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Is “Price Stigma” Real?

Toronto Realty Blog

“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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Increasing Development Charges Will Drive Condo Prices Higher!

Toronto Realty Blog

Perhaps this could have been included in Monday’s blog as a third tenet, except that this isn’t “new legislation,” nor is it going to kill condominium development. Now having said this, the actual point of today’s blog was supposed to be about development charges in the city of Toronto. Well, 48.8%.

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How To Make An Absolute Mess Of A Toronto Listing!

Toronto Realty Blog

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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October TRREB Stats: Trick Or Treat?

Toronto Realty Blog

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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Top Five Burning Questions That The July TREB Stats Can Answer!

Toronto Realty Blog

I took a two-week Honeymoon in 2013, and I can honestly say that by about day number-eleven, I felt I was just about ready to start packing. March, April, and May were all affected by the state of emergency, quarantine, and social distancing measures, and these represent three of the busiest months of the real estate calendar.

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What If Your Next-Door Neighbour Is Selling Too?

Toronto Realty Blog

This theory was put on full display last month when I was preparing a listing for sale on the east side. Take these two houses, for example: The house on the left was listed for sale for $3,990,000 on June 13th, 2013. It’s a new-build on a 32 x 135 foot lot, 4-beds, 5-baths. appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog.

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Friday Foibles & Follies!

Toronto Realty Blog

After fourteen years of writing stories three times per week (it was actually four times from 2007 to 2013…), I always wonder if I’ll eventually run out of things to write about. Case in point: sometimes I have stories that aren’t really “worth” their own blog post. Or 5:00pm. Or 6:00pm.

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