Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Let’s tell some of those stories today, shall we? I mean, don’t tell that to the tenants who live inside the house ! ” Toronto Star February 5, 2023 Thanks to blog readers Ace Goodheart, Different David, and JL for pointing this article out. Not only that, the listing read, “No Viewing. Maybe more.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I do know, however, which topics of conversation will be at the forefront, and many of these will have a direct effect on what transpires with respect to home prices, sales volume, inventory levels, and affordability this fall. Can anybody tell me what this chart represents? What will those statistics tell us? Why, exactly?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

I specifically didn’t post new content on Friday because I knew you’d all need to be fresh, eager, and well-rested this morning in order to power through this week’s blogs. Those long-term readers among you will recall the length of these “year-end” blog posts. It’s the end of the year!

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GeekEstate

MAY 9, 2022

An agent’s reality tells a different tale. However, this insight shows sales production can actually be improved by building a community of agents within an office, encouraging collaboration both within teams and across the brokerage, and counterintuitively enough, promoting strategic cross-brokerage networking.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 24, 2021

At that time, I was putting the finishing touches on a $624,000 sale, after eight offers, on a $499,000 list price, representing a new record in the building for either a 1-bedroom or on a per-square-foot basis. I know of two agents who have actually done this, and yet I’ve heard the proverbial tale a dozen times. How ironic!

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Lab Coat Agents

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Originally Featured On The Follow Up Boss Blog. Start a blog. Dale Archdekin is a leading real estate coach and the founder of Smart Inside Sales. Blogging – Best Way to Attract Quality Leads. Blogging is one of those free lead gen unicorns—when you’re blogging the leads seem to magically drop from the sky.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So, how does that translate to “haunted” home sales in the real estate market? Real estate disclosure laws, which set rules for what you have to tell buyers about a home before they follow through on the deal, are a mixed bag from state to state. That was December of 1959, yet rumors swirled for decades to come.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog I laughed when I read a comment on one of last week’s blogs that said something like, “So you’re only blogging twice per week this year, but each blog is twice as long?” ” Well, that would be a net gain for Toronto Realty Blog then, wouldn’t it?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

As the team’s de facto millennial punching bag, I’ve read blogs in this space enough times to know that I’m entitled to things coming easily or even being given to me, and writing a substitute blog post should be no exception. I’ve been a reader of this blog on and off for about ten years. Talk about a no-win situation.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

No sales to speak of. Let’s have some fun… – Wacky Weekend Tale #1: Every time I have a listing, I expect to get odd inquiries. Case in point: Here’s a listing of ours for sale for $639,900. It’s for sale. The sale was complicated. Let me know if one of them does. None of them.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

When I searched for photos of “luxury” for this blog post, I assumed I’d pick a photo of a house or a vacation spot. He noted that there were only nine sales over $5,000,000 in the month of July, compared to twenty-eight in July of last year. I’m writing this blog, live, as I input stats to Excel.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 10, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I really, really, really don’t like telling these stories. Nevertheless, it’s a cautionary tale that needs to be told, so here goes… There’s a young agent in my office, whom we’ll call “Rose.” The agent/landlord/seller received three offers on the condo, for SALE.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Every property sale and closing has a different set of tales. But my clients on Monarch Park will tell you that their lockbox was up for ten years. Personally, I only leave my lawn sign up for a week after the sale. I can’t tell you how many times we close a deal and there’s no key in the lockbox.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

A reader emailed admin@torontorealtyblog.com and said, “Whaa no blog today?” ” True, I never post blogs on holidays. Tell me I’m a terrible father, but man-oh-man, can full days with the kids be exhausting! And how was your long weekend? And this time around, who would be reading?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2022

“Tales from the trenches” like these are very common. Another agent in my office was telling me that she’s having trouble finding a 3-bedroom condo for her clients, two of whom are unemployed. This tells you all you need to know: Imagine an offer date on a rental? The rental market has changed. Crazy, right?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 13, 2022

” Folks, this is one of those blogs that will have you saying, “You just can’t make this stuff up.” ” Folks, this is one of those blogs that will have you saying, “You just can’t make this stuff up.” They’re blog readers, so I’m not exactly telling tales out of school here.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

March 9th, 2020, I wrote this blog: “February TREB Stats: Chaos Is A Ladder” The market did feel, by definition, chaotic. But when the general public sees the headlines: “FORTY-SIX OFFERS ON MIMICO BUNGALOW” in a major newspaper, it only tells part of the story. in a state of complete confusion and disorder.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Really, and truly, this blog story is an example of: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and at the worst possible time… Mickey and Mallory are clients of mine that underscore the true meaning of the phrase “clients for life.” ” Famous last words? ” He was right about that. We sold the property.

