Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

That’s how I’ve felt about the 2024 national budget for the last few weeks, and while the budget won’t be released until April 16th, I’m already anxious about it. 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. We know that.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

This project began sales not too long ago and I was sent an information package by real estate agents, blog readers, and clients alike. In any event, let’s get to the pricing of the units that were released this month, since that’s what people in real estate circles are talking about. ” How about $569,900?

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The Close

APRIL 15, 2024

Build Authority Within a Specialty Cost: Free Real estate is a competitive industry, with over 3 million active agents in the US. HARO queries in Connectively platform (Source: Connectively ) 3. Public relations aims to stand out from the crowd and become your area’s go-to real estate professional.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I’ve written blogs from the perspective of both tenants who have a bad landlord, and landlords who have a bad tenant, and all the while, we’ve debated the protections that tenants enjoy in this province in 2023, and whether or not they’re unfair to landlords. Both landlords and tenants can abuse the system and do.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

But it adds context to both today’s blog, today’s blog challenge, and of course, blog reader Derek ‘s comment from last Friday. Back in April of 2018, it was blog reader Derek himself that posed a question to the readership: Should we try to amuse ourselves with a game? The challenge was accepted!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

On Monday, we started to discuss the topics, themes, issues, and stories that would consume our “real estate minds in 2024,” notably the things that might concern us the most. Let me throw some skin in the game here: my mortgage comes due in November of 2024. What will prevailing rates look like in November of 2024?

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The Close

APRIL 15, 2024

Build Authority Within a Specialty Cost: Free Real estate is a competitive industry, with over 3 million active agents in the US. HARO queries in Connectively platform (Source: Connectively ) 3. Public relations aims to stand out from the crowd and become your area’s go-to real estate professional.

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Branding Agents Brokerage Industrial 72

Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Yet, in a competitive real estate market, agents don’t always have the luxury of investing months into long-term brand-building. In this dashboard will be a list of property owners in the agent’s target area based on their likelihood to sell within the next 18 months.

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Marco Santarelli

OCTOBER 14, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the factors that influence 30-year mortgage rates and explore expert predictions for the upcoming months and years. 30-Year Mortgage Rate Predictions from Reputable Sources Forecasts regarding mortgage rates for the remainder of 2023 and 2024 vary among reputable sources. by year-end.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the new Freed Residences, where studio condos were being pre-sold for upwards of $2,300 per square foot. In fact, I really didn’t learn much from it, other than perhaps the notion that I needed to pen a similar blog post. It was 540 square feet with no parking, locker, or outdoor space.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2024

And, alright, maybe it’s not one hundred percent literal, but a market change like the one we’re experiencing now doesn’t happen in a month or a week. This gorgeous semi-detached, 3-bed, 2-bath took offers last week: There were 18 offers. 3-bed, 2-bath, wide lot. It happens in mere days. ” No way.

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 10, 2024

Property data is a topic we’re digging deep on in 2024. Every month we provide data on tens of millions of properties for some of the most popular real estate apps on the market. The post Property Data via APIs, with Vincent Harris appeared first on GeekEstate Blog. This is no small feat. Where did this idea come from?

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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. Who doesn’t? Meanwhile a resale townhouse in Oshawa, $1.2M.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

” I asked him, “But did you read the posts? . “I mean, we’ve got like a half-million people coming into Toronto every year and they’re gonna need some place to live, so I just don’t see how a property like this could be worth less in 3-4 years when it’s built… ” Now he was selling me !

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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.

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The Close

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We’ve laid out a plan of action for each month so that you’ll know exactly which marketing activities you should be focusing on. They provide unique, informative, and hilarious marketing posts every month for you to customize and post online with your own branding. This content can be repurposed on social media and on your blog.

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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. 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. More on that in a moment. Sales were up 19.7%

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I know that a lot of the TRB readers dabble in pre-construction condo investing and many of the agents who read this blog sell projects as well. Today, I want to show you a handful of pre-construction projects that have hit my inbox in the past month, and we can weigh the pros and cons of each project. c) Never active.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog I laughed when I read a comment on one of last week’s blogs that said something like, “So you’re only blogging twice per week this year, but each blog is twice as long?” ” Well, that would be a net gain for Toronto Realty Blog then, wouldn’t it?

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

I set a specific home-price growth model for the years 2020-2024 that said if home prices only grew at 23% during this five-year period, the housing market would still be OK, given wage growth. 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.

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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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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). year-over-year.

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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 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 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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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I’ve had this blog topic in the queue now for quite some time. Maybe months. Ah, yes, and there it was, in all its glory: “Toronto Mayor’s Executive Committee Endorses 10% Speculation Tax On Foreign Home Buyers” CBC News January 30th, 2024 This is simply incredible. Alright, sorry. Maybe weeks.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Not fifty basis points like they did previously, not seventy-five basis points like they teased that they ‘might’ last month, but rather a full one-hundred basis points, the likes of which many of us have never seen. The Bank expects Canada’s economy to grow by 3½% in 2022, 1¾% in 2023, and 2½% in 2024. Full point!!!

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Our comprehensive guide to the best real estate marketing tools provides you with a helpful assortment of easy-to-use, effective marketing products to turn your business into a revenue engine in 2024.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

But a little more than two weeks into the 2024 market, it’s all crickets. Early prediction: January of 2024 will see the fewest sales EVER in a month of January. Remember this blog post? So far in 2024, Olivia Chow has hardly affected housing in Toronto at all! And the tax could increase to 16.5%

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The Close

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

CINC’s new offer for 2024 includes marketing and advertising, lead capture, lead follow-up, team performance tracking, and now artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered response. My favorite feature for 2024 is the AI bot, Alex. CINC has solved both of these hurdles, as I will share in this CINC review of new updates and offers for 2024.

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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. 3) The Business Of Real Estate And The Real Estate Industry. 3) The Business Of Real Estate And The Real Estate Industry.

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Marco Santarelli

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In this blog post, we will analyze the latest available data to provide an overview of Pasadena's housing market trends and forecasts for 2023. In nearby cities, homes sell for about 3% below the list price, with hot homes selling for around the list price. by January 31, 2024. decrease from last year. compared to last year.

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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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Marco Santarelli

MARCH 11, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the Frisco housing market for 2023, including the best neighborhoods, home values, and real estate trends. The trend for median days on the market has gone down since last month and slightly up since last year. The average sale price of a home in Frisco was $700K last month, up 7.7%

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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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