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Is It Time To Blame Investors For High Housing Prices?

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TorontoRealtyBlog Here’s a new one: why don’t we “blame” the current housing prices on the natural forces of supply and demand in a free market? Not only that, the average home price coming into that year was $566,611. Yes, blame. What fun would that be? We need a scapegoat!

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The Friday Rant: We’ve Run Out Of People To Blame (Pt2)

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My, my, how times have changed. Blaming rising real estate prices on people rather than market forces. But I’ve been talking about this for so long that I must sound like a broken record: there’s more to rising prices in a market than an identifiable culprit. But Should They?” Actual causes.

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Who Profits Most From Unaffordable Housing?

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Then again, it seems that a large portion of the general public is really only interested in articles that talk about house prices declining, regardless of the authenticity and accuracy of the stated facts. That’s been happening since the dawn of time. ” I don’t know if I can get into this today, honestly.

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Monday Morning Quarterback: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

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But I digress… Well, we’re Monday Morning Quarterbacking once again, but can you blame me? But I digress… Well, we’re Monday Morning Quarterbacking once again, but can you blame me? So much news, so little time! And only three blog posts per week! TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Friday’s Quick Hits!

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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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The “Problem” With Housing In Canada Is Lack Of Supply!

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On Friday, my rather tame “rant” sought to dispel the myth-de-jour about “investors” being responsible for the increase in real estate prices in our country. Not only that, are first-time buyers being “pushed out” or were they already out? TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Tall Tales From A Small Market!

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You see a property listed for an insane price? ” It’s a line that I share with a number of agents and the number of times we use it only seems to be increasing in this market. .” TorontoRealtyBlog That’s good stuff. In actual fact, more often than not, I say this sarcastically. But how can I not ?