Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Did I ever tell the story about how a colleague of mine, in her first year of real estate, sold a house to a homeless person? ” I love when that happens. Believe it or not, I don’t have a never-ending bucket of topics for the blog. Er, sorry, I meant unhoused.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog On Wednesday, I took a look at the pre-construction condominium market in Toronto and how prices and those sweet builder “incentives” look this fall. First, what in the world is TARION? Maybe some of you have already read this. We’ve heard of it. We know it has something to do with builders.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

How could you not know? How did you miss the signs? How could you be so oblivious and in your own world as to not see what was blatantly in front of your face? How could you be so oblivious and in your own world as to not see what was blatantly in front of your face? It’s alright.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

” I then put on my cozy slippers, unfolded my bifocals, put my newspaper aside, took a sip of my prune juice, and said, “Tell me more… ” Apparently, people have short attention spans in today’s world. No, here on Toronto Realty Blog, we can do things slowly. We can take our time. We can flush things out.

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Easy Agent Pro

JUNE 8, 2021

Especially in the real estate industry it seems that all the SEO in the world won’t get the average agent to the front page of the Google search results. There is another way to rank higher: blogging, consistently. A good method to use when this happens is to narrow your focus when brainstorming. Audience: Home Sellers.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Whatever happened to the hype man ? 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. Having said that, I’ve been saving this blog post for a while now.

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Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I would be underplaying this if I did not admit astonishment. This just does not happen. Louis, Missouri’s property market is already crashing. On the outskirts of the city, underwater mortgages exceed 16% in some areas. Prices are falling like a rock too. And what this means for buyers and sellers should be patently simple.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Geez, what happened to “More MLS Musings?” How in the world do people get away with this? This can’t happen, right? ” Perhaps I got carried away this year actually writing about real estate! However, the Brokerage Remarks provide a slightly different explanation: Okay. .”

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog You’ve already heard how I feel that the January TRREB stats don’t support what’s happening out there in the market, right? That’s not going to explain what’s happening in the market. And some of you are tired of that already? I know, I know. Houses will drop in price by 50%.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Except in Wednesday’s blog post, one seller did. ” The experience that I described in Wednesday’s blog made absolutely zero sense. TorontoRealtyBlog I wasn’t exaggerating when I said, in twenty years I have only ever ‘won’ in competition with a conditional offer once.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 8, 2022

I don’t know David from high school, nor did I play baseball on his team… talk about a boys club, right? This is the best job, and as the rest of the team can attest, whenever someone checks in to see how I’m doing; my response has stayed the same – “I love it here”. But how did I get here? . I honestly do. .

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

While I have a very lengthy and somewhat contentious blog post lined up for next week, let’s first take a look at some stories from the week that are now in the rear view mirror… The Weird Gets Weirder It’s a difficult market out there and many agents don’t know how to work within it. But can you blame them?

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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. More simply: Schadenfreude Where did this start? The feedback is everything good, bad, and in between. Wonder why?

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Not only did I ignore that, last week, most of you didn’t like having to wait for “part two” of a blog story, but I also promised in Wednesday’s blog that I wouldn’t do it again… …and then I did. How far would you go to protect your principles? Just a little?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

If I learned anything from filming this video it’s how great the camera on an iPhone is, not to mention when you connect to ear buds. ” Only, that’s not how this works. And for passer-byers like me and you, we can only make assumptions about what happened and why. Did those owners opt out?

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But it happens, over and over, to the point where that old saying comes into play: “It’s almost like you’re trying to be wrong!” wondering how you guys are looking at this rating of toronto as the second biggest bubble risk globally? . we hope…). If you pick the Packers, you have a 48% chance.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog How much would you pay to have somebody line up overnight and potentially sleep on the pavement in order to hold your place in line? Alternatively, how much would you need to be paid by somebody else to line up overnight in order to hold somebody else’s place in line? So what does Riff do? Remember this clip?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 26, 2023

That’s how the bully offer was born. And when we got used to this happening in the market, we simply acknowledged it as a new technique. And when we got used to this happening in the market, we simply acknowledged it as a new technique. That’s how you were able, in theory, to tip the scales in your favour.

