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. In the face of poor real estate statistics and all, I continue to be bullish about the market. Picture it.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 25, 2021

How was your long weekend? Any better or worse than it would have been had we not been in a pandemic, or a pseudo-lockdown that very few people in society seem to actually be following? The real estate market, post-Victoria Day, is always an interesting little grind. TorontoRealtyBlog. We’re not sure yet.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

I’m working toward a half-marathon and while I know some of our regular readers are also regular marathoners, like, “ R ” who has completed many, I’ve had a rash of injuries to deal with since I started running in 2020. I sprained my ankle, again , and this time it was really, really unfair. Physically and mentally.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 29, 2022

The market has changed and along with that change comes both the good and the bad. The market has changed and along with that change comes both the good and the bad. Then again, in changing markets come opportunists, and I’m seeing a lot of that right now. ” Maybe. ” But it is !

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

Monday’s blog post was somewhat eye-opening, right? Blog reader, hoob tells a story about helping a friend move to downtown Tillsonburg in the year 2000. Blog reader, Joel says he’s originally from Tillsonburg and his family still lives there. But how does the rest of Canada look? I mean, Tillsonburg?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 24, 2021

How about losing a loved one, and celebrating that person’s life every year on the anniversary of their passing? So how did you feel last week when we had the first real COVID “anniversary? How ironic! If I can’t do that, then I don’t deserve her. Wedding anniversary. Like, every year?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Last week, no fewer than seven blog readers emailed me the following article: “Landlords Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Raise Rents Between Tenants, Says Toronto’s Top Housing Official” For what it’s worth, I saw the article on my own too. But then what? This topic is just too important.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

You simply can’t imagine how much play this got. You simply can’t imagine how much play this got. What does that tell you about just how large a story this is or could be? That’s how obvious these needs are! Did you notice too? Or was it just me? It’s huge Canadian news, um, here in Canada.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

” “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again…” While the figures for March didn’t really reflect the “feeling” out there in the Toronto real estate market, the figures for April and May sure did. 2) The market has clawed almost all the way back from last year.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 14, 2023

So I decided to take this to the media and I went to the Toronto Star to complain. TorontoRealtyBlog Earlier this year, there was a football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. I think you might heard of it? It was called the “SuperBowl” or something like that. Imagine that? But what is gambling?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2023

I met him just before the pandemic and, honestly, I wouldn’t go anywhere else. TorontoRealtyBlog I’ve been going to the same barber now for four years. At the time, I prioritized expediency over quality. These guys described themselves as “the kings of the five-minute haircut,” only as my wife explained, it showed !

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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

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. Then along came the pandemic, and everything changed. All market segments were hammered by the pandemic.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

I recognize that real estate is expensive in the city, and that goes for both purchase and rent. I’ll zoom in: How does this make it past quality control at whatever brokerage has this listed? The price was changed at 6:42pm that night. ” – I’m a terrible real estate agent.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

That’s how I’ve felt about the 2024 national budget for the last few weeks, and while the budget won’t be released until April 16th, I’m already anxious about it. I want to try not to make this blog post political since it’s supposed to be about the newly-announced Renters Bill of Rights. ” Yes.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

I’m not gonna lie; I was thinking about today’s blog topic when I woke up this morning. Would you believe that this song has more plays on Spotify than “Patience? “Wind of Change,” and not Winds as would be more grammatically correct, was on their 1990 studio album, “Crazy World.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 20, 2020

The headline of today’s blog – did it get ya, even for a second? First, I would suggest that the exodus from Toronto has been ongoing for years now. I’ve written about this in the past, and I believe that I labelled it one of my “top stories” in a year-end blog in 2018 or 2019.

