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. per month and I’ll only get $2,300. I know my place.

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Louisville Homes

AUGUST 6, 2020

Each month we create our Louisville real estate reports for you free of charge. That’s two straight months with more sales than the previous year. For the month, there were 1,304 properties sold. While not groundbreaking, this is solid growth after two very down months—April and May. This is a 6.3% to $225,000.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In reality, Move’s (owner of Realtor.com) revenues in the quarter were impacted by COVID-19 and dropped 2% ($3 million) in comparison to Q3, 2019. Gross profit was $93 million, an increase of 74% from $53 million in the third quarter of 2019. 08 percentage points from the third quarter of 2019. billion from $3.5

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It was a great year at the onset of an even greater decade, although the class ahead of me always felt that being born in 1979 was a whole lot better… My parents brought me home to a cute little 3-bedroom, detached house on Airdrie Road in South Leaside, where I lived until I was about two-years-old. You all saw the budget last month.

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GeekEstate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hopefully you’ve learned to take it in stride and adjust your business model when necessary in order to continue hitting your goals each month. After a massive halt in March and April due to COVID-19, pending home sales, listings, and solds have continued to increase month-over-month, showing that buyers are back in the market.

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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

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. Nothing matters.

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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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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. The average number of sales in April, from 2012 through 2019, was 10,160. Slowly but surely. 2,975 sales.

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A Student of the Real Estate Game

MAY 20, 2020

Here’s what I predicted in a blog post on March 22nd. Delinquency at our stabilized deals will jump from 1-3% to 10-50% and vacancy will grow from 4-8% to 10-30% over the next 3-4 months. During the heart of the pandemic, collections have been nearly in-line with 2019. . New leasing will come to a screeching halt.

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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? Well, this was put out to tender in 2019. appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog.

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GeekEstate

JUNE 8, 2021

That represents a four-fold increase, more than the 59 new companies created in 2019. SPACs raise money from investors, and once the company goes public, sponsors have to secure a merger within 24 months. The post 5 Reasons Why PropTech SPACs Are on the Rise appeared first on GeekEstate Blog. No Unexpected Liabilities.

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Realty Biz

JULY 2, 2021

Courtesy the Hootsuite blog. As of 2019, Tik Tok had become the 4th most downloaded non-gaming application. In the US alone, the app has 14 million active users every month who spend approximately 47 minutes on the app. 2021, February 3). Videos can range in length from 15 seconds to 60 seconds long. Sydney Pressley.

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Kyle Handy

JANUARY 2, 2023

Build out Facebook Business and Google Business pages 3. Create a blog 30. You can hire a bookkeeper, which will run you around $300 per month, or learn how to do your bookkeeping and use a tool like Quickbooks Online. For 2019, the standard mileage rate is $.58 Reach out to your existing network 2. Attend local events 5.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Putting my 3-year-old son down and saying, “Don’t go anywhere” right as they’re about to cut the cake at a birthday party, and expecting him to remain by my side – that’s ridiculous. appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog. It’s just too ridiculous not to share. HomeLife Response Realty Inc.

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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

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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Realty Biz

JULY 25, 2022

This means even 1% of visitors coming back 5 times in the last month is still a good number. As you monitor your website’s referral traffic, the first thing you’ll notice are the key referring sites that send you traffic, like social media profiles and directories, guest blogs, and online publications. 2019, January 29).

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RIS Media

APRIL 14, 2021

I’ve written before about the Masters, and if you’re a longtime reader of this blog, you’ll know I often draw references between sports and leadership. With a career on the rise in 2018, Woods went on to win the Masters once more in 2019. They were wrong. I have played golf for many, many years.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Prices will level out a few months later—provided the Bank of Canada is done raising interest rates. Let’s break that down, since you could take 3-4 word snippets of this and create an argument either way. .” ” Neutral: “Prices will level out a few months later.” Sales have rebounded!”

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

But before we delve into that delectable dish of BS, a brief refresher, or two, is needed… Were you reading Toronto Realty Blog in 2014? I wrote about this on my blog, and the s**t hit the fan. The anticipated repair projects include: 2019. 3) The loan is payable in one installment of $7,300,000 in three years.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

After writing the America is Back recovery model on HousingWire, I wrote an article on my blog about what it would take to crash home prices on April 10, 2020. The years 2020-2024 were always going to be different from 2008-2019. The velocity of inventory rising in the next three months is limited. months isn’t going to do that.

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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. By comparison, iBuyer companies in 2019 represented about 0.5%

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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. Or are they going to say, “f**k it” and simply throw an extra $100,000 at the house because that’s only an extra $375 per month? Imagine that?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

A few months ago, I watched a biography of Bret Hart on A&E on an otherwise uneventful Saturday night. 3) They own multiple properties and are moving to a different one, choosing not to keep this one. “Jake,” as we’ll call him, had purchased his home in the fall of 2019. 1) They’re moving up.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

The last time a blog title like this appeared on my blog, the hate-mail started to fiy… For those long-time readers, you may recall the infamous blog post from January 29th, 2014 that went by the same title: “Problems At The Printing Factory Lofts?” ” Oh, man. In the end, I was vindicated.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Every 1% increase represents a massive increase in the monthly payment amount, but what if we’re talking 3% ? However, those who obtained mortgages in 2019, like yours truly, were still at ultra-low rates, like the aforementioned 2.69% that I obtained that year. Prices topped the list with Sales & Inventory ranking second.

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App Folio

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

At the 2019 NMHC OPTECH conference, they recently released fascinating new research on the preferences of apartment dwellers heading into the new year. The number of packages that residents receive each month is also increasing, with 39% receiving on average 1-2 packages per month, and 34% receiving 3-5.

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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

MARCH 4, 2024

I wanted to call this blog “Monday Morning Quarterback: Hate To Say I Told You So,” but it seems I’ve done that bit before… January 22nd, 2021: “The Friday Rant: Hate To Say I Told You So!” perhaps Billy Joe Armstrong’s best-known work could lend a title to today’s blog. Good Riddance.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

And I track inventory and sales for 40+ local markets each month. I disagreed, and the steady level of inventory helped (see orange arrow above): Bill McBride, who runs the Calculated Risk blog and also called the crash, doesn’t think home prices are inflated this time around. week-over-week as of November 3, 2023.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But now that January is in the rear-view mirror, I can’t help but look back at what was possibly the oddest month I’ve seen in real estate in quite some time. When the TRREB stats are released on Friday or Monday, I believe that January of 2023 will show the fewest sales in any month of January in the last twenty years.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Looking back at my year-end posts from 2020, 2019, 2018, and so on, I swear I don’t think I’ve ever felt older. 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. ” 2019: Help. 3) The Rental Market.

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