Realtor.com

DECEMBER 20, 2022

” But it was likely rising mortgage interest rates, a result of the Fed hiking its own rates to bring down inflation, that most directly led to the real estate freeze. Higher mortgage rates have made homebuying unaffordable to millions, decimating the ranks of home shoppers. ® Chief Economist Danielle Hale.

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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. That was a year in which Ms.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

But if I did that, I would lose my best friend in the whole world: anxiety. I’m a summer guy, and part of the reason I’m so focused on the fact that summer will end and the fall will be here is that it’s a defense mechanism to help cope with the end of my favourite season and the start of my most hated one.

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Marketing Banks As-is Agents 80

Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Then, I felt guilty for feeling sad, because this could not possibly be a better example of “first world problems.” Well, it appeared that within this 15-20 minute window, the Bank of Canada announced that they would raise the benchmark lending rate by 100 basis points, or a full 1.00%. One from a friend: Saw the BOC hike.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Wait…… what in the world is a “Christmas Box?” I’m clearly about to unleash a verbal torrent of unsolicited information about my holiday break, so it’s only fair that we hear about yours in the comments section below. Perhaps a better question: what did you get for Christmas? I got nothing.

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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. Because negativity sells! Exceptionally uncommon , it seems.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog You know the saying, “Nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except death and taxes?” Well, a tectonic shift in the world as we know it has just taken place, and this idiom might have to be altered in the near future. I’ve had this blog topic in the queue now for quite some time.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 9, 2022

There’s a reason I wrote last Monday’s blog, and no, it wasn’t “to get out ahead of the bad publicity.” TorontoRealtyBlog. Here’s my Google News feed from Wednesday: Down. Those are the words used in the five headlines above. And of the five headlines, four deal with sales instead of price.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

On the one hand, it’s of incredible importance not just for our neighbours to the south, but essentially for how the world will continue to evolve and take shape moving forward. So how in the world does a person obtain accurate news in 2022? TorontoRealtyBlog. Did you watch the election coverage on Tuesday night? Easy-peasy.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 2, 2022

If you’re a long-time blog reader, you’ve heard this story from me before, but here goes… As a child of the 1980’s, one of the most exciting excursions for a kid my age was going to “the downtown.” On the southeast corner of Yonge & Dundas there was a store that was always of interest.

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The Close

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The sticker shock is real. You want me to pay how much for real estate apps?!!”. If you’re a new agent, or even an experienced agent looking to free up some cash to buy leads, paying big bucks for apps can be hard to swallow. Bookmark this page to stay in the loop. Propertybase. Try Propertybase for Free. Even better?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed. It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of the world as we know it. Feeling pretty psyched. And I feel fine.

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Banks Lending As-is Marketing 77

Notorious ROB

MARCH 16, 2023

Part of it is that I’ve been very busy with projects, but the other part is that there really hasn’t been much of interest that I haven’t written about over and over before. I break that silence because world events intrude on my peaceful focus. which means the world) is undergoing a crisis in banking.

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