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

APRIL 27, 2022

Seriously, only a sprinkle of comments on Monday’s blog post? Or last few months even. 170 Sumach Street (2017). 200 Sackville Street (2017). But what about Phase 4 and Phase 5? So the story in today’s blog could simply be that Tridel is picking up where Daniels left off. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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The Residential Specialist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Local content Karin Carr, CRS, team owner at Real Broker in Savannah, Georgia, had a website for her brokerage in Atlanta, but it wasn’t until she and her husband moved to Savannah in 2017 that she realized the power of hyper-local content. “We In the 11 months following its launch, traffic increased by 40%.

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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

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

AUGUST 30, 2023

Consider that developers will aim to sell 80% of the units before they ever get a shovel in the ground, both in order to get financing, but also to ensure the project is viable, but also because they want to hold back a few units to sell in 4-5 years when the project is done. ” We were in shock. ” Going up to $18, eh?

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

But for myself, my wife, and my 5-year-old and 20-month-old, the experience was beautiful! ” Have you ever seen a 20-month-old child run, full-speed, downhill? I think December 1st is the acceptable date, and if you really want to stretch it out, then November 25th, or one month of lead-up to Christmas, is fine.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

If your 4-year-old daughter asks to help, just tell her to watch her little brother and make sure he stays out of the road. 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.

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GeekEstate

AUGUST 12, 2021

Just months ago, the very first fully virtual house sold online —and for a rather significant $514,558. This is a no-brainer for Henry Elder, President of the International Blockchain Real Estate Association: “Imagine I could buy a house as an NFT, and instantly borrow against the NFT using DeFi or TradFi products with a 2-4% interest rate.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

on a month-over-month (m-o-m) basis in October. Among the larger markets, activity was up on the month in Montreal, the Fraser Valley, Calgary and Edmonton. It was a new record for that month by a margin of more than 14,000 transactions. from the first 10 months of 2019. year-over-year (y-o-y).

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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 4: Sign And Invest. Time-sharing is popular within vacation locales.

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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? 4) The buyers have not sold their house, which they need to do, in order to close. Nothing matters.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 13, 2021

About 52 per cent of respondents see home prices rising over the next six months, according to a survey by Nanos Research Group for Bloomberg News. Well, whether you’re reading every post on Toronto Realty Blog or simply browsing newspaper headlines, I think you’d conclude that 2020 wasn’t kind to the condo sector.

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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

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. The search stalled when the market went up and down in 2017, and they shelved their plans.

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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. Service fee: Between 4%-7% of the sale price.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I noted in a CTV Your Morning interview last month that about 35% of the cost of a new condo is taxation. But as far as today’s blog post is concerned, let’s discuss the notion of “increasing affordability” which ultimately leads to increasing prices. Take a $750,000 condo in Toronto. Oh – and new taxes.

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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. 4 Ways to Stay Ahead in the Midst of Interstate Migration Changes. In fact, more than 1.2 million people moved to the south from another region of the country in 2018.

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Lab Coat Agents

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Originally Featured On The Follow Up Boss Blog. Start a blog. I have had the best month in my four year real estate career so far in October. Blogging – Best Way to Attract Quality Leads. Blogging is one of those free lead gen unicorns—when you’re blogging the leads seem to magically drop from the sky.

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Redfin

AUGUST 30, 2022

4) The Boston Tea Party Museum. 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. ” 4) Visit Boston’s oldest restaurant.

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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. 4) Prices Outside The City Of Toronto.

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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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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Earlier this month, RISMedia announced the 2021 Real Estate Newsmakers and, for the fourth consecutive year, its 2021 Newsmakers Hall of Fame—a select group within RISMedia’s annual Newsmaker honorees, which celebrates icons in the industry for their long-standing and/or exemplary service. Lennox Scott. Scott Real Estate.

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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

MAY 8, 2023

Five weeks ago, I wrote this in a TRB blog post: Raise your hand if you think that $1,095,617 average sale price from February is going to surge? I’m predicting it’s up at least 4.0%, month-over-month, which would take it to $1,140,000. It made no sense to me, as I wrote in a subsequent blog post as well as my eNewsletter.

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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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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

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 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

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Not only are my fingers tired from writing Monday’s blog, but also from hand-writing three-hundred Christmas cards! 4) Real Estate Commissions. 4) Foreign Ownership. 4) Foreign Ownership. Top Five: Real Estate Stories of 2017 : 5) International Real Estate. 4) Rental Market. 4) The 2017 Market.

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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. That is why the market went berzerk in 2017, as many of you recall. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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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. ” I nearly spit my coffee back into those awkward, oversized cups that always spill… 2017: The market insanity from January to April. 4) Refusal To Accept Market Reality.

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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

MARCH 29, 2021

In 2017, the market actually did crash, momentarily. How about some headlines from this past month? But here’s an actual person, commenting on Garth Turner’s blog post, detailing his patience as it pertains to the “bubble burst.” 2008, for one. The early-2010’s for sure. The bubble.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

I paid $575 per month to live in an apartment that was one of five in a building that had a storefront out back, four apartments up top, and one apartment on the main floor at the back of the building. .” I have no idea what he did or said, but I didn’t so much as see them for the next seven months. It was 1998.

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