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GeekEstate

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we spoke with Monty Ngan and Hannah Le from Ascend Build. Monty – I’m the co-founder of Ascend Build – we help real estate developers and property managers optimize rental pricing. Without further ado… Who are you and what do you do? Previous to.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 24, 2023

Am I getting saltier, angrier, and more out of touch with the readership, or has the readership simply expanded and evolved? Today, I feel like the general thoughts expressed in this blog will be met with 100% support! Today, I feel like the general thoughts expressed in this blog will be met with 100% support!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

There are a few ways that I could start today’s blog. We’ve talked in the past about the rights of tenants in the province of Ontario and how overbearing those rights are. Let me connect the dots and you’ll see why and how. TorontoRealtyBlog. “No good deed goes unpunished.” Do you know the type?

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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. They are a constant reminder of just how good you have it. x 11 paper.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Do you know how to access the dark web ? So when Monday’s blog, “Behind The Scenes Of A Toronto Offer Night” was a topic of conversation on Reddit, I had no choice but to read the discussion and subsequent comments. On Monday’s blog, a reader made the following comment: You know what? But Reddit?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

” But inflation dipped below 4% by 1983, and in the nearly four decades since then, debate has raged about the effectiveness of Paul Volcker’s drastic actions. .” TorontoRealtyBlog. Do you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal ? Wait, sorry, that sounded like such a douchey thing to say. Inflation Hit 8.6% in March of 1980.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

How about this one… – “(No) Problems At The Printing Factory Lofts? How about this one… – “(No) Problems At The Printing Factory Lofts?” I took more heat for that blog post than my infamous June 1st, 2010 post where I compared the Foundry Lofts to Alcatraz ! ” Where to start?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 17, 2021

I know we’re all in that ho-hum mindset and have been for the last fourteen months, but even if you think back, pre-pandemic, doesn’t it just seem wild? How many escalation clauses have I seen since then? Let me water this down even more: RECO has no problem with escalation clauses. TorontoRealtyBlog. June of 2017.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We all know how that goes. 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.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I’m genuinely looking forward to getting back into a routine, although some of that has more to do with a rough string of health and body issues of late. TorontoRealtyBlog. What’s the difference between a 7-day vacation and a 14-day vacation? About seven days! But seriously, what’s the difference?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Wow, the first four months of the 2021 real estate calendar have flown by! And at the very same time, it seemed to last forever… Case in point: I went to look up a blog post that I wrote about a seller’s bully offer dilemma, thinking it was back in February, only to find it was on March 10th. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

As the team’s de facto millennial punching bag, I’ve read blogs in this space enough times to know that I’m entitled to things coming easily or even being given to me, and writing a substitute blog post should be no exception. How are you? I’ve been a reader of this blog on and off for about ten years. No, no I do not.

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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. 4) Prices Outside The City Of Toronto.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” Times have changed, most certainly, and whereas we used to think of the fall season and conjure up thoughts and images of fallen leaves, corn mazes, and pumpkin patches, we find ourselves here in 2021 where it’s all about who might have a cold. COVID has affected everything around us. Nothing is the same.

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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.” ” How in the world did I get 2 1/2 weeks off? ” How in the world did I get 2 1/2 weeks off? TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Looking back at previous iterations of this feature, my stomach churns a little as I remember each topic vividly. And with each of these topics, I could pick one and literally tell you how my senses felt… 2015: Urbancorp “stealing” their condos back. It happens so quickly, and you’re simply along for the ride.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

So, how was your holiday break? Call that a “change in technology,” if you will, comparing 1986 to 2022, but the Christmas Boxes were a success! TorontoRealtyBlog. No, seriously. Tell us ! Perhaps a better question: what did you get for Christmas? I got nothing. I got nothing. Anybody else in this boat?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

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 mean, “Burning Questions” again? We did this after Labour Day, right? To start the fall market? Well, what can I say? I just like photos of burning logs.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Looking back on it, I suppose I didn’t “need” to write a thousand words or more about my holiday break in Thursday’s blog post, thereby extending the length of the blog and only allowing us to examine two of the ten discussion points for 2023. But just how common are defaults in Canada? Is that a lot?

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