Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

My son is still one year away from Junior Kindergarten, but as a February baby, he’ll be more than ready by the time next September rolls around. On Tuesday, we looked at the first four “Burning Questions” for the fall market, and inventory was one of them. Parents, you know what I mean. True story.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s just that in both cases, it’s impossible not to act accordingly… On Thursday, we looked at two huge topics of discussion for the 2023 real estate market: average home prices and a cornucopia of mortgage issues, specifically mortgage renewals, trigger rates, and interest rates. Is that a lot?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As you saw with #5, which was the three posts offered by Matthew, Chris, and Tara, there’s a bit of bias showing, since those probably weren’t the “best” posts of the year. Since we are talking about Toronto real estate here, we’re going to see some overlap in the top stories. 3) Market Frustration.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 26, 2022

The recent drop in Toronto home prices is solely due to the increase in interest rates. Well, I suppose before we confirm or deny, we must first address this “drop in Toronto home prices,” since many home-sellers are in denial. Well, since I referred to him as one of the 3/10, you know he’s going to be out to lunch.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 27, 2021

The phases of the child-parent relationship seem to lose a level of dependence as the child gets older. My oldest memory takes place in September of 1982, which would have made me 25-months-old. TorontoRealtyBlog. As a 40-year-old man, I can personally attest to just how interesting the child-parent relationship is.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 18, 2022

I felt envious because I was watching a jogger pass by, and having sprained my ankle on April 11th, I, unfortunately, haven’t run since that magical 10K in Hampstead Heath in London, two days prior. One from a client: David, we just heard about the interest rate hike! When I finished my call, I looked at my phone.

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Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

was recorded at 7,250 thousand transactions in September 2005. to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.07 Historical Averages From 1968 to 2023, existing home sales in the United States have averaged approximately 4,065.91 thousand transactions annually. Highs and Lows The highest number of existing home sales in the U.S.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

3) The Market Shift 2) “Fixing” The Housing Market 1) Inflation & Interest Rates I can’t imagine that we won’t overlap with at least one of those themes this year. TorontoRealtyBlog Do I bother starting with the obligatory, “I’ll try to make this post shorter this time around?” ” Nah.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But when you consider how insane the early-2020 downtown condo market was, along with the dregs of the fall-2020 condo market which was the worst I’ve ever seen, then the #2 topic on that list also remains unsurprising. It happens so quickly, and you’re simply along for the ride. My daughter was pulling at my shirt.

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Marco Santarelli

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This article has been updated to reflect recent changes in the Atlanta real estate market due to COVID-19. The market has not only returned to pre-COVID-19 levels in the Housing Recovery Market Index of Realtor.com but it has also surpassed January's baseline by 7.8 The higher the index value, the higher the level of recovery.

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Marco Santarelli

AUGUST 5, 2020

Buying activity slowed due to the pandemic but has significantly rebounded since June. That's a quick and huge bounce back even seen before in the housing market. Low mortgage rates, population growth, and an increase in buyer interest are further driving the demand for available housing. percent in July.

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Marco Santarelli

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Boise housing market is a scorcher and is being fueled by low mortgage rates and limited supply compared to demand. Home prices in Ada County were up again in September. It has affected everything from buyer demand to housing supply to mortgage rates, which together have helped drive up home prices across all price points.

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Marco Santarelli

JULY 29, 2020

The price rise has mainly been supported by rising incomes as Portland has seen a lot of job growth. In the latest quarter, the real estate appreciation rate in Portland has been around 1.20%, which equates to an annual appreciation rate of 4.87%. The average sale price in the Portland-area dipped by a mere 0.8% s $477,400.

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Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

in September, and 6.7% The sales forecast for August, September, and October suggests an increase on a yearly basis and a decrease on a monthly basis for both Illinois and the Chicago PMSA (source: Illinois Realtors®). The trend for median days on market in Chicago has gone up since last month, and slightly down since last year.

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Boom Town

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Let’s start by saying, the market isn’t falling apart. Median home list price isn’t dropping, but it is decelerating from the monumental growth we’ve seen in recent years. 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.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Thank you for all the comments, suggestions, and excellent insights posted in the comments section that I read with glee over the weekend as I typed out my list of the “Top Ten” discussion points for the fall market. I want to talk about three things: trigger rates, variable vs. fixed spread, and alternative lenders.

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Point2Homes

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

To level the field, we assumed an initial investment equal to a 20% down payment for the median home in each of the 100 largest U.S. Here, the 46% home price appreciation means that the median home bought in 2017 earned its owner $440,000 (although technically, it's not even that high, if the owner had a mortgage to pay).

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