Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

At one point during the last week of July, a colleague of mine was passing by my office and said, “You headin’ outta here for the long weekend?” ” Wow. The city is empty.” ” He still looked confused. “You drive on the streets, there’s nobody there. ” He nodded and smiled. He got it.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Last Monday, we were sitting in our team meeting and one of the topics was “TRREB stats,” since I figured they would come out on Friday. Last Monday, we were sitting in our team meeting and one of the topics was “TRREB stats,” since I figured they would come out on Friday. “Matthew M.,”

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

True story. I was one of the very fortunate few who got to experience this thing called a “laser-disc player” in 1992. What in the world is a laser-disc? We went from Beta-Max and VHS cassettes to the logical next step: discs. In this case, laser-discs. But you’ve never heard of laser-discs, right? You only know DVD’s.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I know I’ve used “The Fork In The Road” for a TRREB stats blog post before. and although I tried to keep my mind empty and simply take in the sights, sounds, smells, and enjoy the journey, I found myself thinking about this blog post. So not even that long ago. It’s the summer.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

Chris, Tara, and Matthew wrote guest blogs? To be quite honest, I was thinking about pre-writing three blogs, or, as is often the case, writing blogs while I’m away on vacation. That always seems easy in advance (“I write three blogs per week, I’m sure I can carve out the time while I’m away!”) You don’t say!

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Are you tired of the stats blogs yet? But in the meantime, yes, we’re going to look at more stats today. But in the meantime, yes, we’re going to look at more stats today. I enjoy all the stats, as I detailed on Monday. Why do I fashion this my “favourite” stat?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

Before you read the following, ask yourself this simple question: “Will the areas outside the province of Ontario show a better or worse market that what we read about in Wednesday’s blog?” Personally, I would have expected areas of Ontario to outperform. TorontoRealtyBlog. To each, their own. Therein lies the irony!

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Having already started my “End of 2020” blog-themed posts on the side, I don’t want to spoil the surprise here, but we will be dedicating a good section to exploring the 2020 condo market. Today, I want to pick up where we left off with the August TRREB stats and see how 2020 finished up with respect to condos.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

TorontoRealtyBlog. What’s the difference between a 7-day vacation and a 14-day vacation? About seven days! But seriously, what’s the difference? The first one is too short and the second one is too long. On the seventh day, when everybody around us was looking sad, preparing to head home, we were absolutely elated to be staying!

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When the TRREB stats are released on Friday or Monday, I believe that January of 2023 will show the fewest sales in any month of January in the last twenty years. When the TRREB stats are released on Friday or Monday, I believe that January of 2023 will show the fewest sales in any month of January in the last twenty years.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Do you know what that means? Those in the know, know. You’re aware of where I’m going with this, and it’s not that I’m intentionally trying to sound unsympathetic, but rather it sheds some light on how tough our rental market is in Toronto. That’s good, right? In the end, only one person leases the place.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 4, 2022

Did you just stumble upon this blog for the first time? Well, now you found this blog! So, let’s look at a handful of factors that I think will help us to predict the road ahead… 1) June TRREB Stats. By the time you’re reading this blog on Monday, the June TRREB stats might be released.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Which of the following questions, if asked over and over by buyer agents, would frustrate you the most: 1) “What is your seller’s price expectation?” ” 2) “How many offers are you expecting?” ” 3) “What do you think the property is going to sell for?” Common sense, no?

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Would it ever be reasonable to call our real estate market boring ? I mean, the real estate market isn’t boring, nor will it ever be. It’s real estate! Real estate has dominated the headlines for the last decade and it’s all anybody ever wants to talk about. That’s sexy, right? But what about now ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I’ve been going to the same barber now for four years. I met him just before the pandemic and, honestly, I wouldn’t go anywhere else. At the time, I prioritized expediency over quality. These guys described themselves as “the kings of the five-minute haircut,” only as my wife explained, it showed !

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Then I sprained my ankle on my family trip to the Dominican Republic in February; the same ankle that I busted in April of 2022. Physically and mentally. But I was doing great up until last weekend. I was up to 12 KM runs, ready to move to 14KM, 16KM, and onward, and I was flying high with a run in the sun on Father’s Day. I sulked a lot.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

year-over-year increases in April and May, and for good reason. .” year-over-year increases in April and May, and for good reason. I got to hear from two people who were involved in the story, the readers seemed to enjoy it, and only a handful of comments were from naysayers. ” That reader was correct. And then some.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

When it comes to monthly TRREB data, there’s always a stat or two that might not entirely line up with what I had experienced in the previous month, but for a major statistically-backed trend to come as a surprise is quite rare. Trading Economics is a site I frequent for stats and that’s where these were pulled from.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

I’ve been working in the Toronto real estate market for nearly two decades, and the market, the industry, and real estate in general have been called many things. But if there’s one word that’s never been used to describe the market, it would be this one: boring. But this fall, the market has seemed almost boring by comparison.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

If there’s ever been a constant about our real estate market, it’s this: Toronto is too expensive. Actually, scratch that. Can’t it be both? Based on the comments from TRB readers so far this year, I’d say the people are pretty mixed on where market activity and prices are headed. And what of economists?

