Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Do you recall the blog post that I wrote a couple of weeks ago? Except when it came to choosing the “feature photo,” since there aren’t as many interesting, high-quality photos of minds or people thinking. Then again, you might think today’s photo is an odd choice. Don’t we?

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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. It appears that Pape Ave properties do not get much love. Then there are lots of questions as well.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

There’s nothing quite like discussing the misfortune of others to get our week off to a great start! An agent in my brokerage, who shall remain nameless, came by my office last week and said, “What’s with all the doom-and-gloom on your blog, man?” ” First of all, thanks for reading my blog.

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Broke Agent Media

JANUARY 12, 2023

Those writing activities are important, but when you’re an agent, especially during a competitive market, you need every edge you can get. And if you’ve tried ChatGPT even once for this, you know it excels at generating readable and detailed description in seconds. . We hope you’ll accept our invitation to find out. .

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Didn’t I say last month that we can’t put much stake into summer market stats? The summer is always a slow time in the Toronto real estate market, and for good reason. A friend of mine, with whom I golf every summer, always jokes, “Remind me again, exactly why do we choose to live here?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 28, 2023

” Children of the ’80’s get it. ” Some of you already get the reference and others are thinking about it. Regular readers have probably seen blog posts on this subject before: houses that are listed over-and-over again, often with different prices, pricing strategies, and listing agents.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I’m on an honesty streak of late, so let me admit the following: after choosing the title of today’s blog, I came to realize that I don’t actually know what the idiom, “grasping at straws,” refers to. I mean, do you know what is meant by a “harebrained scheme?”

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog There are certain listings in the city of Toronto for which I know the names of the sellers off-by-heart. And every so often, when I see this property or that property, I already know who the seller is before I’ve even clicked on the listing. Or maybe it’s just association ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

After all, this would be, what, like, the fourth or fifth victory lap for Thomas? But it adds context to both today’s blog, today’s blog challenge, and of course, blog reader Derek ‘s comment from last Friday. After all, it had plummeted to $821,392 in April!

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Those of you who like the stats-heavy posts are happy to hear that, but once in a while, don’t you just want to play dumb and laugh ? So it’s a den? Or it’s not a den? It fits a desk? ” That’s a goddam wall with a desk in front of it. .” But is it false advertising ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Chris had the idea to talk about “discount brokerages,” and I thought it was great. After all, it’s a topic that most Realtors shy away from. So I figured that I might as well share it with the TRB readers. ” This is sent to our client database but the content isn’t made available anywhere else.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

While the symptoms of OCPD might be present in my outlooks and opinions, I certainly hope it doesn’t undermine what I’m about to say. We have a saying in real estate that goes like this: When the market changes, it changes overnight. When the market changes, it’s not gradual.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 11, 2022

I can already hear the complaints about this blog post on the real estate Facebook groups. But I find them to be inherently negative, often in denial, and they often want to ignore market truths. ” Like I give a s**t. Halton and York are also showing these “changing market” signals.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s just impossible in a red-hot seller’s market. But an under-priced freehold property in the central core, with an offer date, with eight offers, in a hot market? There’s no way that a seller would accept a conditional offer! Except in Wednesday’s blog post, one seller did.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s on the tip of my tongue. I think it goes, “ If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try again…” Or something like that. Case in point, something like this: This condo was listed for $2,550,000 in 2018. The property did not sell. Sure, why not?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog In hotter or busier markets, I always find that agents are crazier, generally speaking. In fact, it’s often in those calmer, balanced markets that I risk running out of fodder for TRB! Earlier this week when I was discussing the hot market with my colleagues, I opined on what I just said above.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Picture a 21-year-old who just finished business school and read a couple of books on real estate, none of which have anything to do with the Toronto market. Picture a 21-year-old who just finished business school and read a couple of books on real estate, none of which have anything to do with the Toronto market.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This is a quarterly feature here on the Toronto Realty Blog and I’m having trouble believing that the last time we worked through these numbers, the summer had ended and it was just after Labour Day. Then again, this doesn’t really feel like winter, does it? But are listings up? Is vacancy up?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 27, 2022

