Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Are you tired of the stats blogs yet? My year-end “MLS Musings” is due Friday, and I’ll dump out everything I have left from 2021. But in the meantime, yes, we’re going to look at more stats today. But in the meantime, yes, we’re going to look at more stats today.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Having already started my “End of 2020” blog-themed posts on the side, I don’t want to spoil the surprise here, but we will be dedicating a good section to exploring the 2020 condo market. Today, I want to pick up where we left off with the August TRREB stats and see how 2020 finished up with respect to condos.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Wherever the “lower end” of the market is, you’re going to have the most people looking to transact. Wherever the “lower end” of the market is, you’re going to have the most people looking to transact. TorontoRealtyBlog We have a basement lease coming out this week. Do you know what that means?

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JUNE 24, 2022

Before you read the following, ask yourself this simple question: “Will the areas outside the province of Ontario show a better or worse market that what we read about in Wednesday’s blog?” We also noted that, since December of 2021, twenty-four of the twenty-six areas have seen an increase in the HPI.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

Chris, Tara, and Matthew wrote guest blogs? To be quite honest, I was thinking about pre-writing three blogs, or, as is often the case, writing blogs while I’m away on vacation. That always seems easy in advance (“I write three blogs per week, I’m sure I can carve out the time while I’m away!”) You don’t say! And Tara?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Those dare-devils with a death wish who loved to live on the edge. My old man was an avid sky-diver. 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. The jumps were in the 1960’s.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Perhaps I’m too binary, but I always find that change is the easiest to implement when you’ve got other changes happening as well; when there’s a start or end of something else. TorontoRealtyBlog. What’s the difference between a 7-day vacation and a 14-day vacation? About seven days!

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JULY 4, 2022

Did you just stumble upon this blog for the first time? Well, now you found this blog! So, let’s look at a handful of factors that I think will help us to predict the road ahead… 1) June TRREB Stats. By the time you’re reading this blog on Monday, the June TRREB stats might be released.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Would it ever be reasonable to call our real estate market boring ? I mean, the real estate market isn’t boring, nor will it ever be. It’s real estate! But comparatively speaking, is it possible that Toronto real estate just isn’t as interesting as it used to be? Perhaps this is a good thing. Maybe we needed this.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And while the market here in Toronto has hit a point of stability, that’s noteworthy if for no other reason than the incessant talk of market collapses, recessions, and the world ending, it still feels almost unnatural. But if there’s one word that’s never been used to describe the market, it would be this one: boring.

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JUNE 22, 2023

I pulled my right groin in December of 2021 when I was, for some reason, sprinting to try to beat my 5K time. TorontoRealtyBlog “Hello, my name is David, and I have an addition to Microsoft Excel.” ” (Hi, David). It’s partially that. It’s partially finding something to do when I need to occupy my mind.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2023

But when I was in high school, I’d leave class at the end of the day and rush over to his shop in Sunnybrook Plaza, and if I dilly-dallied in the halls or by the lockers, I’d get to Leo’s and find three other kids already waiting! TorontoRealtyBlog I’ve been going to the same barber now for four years. I loved Leo.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

So in the end, we were forced to be “those people” who put out a massive bowl of candy with a note that tells trick-or-treaters, “Help yourself.” I think December 1st is the acceptable date, and if you really want to stretch it out, then November 25th, or one month of lead-up to Christmas, is fine.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 9, 2021

Here’s an interesting proposition for you… There’s a downtown condominium that has a suspect history, but which now has a clean bill of health. The sale prices in this building have been significantly impacted as a result of the “stigma,” but the rental prices have not. I understand risk tolerance, believe me.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 13, 2021

” In the end, I think most home-owners, whether investors or end-users, could care less about why the market is increasing, so long as it continues to do so. .” What’s worse: cheerleading or gaslighting? I suppose the latter. But the latter also implies some sort of wrongdoing, does it not?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

But what’s new, as I’ve ranted and raved about on this blog so far in 2022, is that buyer agents themselves are simply giving up. Here are your options: a) Buyer agents. b) Listing agents. c) The market Gods. d) All of the above. Hence a “penalty for guessing.” Er, fill in the bubble on your scan card in HBII pencil.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

And while it doesn’t take Carl Friedrich Gauss to tell you that you can’t be more than 100% certain of anything, I was, in the end, wrong. Ask any seller out there on the market right now, or who ended up selling last month, and they’ll tell you that the market conditions have tightened since September.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Five weeks ago, I wrote this in a TRB blog post: Raise your hand if you think that $1,095,617 average sale price from February is going to surge? It made no sense to me, as I wrote in a subsequent blog post as well as my eNewsletter. At the end of the month, I figured we had just experienced a 4% jump in prices, but I was wrong.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

But the song, “The End” would both enlighten me and scare the living hell out of me at the very same time. This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend The end of our elaborate plans The end of everything that stands. Read the lyrics to “The End.”

