Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

“David must be having a slow month,” you’re assuming. “He’s probably got some meth lab coming up for sale and he’s just trying to grease the…… tray.” Then magically, at 5:30pm, there are eight offers registered in a half-hour window. At 5:45pm, it was only them.

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Realtor.com

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Just a few months ago, home prices hit record heights, investors were gobbling up scores of homes, and buyers were racing to purchase whatever they could before prices rose even further. Last month, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the COVID-19 pandemic market had been in a “housing bubble.” Sound familiar?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2023

While my “OG” barber, Leo, cut my hair for thirty years, from my first haircut through Leo’s retirement around 2012 or 2013, I started going to another classic Italian barber thereafter. And yet only four months later, the house sold for $1,200,000 in competition. increase in value in four months.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

Even a quick glance at the stats showed that not much was happening in the Toronto market in the month of July, as the real estate playground was empty! I typically look at price first, but I knew the average home price was going to decline by 3-5%, month-over-month. So what was that figure? December: 16/20.

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Windemere Selling

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

If you were to increase your monthly mortgage payment to $1,632.25 (a $200 a month increase), you would be saving $50,298 in interest, and you’ll pay off your mortgage 6 years and 3 months earlier. Enforced discipline: It takes real commitment to invest your money wisely each month instead of spending it elsewhere.

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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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GeekEstate

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Brokerages who defaulted to such enterprise video collaboration tools to connect clients to open houses or private showings are now, only a few months after their initial trials, realizing they are not suited to Real Estate. The post 5 Clients Showing Ways to Win in our COVID-19 era appeared first on GeekEstate Blog.

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The company has a 5-star average rating from more than 50 reviews on Google. With Simple Sale, you can get an all-cash offer within five days and sell your home in as little as 10 days, skipping the months it can take to sell the traditional way. 5 on BBB and 4.6/5 5 on Google Reviews. 5 on BBB and 4.2/5

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Redfin

AUGUST 30, 2022

Boston Tourism Made Easy , a sightseeing blog, explains what makes the Boston Tea Party Museum so great. ” 5) The Boston public market. During the warmer months, Evan recommends checking out the Swan Boats, riding the carousel, and checking out the Frog Pond. ” 5) Visit the city’s campuses.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

And I track inventory and sales for 40+ local markets each month. Several years later, in early 2012, when many people were still bearish on housing, the plunge in inventory in 2011 (blue arrow on graph below) helped me call the bottom for house prices in early 2012 (see The Housing Bottom is Here ). months in September 2023.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Thanks to the readers for suggesting blog topics before the long weekend! As you saw in Tuesday’s blog post, I took one such suggestion to heart. I started blogging (ranting?) about the pre-construction condo industry just as soon as this blog was launched back in 2007.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

KM per month. I could use those months to play catch-up. Many are agent websites, some are property management companies, and interestingly enough, the now-defunct Urbancorp still has an active website with their floor plans dating back to 2012. To my running friends on TRB, let me say: I’m well, well behind schedule.

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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! Top Five: Real Estate Stories of 2016 : 5) New Mortgage Regulations. Top Five: Real Estate Stories of 2016 : 5) New Mortgage Regulations. Top Five: Real Estate Stories of 2017 : 5) International Real Estate.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Looking back on it, I suppose I didn’t “need” to write a thousand words or more about my holiday break in Thursday’s blog post, thereby extending the length of the blog and only allowing us to examine two of the ten discussion points for 2023. Leave politics out of your blog.” TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Clients A owned the property for 4 years, 4 months, and made a 20.1% Clients B owned the property for 3 years, 11 months, and made a 65.0% So starting in January of 2012, let’s compare some data sets, shall we? drop in 416-semi prices, since this was at $1,287,832 in June, so I think August was just an off month.

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HomeLight

MARCH 21, 2022

Data from zavvie shows that service fees for iBuyers in late 2021 were 5.8%, which is “not out of line” with the typical 5%-6% real estate agent’s commission. With Simple Sale, you can get an all-cash offer in as few as 48 hours and sell your home in as little as 10 days, skipping the months it takes to sell the traditional way.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Well, maybe Thursday’s blog was a mouthful. All that time off over the holidays without an outlet for my thoughts – both about real estate, and not, and you had to know that the first blog back in January would be lengthy. It’s blogs like these that often make me feel guilty of being unoriginal, however.

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HomeLight

JUNE 8, 2023

DISCLAIMER: As a friendly reminder, information in this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only, and is not to be taken as legal or tax advice. In 2012 he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. When it comes to taxes, HomeLight always recommends reaching out to your own trusted advisor. What is a 1031 exchange?

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Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Since 2012, Houston's home values (middle price tier of homes) have appreciated from $117,000 to $199,976, according to Zillow’s Home Value Index. During the latest twelve months, the Houston appreciation rate was nearly 2.61%, and in the latest quarter, the appreciation rate was 1.33%, which annualizes to a rate of 5.45%.

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Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This ratio is ten points higher than it was before the Great Recession of 2007-2012. Average Rental Property Income: $1,259/month. Rental rates in Pioneer Park are around 1300 dollars a month. Average Rental Property Income: $1,100/month. That makes investing in Las Vegas rentals a great choice for real estate investors.

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App Folio

APRIL 22, 2020

And since November of 2012, I’ve been operating D2 Demand. And, in fact, we’ve talked about, blogged about, and even had a webinar, where we use the analogy of the economy as a set of pipes through which water, the metaphorical money, flows. Maybe a few longer, a few shorter, but most of them are on 12-month leases.

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