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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Pre-approval Construction Development Agents 83

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

Easy Agent Pro

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

November is the month in which we celebrate our veterans, so posts about the wonders of the VA loan are always welcome. So you have lots of topics to cover during Veteran’s Month. Did you catch that September 2017 Trulia starter home study? Sadly, many surviving spouses aren’t aware that they, too, may qualify for the loan.

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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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Purchase and sale agreement As-is Marketing Banks 83

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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Sales Marketing As-is Agents 96

Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Are you tired of the stats blogs yet? The November TRREB stats didn’t just us a mountain of records as we learned in Monday’s blog, but also gave us, in my opinion, a snapshot of where this market is headed in 2022. There are some months when SNLR can be above 100%. TorontoRealtyBlog. Well, hang in there.

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Sales As-is Marketing MLS 91

Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

Chris, Tara, and Matthew wrote guest blogs? To be quite honest, I was thinking about pre-writing three blogs, or, as is often the case, writing blogs while I’m away on vacation. That always seems easy in advance (“I write three blogs per week, I’m sure I can carve out the time while I’m away!”) You don’t say! To me, 2.6%

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Marketing As-is Sales Industrial 98

The Close

AUGUST 8, 2023

Most of those “secret” mastermind groups now have tens of thousands of members, but only a handful of posts per month. Real Estate Rockstar Agents Year Founded: 2014 Number of Members: 46,900 Posts per Month: ~200 Private or Public: Private Self-promotion Allowed? Of course, today, Facebook is a very different place.

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Agents Closing Industrial As-is 98

Boom Town

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Short term goal (weekly or monthly): Increase website visitors by 10% (50 per week to 55 per week) by July 10th, 2017. Increase seller leads generated by 10% (20 per month to 22 per month) by August 15th, 2017. Long-Term Goal (annually): Increase closes by 25% (20 per year to 25 per year) by December 31, 2017.

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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

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

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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Pre-approval Construction Development Commercial 91

GeekEstate

JULY 7, 2020

In 2017 my wife and I discovered how pervasive wire fraud was becoming in real estate, and decided to create a secure but simple alternative to email to protect title companies, lenders, and property buyers/sellers from wire fraud. By partnering with settlement companies, we now protect over $1B each month from wire fraud.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Three months pass, and the the closing date is here! Then a month. ” In this blog post, I summarized a few court cases that proved, once and for all, that if a buyer simply decides to walk away from a firm purchase, and the seller re-sells the property for less , then that original buyer is liable to make up the difference.

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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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Purchase and sale agreement Residential Land Renovation 98

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

I could have called this blog post, “Don’t Call It A Comeback,” but I’ve used that before. I remember in 2017 when the market stopped moving in April and we started to see properties not selling on offer nights and being re-listed. By the end of the month, we were all saying, “The market is back.”

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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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Agents Industrial MLS As-is 116

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%? TorontoRealtyBlog. Think about that, for a moment.

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Marketing Purchase and sale agreement Mortgages Finance 105

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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Construction Investor Equity Land 101

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

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

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. Listing photos]. #3

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Land Days on market Construction As-is 98

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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As-is Marketing Title Agents 96

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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Agents Technology As-is Branding 66

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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Land Days on market Development As-is 105

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

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

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?

Development 87

Development Agents As-is Sales 87

The Close

JANUARY 9, 2024

out of 5 My Verdict Showami, as a real estate showing platform, stands out as an innovative software. Showami will boost new agents (Showing Assistants) so they can get a showing within the first few months. Methodology Since becoming a licensed agent in 2017, my career journey has given me a unique vantage point in the industry.

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Brokerage Agents Land Closing 109

GeekEstate

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The company’s smart devices reach almost every home in the country and millions of homeowners and tenants alike speak to Alexa everyday ( read my 2017 thoughts ), making it among the leaders in bringing technology into the Built World. I’d perhaps peg devices at 5% of revenue and 12.5% Membership is $139 / quarter.

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Commercial As-is Land Residential 104

Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Not only that, the lyrics to a very famous Andy Samberg song, the title of which isn’t appropriate for this blog, also spoils the ending. This paragraph, by the way, is from a “BMO Economics” publication from last month, which you can read in full HERE. and forty months left on the mortgage.

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Construction Title Mortgages Industrial 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?

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Banks Lending As-is Marketing 77

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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Purchase and sale agreement Agents As-is Banks 70

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Now how does this play into my “Burning Questions,” numbers 2-through-5? I’ve been making waves here for over a month, not because I’m pessimistic or because I’m anything but bullish long-term, but rather because I see what’s happening out there. We are in peak season, after all. Neither is wrong.

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Marketing Sales As-is Agents 69

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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Brokerage Agents Pre-approval Industrial 77

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? 5) There was a death in the buyer’s immediate family. Maybe a week, maybe a month.

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Closing Purchase and sale agreement As-is Sales 108

HomeLight

AUGUST 19, 2022

5 signs that indicate a real estate market slowdown. The years 2017 to COVID represented a normal, healthy market.”. In the past six months alone, mortgage rates have doubled — going from 3% to almost 6%. They have to do the open house, take great photos, and blog about it — they have to do their jobs again.”.

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