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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. That was a year in which Ms.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I wrote about this on my blog last year as there was one of those “letters to the seller,” which was so incredibly misplaced as it was submitted with the lowest offer I have seen in my entire career. So now that the January TRREB stats have been released, I can finally put a number to this incredible surge in the condo market.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

I’m what you might call a “purist” in that I don’t like change. I like the game the way it always was, and I hate the notion of making changes to the integrity of baseball in attempts to attract new (read: youn g ) fans. Baseball is a special sport. Walks were recorded as hits early on, but that changed in 1887.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 9, 2022

There’s a reason I wrote last Monday’s blog, and no, it wasn’t “to get out ahead of the bad publicity.” Folks, the TRREB stats from April will show that the market has softened. I’m not denying any of that, nor will I deny weakness in the market when I analyze today’s stats.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

It all started on Wednesday, December 16th. As I wrote in my year-end blog, my wife and I had consulted with our family doctor and resident COVID expert to put together a plan enabling us to see my mother over the holidays, and thus I haven’t been “out there” in eighteen days.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

I could have called this blog post, “Don’t Call It A Comeback,” but I’ve used that before. TorontoRealtyBlog …we finally got a piece of the pie! So how about a reference from The Jeffersons then? I will admit: I’ve never seen the show. After all, it ran from 1975 to 1985 and I was born in 1980.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Where was I, and what was I doing when I heard that the January, 2022 TRREB stats were released? “The TRREB stats are out,” he told me, last Thursday afternoon, “And they’re…… interesting.” I was driving. I was on Richmond Street West. That’s when Matthew called.

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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

MARCH 17, 2023

Those who love stats will have a field day whereas those who like MLS Musings will skim to the bottom to convince themselves they read this. Let’s look at each TRREB district as well as the 416 and 905 property types. TorontoRealtyBlog That was a very interesting exercise on Wednesday! for the GTA average. for the GTA average.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

I want you to remember this blog post, and where you first heard what I’m about to say. ” Here’s the listing from December: This property was on the market for $1,270,000 with offers any time. ” Here’s the listing from December: This property was on the market for $1,270,000 with offers any time.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog You know, when I sit down to write these stats blogs at the start of every month, I don’t always know what I’m going to say… The truth is, I let the data write the post for me. What shocked me about the stats presented in Monday’s blog was that the 416 average condo price dropped 4.1%

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We went from “this is the end” to “the sky’s the limit.” Raise your hand if back in April of 2020 you thought we’d still be doing this by the fall of 2021? Such is life at the current moment, and I believe that most of us by now have accepted this as a part of our daily routine. Nothing is the same.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Every real estate agent can customize his or her TRREB home page according to the areas that the agent follows. Every real estate agent can customize his or her TRREB home page according to the areas that the agent follows. Here’s a screenshot of my TRREB home page from Tuesday night: . TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Am I guilty of giving away the ending before we’ve even started ? But if we really want to look at national, or in this case, provincial housing stats, we have to use the CREA Home Price Index. But if we really want to look at national, or in this case, provincial housing stats, we have to use the CREA Home Price Index.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2021

from February to November, despite the average TRREB sale price being up 5.0% TRREB: November, 2019: $843,637. As of December 31st, 2020, there are currently 1,607 active condominium listings in C01 & C08, aka “downtown.” TorontoRealtyBlog. Let’s pick up right where we left off, shall we? A rough ride.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Every real estate agent can customize his or her TRREB home page according to the areas that the agent follows. Every real estate agent can customize his or her TRREB home page according to the areas that the agent follows. Here’s a screenshot of my TRREB home page from Tuesday night: . TorontoRealtyBlog.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Honest to goodness, when I started writing this one the week before Labour Day, I had no idea that it would end up being dragged out over three successive posts! TorontoRealtyBlog. This is especially true of personal finance and real estate. Everybody out there has an opinion, after all. So, yeah. I’m not worried about brevity here.

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