McKissock

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Last month we asked our appraisal community, “What new appraisal specialty or niche would you like to break into?” Click here to participate in our next “Question of the Month” survey. Appraisers need to be up to speed more so than in the crash of 2008 when values fell. Want to contribute to our blog? Want to participate?

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Commercial New Construction Renovation Construction 66

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

But the run up in prices in the last two months is the true story of our market, as we sit here, in March of 2022, even though the “true story of our market” was a completely different tale only two months ago. in two months. That’s almost six-figures in a month. month-over-month and 27.7%

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Sales Marketing As-is Agents 85

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. – 5) Amenities “Trust me, you won’t use them.

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Pre-approval As-is Construction Marketing 72

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Except in Wednesday’s blog post, one seller did. ” The experience that I described in Wednesday’s blog made absolutely zero sense. So we did our home inspection on the weekend – Saturday, to be exact, and we had until the following Friday at 5:00pm to satisfy ourselves of the condition.

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HomeLight

AUGUST 31, 2022

DISCLAIMER: As a friendly reminder, this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only, not legal or tax advice. They can expect to pay 2% to 5% of the new loan amount as closing costs, or about $4,000 to $10,000. That’s because interest rates have gone up so significantly over the last six months.”.

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Equity Finance Loans Closing costs 104

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

2008, for one. How about some headlines from this past month? Some for even longer… March 17th, 2008. What I wanted to say during my BNN segment was this: the average home price in Toronto in 2008, when Garth Turner released this book about the coming market crash, was $379,080. The early-2010’s for sure.

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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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Development Purchase and sale agreement As-is Marketing 81

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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Agents Industrial MLS As-is 116

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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Sales As-is Pre-approval Marketing 83

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

And we did this to start off January 2021, not just as a stand-alone blog, or even a two-part series, but rather a three-part series that spanned the entire first week back! showing, as I’ve clearly been away from blogging for far, far too long and I’m a bit rusty… But we are, in fact, back to life, and back to reality.

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Fixed-rate mortgage Banks Mortgages As-is 99

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. That’s just how it goes.

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Pre-approval Construction Development As-is 81

HomeLight

DECEMBER 22, 2022

DISCLAIMER: As a friendly reminder, this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes, not financial advice. home prices dropped for the third straight month in a row in November, and are predicted to decrease 8% to 10% by August 2023. 30% of agents expect home prices in their market to remain flat over the next six months.

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Debt-to-income ratio Agents Loans FHA loan 98

HomeLight

AUGUST 16, 2021

In this week’s Walkthrough, Christina Griffin shares her outlook for the months ahead and delivers the systems and scripts that she’s used to sell more than 2,000 distressed properties in her 20-year career. Matt: Give me your thoughts on what is happening and what’s going to happen over the next several months.

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Marketing Short sale Bankruptcy Banks 75

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

As you’ll see in today’s blog, many of the reasons for cancelations are often rooted in the same problems that caused delays, but some are extensions, and some are completely different reasons altogether. After a month of carrying units unsold, with few showings and zero interest, they decided to raise their prices.

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Construction Bankruptcy Pre-approval Purchase and sale agreement 72

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

That’s the 1985 Consumers Catalog and I was 5-years-old back then. I think I visited him there once a month for over two decades… I have written about Sunnybrook Plaza many times on Toronto Realty Blog over the years. March 20th, 2008: Preserve History… or Build New Memories?” ” Geez.

Development 82

Development Land As-is Construction 82

Afford Anything

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Sharon’s husband purchased a property with a below-market loan in 2008. They now have an extra $4,000 per month, and Sharon wants to buy a property as a first-time buyer. Anonymous asks (at 5:08 minutes): Fifteen years ago, my partner and I bought a one-bedroom apartment in Pasadena, CA. What should they do?

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Banks Equity Principal Loans 67

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Now, let’s run through our next six questions, keeping in mind that some of these are worth a multi-part blog series, but we need to address them in an expedient manner… 5) Will we actually see the fallout from increasing interest rates? appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog. I suppose this depends on who you ask!

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Marketing Land Development Banks 80

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. More than half of the components that make up the CPI are now rising by more than 5%. Full point!!!

