to earn $6,559 per month as a real estate agent in Texas, the Lone Star State has ample financial opportunities for anyone pursuing a real estate career. [2]

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

That is how, among other reasons, the market in 2023 is different. But now that January is in the rear-view mirror, I can’t help but look back at what was possibly the oddest month I’ve seen in real estate in quite some time. And there’s absolutely no way we see that many sales in January of 2023. It was slow.

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The Close

AUGUST 11, 2023

So instead of telling you where Zillow economists think interest rates will be six months from now, I decided to answer the burning questions I know you have about the challenges and opportunities of AI and how you can pivot your business to meet them with confidence. It works for any content you create, from emails to blog posts to mailers.

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Broke Agent Media

MARCH 13, 2023

The Broke Agent #2— “I’ve been stuck at 1,000 followers for six months. Matt typically posts around 10 or 11 am his time, but he doesn’t usually pay too much attention to it. Another genius hack (shout out to Jason Pantana) is to embed an Instagram post in a blog, which extends the lifespan of your videos. #10— What do I do?”

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