Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Can you believe it’s been three months already? “Three months from now… ,” the receptionist says, “… lemme see… hmmmm… that’ll be January.” We’re still above the September data point for 2018, but seriously, how long ago was 2018 in real estate years?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I’ll be honest here: I had originally selected a different photo for today’s blog. As I write this blog on Tuesday afternoon, I’m currently involved in a 31-offer melee on 10 Fennings Street in Queen West. As Monday’s blog post detailed, the Toronto condo market is on fire. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Thirteen years, four months, and two thousand six hundred eighty-nine blog posts… And after all this time, often the content comes directly to me. 2,689 blog posts, and I always fear the day that I have nothing to write about! From the 2018 CBC story I bookmarked in perpetuity: “What Are Landlords Allowed To Ask?

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Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Unlike the misconception, passive income ideas do require an upfront work to earn, like writing an e-book or building and monetizing a blog. Blogging is often seen as a great way to earn almost passive income. If you run a blog and get decent traffic, you can incorporate ads to your site and get paid per click or per view on each ad.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Toronto Realty Blog logo used to say, “By David Fleming” underneath, but we removed that years ago. You can’t imagine how many of these calls I get in a month. Somebody emailed me in the summer and said, “My landlord told me I need to leave at the end of the month because my lease is up.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Do you remember a twelve-month period where we talked about interest rates any more than we have since this time last year? ” I mean, that was only 2018, after all. last month. I don’t. I haven’t seen rates in the double-digits; but that’s about the only thing. in March to 4.4%

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First Team Real Estate

AUGUST 3, 2021

Good news: if you’re among the millions wondering ‘should I sell my house now or wait until later,’ then this blog might just be perfect timing. According to NAR, properties only remained on the market for 17 days in June 2021, while an astonishing 89% of the homes which were sold had been on the market for less than a month.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

The ironic part is, this house was leased for $900 per month. per month on a 25-year amortization. That’s almost $1,500 per month more than he woulda, coulda, shoulda paid for his monthly mortgage if he’d bought that first townhouse in January! The property cost him $42,000. But of that $492.70 Imagine that?

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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. – 6) Ban foreign buyers for two years.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

When it comes to monthly TRREB data, there’s always a stat or two that might not entirely line up with what I had experienced in the previous month, but for a major statistically-backed trend to come as a surprise is quite rare. appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog. Case in point: home ownership rates in Canada are increasing.

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Afford Anything

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I’m a public employee in Alaska and while I love my job, I can only save a few hundred dollars every month towards real estate. In late 2018, we started on the path to financial independence (FI) and reduced our expenses. 6 percent of its total value in monthly rent. I have $78,000 saved and I’m torn on how to use it.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

When I was 6-years-old and my father sent me to Camp Kawabi, with all the other 7-year-olds, they were all diving from the “Tower.” The one that looked like it was eighty-feet-tall when you were 6-years-old? I was 6-years-old. Remember I said that, and check back here next month for me to pat myself on the back.”.

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Disclaimer: Information in this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only and provide a high level overview of some of the top iBuyer programs. Our platform enables you to sell your home as quickly as 10 days rather than what can be weeks or months. However, program details can frequently change. Knock Home Swap.

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GeekEstate

AUGUST 11, 2022

Founded: 2018. View episode 6 : CRYSTAL BALL. The post Blueprinting Proptech: Foxy AI appeared first on GeekEstate Blog. Total funding: $2 million. Last funding: Seed led by Hyperplane (November 2021). Team size: 15-20. Sector: Visual Property Intelligence. Customers’ experience (across all segments) on average ~50-60x ROI.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2022

After writing the America is Back recovery model on HousingWire, I wrote an article on my blog about what it would take to crash home prices on April 10, 2020. The velocity of inventory rising in the next three months is limited. months isn’t going to do that. months during this six-year period. before COVID) stage.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

And I track inventory and sales for 40+ local markets each month. Over five years ago, in January 2018, I was quoted in a Bloomberg article that included a bearish outlook for housing. And in December 2018, I disagreed with Professor Shiller A comment on Professor Shiller's "The Housing Boom Is Already Gigantic.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Back in 2018, Shaheedah Hill was a real estate agent and a teacher. ” Because school got out at 2:00 or 2:30, and I was picking them up like at 5:59, and the afterschool program stopped at 6:00. Shaheedah: So I tried Zillow for about two months. I had one lead from the two months. Matt: That was 2018.

