RIS Media

JANUARY 28, 2022

RISMedia Blog and Social Media Editor Jameson Doris delivers this week's Headliners, a video recap of the week's top stories. December 17, 2021. December 11, 2021. December 4, 2021. December 3, 2021. November 6, 2021. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Read This Week's Top Stories. s top residential.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

” And when my father bought a big-screen TV in 1992 – the type that was about 3-feet thick and wood-panelled on the sides, the forward-thinking techie who sold him the unit, with THX surround sound system, told him he needed a laser-disc player. To answer that, we’d have to compare to 2021. That’s high.

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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 had three rental listings take over one month to lease.

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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. More tools for homeowners to manage their largest asset.

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RIS Media

MARCH 4, 2022

RISMedia Blog and Social Media Editor Jameson Doris delivers this week's Headliners, a video recap of the week's top stories. December 17, 2021. The post Headliners Week of 2/27 – 3/5 appeared first on RISMedia. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Read This Week's Top Stories. By Caysey Welton March 4, 2022. January 14, 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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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

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Are you tired of the stats blogs yet? My year-end “MLS Musings” is due Friday, and I’ll dump out everything I have left from 2021. If you’ve ever heard the term “Months of Inventory,” consider that sales-to-new-listings, or SNLR, is simply the inverse of MOI. Well, hang in there.

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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. Wyzowl’s 2021 State of Video Marketing Report reveals that 84% of respondents agree that using video helps with lead generation. About 37% of marketers struggle the most with generating high-quality leads. Open Houses.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

We never know exaclty when the stats will be released, but it’s usually around the 4th, 5th, or 6th of the month. To publish a statistical analysis of last month , you’d need a day or two after the month has concluded. On average, I’d say that the TRREB Market Watch is released around the 5th of the month.

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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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HomeLight

AUGUST 10, 2022

Tip #3: Let your readers get the value right in the newsletter. Newsletters are often used to promote the valuable content on your blog or YouTube channel. Make the newsletter itself a thing of value, not just a tool for promoting the value on your blog or website,“ says McGee. Tip #4: Make it mobile-friendly and easy to read.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If the market isn’t crashing 30% per month, then it’s just not newsworthy enough! Let’s look at the last five months of the Toronto average home price: Stable, right? In this space last month, I wrote: Any home price over $1,080,000 would still point to that “stability,” in my opinion. We saw an 8.4%

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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 property sold on November 7th 2021. It’s just the same property for the third time in less than a month.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It should come as no surprise that I love writing blog posts in trilogies. I got a 3+1 townhouse with heated garage in Calgary (25 mins outside the core, but walkable to LRT, so this would be like something in Etobicoke here) for $400K all in, completes in 2024. ” As of 2021, the metro population of greater Calgary is 1,481,806.

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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! By the time you’re reading this blog on Monday, the June TRREB stats might be released. increase, month-over-month, after a 7.3% TorontoRealtyBlog. Hey, how are you? What else is there to look at, right?

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McKissock

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

JPMorgan Chase has donated $3 million to the Appraiser Diversity Initiative. DS News reports that t he October 2021 Home Data Index Market Report (HDI) by Clear Capital “shows that the average American home increased in value by 5.3% Refi app volume slips to 22-month low. Property values continue to rise. week-over-week.”

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Broke Agent Media

APRIL 21, 2023

The cost of renting office space has declined from 7% of total startup expenses to about 3% as remote work and hybrid work schedules shrink the footprint of those spaces. The percentage of startups renting office space, after taking a dive in 2021, has returned to pre-pandemic levels as more return to the office. Now it’s around 3%.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

I want to try not to make this blog post political since it’s supposed to be about the newly-announced Renters Bill of Rights. But in the meantime, they still have about nineteen months to implement policy, enact change, and of course – spend money! 3) There aren’t enough rentals. We did that. We know that.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But compared to January of 2021 and 2022, it still takes some getting used to. I predicted in last Friday’s blog that we would see about 3,000 sales in January, and as I’ll explain, I wasn’t far off. ” The decline in December was fully expected, as December is typically a slow month. below average.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 12, 2022

“Sell a Home, Save a Child has raised over $3 million , one million of which was raised in 2021.” ” Real Estate Webmasters decided to become a gold sponsor as part of their Giving November program, the month in which they select charities to sponsor for the upcoming year.

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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.

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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. This listing hasn’t been updated in three months.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 19, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I was in the kitchen at Bosley Real Estate on Wednesday afternoon, putting dry tuna on an ever more dry rice-cake, and an agent who I hadn’t seen in a few months came up and gave me a hug. She looked at me with these sad eyes and said, “I read your blog today. The blog was not. What was this for?

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Realty Biz

JULY 2, 2021

Courtesy the Hootsuite blog. As of January 2021, Hootsuite puts Tik Tok in 7th position worldwide. In the US alone, the app has 14 million active users every month who spend approximately 47 minutes on the app. 2021, April 29). 2021, April 19). 2021, January 18). 2021, February 19). 2021, February 3).

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GeekEstate

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2021, there are already 189 new SPACs that have been created to date. SPACs raise money from investors, and once the company goes public, sponsors have to secure a merger within 24 months. We can expect lots of PropTech startups to go public much earlier than expected in 2021. Otherwise, the investors get their money back.

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McKissock

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

According to the 2020-2021 Appraisal Income Guide , more than 15% of certified general appraisers indicate they will retire in the next 6-10 years. Appraisers who leverage technology tools to streamline their process and make their workflow more efficient are able to complete more appraisals per month. Seek out non-lender work.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

The original article I referenced above, showings a 31% drop in “some areas” was based on a tiny sample size, on a month-to-month basis, for which I would never draw any conclusions, if it were me. You can’t look at a neighbourhood with 65 sales, and then 45 the next month, and say, “The market is down 25%.”

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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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Boom Town

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

And this time, it’s more important than ever to debrief from this rollercoaster of a year and get a plan in place for 2021. But 2021 will be a unique year, with a whole new set of challenges, and it’s critical to be prepared for whatever comes your way. Are you measuring how many leads you need to generate each month?

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RIS Media

MARCH 4, 2021

With the long winter of 2020/2021 nearly in our rearview mirror and vaccines rolling out at a breakneck pace, this year’s spring market is looking to be much more normal—and more active—than what we experienced last year. Agents, what are some other webinars and/or online trainings you’re considering taking on this month?

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 24, 2021

Of tenants who pay rent electronically, rent payments received were on average 3% higher than online rent payments received for the same period in March (widely considered to be the onset of the pandemic in the U.S. We aggregated data from over 600,000 rental properties in the U.S.

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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?” average.

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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. – #3: London St. since then.

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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

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. Now that you have an idea of how iBuyers work, let’s review the top iBuyer companies of 2021, how they differ, and what to expect from working with each.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

Don’t get me started… March 22nd, 2021, that 5-word Tweet, turned into an NFT, sold at auction for $2,900,000 USD. Every 2-3 years, I get out a working 1984 N.E.S. Check this out: The Legend Of Zelda – Sold $870,000 – July 9, 2021. What the hell does that actually mean? Read the article HERE.

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