GeekEstate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hopefully you’ve learned to take it in stride and adjust your business model when necessary in order to continue hitting your goals each month. After a massive halt in March and April due to COVID-19, pending home sales, listings, and solds have continued to increase month-over-month, showing that buyers are back in the market.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 8, 2021

The Toronto real estate market in the month of February absolutely obliterated several very notable records, not the least of which is price. But then again, after the month we just had, maybe, just maybe, it made perfect sense after all. month-over-month increase. The 9-year average before this past month was 6,412.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

So let’s now introduce a concept called anticipatory breach , which I wrote about on my blog in full back in 2019, HERE. Maybe a week, maybe a month. As Bal wrote in Monday’s blog, not every seller is going to litigate. on May 24th, 2019. Interest rates have increased? The buyer lost his job?

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App Folio

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The value of living in a large metropolitan city with benefits, such reliable public transport, entertainment, and great restaurants has lessened in the last six months. According to the New York Times , in July there was a 44% increase in home sales for suburban counties surrounding New York City compared to 2019.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

pop charts, its inclusion in 1984’s Karate Kid , and subsequent rise to #9 on the U.S. And more now than ever, after thirteen months in a pandemic, we deserve a kind, merciful summer. While the true end could be years away, the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel may only be 2-3 months ahead. Slowly but surely.

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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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Kyle Handy

JANUARY 2, 2023

Partner with other professionals 9. Create a blog 30. You can hire a bookkeeper, which will run you around $300 per month, or learn how to do your bookkeeping and use a tool like Quickbooks Online. For 2019, the standard mileage rate is $.58 Create and curate social media accounts 4. Attend local events 5. Brokerage Fees.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

But before we delve into that delectable dish of BS, a brief refresher, or two, is needed… Were you reading Toronto Realty Blog in 2014? I wrote about this on my blog, and the s**t hit the fan. The anticipated repair projects include: 2019. 5) The interest is payable each month. TorontoRealtyBlog. will be drawn.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 20, 2020

The headline of today’s blog – did it get ya, even for a second? I’ve written about this in the past, and I believe that I labelled it one of my “top stories” in a year-end blog in 2018 or 2019. TorontoRealtyBlog. Yeah, lame, I know. I was just in that mood. ” No response.

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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 years 2020-2024 were always going to be different from 2008-2019. The velocity of inventory rising in the next three months is limited. months isn’t going to do that.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But now that January is in the rear-view mirror, I can’t help but look back at what was possibly the oddest month I’ve seen in real estate in quite some time. When the TRREB stats are released on Friday or Monday, I believe that January of 2023 will show the fewest sales in any month of January in the last twenty years.

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Calculated Risk Real Estate

JANUARY 2, 2024

Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2024. Some of these questions concern real estate ( inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales ), and I’ll post thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will be on my blog). The Composite 10 SA was up 5.7%

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GeekEstate

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Two startups launched in the past eighteen months have seen early success. Block , launched in early 2019, has raised $21.5 Made , launched early this year, raised a $9 million seed round from Base10, FoundersFund, and Felicis. The post Outfit: Not Boring Investment Memo appeared first on GeekEstate Blog. Business Model.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

I could have played off that theme for today’s blog post and I wouldn’t have been off base. My client, who will be the subject of today’s blog, used the term “meant to be” several times over the last few days, as we both questioned whether or not there was such a thing. This was in 2019, mind you.

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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: $2,795, April of 2019, 31 DOM. on a desktop.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

If the card came back graded a PSA-9, then you’ve got a card worth about $600. To $60,000, to $70,000, and within three or four months, to $100,000. They had doubled in value inside of mere months! If they did sell, it would be at least $10-$12 Million, since a PSA-9 sold for $5.2M Is that a bubble?

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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 2019 : 5) Prices. – Wow, I really knocked it out of the park in 2019! And lots of links to blog posts in each section too. TorontoRealtyBlog. Yes, I do that.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2022

” She said he made $122,000 per year and was looking to rent for $2,650/month. My colleague told me, “There were six offers and apparently, somebody put down twelve months’ rent up front.” They’ve been consistently ahead of 2018 and 2019, although that gap is shrinking as well.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Now, let’s run through our next six questions, keeping in mind that some of these are worth a multi-part blog series, but we need to address them in an expedient manner… 5) Will we actually see the fallout from increasing interest rates? Even if mortgage delinquencies doubled , we’d still only be back to 2019 levels.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I drew on my Grade-9 Classics learnings, thinking of Sisyphus, doing the same goddam thing every single day, with zero purpose or benefit, only to have the day repeat after the sun sets and then rises. But whatever the motivation, the owners offered the house for lease in May of 2017 for $1,699 per month, and the property sat for 148 days.

