The Residential Specialist

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Experts share their thoughts and opinions about what’s in store for the real estate industry in 2024 By Jason Henninger If predicting residential real estate trends were a simple matter, anyone would be able to succeed in the marketplace. Inventory and interest rates have played a big part in making the market more challenging.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

It’s only been a few days but already, I feel as though this January real estate market is going to be very slow. Very few listings have come onto the market, but more importantly, the pattern of behaviour I have established when looking at “new listings” is concerning. What do I mean by that? Is it on my mind?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the new Freed Residences, where studio condos were being pre-sold for upwards of $2,300 per square foot. Affordability has never been worse in our market, and first-time buyers might be the ones most affected. But the irony is: that experience is eventually going to come full circle.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While some recent commenters here on Toronto Realty Blog might suggest that, whether it need to directly pertain to real estate, or not, it might be me who is the greatest hype man of all time. After all, I’ve been “hyping” the market, right? Having said that, I’ve been saving this blog post for a while now.

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Principal Investor As-is Marketing 87

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

But it adds context to both today’s blog, today’s blog challenge, and of course, blog reader Derek ‘s comment from last Friday. Back in April of 2018, it was blog reader Derek himself that posed a question to the readership: Should we try to amuse ourselves with a game? The challenge was accepted!

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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? Absolutely not.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 9, 2021

Boring, right? I may have lost some of you already, perhaps around the “insurance policy” or thereabouts. I may have lost some of you already, perhaps around the “insurance policy” or thereabouts. But if you’ve ever bought or sold a condominium then you know what I’m talking about. I am not a lawyer.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Early in the year, I had discussed that if existing home sales stay in a range between 5.84 Early in the year, I had discussed that if existing home sales stay in a range between 5.84 The National Association of Realtors ‘ existing home sales report for October came in at a solid beat of estimates at 6.34 million and 6.2 million and 6.2

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Celebrating too early. I wanted to call this blog “Monday Morning Quarterback: Hate To Say I Told You So,” but it seems I’ve done that bit before… January 22nd, 2021: “The Friday Rant: Hate To Say I Told You So!” True story , and I’m not embellishing here. There’s no technicality on this.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s just really, really hard to describe an entire year’s blog posts or an entire year’s real estate stories in a standard blog-post length. This is likely more subjective than the top five blog posts , but then again, we run into many of the same themes over and over. ” Nah. We all know how that goes.

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Pre-approval Construction Development Agents 82

Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I’m not sure if the term is still permitted in 2023, but let me know if academia has replaced it with something more inclusive… Although, perhaps the better news is, although I don’t expect to collect my five dollars for the bet which I’ll describe shortly, I do have a true wager at risk which is looking promising.

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Marketing Sales As-is Brokerage 84

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Gawrsh, I mean, with only two posts per week now (insert emoji of blushing individual looking, for lack of a better term, “sheepish”), I really need to plan out my topics and stories with some sort of schedule! But a little more than two weeks into the 2024 market, it’s all crickets. Shall we start there?

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MLS Agents Pre-approval Brokerage 71

Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Our comprehensive guide to the best real estate marketing tools provides you with a helpful assortment of easy-to-use, effective marketing products to turn your business into a revenue engine in 2024. We know — you didn’t get into real estate for the love of marketing or tech.

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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! 1) The Market. 1) The Market. 4) Rental Market. 4) The 2017 Market. 3) The Rental Market. 2) Government Intervention & Politics Affecting The Market. Cards and envelopes!

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Purchase and sale agreement As-is Marketing Banks 83

Notorious ROB

JUNE 12, 2022

We’ve already looked at why a number of very smart people think the Fed is just shoveling a lot of bull manure and that they won’t have a choice but to go back to quantitative easing and dovish policies, aka, money printer go brrrrr. Okay, let’s take a quick look-see on recent headlines, shall we?

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Investor Banks Bankruptcy Equity 86

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

A colleague of mine emailed me this essay last week. I was blown away. Not only by the sheer amount of content, which was twelve pages in a PDF, but also because of the research involved. Thirty-seven footnotes, for one thing. But sourcing a variety of newspapers, interviews, staff reports, legal journals, and more.

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Purchase and sale agreement Residential Land Renovation 97

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. ” Fair point.

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As-is Agents Pre-approval Title 69

GeekEstate

JANUARY 12, 2023

’ But in 2023, look for startups to begin architecting slower, steadier, more sustainable growth models that yield more capital-efficiency—perhaps even profits! ’ But in 2023, look for startups to begin architecting slower, steadier, more sustainable growth models that yield more capital-efficiency—perhaps even profits!—prior

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MLS Banks Technology Equity 64

GeekEstate

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Below, I look back on a year that saw iBuying turmoil, carnage in the public markets, 3D printing milestones, and huge advances in generative AI. Public Market Carnage: Almost every public proptech company took it in the teeth on valuation. Plus, a variety of GEM members reflected on their 2022 predictions. Yeah, that happened.

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