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JULY 4, 2022

Did you just stumble upon this blog for the first time? Well, now you found this blog! Now, here we are, and my DVD’s are obsolete because we stream everything, and yes, Netflix has an algorithm that tracks what you watch and can make recommendations for you on shows and movies that would enjoy. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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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. So in the end, we were forced to be “those people” who put out a massive bowl of candy with a note that tells trick-or-treaters, “Help yourself.” We couldn’t get the dog to play “Sven.”

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JULY 6, 2023

We would wait, often for an hour or more, then after Neil and I got our haircuts, my dad would enter the chair for an epic haircut, shave, massage, and nap. And yet only four months later, the house sold for $1,200,000 in competition. That meant I’d be there for ninety minutes , waiting! But what do I know? That’s a 14.2%

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JUNE 9, 2021

Last year, my team listed over thirty condos for lease which was about triple the volume we usually handle. So let’s take a look at New Listings for downtown condominiums, and we’ll use the same chart that we’ve been using since last year, simply filling in the missing months. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

But that’s more on account of how hard it is to do while plugging one’s nose… In a very sad way, unless you work in the math department at Waterloo and happen to be reading this, I was oh-so looking forward to the TRREB numbers being released this week. I had no intention of diving head-first, of course.

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MAY 6, 2024

I guess you could say that we went through our magic phase , which was one of many, many phases we went through as kids. We did find a two-headed coin at the “den of magic,” but it was an American nickel. But April’s TRREB stats provide two very different sides, depending on how you want to use the data.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

So does it make me more wrong when I was certain that we would see a decline in GTA average home price from September to October, only to find out last week that prices actually increased ? Having said that, the stats say what they say. The stats don’t lie. TorontoRealtyBlog Are there different levels of “wrong?”

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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. At the end of the month, I figured we had just experienced a 4% jump in prices, but I was wrong.

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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. 4) Prices Outside The City Of Toronto.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Last November, I had a listing for sale in the same building. The unit was previously tenanted, and my client took my advice and cleaned it, painted it, staged it, and we put it on the market. Listed at $549,900, we actually received an offer for $460,000. That was November. We are in February. Three months.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

But I still hope he doesn’t… I’m a self-described stats nerd. I keep stats on things I don’t even care about. I just love stats. That’s probably why I love digging into these TRREB stats at the start of every month. So many statistics, and yet so many all-time figures!

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JANUARY 18, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog I laughed when I read a comment on one of last week’s blogs that said something like, “So you’re only blogging twice per week this year, but each blog is twice as long?” ” Well, that would be a net gain for Toronto Realty Blog then, wouldn’t it? Absolutely not.

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APRIL 10, 2023

Er, actually, I was 29-years-old, until we hit the summit. August 30th, 2010, we hit the summit. In early 2022, we saw back-to-back 7% increases in month-over-month TRREB average home price, and having gone from $1,157,849 to $1,334,554 in sixty days, it should come as no surprise that the market ran out of stream.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

During our weekend escapades to sports-card and memorabilia shows all over the Golden Horseshoe, we would explore a host of musical acts from yesteryear such as the Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Van Morrison, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pink Floyd, and you can only imagine what else. I think I was like seven. It’s a poem.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

We all know how that goes. 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.

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MARCH 6, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog …we finally got a piece of the pie! I could have called this blog post, “Don’t Call It A Comeback,” but I’ve used that before. I said, “No, I mean, we spoke in the second or third week of January. But everybody knows the song! Good memory.” ” “Whaaaaat?”

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Where was I, and what was I doing when I heard that the January, 2022 TRREB stats were released? “The TRREB stats are out,” he told me, last Thursday afternoon, “And they’re…… interesting.” So by November, the average home price was up almost $200,000. I was driving.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

It’s not new on my part, and yet I probably won’t ever stop sounding this particular alarm. Many just can’t bring themselves to believe that this is what we’ve devolved into! I decided to track all news articles about Toronto real estate from November 1st through November 10th. Easy-peasy.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

We did this after Labour Day, right? And we did this to start off January 2021, not just as a stand-alone blog, or even a two-part series, but rather a three-part series that spanned the entire first week back! We’ve been chasing this thing around the house for two weeks… What else? TorontoRealtyBlog.

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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. So what do we expect for the real estate market this fall?

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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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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Although some might argue over the definition of “short-term,” so perhaps we should ask this as a question, then answer it with stats that I’m pretty sure we have on hand. It was listed at $349,000, and we signed it back twice and negotiated down to $333,000. Can I tell you a story?

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Not only are my fingers tired from writing Monday’s blog, but also from hand-writing three-hundred Christmas cards! And lots of links to blog posts in each section too. “We bought a house,” she told me on the phone. “We’re heading up to Horseshoe Valley to plant some new routes, and start a new life.”

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