Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I guess I’m a little behind on my regular updates on changes to the English language by first-year university students with nothing better to do… Yes, my colleague sold a house to a homeless woman who was simply meeting with my colleague and looking at houses every week in order to get a free Tim Horton’s coffee and muffin.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

So I’ll do anything I can to help that agent see that his or her potential offer is not worth presenting. It’s the least I can do as a colleague and professional. Keep in mind, there are only so many rules about what a real estate agent can and cannot do or say in the process of negotiating in multiple offers.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Here’s a new one: why don’t we “blame” the current housing prices on the natural forces of supply and demand in a free market? Not only that, the average home price coming into that year was $566,611. What fun would that be? We need a scapegoat! A so-called boogeyman. 1) The government.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Do you watch basketball? Sure, I’ve got all the big sports covered. Sure, I’ve got all the big sports covered. Got that too. TorontoRealtyBlog. I don’t. That book is comprised of printed Excel spreadsheets that I have made myself and continuously update. It’s in there. It’s crazy. Okay, sure.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I know I’ve used “The Fork In The Road” for a TRREB stats blog post before. and although I tried to keep my mind empty and simply take in the sights, sounds, smells, and enjoy the journey, I found myself thinking about this blog post. So not even that long ago. ” Now, it’s July.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

” That’s a nice one and it’s got a very wide application. ” Not everybody agrees, of course. As I said: not everybody agrees. As I said: not everybody agrees. I suppose there are many. “There is no finish line, so enjoy the journey.” ” I like that one a lot. But for sellers?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

Everybody and their mother want to talk about “blind bidding” but many of those people aren’t interested in a discussion. I’ve often asked: if you tell the truth about something, do so in a blunt and to-the-point way, and that particular truth is not welcome, would the recipients automatically dislike you?

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I don’t believe I’ve cracked 3,000 blog posts yet, but I’m close. Leading MLB history in walks probably had something to do with that, but I digress. Ergo, I have been looking forward to penning my 3,000th blog post for quite some time. I searched my blog archives, and do you know what I found?

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Do you want to play a game? ” Whether it’s Grover, Telly, or Cookie Monster, I’m pretty sure everybody (including your less-than-bright cousin who watched Sesame Street with you and was always a step behind…) can find the right answer here. .” TorontoRealtyBlog. Sounds ominous, I know. d) Kitchener.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Are you just a Toronto Realty Blog reader, or do you watch Pick5 as well? Of course, this took me on a wicked nothing-to-do-with-real-estate tangent about the band The Cranberries , and their hit song, “Linger.” Could you do the same thing? TorontoRealtyBlog. As you can imagine, my undiagnosed A.D.D.,

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The Residential Specialist

OCTOBER 19, 2023

You’re going to see even more people get out of this business, specifically those who got into it from 2020–2023 and thought this was easy. That’s when you really saw an uptick in the market, with increased prices, multiple offers and everybody was an Instagram rock star,” he continues. But it’s not that easy.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Now, if you’re listing a condo at Yonge & Finch with an offer date and you receive three offers around the list price, they might all be conditional. But an under-priced freehold property in the central core, with an offer date, with eight offers, in a hot market? Except in Wednesday’s blog post, one seller did.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog It’s not very often that my daughter gives me an idea for a blog post. I’m surprised she even knows what a blog is. ” We discuss a lot of things here on Toronto Realty Blog, and when it comes to the design of a home, or features therein, we would have seemingly countless themes from which to choose.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

Ergo, a property is going to sell for what one person out there is going to pay, above and beyond everybody else. 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. Is it the fault of listing agents for under-pricing? TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Remember that guy back in high school that was super popular and always got the ladies? But maybe, just maybe, his blonde hair, chiseled jaw, and baby-blue eyes weren’t the only quality that got him to where he was. Do we respect those who have things that we want, but don’t have, or do we hate them for it?

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I mentioned in an Instagram video earlier this week that I have been writing on Toronto Realty Blog for fifteen years. And some three-thousand blog posts later, the number-one question I’ve always been asked and continue to be asked is this: “How do you come up with topics to write three times per week?”

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

While few of the readers know me personally, and I do come off as a jerk on this blog quite often (of course that’s part of the character I portray…), I really do believe in small gestures of goodwill, in all areas of life. Missing drapes or fireplaces, per the blog post, but much, much worse per the comments!

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

” I sort of do. Just as the original “Survivor” show captivated everybody, in every country, where it was played, so too did “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.” Raise your hand if you remember the first person who won the million-dollar grand prize on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” It was a man.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

The price was changed at 6:42pm that night. Not only is the “feature photo” a picture of the outside of the door in the hallway, but it’s also got twenty-four sideways photos: They also have multiple photos repeated, and/or photos of the same thing from a 3% different angle. It’s that one! Sounds good!