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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! And lots of links to blog posts in each section too. We looked at a few places, but I could tell their heart was outside of the city. I sell real estate in Toronto and I write the TORONTO Realty Blog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That should tell me just how little I know myself these days… These five topics are too important and too complex to explain, predict, and discuss in 200-300 words each. Can I tell you a story? So the average incorporates the sale of cottages in Keswick and ramshackles in Scugog. That was the market at the time.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every time that I do, a detractor or two will conclude that the post was written out of spite or jealousy, not giving me enough credit, after all these years, to simply tell it like it is. I always tell people, “You shouldn’t just talk to me, talk to somebody else too,” even if they are intent on only speaking to me.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Time will tell. First, let’s take stock of where we are with respect to 416 condo prices by looking at the average sale price in the 416 since September of last year: There are two ways to look at this: 1) The average condo price in August of 2020, of $673,174 is 8.7% What happens next, however, will be telling.

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HomeLight

OCTOBER 17, 2022

DISCLAIMER: As a friendly reminder, this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only, not legal advice. A seller’s disclosure notice does not ensure the condition of a property — it merely tells you what the seller knows about its condition. What does a seller’s disclosure not do? Smoke, fire, or CO2 detectors.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Time will tell. First, let’s take stock of where we are with respect to 416 condo prices by looking at the average sale price in the 416 since September of last year: There are two ways to look at this: 1) The average condo price in August of 2020, of $673,174 is 8.7% What happens next, however, will be telling.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I believe that almost every single freehold property listed for sale, that has a set offer date, will end up receiving a bully offer in this market. And when they list a property for sale, they have no idea how the market may have changed from last week, last month, or even last year. Need I say more? ” What is this?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

After I author this blog post and Toronto buyers read it, we’re going to see the number of “buyer letters” increase by 20,000%. If you didn’t read it last year, here’s the article and an excerpt: “One More Step Before Controversial Oregon Bill Becomes Law, Banning ‘Love Letters’ During Home Sales”.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The landlord could feel the sales-pitch here. This letter: Dear (Landlord Names), (Name) and I wanted to write you a letter to tell you a bit about ourselves because, well, we fell in love with your house from the moment we walked in the door (actually, we’ve come twice in the past 3 days!) I had a listing down in the St.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

” But ask me, or the person next to me, and we’ll tell you that it’s many. While we’re at it, we can see how pricing ties into mistakes that sellers make when listing, marketing, and in the way that a property is offered for sale. Do they still teach Classics in school? They should. Most, in fact.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I know I don’t actually write blogs on a retro typewriter like the one in the photo above, but I really, really liked that picture… I do wear glasses when I write, however. In this space last year, I penned over 5,000 words about the “top blog posts” of 2022. And perhaps outside too.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Thanks to the readers for commenting on Friday’s blog and providing some suggestions for topics this week. The truth is, if we’re going to talk about appraisals , I feel as though our good friend Appraiser should be guest blogging! One of those, “asking for a friend,” questions.

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 12, 2023

Conversational customer service and sales bots will actually become tolerable. We can expect a tale of juxtapositions: Peak AI?: Opendoor is outright telling everybody that it intends to get rid of both real estate agents and “traditional listings.” The speed of progress with this technology is like nothing we’ve ever seen.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We have a lot of fun here on Toronto Realty Blog, don’t we? Upon reading the full report, which spans thirty-three pages and is, at times, as dry as the Sahara, I again determined that an examination of this report could also serve as one of the most important blog posts in the history of TRB. TorontoRealtyBlog. I get that.

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