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

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

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

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I mean, how do you all avoid the water flushing up your noise and wetting your brain? When I was 6-years-old and my father sent me to Camp Kawabi, with all the other 7-year-olds, they were all diving from the “Tower.” The one that looked like it was eighty-feet-tall when you were 6-years-old? I was 6-years-old.

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Lab Coat Agents

MAY 14, 2021

This article was originally featured on the Follow Up Boss blog. Step 6: Fire Fast. 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. Step 7: Lead with Why.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Ah, I think about here… …Judy was scheduled for surgery the very next day! “Didn’t you have this surgery already?” ” I asked her. But it seems it was pushed back a couple of months, and just our luck, it was the day after this listing came out. This timing couldn’t possibly be any worse.

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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 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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Tuesday was a fairly busy day for the market! Checking out my MLS home page, I see over 100 new listings in C01 and C08, aka “downtown,” but still only 14 new listings in C09, C10, and C11, by comparison. The TRB readers had some great responses to that blog post, and some of them didn’t pull any punches!

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

” But I scrolled down to see the Brokerage Remarks, and there it was, as expected, “Offers Reviewed Thursday, October 12th At 6:00pm.” ” But I scrolled down to see the Brokerage Remarks, and there it was, as expected, “Offers Reviewed Thursday, October 12th At 6:00pm.”

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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

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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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

So let’s pick up where we left off on Monday… 6) Vacant Home Tax. If I get fined, I’ll post a copy here on Toronto Realty Blog for all to see. I think it won’t be long before they’re asking us how many people live in the house so they can determine if the house is being used effectively.

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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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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

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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In this blog, we have compiled a list of the cheapest housing markets analyzed by Realtor.com to purchase a home in the United States in 2022. Here Are the 10 Cheapest Housing Markets in the US. Out-of-staters talk about how friendly people are, how little traffic there is, and how affordable it is,” says Cerritelli.

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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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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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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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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 15, 2020

TorontoRealtyBlog. Did you know that a third of all residential land in Toronto is only zoned for detached houses? I didn’t. Until I started to read more about the push for new zoning laws that would help alleviate the ongoing disparity between supply and demand in this city. I suppose I had never thought about it, to be honest.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Wow, y’all went all out on last Friday’s blog! Thank you for all the comments, suggestions, and excellent insights posted in the comments section that I read with glee over the weekend as I typed out my list of the “Top Ten” discussion points for the fall market.

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Marco Santarelli

JANUARY 3, 2021

Investing in a rental property means buying a property that can generate an income in the form of rent. There is no doubt that rental property investment can be a great way for beginners to generate positive cash flow every month. In recent years, the solution to this problem has emerged under the so-called turnkey rental properties.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 29, 2023

I mean, how could they like their child read something like this: There was more than just the National Enquirer , if I recall. TorontoRealtyBlog Do you remember the National Enquirer ? I don’t know if this still exists, but I recall this from my childhood in the 1980’s. ” they would laugh and shake their heads.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We have a lot of fun here on Toronto Realty Blog, don’t we? Upon reading the full report, which spans thirty-three pages and is, at times, as dry as the Sahara, I again determined that an examination of this report could also serve as one of the most important blog posts in the history of TRB. We laugh and we lament.

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