Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Do you recall the blog post that I wrote a couple of weeks ago? The one about the psychology of pricing ? Then again, you might think today’s photo is an odd choice. And don’t they take the mask off once the property is sold and the price is published? Don’t we?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Did you hear? Well, at the risk of alienation-via-wordplay, it’s not so much what you might have heard, but rather the words “Did you hear?” I can’t tell you how many times I was asked “Did you hear” in the last 72 hours. Hear, what , exactly?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Considering I felt the need to specify head-first when I mentioned “diving,” it just goes to show you how unfamiliar I am with this past time. No matter how deep a dive we want to take on the current TRREB stats, I’m well prepared, and more importantly, I won’t get water up my nose ! What can I say?

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HomeLight

MAY 10, 2024

Affordable home prices, a strong job market, and a growing population make Columbus, Ohio an attractive market for real estate investors. If you’re a homeowner looking for an alternative to the traditional market, connecting with cash home buyers in Columbus could result in a smoother and faster selling experience.

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HomeLight

MAY 7, 2024

If you’re looking to sell a property in Charlotte, North Carolina, without the difficulties that come with listing on the open market, securing a cash buyer could be a quick and streamlined solution. In this guide, we’ll outline how to connect with reputable cash home buyers in Charlotte and break down the cash-purchasing process.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Tell me that you hate the title of today’s blog and I won’t fault you for that. You have your viewpoint and I have mine. ” You like that? .” ” You like that? Some of the TRB readers have been waiting for today’s post to see how I would react.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

The rental market is no longer “tough,” I said. But maybe it depends on who you ask, what you read, and where? No matter the market, there will always be two news sources telling different stories. s (CMHC) rental market report. indicates that even this city is suffering from a rental supply shortage.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Are you reading your very first blog post here on Toronto Realty Blog? Or are you a ten-year veteran? Instead, I’ve been writing about the perils of pre-construction condos since I started this blog back in 2007. Time flies when you’re having fun, right? But, I digress.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I’m on an honesty streak of late, so let me admit the following: after choosing the title of today’s blog, I came to realize that I don’t actually know what the idiom, “grasping at straws,” refers to. I mean, do you know what is meant by a “harebrained scheme?”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog A younger agent in my office told me the other day, “You need to start your Instagram videos with a hook.” Thankfully , here on the Toronto Realty Blog, we’re not bound by the same “rules of attraction” that govern social media. No, here on Toronto Realty Blog, we can do things slowly.

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HomeLight

MAY 3, 2024

The traditional process of listing it on the open market can be time-consuming and stressful. If you’d like a simpler option, consider a cash home buyer in Chicago. The Chicago housing market is ever-changing, and selling a property, particularly in a less popular area, might take longer than you’d like.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 28, 2023

” Some of you already get the reference and others are thinking about it. Let’s just say that you don’t need to take a day off to figure this one out, but the first person to post the reference in the comments wins my utmost respect and potential future friendship… So how about twenty-two times ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Have you heard of Takashi Murakami? If you know the names Alessandro Munge, Philippe Starck, and Brian Gluckstein, then you’re either incredibly obsessed with design, or you’re incredibly obsessed with real estate. I haven’t. And I don’t expect that 99.9%

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 24, 2023

Real estate agencies need to utilize the internet to increase their subscribers - but how can agencies do this? Luckily, there are five things you can do to increase traffic to your real estate website. Luckily, there are five things you can do to increase traffic to your real estate website.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

An agent in my brokerage, who shall remain nameless, came by my office last week and said, “What’s with all the doom-and-gloom on your blog, man?” ” First of all, thanks for reading my blog. Secondly, there’s no doom-and-gloom on the blog. I enjoy working in any and all markets.

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As an investor, you always have your eye on how you can make a greater profit. You look for the next best deal everywhere. And you put in all the work you can yourself to help you save money. If you get your real estate license right now, would it really save you cash in the long run?"

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog You all remember Thomas , don’t you? But it adds context to both today’s blog, today’s blog challenge, and of course, blog reader Derek ‘s comment from last Friday. Many market bears thought this price would continue to decline. The challenge was accepted!

