Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

That’ll teach me to call Jiffy next time… I hurt my right patellar tendon in January of 2023 when I was, of course, running. I had to call my wife and get her to come pick me up. Because condos, on the whole, are cheaper! I sprained my right ankle in April of 2022 when I was working on my lawn. I sulked a lot.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It was a great year at the onset of an even greater decade, although the class ahead of me always felt that being born in 1979 was a whole lot better… My parents brought me home to a cute little 3-bedroom, detached house on Airdrie Road in South Leaside, where I lived until I was about two-years-old. I had to laugh.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Perhaps you just want to buy a house or condo and not feel like you got beat up, right? That is the topic today, and while I’m aware that 20-50% of the readers will initially disagree with my sentiments, just humour me and understand that I’m speaking from experience. TorontoRealtyBlog. Or just a deal ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

Nice condo too! – First, tell me that condos are shrinking, and tell me what we’re making do with less space. 5) Soap scum near floor drain. 5) Soap scum near floor drain. ” Said to me by many, many clients. But maybe a photo of the building would have been more appropriate here?

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Now, in another case, if you found a condo that was both tiny and expensive, and it was tiny because of how expensive it was, but also expensive because of how tiny it was (I’ll explain this in a moment), then that’s a classic double-whammy too. These blog posts are like bible verses that keep me from sinning. Really, eh?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

” In the downtown condo market right now, half of the market participants are rejoicing while others are lamenting. As Monday’s blog post detailed, the Toronto condo market is on fire. My colleague came to me in November and asked me to price her King West condo. Yes, fire. Why not $750,000?

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Many of you have seen my now-infamous video of comparing pre-construction condo sales to buying pre-sale jeans. So why do people buy condos like this? Case in point: how we price houses and condos for sale. Let’s say there’s a condo for sale for $439,900 with an “offer date” set for next Tuesday.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Last week, I took a buyer client to see two condo townhouses for sale in the same complex. The first condo was listed at $799,900 with an “offer date.” ” The second condo was listed at $1,110,000 with “offers any time.” ” My client much preferred the second condo, as did I. .”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 17, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I have a condo currently listed for sale for $399,900. I have received many calls on the property, but this weekend, in the space of about ten minutes, I received two phone calls that demonstrate the current state of the condo market. That’s a story that every condo agent can tell at least once so far this year.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

What does it say that I dedicated Monday’s post to discussing the whole 416 market, the GTA, different market segments, sales, inventory, and listings, and when it comes to condos , I’ve set aside an entire post on Wednesday? It was as crazy a condo market I’ve ever worked in. since October, and 11.4% since February.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

By analyzing hundreds of relevant data points, including market trends, historical sales data, consumer behavior, credit card debt, and more, AI tools can forecast which properties are more likely to be listed for sale in the near future. Data analysis allows real estate agents to focus their marketing efforts (and budget!)

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Fancy Pants Homes

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There’s basically no fault in sight with this jaw-dropping condo on Florida’s Marco Island, whose lavish interiors make it look like it’s awaiting its next king and queen. When the pair bought it, the condo came with a builder kitchen and bathrooms, cement floors, and drywall — and that’s it.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

And at least if you live in a condo, you can say that you had no way of knowing, or seeing the proverbial signs that a Russian spy lives next door. My clients told me that the house next door, which was under construction, was going to come to market in the same time period as our listing, and that just wasn’t an option for me.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We’d been waiting two damn years for a condo to come out in this building! I was still up north, so I set Judy up with Tara and they went to see the condo. Great layout, room for a reading area, lots of natural light, and room for a few “projects” in the near future so she could put her own stamp on the place.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Please invite me to your cottage next long weekend, okay? But a few days later, that wore off, at least for me, it did. I take my work home with me. Real estate dominates our lives, and she told me as much this weekend. – 2) Where will the 416 average condo price go? Too much family time? Yeah, maybe.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

” the agent asked me. We leased the condo on Tuesday morning after checking references and employment for the other four prospective tenants. He felt like somebody who would take care of my client’s condo, who was responsible and respectful, and who also happened to be very well qualified.

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Realty Biz

JUNE 8, 2022

In a recent interview, Benjamin Reitzes, BMO’s managing director of macro strategy, said he would be shocked if home prices don’t fall by a double-digit margin in the near future. . The people buying luxury condos and homes want the absolute best — and they’re willing and able to pay for it,” Sam Mizrahi said.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I provided you with a good number of links and headlines in Friday’s blog, but a reader showed me that I missed a very important one: “First-Time Home Buyers In Toronto Being Pushed Out By Investors” This is a ridiculous headline. Not when you can build condos and make more money, right? The results are shocking.

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Realty Biz

JUNE 8, 2022

In a recent interview, Benjamin Reitzes, BMO’s managing director of macro strategy, said he would be shocked if home prices don’t fall by a double-digit margin in the near future. The people buying luxury condos and homes want the absolute best — and they’re willing and able to pay for it,” Sam Mizrahi said.

