Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Did I ever tell the story about how a colleague of mine, in her first year of real estate, sold a house to a homeless person? Er, sorry, I meant unhoused. I’m sure I’ve told that story here on TRB. It’s way too good to have kept a secret. ” I love when that happens.

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Realty Biz

MAY 30, 2023

According to Realtor.com, the median listing home price in Tempe, Arizona, in April of this year was $500K in April, a figure down by -2.9% The latest reports also show that the average listing sells within 31 days, which is up from this Summer's figures in the 20-day range. year-over-year. Even though Laughton has over 3.8k

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Agents Sales Branding As-is 74

Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog We have a basement lease coming out this week. 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. Do you know what that means? Those in the know, know.

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Marketing As-is Sales Investor 75

Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog “I felt like destroying something beautiful” ~Tyler Durden, Fight Club Well, that sure was an interesting blog post on Monday, wasn’t it? Who would have thought there’d be such a reaction to an election campaign fake news politics blog , right?

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Brokerage Agents As-is Residential 70

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

I don’t. I follow pretty much every sport there is because I’m a stats junkie, and I keep a 200-page book of statistics by my bed which is what I read at night when I can’t sleep. That book is comprised of printed Excel spreadsheets that I have made myself and continuously update.

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Agents Sales As-is Closing 124

Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 9, 2021

I may have lost some of you already, perhaps around the “insurance policy” or thereabouts. I may have lost some of you already, perhaps around the “insurance policy” or thereabouts. But if you’ve ever bought or sold a condominium then you know what I’m talking about.

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Purchase and sale agreement Agents As-is MLS 77

Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I mentioned in an Instagram video earlier this week that I have been writing on Toronto Realty Blog for fifteen years. And some three-thousand blog posts later, the number-one question I’ve always been asked and continue to be asked is this: “How do you come up with topics to write three times per week?

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Purchase and sale agreement Agents Brokerage As-is 70

Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 29, 2022

Then again, in changing markets come opportunists, and I’m seeing a lot of that right now. Then again, in changing markets come opportunists, and I’m seeing a lot of that right now. “Tell Us The Price You Want” This feels so dirty, I don’t know how anybody can take this seriously. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Inspection Agents Industrial Residential 98

Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sure, we could surmise that if this was January of 2022, there would have been eight offers. And we could also speculate that this house would have sold for more money in January of 2022 as well. Do you know what I’m talking about? I think we can say that. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an SNLR of 25.8%

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Sales As-is Agents Marketing 75

Lab Coat Agents

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This article is a sponsored post and was originally featured on The Follow Up Boss Blog. Being the Worst Is Actually the Best. The first thing I ever sold was appliances,” he says, “After that I ended up selling cars, and then I moved up to doing mortgages.”. I was terrible at it,” Taylor says. “I

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Agents Development Mortgages As-is 98

Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

After fourteen years of writing stories three times per week (it was actually four times from 2007 to 2013…), I always wonder if I’ll eventually run out of things to write about. This business is so full of stories, I often wonder if I have time for them all. – Can you bully your own listing?

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Agents As-is Sales Closing 80

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

It’s only been a few days but already, I feel as though this January real estate market is going to be very slow. Very few listings have come onto the market, but more importantly, the pattern of behaviour I have established when looking at “new listings” is concerning.

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Fixed-rate mortgage Banks Mortgages Construction 73

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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Purchase and sale agreement As-is Debt-to-income ratio Marketing 113

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

If I asked you right now, “Name three songs that feature whistling,” which are the first three that would come to mind? I’m not gonna lie; I was thinking about today’s blog topic when I woke up this morning. I believe I came up with the title while I was brushing my teeth.

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Inspection Agents MLS Sales 76

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

After eighteen years, I thought he knew me better than that… “I’ll be here during the long weekend,” I explained. “I love long weekends in the city!” He does know me, after all, and once I explained the bizarre logic, he recognized me once again. What can I say?

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Sales Marketing As-is Closing 89

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

Nothing I can passionately sit down and write a curt 2,000 words about, but there are, however, a few topics to file under “this ‘n that.” Oh, I dunno. I took more heat for that blog post than my infamous June 1st, 2010 post where I compared the Foundry Lofts to Alcatraz ! ” Where to start?

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Property Management Agents Title As-is 52

Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I didn’t. I’ll admit, I was one of those kids who simply refused. And while there were certainly bigger losers than me, for example, the kids that lived in Toronto and drove to Hamilton every day for school , I chose to live off-campus in first-year university. But even that, I just couldn’t accept.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I had a buyer agent tell me last week that she was “Ninety-nine percent certain” that she was bringing an offer on a listing of mine, and I relayed that to my seller-client. He said, “That sounds good, but I won’t hold my breath.” TorontoRealtyBlog. Chark, and your opponent has both.

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Loans Construction Agents As-is 89

The Close

MARCH 23, 2023

When I first became a real estate agent in 2010, I waltzed into the office with a swagger that would make Beyoncé blush. How could I not become a successful real estate agent in that market? It took a lot of hard work, more sleepless nights than I can count, and plenty of deal-killing mistakes, but I eventually found success.