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GeekEstate

JUNE 7, 2022

How did you get a monopoly on the light blue properties on the first round?” [Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of Part I of our 214th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 500 GEM members on June 2nd, 2022. Some links included below are to members-only articles.]. and roll a three. Baltic Ave.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I think it’s fair, therefore, to suggest that any mother of the bride takes great pride in how she presents, whether it’s her makeup, her hair, or her dress. I think it’s fair, therefore, to suggest that any mother of the bride takes great pride in how she presents, whether it’s her makeup, her hair, or her dress.

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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!

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Did you know that Arnold Schwarzenegger was my hero when I was younger? What in the world is a laser-disc? My father was also told that the only movie in the world that would really, truly, fully, and confidently display the power of THX in-home surround sound was noneother than Terminator 2: Judgment Day. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 25, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog A client and loyal blog reader asked me this week, “What are your biggest pet peeves about the industry?” Then again, I regularly use this blog as an outlet, so I’m sure we could come up with five, ten, or one hundred in no time. ” I smiled and said, “We’re only seeing one house.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

In neither case did the buyer insert a clause in the APS that stated the property must be professionally cleaned, but it was a small gesture (probably $150 back in 2009 and $300 in 2017) and one that I felt was warranted. Missing drapes or fireplaces, per the blog post, but much, much worse per the comments!

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Easy Agent Pro

APRIL 18, 2022

You know how important it is to manage your SOI… so just imagine the buzz you can generate regarding spring and seasonal events. One tried-and-true way is sending an email promoting a relevant topic that includes a link to your blog… where they’ll find a helpful, engaging post on that topic. Spring has officially sprung!

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I suppose if you really wanted to be amused with the hilarious and often tragic happenings in my industry, you’d have simply read Monday and Wednesday’s blog posts and been done with it! – How about this one? How in the world does this make sense? But stories only tell part of the tale.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I have penned several blogs this year on TRB about properties listed “over and over,” so today’s post is seemingly nothing new. What if we looked at a property that did not sell, and continues to be listed over and over, and looked at what it would have, could have, should have been listed for? I’m not joking.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

Their job was to find somebody who fit that narrative, and maybe they made a thousand calls to find that one agent who said, “Yeah, that’s happening to me right now.” ” The truth is, we have no idea how many of these deals there are, but we do know that the number is more than zero. .” 6% rate meh.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

I was literally writing Monday’s blog about 3-bedroom condo floor plans when a TRB reader sent me this: Hi David! . Love your video blog. Then again, if we want to play that game, “Look at what other people live in, around the world,” we’ll probably feel like spoiled brats. Well, alright then!

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The Close

AUGUST 3, 2023

It’s what people will type in to find you on the World Wide Web. How to Pick a Domain Name in Real Estate A domain is a particularly important part of your overall business. How to Pick a Domain Name in Real Estate A domain is a particularly important part of your overall business. hereiamworldreadytosellrealestate.com.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog If it’s fair to draw just one conclusion from Monday’s blog post, it would be this: maintenance fees have increased substantially throughout the downtown core over the last decade. As I showed you on Monday, I wrote blogs about this way back when. Blog reader Daniel wrote: Very good point!

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the new Freed Residences, where studio condos were being pre-sold for upwards of $2,300 per square foot. In fact, I really didn’t learn much from it, other than perhaps the notion that I needed to pen a similar blog post. I remember it vividly. That included the furniture.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 15, 2023

I couldn’t help but notice how many of the questions were rooted in fear. “How long did it take for people to stop assuming you’re brand-new? TorontoRealtyBlog Nobody gets to the top in this business without a lot of help. Whether that help is asked for or merely given, need not matter. It was astonishing.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

We’ve all read “The Big Short,” or seen the movie with Christian Bale, and we all know how the sub-prime lending crisis caused the Financial Crisis in the United States, which then had worldwide implications. TorontoRealtyBlog When I think of amortization periods, there are two numbers that immediately come to mind.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Recall a video I did back in 2011 that looked at all the houses on Berwick Avenue which were boarded up, soon to become part of a condominium development known as “The Berwick.” But what happened? So when did this property find its way into the hands of a developer? Then again, there are external factors as well.

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