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Fancy Pants Homes

APRIL 25, 2022

Boasting iconic views of the NYC skyline, a beautiful Brooklyn condo in a historic building has just hit the market. Spanning 3,000 square feet, the luxury condo offers three bedrooms and three baths. Located at 75 Livingston Street, the swanky suite designed by famed architect Henry Smith-Miller has been listed at $4.65

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

Maybe now it’s me that’s sensitive. Then again, nothing surprises me anymore… This prediction game has always served as a training exercise for myself and my agents. ” Hmm. Sales aren’t low because buyers don’t want to buy. I’ll stick by my prediction of a 2-3% increase.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

And to be fair, some of the regular readers have paid me compliments to this effect in the past, suggesting that this is an unparalleled free source for real estate insights. But what many of you don’t know is that, really and truly, people call me all the time thinking that this is some sort of public service.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

And I think I was mulling over this “whistling” theme somewhere in between the bar of Dove and the bottle of Pert Plus … The first song that came to mind, for me? ” A quarter- billion plays on Spotify tell me that I’m not the only fan here. With you and me. Take me to the magic of the moment.

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Easy Agent Pro

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Women’s tee with long sleeves” gives me a Goldilocks moment – it’s just right. But a “general idea” isn’t enough when you want to laser-target certain real estate consumers, such as condo owners, sellers, landlords or folks in the market for acreage. There were some, however, that would give me a good start: realtors near me.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

– Like I said; thanks for indulging me. But just as you wanted to go for that last slice of pizza before the negibhourhood shop closed down, or whatever it was that was near and dear to you, I felt that I wanted to reminisce a little bit about this plaza before it gets bulldozed. And I agree, no question about it.

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Realty Biz

JUNE 7, 2022

Condos for sale/townhomes for sale: These two keywords are more specific to what type of property is for sale. This can help people who are looking for a condo or a townhome rather than a house. How to get a house for cheap: Anyone would want to know how to find a house for cheap, especially in this housing market.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 31, 2021

” How many of you have sold a house or a condo in your lifetime? When it comes to the closing of a house or condo, every seller is different. These expectations can be anywhere from reasonable to completely ridiculous, and trust me when I say that I’ve seen it all. But first, let me back up a moment.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A wise man once told me, “Not everything has to make perfect economic sense.” A person might pay more money to live in a certain school district, or on a street near a friend. Her condo was worth about $325,000 at the time, and the condo she was looking at was about $350,000. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I’m on an honesty streak of late, so let me admit the following: after choosing the title of today’s blog, I came to realize that I don’t actually know what the idiom, “grasping at straws,” refers to. You just said that you would price a $600,000 condo at $499,900 as a strategy.”

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Realtor.com

AUGUST 19, 2020

Then, in my mid-20s, when I bought my first condo, I needed a co-signer again. Once again, my mom was there for me. But I can’t help but think that there’s something wrong with me, where I was choosing to live, or perhaps the housing system in general. A salary that size was an unattainable dream for me right out of college.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

And since a TRB reader challenged me via email last week, and said, “David, you continuously talk about the ‘decline in the suburbs’ but you’re not giving any examples of what’s happening in the 416,” I’ve decided to use a downtown Toronto condo as an example. She did my job for me!

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

He showed me his “log” back when I was a kid, and it looked exactly how you’d expect it took: leather-bound, tattered, ball-point-pen blue ink marking up the thick white pages on the inside. . “Once you got ten jumps under your belt, my dad told me, “You qualified for a true free-fall.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Stop me if you’ve ever heard of her. Having spent my Wednesday morning downloading songs by Color Me Badd that took me on a wicked trip back to 1991, where everything was neon, and Brandon & Brenda Walsh were household names, I suppose I will concede that I am not caught up on musical flavours of the week.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2020

I would guess that Aspen Ridge leased the site back to McDonalds while they put forth plans to develop a high-rise condo. So the Leaside LRT station, which will be on the southeast corner of Bayview & Eglinton, was a Mcdonald’s for almost a half-century, and for a short time, was to be a high-rise condo.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

He started to write his while I was away, and as much as he asked me to look it over, I kept telling him, “I don’t want to be a part of this; surprise me!”. I’m nervous,” he told me over text message, as I watched my daughter and her cousins indoor rock-climb. What if people rake me over the coals?” Apparently not!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 15, 2021

Ah, I think I’ll just do this like swimming: jump in, move around, and see where the motion takes me… I really enjoyed this photo array: The first three photos are just so different. ” – This condo is kind of neat: Yup. They accompanied this listing: As you can tell, that’s a condo. 2020 neither.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Gina is known for her knowledge of new construction, interior design, and condo transactions. My time working in the hectic business world of Manhattan has taught me just how much people appreciate clear communication and availability,” said Cristina.

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