Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” I mean… – On another note, I literally don’t know how somebody can be this stupid: – Okay, okay, enough jokes. How about something serious, like maybe a look back at “Mortgage Comments” on MLS listings in the 1990’s? TorontoRealtyBlog. The best I’ve seen in a long, long time.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is going to be the busiest August on record in the Toronto real estate market, you can mark my words. If the explosive month of June, which saw the GTA average home price reach an all-time high, is any indication, the summer months in 2020 are going to replace the time we lost in the real estate market at the height of the pandemic.

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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? Fraser Valley.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 13, 2022

But my client’s property manager was the most hands-on, well-connected, problem-solving manager I had ever met, and my client’s return on investment with his AirBnB rentals was a direct result of his property manager. TorontoRealtyBlog. AirBnB is just as amazing as it is awful. His returns were through the roof, he said.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

The thing about writing three blogs per week, going on seventeen years, is that when you have an idea for a post, you’ve got to sit down and write it. The thing about writing three blogs per week, going on seventeen years, is that when you have an idea for a post, you’ve got to sit down and write it. I just got to my desk.

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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. If there were no landlords, there would be a lot less rental housing. Let me connect the dots and you’ll see why and how.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Toronto Realty Blog logo used to say, “By David Fleming” underneath, but we removed that years ago. Sometimes it feels like I do. And to be fair, some of the regular readers have paid me compliments to this effect in the past, suggesting that this is an unparalleled free source for real estate insights. An advice provider.

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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. If I asked you right now, “Name three songs that feature whistling,” which are the first three that would come to mind? I believe I came up with the title while I was brushing my teeth. Patience , by Guns N Roses. I was eight !

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That afternoon, I saw two missed calls, one at 3:44pm from Tara and one at 3:48 pm from Judy. That afternoon, I saw two missed calls, one at 3:44pm from Tara and one at 3:48 pm from Judy. Ah, I think about here… …Judy was scheduled for surgery the very next day! ” I asked her. TO BE CONTINUED…).

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Lab Coat Agents

MAY 14, 2021

This article was originally featured on the Follow Up Boss blog. Step 3: Understand Your Real Estate Team Inside and Out. Most agents dream of the day they’re ready to make their first hire. But those who have done it know this is where the real fun begins. Here’s what we’ll cover: Step 0: Double-Check Your Decision.

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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

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. 3) Market Frustration.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 14, 2022

I turned down not one, but two offers to lease on a rental listing where the tenants were both offering all twelve months of rent up front! How can I sum all this up succinctly and have it make sense? On Tuesday, I wrote about a few “stories from the trenches,” which stemmed from a rental listing I had last week.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Remember when the market was red-hot, there were 15-20 offers on every listing with an “offer date,” and listing agents got fed up with buyer agents calling and asking about the price expectations? Do a comparative market analysis. We started to see listing agents put disclaimers in their listings.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2021

– 4) What is going to happen in the downtown condo market? I was on CTV Your Morning last Thursday to discuss the 2021 real estate market, and it’s never easy to get meaningful points across, over five or six questions, in a mere four minutes. However, the condo market got hit. “ Rough ride.”

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Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, Hurricane Harvey flooded more than a hundred thousand homes in August 2017 which kind of froze the Houston real estate market. However, the Houston housing market recovered from that bust and is booming. But before that let's discuss current trends and forecasts of the Houston real estate market.

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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. 4) Refusal To Accept Market Reality. 3) The Rental Market.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Not only are my fingers tired from writing Monday’s blog, but also from hand-writing three-hundred Christmas cards! 3) The Media’s Continued Obsession With The Pending Real Estate Collapse. 1) The Market. 3) The Media’s Continued Obsession With The Pending Real Estate Collapse. 1) The Market.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Well, maybe Thursday’s blog was a mouthful. All that time off over the holidays without an outlet for my thoughts – both about real estate, and not, and you had to know that the first blog back in January would be lengthy. It’s blogs like these that often make me feel guilty of being unoriginal, however.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Let’s start a thread in the comments section for “How Long Have You Been On TRB?” ” I would love to hear from you guys, if for no other reason than to know how much we’ve grown together over the years. How about the regulars? Why am I wondering how long people have been around? But they did.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Yeah, but that’s now my point – my point is that COVID affects everything, no matter how big or how small. When I look back at how COVID has affected the Toronto real estate market over the past eighteen months, I’m amazed. COVID has affected everything around us. Nothing is the same. That was bizarre.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2022