It’s Rainbow Sherbert. My father has famously told this story many times, including to any and every girl I ever introduced to the family, so here goes… It’s “Parents Night, 1986.” It’s drawings! My father said, “I just knew. ” It’s true. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Assuming that the market always goes up , which in 4-5 years, it does, then the units are worth more down the line than they were during the pre-construction phase. So I won’t get into our battle with the developer’s team about staging, marketing, or a complete lack thereof. It made absolutely zero sense.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It’s way too good to have kept a secret. Believe it or not, I don’t have a never-ending bucket of topics for the blog. Believe it or not, I don’t have a never-ending bucket of topics for the blog. And when I’ve got a great topic or story for the blog, I do not want to forget.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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. After all, I’ve been “hyping” the market, right? Picture it. I can’t believe it.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

The rental market is no longer “tough,” I said. But maybe it depends on who you ask, what you read, and where? No matter the market, there will always be two news sources telling different stories. s (CMHC) rental market report. I hear it’s nice this time of year! Belleville, eh?

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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. Some pet peeves come and go. ” Huh?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 29, 2022

It depends on whether you want to reward certain behaviour, or whether you want to critique it. The market has changed and along with that change comes both the good and the bad. In previous market declines, the part-time, fly-by night agents seem to fade away. ” But it is ! ” Maybe.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 26, 2023

” I know it was before I heard the term “pre-emptive offer,” since the latter was a term invented to soften the concept of bullying in the context of submitting an offer. ” It was in 2008 after the market had turned. ” I thought it was crazy. And again, the process evolved from there.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 10, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Am I predictable or is the market predictable? Or is it both? I’ve often mused on this blog that there’s nothing I love more than watching a movie I’ve seen a dozen times! It’s not a bad thing though, right? It’s not a bad thing though, right? ” Oops!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 17, 2023

I have received many calls on the property, but this weekend, in the space of about ten minutes, I received two phone calls that demonstrate the current state of the condo market. The first agent said, “I see that the high-water mark for this unit is $522,000, but that sold last year in a better market. There is an offer date.

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The Close

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Newer agents are almost always surprised when I tell them agents and brokers with killer marketing are not more talented or harder-working than they are. So why do some consistently crush their marketing goals while others fail? Smart Realtors create a real estate marketing plan designed for long-term growth early in their careers.

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Easy Agent Pro

AUGUST 9, 2023

This gives you a lot of opportunities to expand your marketing efforts so that you can grow your business even more. Successful marketing for summer listings takes some strategy but can significantly affect how great this season is for you. Taking solid steps to improve your summer real estate marketing strategies will help you grow.

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Realtor.com

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Photo-Illustration by Realtor.com; Photos: Getty Images (2) / Realtor.com It’s like déjà vu in the housing market. Just a few months ago, home prices hit record heights, investors were gobbling up scores of homes, and buyers were racing to purchase whatever they could before prices rose even further. Sound familiar?

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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.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If a property came onto the market today for $599,900, you went to look at it, and you were quite interested, how much would you offer? The answer on the tip of your tongue is probably: “It depends.” ” Of course it depends! It depends on a multitude of factors. What type of market are we in?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

” That’s a nice one and it’s got a very wide application. “It’s good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ” I like that one a lot. November is in the books and that means that the Toronto real estate market is just about “over.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

But they talk about it a lot in Mr. Robot, and who can forget the movie War Dogs with Jonah Hill? A reader emailed me on Tuesday morning and said, “You’re trending on Reddit right now,” and that was, for a guy like myself, my dark web moment. I don’t. I knew Word Perfect 5.1 But Reddit? That rhymed.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

And at the very same time, it seemed to last forever… Case in point: I went to look up a blog post that I wrote about a seller’s bully offer dilemma, thinking it was back in February, only to find it was on March 10th. It feels like an eternity! That was only 1 1/2 months ago?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

“TRESA” came into effect on January 3rd, 2024, and I’m of the opinion that it’s going to take quite some time for the new legislation to be absorbed by the real estate community, if it ever is – at all. In this case, TRESA, as with REBBA before it, relies upon real estate agents to abide by the new rules.

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