Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This past month we saw a modest decline in the average home price as follows: Recall that the “peak” in April of 2017 was just over $920,000. drop month-over-month, it’s still significantly higher than the pre-pandemic “peak.” And what should we expect in the month of November?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

3) The buyers were engaged to be married and have since split up. So let’s now introduce a concept called anticipatory breach , which I wrote about on my blog in full back in 2019, HERE. Maybe a week, maybe a month. As Bal wrote in Monday’s blog, not every seller is going to litigate. on November 19th, 2016.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

This was a 1-bed, 1-bath, no parking, no locker, $400/month fees which include zero utilities, and it was barely 500 square feet. – Option #3: Quebec City. 3-Bathroom. What a life, right? Last week, there were twenty-seven offers on a condo on Blue Jays Way which sold for $725,000, listed at $566,000. Sound good?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

And more now than ever, after thirteen months in a pandemic, we deserve a kind, merciful summer. While the true end could be years away, the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel may only be 2-3 months ahead. Again, probably the lowest number of sales in the month of May since the 1990’s. Slowly but surely.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Three months pass, and the the closing date is here! Then a month. on October 11th, 2016, and this transaction was scheduled to close in November 9th, 2018. Then a month. On December 15, 2021 (the day the APS was scheduled to close), at approximately 3:30 p.m., appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

There is , however, a third option: 3) Run a budget deficit. I noted in a CTV Your Morning interview last month that about 35% of the cost of a new condo is taxation. I remember in January of 2017 when the market picked up where it left off during a really hot fall of 2016, when inventory was low. 2) Decrease expenditures.

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Afford Anything

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I’m a public employee in Alaska and while I love my job, I can only save a few hundred dollars every month towards real estate. Anonymous “Amy” asks (at 49:27 minutes): My husband and I are 32 years old and live in Austin, TX, where we purchased our first home in 2016. I have $78,000 saved and I’m torn on how to use it.

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Lab Coat Agents

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Originally Featured On The Follow Up Boss Blog. Start a blog. We were converting around 1/3 receptionist call-ins in the past. I have had the best month in my four year real estate career so far in October. The Seeby Group’s review strategy resulted in 100 transactions in 2016, and countless free leads.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The former was the case for Nancy Sanborn , a real estate agent in the LA area with nearly 40 years of experience, when she got hired to sell what she thought was a regular old probate listing in a wealthy LA neighborhood in 2016. 101 (2016). California. Per California Civil Code 1710.2, Connecticut. South Dakota.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s just really, really hard to describe an entire year’s blog posts or an entire year’s real estate stories in a standard blog-post length. This is likely more subjective than the top five blog posts , but then again, we run into many of the same themes over and over.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

As you’ll see in today’s blog, many of the reasons for cancelations are often rooted in the same problems that caused delays, but some are extensions, and some are completely different reasons altogether. After a month of carrying units unsold, with few showings and zero interest, they decided to raise their prices.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I hope you enjoyed that “trip down memory lane,” as Marina so eloquently put it, with the Top Five Blog Posts of 2022 in Monday’s post. Believe it or not, this is the eighth year I’ve been working with this format; the top five blogs followed by the top five posts. 3) Market Frustration.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

How about some headlines from this past month? 3/13/2021, NOW Magazine, “Real Estate Agent Says That A Scarborough Bungalow Listed For $2.2M Not only did the market fail to crash, but it more than doubled by 2016. How about a few leftist opinion pieces? The average Toronto home price in 2020 was $929,660.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

I won’t lie to you; I definitely considered using yet another diving photo for today’s blog, but nothing quite beats Wednesday’s photo which captures the essence of how I feel, every single day, working in this market. 3) West Side – W01, W02. TorontoRealtyBlog. Yeah, that’s dark. Who saw that coming?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But I had a lot of fun here on Toronto Realty Blog as I always do, and I had even more fun sitting down to go through the year’s blog posts. Here are the Top Five Blog Posts of 2022 as we see them… #5: TRB Special Guest Posts: Chris Cansick, Matthew Morrison, & Tara Amina. Not blogging is simply not an option.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Thanks to the readers for suggesting blog topics before the long weekend! As you saw in Tuesday’s blog post, I took one such suggestion to heart. I started blogging (ranting?) about the pre-construction condo industry just as soon as this blog was launched back in 2007.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Chris will always joke with me and say, “You can write blogs from anywhere. Move to Boston and start BRB ; the Boston Realty Blog!” per cent since 2016 and bringing its population to 40,232 from 35,874. How about this: That’s a 3-bed, 2-bath townhouse, priced at $499,000. And for only $594,500.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This is, after all, the Toronto Realty Blog. in seventeen months? – 3) Tillsonburg District: 57.2%. The town of Tillsonburg had 15,872 residents according to the 2016 census. There’s probably about 25,000 – 30,000 residents, if we take the 2016 census and round up a little. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

Would you read some random real estate agent’s biased blog? This is less than March and April, which were the #1 and #2 months for sales in the history of TRREB. But it’s more than the post-pandemic average, and more than every month since last summer, save for Feb/March/April of this year. Where would go turn to?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Growing from age one to age two represents a fifty percent increase in their time on earth, but it’s merely another twelve months for you. The story broke in the media and later that day, I ran by and watched workers continue to work even though the project was apparently being canceled… 2016: Foreign ownership.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

We now the “count” as 4-balls, 3-strikes today, but that didn’t come into effect until 1889. Of course, if we want to compare apples to apples, and look at December vs. December, we can always draw inferences from the month of December. Now, what happened after December of 2016? That’s important.