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Agents Branding Brokerage As-is 126

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

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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Agents As-is Land Sales 88

Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 13, 2022

Of course, this requires a property manager, and not just “a” property manager, but “the” property manager, as in the best property manager that I have ever met in all my years in the business. Before you ask – no, I can’t give out his contact info. As a guest, you love AirBnBn.

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Property Management Commercial As-is Agents 66

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

” I’ve known my friend Jeff since I was 5-years-old and he was 3-years-old. He was my brother’s friend in daycare, and since I had trouble making real friends in my formative years, I basically took all of my brothers’ later in life. I was excited to play with him! ” Jeff asked me.

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Staging Days on market Sales Agents 52

GeekEstate Agents & Brokers

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Brokerage leaders, we’ve seen the headlines and the market data. This implies some 60% of all agents in Miami have at least considered switching to another firm in 2022. [Editors note: Originally posted on courted.io ]. The market is slowing down and has been for some time.

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Agents Marketing Brokerage Technology 78

Lab Coat Agents

JULY 30, 2020

What’s your advice to a newer agent who doesn’t have any repeat business, extra money to “buy” leads, to buy a dialer, or buy all the extra stuff brokerages tell you “you need” to get solid leads? I already have business cards, flyers, door hangers, and mailers (leftover from prior to COVID).

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Agents As-is Industrial Marketing 98

Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 9, 2024

I could swear up and down that I’ve done this opening before, but I scoured the TRB archives and there’s no mention of Evie, Troy, or Buzz… In any event… …do you remember “Out Of This World?” I do work throughout the GTA, but obviously most of my business is in the central core.

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Purchase and sale agreement MLS Pre-approval Agents 83

HomeLight

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Ask top real estate agents who’ve sold homes with the worst stigmas and rumors attached and they say that selling a “haunted” house often lacks the drama, mystery, and fable of those manufactured fight nights. The listing came as a referral and as she says, “I did not know its history when I took it on, but everyone else did.”

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Marketing Agents As-is Probate sale 108

Toronto Realty Blog

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?

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Marketing Sales As-is MLS 77

Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Looking back at my year-end posts from 2020, 2019, 2018, and so on, I swear I don’t think I’ve ever felt older. 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. TorontoRealtyBlog. Intimately.

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As-is Marketing Title Agents 96

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog My wife and I have a very good and very well-understood and agreed-upon division of labour in our household. 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.

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Sales As-is Pre-approval Marketing 82

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

I’m what you might call a “purist” in that I don’t like change. I like the game the way it always was, and I hate the notion of making changes to the integrity of baseball in attempts to attract new (read: youn g ) fans. As I said: not much has changed. I think baseball is an art.

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Sales As-is Marketing Technology 92

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” “Does she have a runny nose?” ” “Did I hear that another kid in his daycare was sick?” Such is life at the current moment, and I believe that most of us by now have accepted this as a part of our daily routine. Did you ever think that would be a part of your draft preparation?

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Marketing As-is Land Brokerage 97

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

Better than its synonyms, I do believe. I picture people getting trampled as they try to escape from a mall or something. Havoc is far too associated with the word “wreak,” and I’m just not ready to be that tied down. I think “chaos” was a fair assessment of January through early-March of 2020.

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Marketing Pre-approval Agents As-is 102

Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Have you ever called somebody, and upon them answering the phone, you start talking and just go, go, go, until suddenly, they interject and say, “Sorry, I”m on the other line, can I call you back?” Had you known they were waiting to cut you loose, you wouldn’t have rambled on and on!

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Pre-approval Banks Agents MLS 94

Lab Coat Agents

APRIL 8, 2021

If you’re ready to follow in the footsteps of the boss-level Realtors who have successfully transformed their SOIs into multi-million-dollar referral machines — without ever being sleazy — read on. No matter who you are or where you’re from, if you’ve ever interacted with another human being, you HAVE a sphere of influence.

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Agents As-is Marketing Sales 98

Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I’m going to hazard a guess that half of you did, and half of you didn’t. I don’t blame either side. I think I’ve just grown tired of it all. The truth is, I didn’t want either party to win. To get one inherently biased view, I clicked on my CNN app. TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Marketing Development As-is Construction 85

Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Six weeks into the 2021 real estate calendar, and I am 2-for-7 this year with pre-emptive offers. Last week, clients of mine submitted a bully offer on a $1,595,000 listing in the amount of $1,901,000. Never had a shot; not even a discussion with the listing agent, just a flat-out rejection. Need I say more? Yes and no.

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MLS Agents Brokerage As-is 95

Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Did I ever tell you that I won the “shop award” in 1994? It’s one of those things that I started kidding about in my early 20’s, which was the early-2000’s, and thus wasn’t all that long removed from 1994. I’d better be careful. It’s an inside joke.

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Construction Development Industrial As-is 71