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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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TRB Reader’s Write: When Will We Peak Again?

Toronto Realty Blog

But it adds context to both today’s blog, today’s blog challenge, and of course, blog reader Derek ‘s comment from last Friday. Back in April of 2018, it was blog reader Derek himself that posed a question to the readership: Should we try to amuse ourselves with a game? The challenge was accepted!

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How Is The Downtown Toronto Rental Market?

Toronto Realty Blog

“Weak Condo Market In Downtown Toronto Leads To Dip In Rental Rates, Increased Vacancy” Globe & Mail February 7th, 2024 That headline definitely jives with what I saw and felt over the past three months, and you’ll see this shortly in the Q1 rental stats. Well, let’s say that this was a 2-bedroom, 1-bathroom condo.

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Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is!

Toronto Realty Blog

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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TRB Pre-Construction Review: “Freed Hotel & Residences”

Toronto Realty Blog

This project began sales not too long ago and I was sent an information package by real estate agents, blog readers, and clients alike. Two weeks ago, we talked about the condominium assignment market and how so many “investors” who purchased back in 2018, 2019, or 2020 are now having to sell their properties at a loss.

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Damn, Durham!

Toronto Realty Blog

As noted last week, the average sale price in Durham Region in September of 2020 was $734,038, but that rose, in twelve short months, to $968,136. They paid a big price at the time, but as big as that price was – I think around $800,000, it’s crazy to think that only six months later, that house could be worth $920,000.