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. Development. Pre-Construction.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

I had to pick another song with “heat” or “hot” in the title for today’s blog, simply because of the exceptional response to the music-theme on Monday, wow! I had no clue you guys were so passionate about adult contemporary rock from the year 1984. You guys put me in my place.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Do you know what that means? 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. But as a landlord, how can you lease to somebody who has no income?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog For those of you just discovering the Canadian Real Estate Association’s Home Price Index data, let me provide a bit more context. Only two areas, Edmonton and Calgary, are charted within Alberta, and the other nine are spread out in the larger towns and metropolitan areas that you’d probably expect.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Are you tired of the stats blogs yet? Longing for some funny photos or something less serious that you can casually peruse from the cozy confines of the TTC streetcar or office toilet stall? But others are drawn to the sales data, since you can learn about price by looking at sales. TorontoRealtyBlog. Then again, 84.4%

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 13, 2022

It’s just another manic Monday. It’s just another manic Monday. The protagonist of the song is coming down off a weekend high and lamenting that it’s back to the grind on Monday. In my life, Monday morning puts me back on track. You’re just at home with the kids?” TorontoRealtyBlog.

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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? So now what?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

Monday’s blog post was somewhat eye-opening, right? Blog reader, hoob tells a story about helping a friend move to downtown Tillsonburg in the year 2000. Blog reader, Joel says he’s originally from Tillsonburg and his family still lives there. TorontoRealtyBlog. I mean, Tillsonburg?

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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. See what I did there?

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Broke Agent Media

MARCH 29, 2023

Whether you are managing multiple clients or juggling a range of properties, having a streamlined approach to client communication can save you time—and help you build stronger relationships with your prospects and clients. Of course, in order to reach the full potential of your CRM, you need to use it consistently.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 18, 2022

Perhaps this could have been included in Monday’s blog as a third tenet, except that this isn’t “new legislation,” nor is it going to kill condominium development. You have to if you want to be successful in this business. TorontoRealtyBlog. Sure, developers do take risks now and again.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog You know that saying about the slow car-wreck ? You just can’t look away. Then sometimes, you almost anticipate the car-wreck, and morbidly (if this is an analogy…) prepare yourself for the spectacle. But do you know what else doesn’t matter a lick? ” This makes zero sense.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 27, 2024

Did any of you play the computer game Command & Conquer in the 1990’s? Admit it: at least one of you smiled. You remembered. It was like other games out there; World of Warcraft comes to mind, where you had to build a base, play offense and defence, and eventually wipe out the enemy. So you had to be strategic.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Somebody told me once that when you have children, the years go faster because you start to view your life in terms of your children’s milestones. Growing from age one to age two represents a fifty percent increase in their time on earth, but it’s merely another twelve months for you. Intimately. 1) The Pandemic.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

As you’ll see in today’s blog, many of the reasons for cancelations are often rooted in the same problems that caused delays, but some are extensions, and some are completely different reasons altogether. If you close your eyes and picture the northwest corner of Bloor and Dundas in Roncesvalles, what do you see?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Is it weird that the “Top Five” blogs, that I have written, are being chosen by me ? In any event, I’ve been running this feature now for over a decade, but in its current form, with the top five blogs and the top five stories each being featured in their own post, I think we’re into our sixth or seventh iteration.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Now, if you’re listing a condo at Yonge & Finch with an offer date and you receive three offers around the list price, they might all be conditional. Except in Wednesday’s blog post, one seller did. ” The experience that I described in Wednesday’s blog made absolutely zero sense.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Did you know that Arnold Schwarzenegger was my hero when I was younger? Well, if you consider that when it comes to music and audio technology, we first had cassettes , and then benefited from the improved technology that compact discs offered, it was the exact same thing for video! But you’ve never heard of laser-discs, right?

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

And then other times, the topics come to you ! I was literally writing Monday’s blog about 3-bedroom condo floor plans when a TRB reader sent me this: Hi David! . Love your video blog. I remember you calling a living room/kitchen space a “litchen” this past week. What do you call a bedroom and a kitchen?