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

” As the real estate boom of the late-2000’s began, buyers flocked to pre-construction condos – many of them completely inexperienced and naive, and as a result, the industry, the process, and the prices began to change. .” When a condominium project is cancelled, I often blog about it. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

“Once you got ten jumps under your belt, my dad told me, “You qualified for a true free-fall.” “I worked my way up to five seconds, but I never got any further. Now you have guys doing tricks and flips on a damn snowboard at 20,000 feet, hurtling toward the earth at terminal velocity.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

Do you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal ? It reminds me of the line in American Psycho: “Do you tan? ” But seriously, for those that do subscribe, the weekend edition was rather telling. Energy, groceries, shelter costs drive fastest rise in consumer-price index since December 1981. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 24, 2020

I started Toronto Realty Blog in 2007 with a mandate of bringing transparency to an industry that has none. “Honest opinions from Toronto’s real estate insider,” was my first tag-line. Or, I suppose the other view: How did this house sell ‘almost a million dollars’ over the list price? TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 29, 2022

“Tell Us The Price You Want” This feels so dirty, I don’t know how anybody can take this seriously. “Tell Us The Price You Want” This feels so dirty, I don’t know how anybody can take this seriously. It’s doing exactly that! TorontoRealtyBlog. ” Maybe. ” But it is !

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

An old friend of mine emailed me last week with the following: Hey Dave – I was re-reading your multiple blog posts on the horrors and pitfalls of pre-con condo buying in Toronto. These blog posts are like bible verses that keep me from sinning. TorontoRealtyBlog. What is a “double whammy?” rating on IMDB.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

I again confirmed this, but added, “Unless it’s a really bad agent not doing his or her job, but yeah, any bully offer registered on the property should trigger an email from the listing brokerage to all of the buyer agents.” “So offers are on Monday ?” ” they asked me. I confirmed that was the case.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Don’t worry, I’m not going to start this blog with lyrics from “Changes” by David Bowie. Instead, I’m going to give you a different folksy intro today that better explains the topic at hand… Last week, my wife sent me a text message and said, “OMG I got a speeding ticket! What a joke.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Oh man, I hope my buddy doesn’t read my blog… One of my very best friends, dating back to childhood, was renting a 3-bedroom apartment in the midtown area about fifteen years ago, and he ran through a fair number of roommates. I asked him what the problem was and he said, “I think I got scammed.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I’ll be honest: I wasn’t sure how to begin today’s blog post. I guess I still don’t… Do I start with the conclusion at the onset and work backward? Discussing the definition of affordable housing is a blog topic unto itself. ” Okay, but we talk about this all the time.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Based on the comments from TRB readers so far this year, I’d say the people are pretty mixed on where market activity and prices are headed. The media is bearish, but that’s got the obvious asterisk attached. Prices will level out a few months later—provided the Bank of Canada is done raising interest rates.

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Toronto Realty Blog

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?” TorontoRealtyBlog. ” Whether “best” is synonymous with “most expensive” is a matter of opinion.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Do you know what that means? I think that’s got to be true of every market, right? In any market, if demand greatly exceeds supply, then you’re going to see an uptick in prices! TorontoRealtyBlog We have a basement lease coming out this week. Those in the know, know. That’s good, right?

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

So why do people buy condos like this? Case in point: how we price houses and condos for sale. But whether it’s the buyers just entering the fray or the agents who have supposedly been doing this for decades, many market participants still come up empty when trying to figure it all out. Three of them.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

A translation from Investopedia says the phrase means, “waiting for the price of an asset to bottom out before buying it.” TorontoRealtyBlog. The term itself doesn’t sound all that pleasant, or safe. But then again, I guess it depends on how sharp the knife is? Some consider this to mean “buying a risky investment.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

While the older agents in your office might not impress you with their questions about how to “do a Twitter,” or when they try to fax something on the printer, or when they put a Tide Pod in the Keurig, they are great for stories about yesteryear. So the cable modem only existed for three years before I got into the business?

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

On the seventh day, when everybody around us was looking sad, preparing to head home, we were absolutely elated to be staying! I do well when I have a schedule, a set of responsibilities, and I’m never looking around wondering what to do. What’s the difference between a 7-day vacation and a 14-day vacation?

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

But those three things together and do you know what you get? Regardless, if the government is going to provide something new for “free,” that means it has two options on how to go about doing so: 1) Increase revenue. TorontoRealtyBlog. I’m a cynic. I’m a realist. And I understand economics. The simple reason?

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