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The Close

JANUARY 9, 2024

It has been around since 2016, and I signed up shortly after its founding. Ninety-seven percent of this goes to the showing assistant directly (Showami takes 3% to cover transaction costs). Showami will boost new agents (Showing Assistants) so they can get a showing within the first few months. The Close Score 4.5 Pricing: 4.8

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

” I guess I never stopped to consider that some readers aren’t familiar with the term, and thus don’t really ‘get’ these blog titles. Here’s an article that ran last month: “B.C. Announces 3-Day Cooling Period For Home Sales To Reduce Risk To Buyers” July 21st, 2022.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While we have seen 4-6 month periods of cool markets, and periods of hyper-appreciation followed by periods of decline, I think it’s fair to say that those calling for the “crash” back in 2004, or 2007, or 2011, or 2016, were proven exceptionally incorrect. It was almost $1,200,000 last year. Mom and Dad.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 10, 2021

Quite the interesting week on Toronto Realty Blog! Well, for me , at least… The main character of Monday’s blog found my post, took issue with it, and then told me, “You have one hour to take that down, or I’ll file a RECO complaint.” TorontoRealtyBlog. ” Imagine that, eh? from March to April.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Not only are my fingers tired from writing Monday’s blog, but also from hand-writing three-hundred Christmas cards! 3) The Media’s Continued Obsession With The Pending Real Estate Collapse. Top Five: Real Estate Stories of 2016 : 5) New Mortgage Regulations. 3) The Business Of Real Estate And The Real Estate Industry.

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Real Estate Finance HQ

JULY 31, 2016

Tweet “The fact that we are still buying houses in 2016 the same way we did in 1956 is absurd.”]. In the coming months, we’ll start adding similar value and new products for renters, so that it’s possible to take Cozy with you wherever you live. The housing styles will also change like they always have.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

I suppose I could have titled this entry, “The Inevitable April Stats Blog,” but what fun would that be? Plus, you all know that each and every month, I write a post about the TRREB stats and what they mean for the market, so pointing out the inevitability is moot. increase, month-over-month.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Clients A owned the property for 4 years, 4 months, and made a 20.1% Clients B owned the property for 3 years, 11 months, and made a 65.0% People who owned from 2010 to 2016 made a return, but people who owned from 2016 to 2019 absolutely killed it. Listed at $549,900, we sold for $660,000, amid 13 offers.

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Louisville Homes

DECEMBER 13, 2020

In the last few years, I put them on my personal site, so if you’re interested, you can find them here: 1, 2 , 3 , and 4. Therefore, more expensive houses are out there but weren’t sold in the past 12 months. Year # Sold 2016 35 2017 59 2018 60 2019 69 2020 77. 3 – 2703 Poplar Hill Court. I bet you can!

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

So she had months to get this place leased. She was renting the unit for $2,450 per month but we told her that market rent had dropped dramatically, and that she should really put the unit up for $2,295/month. We begged her to re-list at $2,195/month, or less. “I was getting $2,450/month last year.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

properties which were unoccupied for six months or more during the previous calendar year). 5 months owner occupied plus 2 months vacant plus 5 months being renovated, would still be classified as a vacant dwelling and require a tax payment since no single use lasts the minimum six months).

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

” That’s what I emailed to a client on Sunday after she sent me the listing for a $3,000 per month, 2-bedroom house that she wanted to go check out. I still think buying makes more sense, and that the $3,000 per month she’d be throwing away on rent could be paid into a mortgage, of which likely $1,500 or more is principal.

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

2020 didn’t care whether you got your license three months or three decades ago. And more importantly, how did it show up in the 40 episodes that we published over the past 9 months? I wanna peel back the curtain for the next couple of minutes and talk about why HomeLight spent the past nine months doing a weekly podcast.

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Louisville Homes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Year # Sold 2016 35 2017 59 2018 60 2019 69 2020 54 2021 124 Each year I started with January 1st and calculated up to the date of the article which is typically at the end of September or early October. 3 – 5712 Harrods Glen Drive. The post Most Expensive Homes in Louisville, KY appeared first on Louisville Homes Blog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

And as I noted in today’s front page excerpt, a follow-up post on Tuesday’s blog about Durham Region is, in fact, very necessary. Prices in Durham Region are up 31.9%, year-over-year, in the month of September. In past blogs, you’ll notice that I only look at Halton, Peel, Toronto, York, and Durham.

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GeekEstate Agents & Brokers

MARCH 6, 2022

For our 200th Transmission (wow…that’s a lot), I thought I’d reach for a blast from the past and modernize the most read article ever on Geek Estate Blog , written all the way back in 2014. Reali had similar ambitions in 2016 , but is now a straight power-buyer advertising buy before you sell, cash offers, and loans.

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