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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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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. Q3 of 2018: 0.28%. TorontoRealtyBlog. Q3 of 2020: 0.29%.

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HomeLight

JUNE 20, 2022

Back in 2018, Shaheedah Hill was a real estate agent and a teacher. ” Because school got out at 2:00 or 2:30, and I was picking them up like at 5:59, and the afterschool program stopped at 6:00. Shaheedah: So I tried Zillow for about two months. I had one lead from the two months. Matt: That was 2018.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 20, 2020

According to Indiana Code 32-21-6-6, an owner or agent is not required to disclose to a buyer any knowledge of a “psychologically affected” property in a real estate transaction. 8-6: Real Estate Sales Disclosures. The Los Feliz Mansion closed on July, 18, 2016, and was snatched up in a probate sale the month before.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Looking back at my year-end posts from 2020, 2019, 2018, and so on, I swear I don’t think I’ve ever felt older. 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. TorontoRealtyBlog. Intimately. Every year, there were five topics.

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Boom Town

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In August 2018, the YoY increase in median home price dropped below 6% for the first time of the year, and rate-of-increase decelerated for the 5th month in a row. Considering it had been only $6 trillion a decade ago at the depths of the housing market downturn, the overall picture of the housing market is quite impressive.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

” But I scrolled down to see the Brokerage Remarks, and there it was, as expected, “Offers Reviewed Thursday, October 12th At 6:00pm.” Let’s look at the data graphically: As the green line shows, we started 2023 with the fewest sales in the month of January for the period 2018 through 2023.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

My point is this: today’s blog isn’t one that can be written by A.I., Scroll down to the REMARKS FOR BROKERAGES on the listing, or ask your real estate agent, and voila: “ Offers Graciously Reviewed On November 20th @ 6:00pm, Please Register By 5:00pm. to do it for you.” to comprehend. Should it be applauded?

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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. The company is now defunct, having all its assets acquired by Landis in 2018. I don’t want to talk about “Are agents worth 6%?”

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HomeLight

JUNE 22, 2023

Then let’s say you gross $8,333 per month. If you wanted to upgrade to a more expensive home, and planned to go up to 43% DTI, you could afford $2,783 per month considering your other debt payments. However, the home a person can afford isn’t cut-and-dried; it varies from buyer to buyer. That number will be your debt-to-income ratio.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As I wrote on my blog last Friday, I owed it to my wife and to my family to take a day off, since I really haven’t done that all summer. The Friday before Labour Day is a ghost-town in real estate, and I figured I’d have few blog readers paying attention. Previous lease: $2,400, July of 2019, 6 DOM. Is it inventory?

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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

So let’s pick up where we left off on Monday… 6) Vacant Home Tax. If I get fined, I’ll post a copy here on Toronto Realty Blog for all to see. After Three Months, I Came Back To Toronto” Toronto Life. Did you hear that? That sound? That metallic “click?” I’m going to take a stand.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Before I get into last month’s real estate statistics, I first need to provide a brief refresher on the 2020 real estate market. Sales in the month of May rose to 4,606, but that’s not a typical May figure! On the other hand, we are one month away from the start of what I expect to be a very, very busy market.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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. But I’ve talked continuously over the last two months about how resilient the freehold market is, so why are condos any different?

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Marco Santarelli

AUGUST 4, 2020

However, the market conditions are showing some signs of improvement due to growing consumer interest and pent up demand after two months of continuous decline in sales. Just like the previous month, closed sales were up by 22.2 New listings were down for a fifth consecutive a week during the week ending July 6 compared to 2019.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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. But I’ve talked continuously over the last two months about how resilient the freehold market is, so why are condos any different?

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HomeLight

AUGUST 31, 2021

Disclaimer: Information in this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only, not as a substitute for legal advice. Sellers can expect to pay between 6%-10% of the final sale price in commissions and closing costs, so it’s nice to see exactly where that money is going. Source: (Free-Photos/ Pixabay). Prepaid Interest.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having commandeered the entire lower-level board room for an office, back in 2018, I was pretty darn comfortable at 290 Merton Street! it’s IKEA’s fault for having drawn up poor diagrams, rather than mine for working on steps 8 and 9 when my colleagues outside were trying to ensure steps 5 and 6 were done properly.

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