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Easy Agent Pro

MAY 14, 2024

As a real estate agent, your day starts early with an analysis of housing trends, followed by careful staging of properties and networking. You’ll spend your afternoons negotiating deals , crafting persuasive offers, and conducting home tours. Are you ready to dive deeper and discover what a real estate agent schedule is?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog You know that saying about the slow car-wreck ? You just can’t look away. Then sometimes, you almost anticipate the car-wreck, and morbidly (if this is an analogy…) prepare yourself for the spectacle. How did we ever manage before? ” Yes. We did that. We did that. We know that.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog It may come as no surprise to you that I receive a lot of feedback on these blog posts. I just received this email: Hey David, A long time lurker on your blog and audience to your Pick5 videos. It appears that Pape Ave properties do not get much love. Then there are lots of questions as well.

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Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Home prices have been rising rapidly in recent years, with some markets seeing double-digit growth. A housing bubble is a sustained but temporary condition of over-valued prices and rampant speculation in housing markets. In this blog post, we will examine the signs of a housing bubble and the risks associated with it.

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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? As you can imagine, my undiagnosed A.D.D., 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?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

We have a saying in real estate that goes like this: When the market changes, it changes overnight. When the market changes, it’s not gradual. When the market changes, it’s not gradual. When the market changes, it happens in an instant. Now, most of you are thinking that this is hyperbolic.

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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? You know who I’m talking about. Picture it. I know my place.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog We’ve talked a lot about pricing this fall. In fact, we’ve talked a lot about pricing throughout the entire year. Critics of real estate agents will suggest that in a hot market, “Any moron can put a FOR SALE sign on the lawn, set an offer date, and sell the property.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 12, 2023

Ask me how many leases were submitted on behalf of those four lease clients. How about twelve ? Six for one set of tenants, if you can believe it. And it’s not that these are poor calibre tenants, but rather market conditions are just impossible right now. More than four? Tara had a great story from last week.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 27, 2022

How could none of you guess that? But I’ll give you credit, you guys tried! So there you have it, folks. For those who played along in last Thursday’s blog, thank you for trying! How do you list it for sale? TorontoRealtyBlog. Rainbow Sherbert. Rocky Road. Rum Raisin.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Here’s a moment in time, and one that I think I’ve written about before, so stop if you’ve heard this one… Years ago, I got roped into listing a dozen condos that were owned by the developer, right after the building was registered. Writing this now – I know I’ve told this story before.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Didn’t I say last month that we can’t put much stake into summer market stats? The summer is always a slow time in the Toronto real estate market, and for good reason. A friend of mine, with whom I golf every summer, always jokes, “Remind me again, exactly why do we choose to live here?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog When was the last time you saw a lawn-sign and it had one of those “SOLD OVER ASKING” riders on the top? As a person who crunches numbers as a form of entertainment, I’ve always maintained, “You can make numbers say anything you want.” I hate those. I always have.

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Real Trends

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A home that might have sold for over-list price in less than a day with multiple offers a few months ago — even with bad iPhone photos and monstrous dust bunnies under the coffee table — is going to need a little more love now that we are feeling a market shift , seeing increased days on market and inventory is growing. .

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

As to why we usually set offer dates for Monday or Tuesday, you can read more about that in a blog post that I wrote last month: “When Should You Move Your Offer Date? How many offers? What’s the sale price? Yes, a prediction game. It’s quite simple. Personally, I think it’s pretty tame.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

And every so often, when I see this property or that property, I already know who the seller is before I’ve even clicked on the listing. There are certain properties that have been listed over and over and over again! Do you want to play a game – says the creepy voice in the movie “SAW.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2023

But then one day, you see the error of your ways. You come back to the office to an absolute uproar of laughter and ridicule. Sadly, despite your prioritizing time over quality, you realize that you can’t go around looking like this: Then a friend of yours says, “You should go to Bayview and see my pal, Yusif.

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Your goal in reaching out to potential customers is to make sure you only reach out to those prospective buyers who are most likely to benefit from your services. To find your niche and get estate agents' attention, you need to figure out where your services fit into specific fields. How do they structure their email campaigns?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

c) The market Gods. Oh, wait, I haven’t even told you the question yet… Remember back in high school or university when you wrote multiple-choice tests, there was always that one kid who put up his hand and asked, “Sir, is there any penalty for guessing ? They have no clue what properties are worth.

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The Residential Specialist

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The tone of their outlook is one of cautious and patient optimism, while looking frankly at the challenges the current market faces. 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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