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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. That was only 1 1/2 months ago? It feels like an eternity! Not quite Broadview Avenue, but busy.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Don’t say I didn’t warn you! I specifically didn’t post new content on Friday because I knew you’d all need to be fresh, eager, and well-rested this morning in order to power through this week’s blogs. We have so much to comb through on Toronto Realty Blog in 2020!

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 10, 2021

Quite the interesting week on Toronto Realty Blog! Well, for me , at least… The main character of Monday’s blog found my post, took issue with it, and then told me, “You have one hour to take that down, or I’ll file a RECO complaint.” TorontoRealtyBlog. ” Imagine that, eh?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Did you hear about that NCAA swimmer who won gold in his race, in record time, but was disqualified? To be fair, some might want to ask, “Why would you celebrate the fact that the Canadian Mortgage & Housing Corporation has canceled the First-Time Home Buyers’ Incentive?” Celebrating too early.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 14, 2022

It starts with a lump in your throat, then congestion, then culminates with that one brutal night where you wake up in a cold sweat, body on fire, shivering, and when you strip off your sweaty clothes and then jump back under the covers with your teeth chattering, it feels like a feat saved for the Olympic Games. Wow, amazing!”

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On Monday night, a 1-bedroom condominium in Liberty Village, listed for sale at $599,900, solicited twenty-one offers and sold for $715,000. If you’re not impressed by the sale-to-list ratio, that’s fine. But with respect to the number of offers, dear friend, are you not entertained ? TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Have you had your company holiday party yet? That’s usually the sign that you and your colleagues are ready to pack it in for the year. But I had a lot of fun here on Toronto Realty Blog as I always do, and I had even more fun sitting down to go through the year’s blog posts. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

What does it say that I dedicated Monday’s post to discussing the whole 416 market, the GTA, different market segments, sales, inventory, and listings, and when it comes to condos , I’ve set aside an entire post on Wednesday? I almost think that question is rhetorical. It was as crazy a condo market I’ve ever worked in.

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The Close

AUGUST 23, 2023

To help, I put together this list of 35 proven real estate newsletter ideas so you can spend less time brainstorming and more time selling real estate. I’ll also show you nine resources to get “done-for-you” content for your newsletter and wrap up with my tips and tools to make sure people read all of your engaging content.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Since we last spoke on Monday, are there any other things on your real estate mind? Click on “HISTORY” and see if it’s been listed before. I believe we will see a two per cent decline in rates by the end of 2024, back to an overnight rate of three per cent. A two-percent decline, you say?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

I don’t think this conversation is indicative of the overall market, but rather it would be completely irresponsible for me to not discuss it, given we are seeing a handful of deals not closing as scheduled. Well, as JF007 wrote on Monday: …so a thousand listings reviewed to get 6 such scenarios so a.6% 6% rate meh.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

I hope your mind doesn’t automatically go to “pink jobs” and “blue jobs” when you hear this, or that you assume I’m running my family like a quaint 1950’s household. Can you please grab one of the notes from the folder, and move Stainey somewhere?” You’re not going to work.”

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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?” ” I smiled and said, “We’re only seeing one house. 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.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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. “Look, I’ll be transparent,” he explained. “You have the highest price. But you’re conditional. ” Wow.

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Inspection Agents As-is Banks 85

Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Not only are my fingers tired from writing Monday’s blog, but also from hand-writing three-hundred Christmas cards! What’s the point of sending a holiday card if it’s obvious that your assistant or some high school kid wrote them for you? Top Five: Real Estate Stories of 2016 : 5) New Mortgage Regulations.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 23, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Let’s pretend for a moment that you’re a real estate agent and you currently have a listing. 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?” Can you please give me a ballpark idea?”

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

Here’s something I had never heard before Monday night: “You have………sixteen new voice messages.” If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you must be one of those weirdos on Wind, or Koodo. I awoke on Monday morning, not knowing that anything was wrong.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Early prediction: January of 2024 will see the fewest sales EVER in a month of January. While we’re not exactly like the United States, where there’s an election every four years, but politicking for the next election begins 3 years, 11 months in advance, I do expect to see a lot of politicking in Canada this year.

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