Realtor.com

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Photo-Illustration by Realtor.com; Photos: Getty Images (2) / Realtor.com It’s like déjà vu in the housing market. Last month, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the COVID-19 pandemic market had been in a “housing bubble.” Unquestionably, the housing market has taken a vicious beating lately.

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Easy Agent Pro

JUNE 19, 2021

If you’re a client of EAP we get why you most likely aren’t blogging. After all, you get free blog posts with your website. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be blogging. Heck, even if you just want to use our pre-written blogs, make sure you’re editing them to be about your local area! Here ya go! What is better?

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Agents As-is Inspection Staging 88

Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This is the sixteenth seasonal sign-off for me on Toronto Realty Blog, and every time I do this, it feels like the last version was just a little bit closer behind. Trust me when I say that I remember all my blog friends and foes. Is life moving in fast-forward, or is it just me?

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Agents As-is Industrial Marketing 73

Realty Biz

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A realtor’s career implies a genuine journey jazzed up by brand-new challenges, adrenaline-fuelled missions, and (last-minute, but ultimately) glorious closings. In the meantime, your people skills get sharpened as you meet the most intriguing clients. And would you believe it? All of them require special treatment. .

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Branding Brokerage Agents Staging 94

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

” I tell this to buyers who ask what the summer is like, and I tell this to sellers who weigh the pros and cons of listing their house or condo for sale in the summer. .” TorontoRealtyBlog. What does it say when the “long weekend” feels a bit too long? Too much family time? Is there such a thing? Yeah, maybe.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It seems, quite literally, like I was just writing a three-part blog series with “Burning Questions For 2022.” ” That feels like a semi-finished, little-used half-storey on the third level of a house. ” That feels like a semi-finished, little-used half-storey on the third level of a house.

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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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Purchase and sale agreement As-is Debt-to-income ratio Marketing 113

The Close

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Since your time is valuable, include marketing tasks that you spent time on but didn’t spend money on, like blogging. Blogging 2 10 hours $400 0 NA. After the template, we’ll walk you through a simple seven-step process to write your own real estate marketing plan. Download Our Free Real Estate Marketing Plan Template. Related Article.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If you’re a buyer and you’re sitting on cash, living at home, and trying to negotiate with a seller, offering a 15-day closing on a vacant property is going to be highly attractive to the seller and thus you can probably work the price down. In actual fact, more often than not, I say this sarcastically. But how can I not ?

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 8, 2023

For these winners, profitability was a proverbial can kicked down the road. All that mattered was growing revenues aggressively by taking market share from traditional companies in the massive market of your choosing: transportation, office, dating, travel, hospitality, news, blogging, anything-delivery, real estate.

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Investor Finance Staging Land 62

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

There’s no Friday Rant in the queue for today, but also no burning topic either. Nothing I can passionately sit down and write a curt 2,000 words about, but there are, however, a few topics to file under “this ‘n that.” ” Where to start? Oh, I dunno. ” Oh, man. In the end, I was vindicated.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Depending on your desired location, price point, and housing criteria, you might get one suitable listing per year ! I’ve had clients who passively looked for a year or more. “When the right house comes up, we’ll be players,” these clients might tell me. TorontoRealtyBlog. Slow start to the fall market, eh?

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GeekEstate

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Despite the eye-popping valuation, many questions remained around the viability of the co-working business model, particularly the cash burn required to scale and operate locations. [Editor’s note: Originally published in The Appraisal on February 15th.] Since its IPO, the company’s market cap and cash balance have declined to $1.2

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Branding Investor Commercial As-is 57

Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

And in Toronto, we don’t really buy a house, but rather we purchase a five-year payment plan. What about something so far in the other direction that the pendulum feels like it might swing upside-down and back again? But consider the buyer of a $1,500,000 house with a 20% down payment. Yes, you read that correctly.

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Redfin

JANUARY 3, 2023

“Located right in the historic waterfront area in Old Town Alexandria, the Art Center houses many artist studios and galleries, and visitors are welcome to pop in,” shares Linda Samuel Kid Friendly DC , a blog that shares upcoming events in Alexandria. Located just 20 minutes from D.C. Fun for all ages.

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As-is Closing Marketing 59

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Last Tuesday, I provided my “Five Burning Questions” with respect to the July TREB numbers, looking at five statistics that I was eager to review. We don’t need to re-hash the “who said what” with respect to this metric, since I’ve already burnt that house down a few times. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Days on market Sales Marketing As-is 83

Lab Coat Agents

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Originally Featured On The Follow Up Boss Blog. Here’s a complete checklist of free lead gen ideas broken down by must-haves and nice-to-haves. Open House. Virtual tours and open houses. Start a blog. Door knocking. But let’s be real. In this day and age, those aren’t the only methods to choose from.

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GeekEstate

APRIL 2, 2021

[Editor’s note: Originally published on the Thomvest Blog.]. The company updated its S-1 last week to include a share price range of $18-$19 (down from $23-$26 in the initial S-1), implying a post-money valuation of about $7.2 This share varies depending by agent, but appears to be about 18% on average in 2020 (down from 21% in 2018).

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Redfin

AUGUST 14, 2023

If you’re looking to buy a house in Atlanta or rent an apartment in the city , you’re most likely interested in hearing what Atlanta residents have to say about the city. Welcome to the vibrant city of Atlanta, Georgia – a place where history meets modernity, and Southern hospitality intertwines with urban energy.

