Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 24, 2023

Today, I feel like the general thoughts expressed in this blog will be met with 100% support! Today, I feel like the general thoughts expressed in this blog will be met with 100% support! Those were the days. Am I getting saltier, angrier, and more out of touch with the readership, or has the readership simply expanded and evolved?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 19, 2023

She looked at me with these sad eyes and said, “I read your blog today. She looked at me with these sad eyes and said, “I read your blog today. The blog was not. Combine the two blogs on Monday and Wednesday and it might leave a reader feeling blue. What was this for? ” I asked. It was awful.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

On Tuesday, it was Bloomberg Economics that provided their take on the “World’s Frothiest Housing Markets,” which are based on particular indicators, specifically real house price growth. Atop that list is New Zealand, Canada, and Sweden. So if you want results, use the word “bubble.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

A friend of mine sent me a text on Thursday: “Awesome blogs this week dude!” ” I wrote him back and said, “Well, only a couple of comments on Wednesday’s blog, so maybe it’s not all that enthralling?” ” This past week only furthered this notion of a “housing crisis.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

TorontoRealtyBlog. Do you remember Ted Dibiase ? But I was born in 1980, and as a child of the 1980’s, I was the lucky beneficiary of that incredible spectacle we all knew as WWF wrestling. I was a huge fan of Bret “The Hitman” Hart, and that’s before I knew he was Canadian. I think I just really liked pink as a child.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 21, 2021

It was a two-part blog series where I explained one of my biggest regrets in young adulthood was not standing up to the aggressive salespeople who locked us in a room and tried to sell us a timeshare. TorontoRealtyBlog. “ My parents have a condo in Florida, ” said my first girlfriend, circa 2002. Still don’t.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But it’s not for lack of effort on my part! 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. ” Nah. We all know how that goes.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

This might be a case of, “I’ll lay it out for ya’ll to play it out,” but do any of us really know what caused the housing crisis, who is to blame, or how to fix it? This: “I’ll be blunt as well — housing isn’t a primary federal responsibility. “Not our problem.”

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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. Every year, there were five topics.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Then, I felt guilty for feeling sad, because this could not possibly be a better example of “first world problems.” Well, it appeared that within this 15-20 minute window, the Bank of Canada announced that they would raise the benchmark lending rate by 100 basis points, or a full 1.00%. TorontoRealtyBlog. What was going on?

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. Here are the Top Five Blog Posts of 2022 as we see them… #5: TRB Special Guest Posts: Chris Cansick, Matthew Morrison, & Tara Amina. I’m not exactly complaining.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

My mom was into recycling before recycling was a thing, so we’d have the luxury of choosing from various scraps of wrapping paper, ribbons, and random arts-and-crafts supplies to affix to our box, and then go to town on it with a variety of magic markers. Perhaps a better question: what did you get for Christmas? I got nothing.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 26, 2022

Let’s start with a bang, shall we? The recent drop in Toronto home prices is solely due to the increase in interest rates. Yay or nay? Well, I suppose before we confirm or deny, we must first address this “drop in Toronto home prices,” since many home-sellers are in denial. She understood. She’s fine with that.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

” That’s what I emailed to a client on Sunday after she sent me the listing for a $3,000 per month, 2-bedroom house that she wanted to go check out. . “You’re not going to throw away $36,000 in after-tax dollars on rent every year.” I’ve known this client for a long time. That was a huge “thank you.”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

If I get fined, I’ll post a copy here on Toronto Realty Blog for all to see. I think it won’t be long before they’re asking us how many people live in the house so they can determine if the house is being used effectively. If one person owns a 7-bedroom house, and chooses to live there alone, then so be it.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

You bought your house in September of 2020 for $1,300,000. The federal election showed us that there might be no greater concern in our country than the cost of housing, and that’s especially true in cities like Toronto. Any “plan,” as we have noted time and time again, must deal with increasing supply.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

I’m going to give you five scenarios and I want you to tell me which is something you would define as a “problem.” ” My clients aren’t interested because of the lack of ‘real’ parking, and they pass. ” Cool? My colleague has the listing. Bring it, David. .”

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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! 2) CMHC, The Bank of Canada, & Monetary Policy. 2) CMHC, The Bank of Canada, & Monetary Policy. And lots of links to blog posts in each section too. Cards and envelopes! Yes, I do that.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

Have a look… – “Mortgage Industry Urges Ottawa To Tackle Housing Affordability, Takes Aim At Homebuyer Incentive” Financial Post. Have a look… – “Mortgage Industry Urges Ottawa To Tackle Housing Affordability, Takes Aim At Homebuyer Incentive” Financial Post. Oh, of course not!

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Wow, y’all went all out on last Friday’s blog! But let’s leave interest rates off the list, even though the Bank of Canada increased the overnight lending rate by 0.75% on Wednesday, because we knew that was going to happen. But time and time again, I read the comments on TRB and I’m enthused.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

“David: don’t make this blog political.” ” That’s what I told myself each and every time I wrote parts of the blog in my head over the last seven days. Not a whole lot has been done to address housing affordability since I’ve been in real estate. There, I said it.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 30, 2021

The headline alone was enough for me to shake my fist at the computer screen, and not because of my occupation and that this headline hits me personally, but because I know where these sentiments are going: “Realtors Are Making Big Money Flipping Houses. I’ll be the old guy on the front porch yelling, “Slow down!”

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