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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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog It may come as no surprise to you that I receive a lot of feedback on these blog posts. I just received this email: Hey David, A long time lurker on your blog and audience to your Pick5 videos. The sale closed on January 5th, 2022. The sale date was February 12th, 2022.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I have penned several blogs this year on TRB about properties listed “over and over,” so today’s post is seemingly nothing new. But I want to use the TRREB data, namely the “average 416 sale price” from selected months to examine how, where, or how some of these listings could be poorly priced. difference.

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GeekEstate

APRIL 5, 2023

Home providers can then pay $2 per unit per month (discounted for larger contracts) for this information but cannot access any personal resident information. Learn More *Part of the 2022 REACH Commercial Class. The post Injecting the Human into Tenant Reviews appeared first on GeekEstate Blog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Thankfully , here on the Toronto Realty Blog, we’re not bound by the same “rules of attraction” that govern social media. No, here on Toronto Realty Blog, we can do things slowly. They’ve been on the market for seven months. ” and then begin talking about inventory levels in the downtown core?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

“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. We all remember what happened in 2022.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This is a quarterly feature here on the Toronto Realty Blog and I’m having trouble believing that the last time we worked through these numbers, the summer had ended and it was just after Labour Day. 2,577 listings is 45% higher than the same period in 2022. TorontoRealtyBlog Better late than never here, I suppose?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I got a new car in the summer of 2022 and during the “delivery,” which I made them promise would take under three minutes, they asked me if I wanted to download the Lexus app. But compared to January of 2021 and 2022, it still takes some getting used to. That means the 3,100 sales recorded last month were 32.7%

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

So when we’re talking about $1,400/month basement apartments in prime areas like Riverdale, High Park, or Trinity Bellwoods, there are going to be all sorts of inquiries on the property. ” You don’t get people calling on your $3,000/month rental offering $1,500, but it happens in the low-low end.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 10, 2023

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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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. – #2: Cambridge Down 25.3%

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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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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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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Today, we are inundated with TikTok videos that show a $900,000 estate in Georgia up against a $900,000, 2-bedroom bungalow in Oshawa. We saw 118 luxury listings in January of 2023 versus 135 in January of 2022. “One-million dollars,” would conjure up images of sprawling mansions and 12-bedroom houses. in January 56.4%

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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. Mortgage Rate Predictions for the Next Month? In 2022, as inflation surged uncontrollably, the Federal Reserve implemented measures to curb it, resulting in a substantial increase in interest rates.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Are you tired of the stats blogs yet? The November TRREB stats didn’t just us a mountain of records as we learned in Monday’s blog, but also gave us, in my opinion, a snapshot of where this market is headed in 2022. There are some months when SNLR can be above 100%. TorontoRealtyBlog. Well, hang in there.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Only through the last few months has the mainstream media taken notice of the red-hot rental market, and I figure: it’s about time. August 20th, 2022. And you might even expect to provide 3, 4, or all 12 months of rent up front. Or at least historically, it hasn’t. Who cares about rentals, right?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But the property was tenanted until “late 2022,” per the listing. “Late 2022.” ” Why not say, “October 31st, 2022?” A nine-month closing? Of course, we don’t know exactly when the lease ends; we merely know it ends “late 2022.” Quick closing, right?

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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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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%.” 2) North Bay.

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GeekEstate

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

As a result, months of supply from new construction is >400% that of resale units! Currently, we project: 12% Appreciation in 2022. Crash appeared first on GeekEstate Blog. In the last 10 years, home builders have been busy. But, housing supply doesn’t have a cartel like oil suppliers have OPEC. Appreciation in 2023.

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Marco Santarelli

JANUARY 28, 2024

In this blog post, we will look at some of the factors that could influence the US economy in 2024, and what they mean for consumers, businesses, and investors. Even if the Fed can navigate a soft landing for the economy in 2024, economists still expect inflation to remain above the Fed's long-term 2% inflation target.

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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. In the HubSpot Blog’s 2022 Marketing Industry Trends Survey , we found that more than half of marketers (51%) who use short-form video plan to increase their investment in 2022. And they want more of it.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I thought “inflation” was going to be the word of the year for 2022, but by this point, it’s all about interest rates. In fact, I started 2022 with a post on January 6th called “ Burning Questions For 2022 ,” and the second question on my list was “What will happen with interest rates?”

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

While I have a very lengthy and somewhat contentious blog post lined up for next week, let’s first take a look at some stories from the week that are now in the rear view mirror… The Weird Gets Weirder It’s a difficult market out there and many agents don’t know how to work within it. But can you blame them?

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HomeLight

AUGUST 30, 2022

DISCLAIMER: This blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only, not legal advice. Less than a month after COVID-19 caused shutdowns and unemployment across the globe in 2020, nearly a quarter of American renters didn’t make their April payments. billion in funding for ERA 2 before September 2025.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I could write a much longer blog, or a series of blogs, or a whole book about my thoughts on government, city planning, taxation, development, and everything in between. You all saw the budget last month. appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog. The city of Toronto is broke. I had to laugh. I still laughed.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Can you believe it’s been three months already? “Three months from now… ,” the receptionist says, “… lemme see… hmmmm… that’ll be January.” And it seems, thus far in 2022, not a whole lot of tenants have vacated! TorontoRealtyBlog. ” January? ” January?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Here’s our first example: This property was listed for $699,900 on November 21st, 2022. The sellers re-listed for $699,900 on February 3rd, 2022, and the property promptly sold for $680,000 in three days. They listed for $1,699,000 in November of 2022 and the property sat on the market. The property did not sell.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

The market subsequently responded with a 4.0%, month-over-month increase in the average home price. 2) The market has clawed almost all the way back from last year. We’ve talked a lot about “market bottom” in recent months, with some readers commenting that a new bottom, ie. More on that in a moment.

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GeekEstate

OCTOBER 29, 2021

[Note from the editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog ]. Venture capital activity in real estate has also remained quite strong — investment in the category reached $8 billion through the first 9 months of 2021, a record. We expect adoption of digital tools to persist in a post-COVID housing market.

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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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Broke Agent Media

APRIL 21, 2023

Since then, that figure has rebounded to 59%, as of December 2022. By the end of 2022, rental costs represented only about 3% of overall startup expenses. All the data and analysis behind these figures is available on the Kruze Consulting blog. were renting office space. Skip to January 2021, and that percentage dropped to 36%.

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 8, 2023

” From 2009 to 2022, the world was awash with historically cheap capital searching for yield due to the zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) the Fed implemented to combat the Great Recession. 2: Never forget rule No. By January 2022, prices for both private and public growth companies in the tech sector hit an all time high.

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Afford Anything

AUGUST 25, 2021

Here’s what Rafael asks [paraphrased]: I’m 22 years old, I live in Washington state, and I’m set to graduate in spring 2022. 2 : I’ll graduate with a B.S. in Biochemistry in Spring 2022. . #2 2 : I’ll graduate with a B.S. in Biochemistry in Spring 2022. Want to start a blog, but need hosting?

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Folks, let me start today’s blog post by saying the following: I am going to take some heat for writing this. But if “don’t shoot the messenger” still applies in 2022, then this is a perfect example. I mentioned in Monday’s blog post that I had received five offers on a condo lease listing.

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