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Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

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%. The forecast by Zillow also points in the same direction — a rise in home values over the next 12-months. This indicates that the prices will rise in 2021.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 19, 2020

She’s in bed by 9:45pm, I’m following before 11pm, and I’m feeling those two drinks early the next morning as I sit in the park, nursing my Tim Horton’s coffee, with my daughter running around as though she’s just had eleven Red Bull energy drinks. They were shut down in 2019 after TRREB filed a $2.1M

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

When my car was infamously stolen from my driveway at 2am one night in the summer of 2019, taken for a joyride, subsequently crashed into the wall of a fire station, and “totaled,” because I am a complete and utter creature of habit, I replaced this car with the exact same one. That, of course, let to Sirius XM 9.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Average or median prices can change a lot from one month to the next and paint an inaccurate or even unhelpful picture of price values and trends. Each month, the MLS HPI uses more than 15 years of MLS System data and sophisticated statistical models to define a “typical” home based on the features of homes that have been bought and sold.

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Notorious ROB

JUNE 12, 2022

Here’s TechCrunch with an article titled, “ This is not (just) another roundup of tech layoffs “: After a month that saw nearly 16,000 tech workers lose their jobs, June is off to a similar tumultuous start. ” is hardly an encouragement when you’ve been unemployed for six months.

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Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Average Rental Property Income: $1,259/month. As of January 2021, the average rent for an apartment in Henderson, NV is $1326 which is a 0.98% increase from last year when the average rent was $1313, and a 0.68% increase from last month when the average rent was $1317. Rental rates in Pioneer Park are around 1300 dollars a month.

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HomeLight

APRIL 19, 2021

Ten years ago, in the market where I live, Tri-Cities, Washington, there’d be about 1,200 to 1,400 homes available most months. That’s only going to increase in the coming weeks and months. That’s what Chris and Linda said, which reminds me of the conversation we had three months ago about interest rates.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

How many blog posts have I written about this? The property taxes on this house might run $1,000 per month. Water, electricity, gas, home insurance, alarm monitoring, et al, might run $1,000 per month, max. So all told, for two months of carrying this house, the sellers might be looking at an additional $10,000?

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The Close

JANUARY 25, 2022

Related article: 9 Tips to Earn More Reviews & Help Build Referrals & Repeat Clients ]. Want to know which homeowners are the most likely to sell their homes in the next 12 months before they start reaching out to agents so you can market to them? They will also design and run Facebook ads for you with MLS integration.

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App Folio

MAY 13, 2020

I think that the companies that have embraced it are going to have an easier time maneuvering through whatever choppy waters are coming over the next probably 9 to 12 months. The post Diving Headfirst Into The Digital World: Maintaining a Personal Touch in a Virtual Environment appeared first on The Official AppFolio Blog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Wow, y’all went all out on last Friday’s blog! Maybe you go from paying $1,650 per month, of which $950 is principal and $700 is interest, to $900 in principal and $750 in interest. So that $1,650 per month payment needs to increase to $1,800 to cover principal and interest at the higher rate.” August 31st.

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Marco Santarelli

JANUARY 3, 2021

There is no doubt that rental property investment can be a great way for beginners to generate positive cash flow every month. All that you need to see is your ROI flowing into your bank account each month. You can subscribe to real estate blogs, which can be an amazing source of free information. You cannot fly solo.

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 17, 2022

Pacaso already had a crazy 2021, leaping from a $75 million Series B straight into a $125 million Series C in a matter of months. 9 Predictions Of What CRE Can Expect In 2022 [Katie Murar of BisNow]. 2019 Predictions // Reflections. Expect more funding, and the driving down of share prices. 2021 Predictions // Reflections.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

This is how I felt in 2019 when the Liberal government announced this ridiculous shared-equity mortgage, or “First Time Home Buyer Incentive,” as they called it. – 9) What other innovative, unique, or laughable home-ownership ideas will the government, or others, provide for us? Just consider how little $1.25

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