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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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

” But if you recall my blog post, I didn’t take issue with the fact that the Toronto Star seems to believe that Realtors shouldn’t be allowed to invest in real estate, but rather that they’re seeking to blame Realtors, at least in part, for increasing the price of real estate, instead of investigating actual causes.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2022

This was a 1-bed, 1-bath, no parking, no locker, $400/month fees which include zero utilities, and it was barely 500 square feet. 5-Bedroom. I don’t know about you, but I’m just about ready to buy this place… – Option #5: Moncton. What a life, right? – Option #4: Prince Edward Island. 3-Bathroom.

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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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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. My goal comes from Tim Heyl in Austin Texas to get 5 nurtures a day minimum and to keep building my weekly email. Blogging – Best Way to Attract Quality Leads.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 31, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Back in 2016, I sold an investment property to a young man who was, potentially, going to be rich one day. per month mortgage fee there’s principal and there’s interest. It’s because 2016 was the last year that I was selling condos that were cash flow positive with a 20% down payment.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The former was the case for Nancy Sanborn , a real estate agent in the LA area with nearly 40 years of experience, when she got hired to sell what she thought was a regular old probate listing in a wealthy LA neighborhood in 2016. 101 (2016). According to NJ Admin Code 11:5-6.4, Connecticut. New Jersey. South Carolina.

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Redfin

OCTOBER 11, 2022

They serve a Sesame-Chili Cauliflower Florets appetizer that had me dreaming about it for months,” says Savvy Leigh of Savvy Leigh Photography , a Charlotte wedding photographer. As a native to the city, I’m happy to share some of the best,” says Rachel Brown of Queen City Chic , a lifestyle blog.

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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 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

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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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

How about some headlines from this past month? Not only did the market fail to crash, but it more than doubled by 2016. But here’s an actual person, commenting on Garth Turner’s blog post, detailing his patience as it pertains to the “bubble burst.” Everywhere I look, I’m reading about the crash.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This is, after all, the Toronto Realty Blog. in seventeen months? The town of Tillsonburg had 15,872 residents according to the 2016 census. – 5) Brantford: 54.5%. Woodstock is just west of Brantford, so this should come as no surprise, given Brantford is #5 on the list. 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. The story broke in the media and later that day, I ran by and watched workers continue to work even though the project was apparently being canceled… 2016: Foreign ownership.

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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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Real Estate Finance HQ

JULY 31, 2016

[Tweet “The fact that we are still buying houses in 2016 the same way we did in 1956 is absurd.”]. I have identified 5 major areas that I believe will radically change in the next 10 years in relation to how we run a real estate business. Below are the 5 areas: Mobile.

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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. That’s just how it goes.

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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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The Close

JANUARY 9, 2024

out of 5 My Verdict Showami, as a real estate showing platform, stands out as an innovative software. It has been around since 2016, and I signed up shortly after its founding. Showami will boost new agents (Showing Assistants) so they can get a showing within the first few months. The Close Score 4.5 Pricing: 4.8 Features: 4.7

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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 2019 : 5) Prices.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 10, 2021

Quite the interesting week on Toronto Realty Blog! Well, for me , at least… The main character of Monday’s blog found my post, took issue with it, and then told me, “You have one hour to take that down, or I’ll file a RECO complaint.” TorontoRealtyBlog. ” Imagine that, eh? from March to April.

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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% People who owned from 2010 to 2016 made a return, but people who owned from 2016 to 2019 absolutely killed it. – 5) What’s the competitive advantage?

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Louisville Homes

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Therefore, more expensive houses are out there but weren’t sold in the past 12 months. Year # Sold 2016 35 2017 59 2018 60 2019 69 2020 77. Top 5 Most Expensive Houses in Louisville Kentucky. 5 – 14427 River Glades Lane. million in September to come in at #5 on our rankings. This home sold for $2.52

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s very possible that somebody who purchased a $700,000, 5-year-old semi-detached home in Durham Region in September of 2020 is now sitting on a $900,000 house. However , sales were down from an all-time-record in the month of September, so we can’t exactly take solace in that, can we?

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

2020 didn’t care whether you got your license three months or three decades ago. And more importantly, how did it show up in the 40 episodes that we published over the past 9 months? I wanna peel back the curtain for the next couple of minutes and talk about why HomeLight spent the past nine months doing a weekly podcast.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2021

Last month, in my “Top Ten: Real Estate Stories of 2020,” I reckoned that the #2 story of the entire year was the condo market. Instead of a 5% decline in value being compared to an 11.4% increase in value, we see a smaller 3.0% .” That’s my prediction. A rough ride. November, 2020: $640,208 -3.0%.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Let’s start today’s blog post with a quote: “This is going to be 2017 all over again.” We know that it has declined from February with respect to both prices and sales, but it’s always much easier to define a market several months later, looking back, than it is in that very moment. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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GeekEstate Agents & Brokers

MARCH 6, 2022

For our 200th Transmission (wow…that’s a lot), I thought I’d reach for a blast from the past and modernize the most read article ever on Geek Estate Blog , written all the way back in 2014. According to Clever , Opendoor’s fee is “currently fixed at 5% of a home’s sale price, although historically it’s been as high as 14%.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

So she had months to get this place leased. She was renting the unit for $2,450 per month but we told her that market rent had dropped dramatically, and that she should really put the unit up for $2,295/month. We begged her to re-list at $2,195/month, or less. “I was getting $2,450/month last year.

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Louisville Homes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Year # Sold 2016 35 2017 59 2018 60 2019 69 2020 54 2021 124 Each year I started with January 1st and calculated up to the date of the article which is typically at the end of September or early October. Top 5 Most Expensive Homes in Louisville Kentucky. Most Expensive Homes in Louisville. Here’s the tally.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2016 or 2017, whenever that show appeared, I got really, really into painting. Nothing quite like a 5-pin tournament with those rubber bumpers in the gutters so kids felt better about their shots. – Remember last month when I featured basement movie theatres ? appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog.

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RIS Media

APRIL 7, 2022

Maybe it is a recent meteoric rise (from 1,000 agents in March of 2016 to 70,000 at the end of last year). Relatively new to the industry, they were drawn in by eXp’s very affordable $85 monthly brokerage fee ($149 due at sign up, which includes the first month). That $85 a month was really a big plus for me.”.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Call me a salesperson here, but I told her that a 44% return over what she paid in 2016, was pretty damn good! But then she told me something that was a little out of left field: “I could have bought any number of units back in 2016, and I’d have done better.” – 5) Jealous. Oh, no doubt. on offer night.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Passing off that porcelain shower as “Marble” on the MLS listing simply because it looked to be marble when you were there two months ago is NOT okay. – 5) Not disclosing rental items. per month, and his clients’ initials. ” Closing was two months away, and for two months, he kept threatening me.

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