One of the younger agents in our brokerage lamented the other day, “I can’t believe my rental client was just rejected for the third time!” ” Such is the state of the downtown Toronto rental market right now, at least, from what I’m hearing. So how many people are renting this condo?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

Would you read some random real estate agent’s biased blog? I suppose I had never really thought about how a completely novice, uninformed individual would start to educate him or herself, and where they would turn. “Hardly Anybody Is Buying Condos In Downtown Anymore.” It makes no sense. Absolutely none.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It seems we spent more time on Monday’s post talking about how long the readers have been on TRB than actually discussing the level of market saturation that exists in many downtown condos, but that’s okay. Today, I want to run the same exercise as Monday, but this time for rentals. So thank you! Crickets.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And even if you don’t read the newspaper, and have zero apps on your cell phone, you would still undoubtedly have heard about the rental prices in our city from somebody , somewhere. The goal today isn’t to examine the reason for the decline in rental prices, but we can certainly touch on it. Also, I like sarcasm.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

2) Just how rampant financial fraud is in 2022. 2) Just how rampant financial fraud is in 2022. Just listen… When we find ourselves in red hot sellers’ markets, it necessitates buyers needing to do everything possible to improve their chances of success on an “offer night” for a property with multiple offers.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

I could have played off that theme for today’s blog post and I wouldn’t have been off base. My client, who will be the subject of today’s blog, used the term “meant to be” several times over the last few days, as we both questioned whether or not there was such a thing. TorontoRealtyBlog. Serendipity.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Chris will always joke with me and say, “You can write blogs from anywhere. Move to Boston and start BRB ; the Boston Realty Blog!” Niagara on the Lake. Vancouver Island. What in the world is this? A random list of cities across the country? Am I just showing off my knowledge of Canadian geography?

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As I wrote on my blog last Friday, I owed it to my wife and to my family to take a day off, since I really haven’t done that all summer. The Friday before Labour Day is a ghost-town in real estate, and I figured I’d have few blog readers paying attention. See how old I am? That’s still how I think!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 22, 2020

So, have you decided to move out of the city, after reading Monday’s blog post? Instead, I give you the following flood, as told by BNN: “Office Subleases Are Flooding The Market In Downtown Toronto” BNN Bloomberg. What most of us know, however, is that there is no “right” move. Any others?

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HomeLight

MARCH 8, 2022

Maybe you already own your dream home and want to keep growing your real estate assets, but long-term rentals aren’t a great fit for your situation. Maybe you already own your dream home and want to keep growing your real estate assets, but long-term rentals aren’t a great fit for your situation. So what should you do then?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 17, 2021

Some see this as a chance to stick it to the hot Toronto real estate market, or sky-high rental prices, or their landlord, or all of the above. Others are simply hearing about how friends or colleagues benefited, and are looking to “get theirs.” All of them. So what’s the upside versus the downside?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

Of course, somewhere therein lays topics for blog posts, and today is an example of exactly that. Every week, I hear from at least a dozen people who aren’t in the market for real estate, but have something to say or share. TorontoRealtyBlog. On Sunday afternoon, I was at the Toronto Zoo with my family. Funny MLS photos can wait.

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Norada Real Estate

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

New York City is one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world, and it regularly tops lists of the most expensive markets in the United States. Why do so many invest in NYC real estate market? It is known for its powerful tenants' union and difficult eviction process.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 13, 2020

Maybe the property sells on the open market, or maybe it changes hands privately. How many of you have witnessed this before? Every single one of you, if you’re paying attention, have a house in your area that was built by a “spec” builder, didn’t fare well on on the market, and sat for a short eternity.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Quite the start to the fall market, wouldn’t you say? One of my areas of interest is called “Downtown” and looks at new listings in C01 & C08. When the market is slow, say, mid-summer (except for this year…) or mid-December, we might only see 30 new listings. TorontoRealtyBlog. Time will tell.

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Marco Santarelli

AUGUST 4, 2020

We will discuss the latest Houston real estate market trends & news and find out how they can affect the investors and homebuyers in the latter half of 2020. This housing market has been impacted by the pandemic and slumping oil prices which led to a decline in home sales down. percent year-over-year.

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