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Banks Lending Land As-is 95

App Folio

APRIL 22, 2020

Obviously the great recession, 2008, 2009, was different in that it was a balance sheet recession. Obviously 2008, 2009 it was the balance sheet that got messed up, right? We’re actually fortunate, because most of our customers, most of our residents, are on 12-month leases. Tim: Right.

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Property Management As-is Marketing Industrial 59

GeekEstate

MAY 25, 2021

In 2008 I co-founded New Western alongside my friend, Stuart Denyer, and together we launched a national marketplace for real estate investors to find homes to rehab. The post Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur: Kurt Carlton from HomeGo And New Western appeared first on GeekEstate Blog. Let’s get to it!

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Investor Lending Technology Industrial 98

Boom Town

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Defined by the crushing great recession of 2008 and the subsequent steady rise to a booming seller’s market (fueled by sky-high home prices and stalled inventory growth), it’s been a wild ride. In 2017, 16 out of the top 45 markets saw double-digit price gains and that number reduced to 5 out of the 45 markets this year.

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Agents Marketing Staging Sales 58

The Close

APRIL 12, 2022

Here’s what we found: The 5 Best Real Estate Lead Generation Websites of 2022. Real Estate Lead Generation Website Starting Price/Month Best For. Propertybase GO’s pricing is pretty straightforward, offering a full package that includes the IDX website for $399 per month with a minimum nine-month commitment.

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Brokerage Agents Land Design 105

Notorious ROB

JUNE 12, 2022

Revelation 6:5–6 NASB. Here’s TechCrunch with an article titled, “ This is not (just) another roundup of tech layoffs “: After a month that saw nearly 16,000 tech workers lose their jobs, June is off to a similar tumultuous start. Tesla is instituting a hiring freeze and cutting some 10,000 jobs.

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Investor Banks Bankruptcy Equity 86

HomeLight

AUGUST 24, 2020

HomeLight acquires Disclosures.io – our blog post announcement. When the housing market crashed in 2008, he says sales of construction equipment crashed as well. More recently, just four months into his real estate career, Tyler lost his main source of new leads. So I killed myself, it took me 12 months.

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Agents As-is Sales Brokerage 98

Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The number of unemployed New Yorkers decreased over the month by 20,200, from 764,500 in November to 744,300 in December 2020. This represents the fifth straight month of declining unemployment rates in New York State, bucking the national trend. New York City's unemployment rate decreased over the month from 12.1%

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Days on market Investor As-is Marketing 106

McKissock

MAY 30, 2023

Catered to real estate appraisers, agents, and other professionals, this monthly blog series helps you navigate the ever-evolving economic environment so you can make well-informed decisions to support your business and career success. This blog post highlights key insights and potential impacts. on a three-month annualized basis.

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Banks Commercial Construction Fixed-rate mortgage 73

Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I had planned a blog about interest rates for a couple of weeks now, but with the conflict in Ukraine, I can’t imagine that whatever was planned by the Bank of Canada and the U.S. That’s about 50 basis points higher than markets were expecting just a month ago. when there are tanks rolling through Kiev? Life must go on, right?

Banks 77

Banks Lending As-is Marketing 77

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

“David: don’t make this blog political.” ” That’s what I told myself each and every time I wrote parts of the blog in my head over the last seven days. The CMHC introduced a minimum 5% down payment on all properties. A minimum of 5%? The changes made in 2008 and beyond were good.

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Marketing Purchase and sale agreement Mortgages Finance 105

Notorious ROB

MARCH 16, 2023

Since this is not a finance blog nor a banking blog, I urge you to go check out all of the commentariat on finance and banking. Your $1 billion bonds paying 1.56% over 10 years aren’t worth $1 billion when one can spend the same $1 billion and get bonds that pay 5% over 10 years. I know I have. Systemic risk!

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Banks Finance Fixed-rate mortgage Loans 72

Marco Santarelli

JANUARY 3, 2021

There is no doubt that rental property investment can be a great way for beginners to generate positive cash flow every month. All that you need to see is your ROI flowing into your bank account each month. You can subscribe to real estate blogs, which can be an amazing source of free information. You cannot fly solo.

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Investor Property Management As-is Equity 106

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

To recap, under the program, the government provides first-time buyers with an interest free down payment loan of up to 5% of resale purchases and 10% of any new build/pre-construction home or condo. In fact, I almost got fired, on more than one occasion, when I first started Toronto Realty Blog. Just consider how little $1.25

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Equity Mortgages Lending Banks 95