Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

The market subsequently responded with a 4.0%, month-over-month increase in the average home price. 3) The market is just about at the spring peak. We’ve talked a lot about “market bottom” in recent months, with some readers commenting that a new bottom, ie. What happened in 2017 and 2022?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

Chris, Tara, and Matthew wrote guest blogs? To be quite honest, I was thinking about pre-writing three blogs, or, as is often the case, writing blogs while I’m away on vacation. That always seems easy in advance (“I write three blogs per week, I’m sure I can carve out the time while I’m away!”) You don’t say!

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The Close

AUGUST 8, 2023

Most of those “secret” mastermind groups now have tens of thousands of members, but only a handful of posts per month. Real Estate Rockstar Agents Year Founded: 2014 Number of Members: 46,900 Posts per Month: ~200 Private or Public: Private Self-promotion Allowed? Join Real Estate Memes & Videos 3. Join LabCoat Agents 4.

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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! But so too was my original title for today’s blog: Expect The Expected. Last month, I wrote a lot about what typically takes place in the Toronto real estate market in the summer. Or is it both?

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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%. – 3) Peel Region: 94.8%.

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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

MARCH 8, 2021

The Toronto real estate market in the month of February absolutely obliterated several very notable records, not the least of which is price. But then again, after the month we just had, maybe, just maybe, it made perfect sense after all. month-over-month increase. Not by three, or four, or five. And if so, when ?”

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GeekEstate

MAY 10, 2022

In 2017, I launched Feather as an accessible, design-forward and quality alternative to the growing problem of fast furniture. Problem 3: Lack of freedom and flexibility. Last year, we also launched a new, 1-month term length offering specifically for the home staging industry. This week, we interviewed Jay Reno from Feather.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you’re looking for something insanely specific and ready to wait a year or more, or whether you’re simply looking for a 3-bedroom semi-detached in Bloor West Village, you’re not going to get as many options as you’d like. 3) What will happen with overall “housing affordability?”

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McKissock

DECEMBER 7, 2020

At Raleigh Realty , our website generates over 30,000 web visitors a month and often ranks above the national billion-dollar companies like Zillow , Trulia , and Realtor.com for a lot of popular searches. Real estate blog. If your real estate website is your foundation, then your blog is the framing. Real estate website.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

Seriously, only a sprinkle of comments on Monday’s blog post? Or last few months even. Daniels will complete the last building of phase 3 (corner of Parliament and Gerrard) but once Tridel starts though, $1600+ PSF for pre con in RP? 170 Sumach Street (2017). 200 Sackville Street (2017). TorontoRealtyBlog.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 17, 2021

June of 2017 seems like an eternity ago, doesn’t it? I know we’re all in that ho-hum mindset and have been for the last fourteen months, but even if you think back, pre-pandemic, doesn’t it just seem wild? June of 2017. In June of 2017, I had half as many children as I do now. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 21, 2021

It was a two-part blog series where I explained one of my biggest regrets in young adulthood was not standing up to the aggressive salespeople who locked us in a room and tried to sell us a timeshare. Buying one month equates to one-twelfth ownership. Step 3: Addy sells units for $1. Sounds easy enough, right?

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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. The Julius Erving is going up to $18 because that’s what book value has it at in next month’s edition.” ” We were in shock.

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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. ” 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

AUGUST 8, 2022

Even a quick glance at the stats showed that not much was happening in the Toronto market in the month of July, as the real estate playground was empty! I typically look at price first, but I knew the average home price was going to decline by 3-5%, month-over-month. So what was that figure? December: 16/20.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

If the explosive month of June, which saw the GTA average home price reach an all-time high, is any indication, the summer months in 2020 are going to replace the time we lost in the real estate market at the height of the pandemic. We have a slew of listings this month, and buyer activity is the busiest it’s been all year.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

Back in 2017 when the market changed, I consistently received phone calls from media members asking, “Do you have any clients that have bought firm and are now ‘stuck’ because they can’t sell their existing home? 3) The buyers were engaged to be married and have since split up. Maybe a week, maybe a month.

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Disclaimer: Information in this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only and provide a high level overview of some of the top iBuyer programs. Our platform enables you to sell your home as quickly as 10 days rather than what can be weeks or months. commission fee, launched its iBuyer program RedfinNow in 2017.

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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. Blogging – Best Way to Attract Quality Leads. Door knocking. But let’s be real. Phone duty.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 20, 2020

The headline of today’s blog – did it get ya, even for a second? I’ve written about this in the past, and I believe that I labelled it one of my “top stories” in a year-end blog in 2018 or 2019. They had been in a 3-bed, 3-bath, semi-detached for five years, and were outgrowing it.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

There are a few ways that I could start today’s blog. The “Ontario Fair Housing Plan” launched in 2017 brought in a lot of new protections for tenants but with those protections came punishments for landlords. TorontoRealtyBlog. I’ve been attracted to adages, sayings, and other wordplay as of late.

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Redfin

AUGUST 30, 2022

3) Boston’s sports culture. Boston Tourism Made Easy , a sightseeing blog, explains what makes the Boston Tea Party Museum so great. During the warmer months, Evan recommends checking out the Swan Boats, riding the carousel, and checking out the Frog Pond. It’s true that there are several sports-savvy cities in the world.

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App Folio

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

According to the 2017 American Community Survey , Florida had the biggest influx of new residents, with New York contributing the majority of this population increase. The post Interstate Migration: Why People are Moving & What You Can Do to Stay Ahead appeared first on The Official AppFolio Blog. In fact, more than 1.2

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

As I wrote in my year-end blog, my wife and I had consulted with our family doctor and resident COVID expert to put together a plan enabling us to see my mother over the holidays, and thus I haven’t been “out there” in eighteen days. This is, historically, one of the slowest months of the year, every year, without fail.

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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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HomeLight

AUGUST 31, 2020

If you incur that 100% penalty, then you’re up to $10,000 plus 12% interest per month. For income taxes, the federal government charges 5% of the tax owed for each overdue month or part of the month. I have one that started in November of 2017, and we finally got it cleared in August of 2018,” recalls Cornell.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I wrote about this on my blog last year as there was one of those “letters to the seller,” which was so incredibly misplaced as it was submitted with the lowest offer I have seen in my entire career. Three months. That’s all it took for the condo market to completely turn around: three months. Overall Sales.

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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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Calculated Risk Real Estate

JANUARY 2, 2024

Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2024. Some of these questions concern real estate ( inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales ), and I’ll post thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will be on my blog). The Composite 10 SA was up 5.7%

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

I placed Stainey on the light fixture in my home office, with her arms wrapped around one of the Edison bulbs, and then I placed one of the notes (FYI – you can buy a whole month’s worth of these with your kids’ names on them…) on my desk under the light fixtures. I didn’t write a single blog for two weeks!

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Is it weird that the “Top Five” blogs, that I have written, are being chosen by me ? In any event, I’ve been running this feature now for over a decade, but in its current form, with the top five blogs and the top five stories each being featured in their own post, I think we’re into our sixth or seventh iteration.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

In 2017, the market actually did crash, momentarily. 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 Since that date, I have heard all kinds of talk about a market crash, and the talk has been very strong at certain points.

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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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