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Compass acquisition could worry some California agents

Housing Wire

The buy is Compass’s first since the residential brokerage started publicly trading shares earlier this month. In a blog post, Sebastian Tonkin said the company’s terms of use and privacy policy were updated and the firm will also hire an independent privacy expert to ensure competitors’ data won’t be accessible.

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Housing 2020 recap: Demographics popped the housing bubble boys

Housing Wire

9, in another article for my blog , I made the case that the economic conditions for the AB model had been met. Before COVID-19, in the first two months of the year, the 2020 housing market appeared on a powerful upswing. of all loans had tighter conditions during the COVID crisis than in previous months. .” Tuesday, Dec.

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Agency MBS market is facing a supply-side threat

Housing Wire

That tapering, for now, is being accomplished by not replacing those MBS assets — with the Fed’s run-off cap set at $35 billion per month. Bordia added that the pace of Fed MBS run-off, including prepayments slowed by a lack of refinancing, is now “only around $15 billion to $20 billion [per month].” “So, Outright sales of 2% and 2.5%

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What’s Happening With Condo Maintenance Fees?

Toronto Realty Blog

As I’ve written before on this blog many times, I was completely bewildered by the concept of condominium living back in 2004 because this thing called a “maintenance fee” made no sense to me. So back in 2004, when I saw a $300,000 condo that came with a $300/month maintenance fee, the idea just didn’t resonate.

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Quick Hits!

Toronto Realty Blog

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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June TRREB Stats: A Level Playing Field?

Toronto Realty Blog

I’ve often mused on this blog that there’s nothing I love more than watching a movie I’ve seen a dozen times! The best entertainment experience I’ve had in the last year was seeing “Top Gun 2” in the theatres, and I will admit that there’s just no way to replicate that experience on the couch at home.

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Increasing Development Charges Will Drive Condo Prices Higher!

Toronto Realty Blog

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. Now having said this, the actual point of today’s blog was supposed to be about development charges in the city of Toronto. Well, 48.8%.