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Last week was a big moment for myself and my family: it was the first time we all went trick-or-treating. Actually, that’s not quite true. The dog stayed home. But for myself, my wife, and my 5-year-old and 20-month-old, the experience was beautiful! There was , however, one issue at the onset: who would stay home to give out candy?

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Having said that, the stats say what they say. ” But had the TRREB average home price come in at $1,085,000, which is good for a 3.1% In fact, if the TRREB average home price came in lower than the August price, I wouldn’t have been surprised. The stats don’t lie. Or is wrong simply wrong?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Five weeks ago, I wrote this in a TRB blog post: Raise your hand if you think that $1,095,617 average sale price from February is going to surge? It made no sense to me, as I wrote in a subsequent blog post as well as my eNewsletter. the next month, may I claim credit? the next month, may I claim credit? East Yorker?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

Would you read some random real estate agent’s biased blog? Here are the three stories that popped up in my newsfeed: So while the “ Toronto housing market cools down in May ,” we’re also being told that “ Toronto home prices hit new all-time record high.” Where would go turn to? It makes no sense.

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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

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.” ” “ Beware The Coming Real Estate Headlines ,” I wrote on May 2nd, and if you’d like to be fair to me for just a moment, you can admit that I wasn’t exactly wrong.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I wrote about this on my blog last year as there was one of those “letters to the seller,” which was so incredibly misplaced as it was submitted with the lowest offer I have seen in my entire career. So now that the January TRREB stats have been released, I can finally put a number to this incredible surge in the condo market.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

TRREB couldn’t have published these stats last Wednesday, right? Sales in the month of May rose to 4,606, but that’s not a typical May figure! This was down 54% from May of 2019! This was down 54% from May of 2019! Do you remember that thing we used to do all the time before March of 2020?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog. My Father introduced me to The Doors at an early age. And by early, I don’t mean when most kids would be able to absorb something as intense as Jim Morrison, like, say, eighteen-years-old. I think I was like seven. From about age seven or eight, I was pretty smitten with The Doors. Read the lyrics to “The End.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

I could have called this blog post, “Don’t Call It A Comeback,” but I’ve used that before. ” he answered. “You mean they expect more ?” TorontoRealtyBlog …we finally got a piece of the pie! So how about a reference from The Jeffersons then? But everybody knows the song!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

As I wrote in my year-end blog, my wife and I had consulted with our family doctor and resident COVID expert to put together a plan enabling us to see my mother over the holidays, and thus I haven’t been “out there” in eighteen days. TorontoRealtyBlog. Thinking back upon it now, everything seems just a wee bit blurry.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” Times have changed, most certainly, and whereas we used to think of the fall season and conjure up thoughts and images of fallen leaves, corn mazes, and pumpkin patches, we find ourselves here in 2021 where it’s all about who might have a cold. COVID has affected everything around us. Nothing is the same. ” An open house ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Let’s start today’s blog post with a quote: “This is going to be 2017 all over again.” The average house price in the GTA declined from a high of $920,791 in April down to $863,910 in May, then $793,915 in June. TorontoRealtyBlog. ” ~Nobody. That’s right, nobody said this. What legislation?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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. ” Nah. We all know how that goes.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The September TRREB stats are out and they are absolutely shocking. Because we have to analyze the September TRREB stats which start with this: September set a new all-time record for average Toronto home price at $1,136,280. Today, it’s worth $4,968,600. Does this sound right to you? They jumped on it, in fact!

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 7, 2021

The average 416 condo sale price dropped from $727,137 in April – the all-time high, to $716,976 in May, so prices are holding steady. By the time we review the June stats next month, we’ll see a Sales-To-New-Listings ratio that plummets, as the surge in new listings skews the data. I just looked it up: it’s The Raconteurs.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Every real estate agent can customize his or her TRREB home page according to the areas that the agent follows. When the market is lukewarm, we may see 50-60 new listings on any given day. During a “busy” period of the market, I would expect to see 80 listings. But should we expect anything different?

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