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App Folio

JANUARY 2, 2020

Many duplex and quadplex properties are being torn down and replaced with larger, multi-family residential buildings to keep up with the demand. Based on the increasing number of building permits granted and housing starts, construction is expected to soar in 2020. 2020 is here. Source: GlobeSt.com. Luckily, supply is growing.

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Industrial Property Management Technology Residential 71

GeekEstate

MAY 9, 2022

Brokerages have long been reluctant to invest in structured and personalized career development programs due to a desire to keep costs down and fear of agents leaving their firm. [Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of our 209th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 500 GEM members on April 7th, 2022.

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Brokerage Residential MLS Agents 118

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Then, I pulled the SI-joint in my lower back right before the long weekend and had to hobble around the house and the office for five days. TorontoRealtyBlog. What’s the difference between a 7-day vacation and a 14-day vacation? About seven days! But seriously, what’s the difference? To leave now would be way too soon!

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Marketing Banks Sales As-is 81

Zolo

JULY 20, 2020

The first step is simple: Slow down. . If you live in an urban or suburban house, consider setting aside a patch of garden and dedicate it to edible plants. The term ‘homesteading’ is now synonymous with self-sufficiency, ecological responsibility and outright survival. Traditional homesteading is about living and working the land.

Land 62

Land Development As-is Sales 62

App Folio

JULY 13, 2020

In the residential leasing world, May through September are known as leasing season—with July and August typically seeing the most volume. To make the most of leasing season, property managers, leasing teams, and marketing managers need to be ready for increased demand and commit resources to encourage lease renewals. Before Leasing Season.

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Property Management Technology As-is Marketing 105

App Folio

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Last year AppFolio put out a survey of property managers in partnership with John Burns Real Estate Consulting. People are a driving force in property management, and hiring, onboarding and staffing are some of the most important tasks for a property manager. At least, that’s what the data suggests.

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Property Management Commercial Principal Technology 111

McKissock

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Last month we asked our appraisal community, “If you could give ONE piece of advice to a new appraiser, what would it be?” ” Thank you to the large number of appraisers who shared their top tips for new appraisers! Monthly survey: Want to participate? Monthly survey: Want to participate? Top 12 most common tips. Be patient.

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Inspection Commercial Development Residential 88

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

I mean, “Burning Questions” again? And we did this to start off January 2021, not just as a stand-alone blog, or even a two-part series, but rather a three-part series that spanned the entire first week back! I just like photos of burning logs. Just me, myself, and a burning yule log… (sigh).

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I hope you enjoyed that “trip down memory lane,” as Marina so eloquently put it, with the Top Five Blog Posts of 2022 in Monday’s post. Believe it or not, this is the eighth year I’ve been working with this format; the top five blogs followed by the top five posts. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Development Purchase and sale agreement As-is Marketing 81

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

And considering how 2020 went down for just about everybody on this globe, it’s an honour and a privilege to refer to any period of time this year as “magnificent.” A reader commented on the year-end blog, something about my plans to spend time with my mother, and COVID, and I deleted the comment. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Redfin

JANUARY 17, 2023

While some trends are sure to stay, others may soon disappear, burning out as quickly as they had sparked interest. . 2022 was a unique year in the design world. We saw influences from the pandemic linger, while aesthetic revivals and new fads emerged throughout the year. We’ve seen mural wallpapers explode in popularity.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A client of mine emailed me last week about a property on the east side and said, “They have an open house this weekend so we’ll probably go check it out.” ” An open house ? Right or wrong, we’re going to see open houses make a comeback this fall. COVID has affected everything around us.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

My goal of completing both posts by the start of the long weekend was never even close, but at least it came in handy as an excuse when I really, really needed to get out of the house on Monday. On Tuesday, we looked at the first four “Burning Questions” for the fall market, and inventory was one of them. True story.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

So no , we’re not Dom Draper and Betty Draper, however, there’s one job that my wife has handled exclusively for the last six years, and that’s placing the ‘Elf on A Shelf’ in a different place in the house every night in December. Elf on A Shelf. I have never placed Stainey. ” So I did.

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Sales As-is Pre-approval Marketing 82

Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But I had a lot of fun here on Toronto Realty Blog as I always do, and I had even more fun sitting down to go through the year’s blog posts. Here are the Top Five Blog Posts of 2022 as we see them… #5: TRB Special Guest Posts: Chris Cansick, Matthew Morrison, & Tara Amina. That’s just how it goes.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Somebody told me once that when you have children, the years go faster because you start to view your life in terms of your children’s milestones. Growing from age one to age two represents a fifty percent increase in their time on earth, but it’s merely another twelve months for you. My daughter was pulling at my shirt.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They were the stars of last week’s blog post! TorontoRealtyBlog Remember Bram and Mary ? Surely you do. I will admit that I was rather surprised by the keen interest in not only the story itself, but rather “part two” of the story. For anything. Case in point: cliffhangers. Then the episode ended.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

” Oh, burn! He can’t let those kids down, can he? This is what I believe the plan was last week when Olivia Chow announced her groundbreaking $36 Billion housing plan , and yet I wonder how many people will actually come to realize the house of cards upon which this idea sits. I’ll explain.

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