Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

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. Those long-term readers among you will recall the length of these “year-end” blog posts. Wouldn’t that be novel!

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McKissock

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Here are five excellent resources offered by McKissock Learning with tips and tools to help you protect your appraisal practice — including a Pro-Series webinar coming up on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. Blog post: 5 Appraisal Assignments that Raise Your Liability Risk. Sign up now. Time to upgrade your appraisal license?

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Are you just a Toronto Realty Blog reader, or do you watch Pick5 as well? That video spawned several emails from readers about their fondness for The Cranberries, and the following week in Pick5, I outlined my top-fifteen bands, in order, after much, much deliberation. Could you do the same thing? Seriously, give it a try.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Let’s look at the last five months of the Toronto average home price: Stable, right? But what does it say about the Toronto market that the average home price remains within a 1.37% range in the last five months? over the same period in 2021. But this fall, the market has seemed almost boring by comparison. Well, gee.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

On top of COVID, 2021 was an incredibly demanding year for real estate professionals. Where do you see your business in five years? . I’m hoping that in five years we will be able to grow our brokerage to include 500 – 750 agents. Jameson Doris is RISMedia’s blog and social media editor.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 8, 2022

In Monday’s blog, I talked about “The Road Ahead” for our real estate market and what to look out for, as well as which factors would most greatly affect the market. TorontoRealtyBlog. And do you recall my telling a similar version of this story one month later? What did I not expect? An average home price of $1,146,254.

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The Residential Specialist

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When it comes to marketing, the website is at the top of the funnel,” says Carolyn MacNeill, social media manager at Steve McKenna & The Home Advantage in Arlington, Massachusetts. They don’t see that there’s a golf course, a pool and that it’s five minutes to the grocery store.” I was new to town and had nothing but time.

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Realty Biz

JUNE 13, 2022

This week our Top-Rated Agents series focuses on a key Northwest market, Boise, Idaho. Templeton is certainly in the top 10% of all the professionals we’ve profiled. Templeton also took home a Top 100 award in 2021 from Real Estate Staging Association®. I rest my case on selecting her to top this Boise list.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Mortgage Comments Circa 2021: – Some of the more popular lofts in the downtown core have exposed ductwork on the ceiling above, and others have exposed pipes , which can be cool, in the right spot. So when I see something like this, I know it’s not literal: We’re talking death now, are we? It’s not literal.

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McKissock

APRIL 2, 2021

of homes sold above list price in March, with San Jose, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City among the top real estate markets driving the all-time high. ” San Jose, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Austin, and Denver are driving the all-time high, with three out of five homes selling above their asking price in the past month.

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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. TorontoRealtyBlog. May I please use a sports analogy here? Back in 2003, there was a lockout looming for the 2004-2005 season. How about that, eh?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

So let’s look at the twenty-five areas in Ontario that CREA tracks. I want to run two sets of data: 1) December 2021 to May of 2022. I recently conducted a survey and I wanted to share the results with you. I asked two people in the parking lot at my company if they like soccer, and both said no. Wait, what?

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In this article, we'll go over some of the top first-home buyer grants out there. The Downpayment Toward Equity Act is a bill introduced by Congress in 2021. Grants from the National Homebuyers Fund may cover up to five percent of a home's purchase price. Loans are forgiven five years after closing the sale.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 12, 2022

As President and CEO of the Nick Shivers Team at Keller Williams Portland Central, Nick Shivers leads one of the top real estate teams in Oregon and Southwest Washington. “Sell a Home, Save a Child has raised over $3 million , one million of which was raised in 2021.”

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Lab Coat Agents

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Originally Featured On The Follow Up Boss Blog. Where to Get Real Estate Leads Post-2020. Start a blog. Where to Get Real Estate Leads Post-2020. #1. Ask your average Realtor what the best source of free leads is and you’ll probably hear one of two replies: Cold calling. Door knocking. But let’s be real.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 8, 2021

Not by three, or four, or five. Back in the fall of 2020, I figured that we’d see the average home price cross the $1,000,000 threshold in 2021, but I didn’t know when. But I wanted to show you the top twenty because February is in there nine times! Surely, you’ve heard of Babe Ruth , right? And if so, when ?”

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

While I have a very lengthy and somewhat contentious blog post lined up for next week, let’s first take a look at some stories from the week that are now in the rear view mirror… The Weird Gets Weirder It’s a difficult market out there and many agents don’t know how to work within it. But can you blame them?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Prices topped the list with Sales & Inventory ranking second. What if a five-year rate is 5.59%? 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. What do I mean by that? That’s a bad sign! Is it on my mind?

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The Close

OCTOBER 31, 2022

You must continue filling the top of the funnel in your lead generation process to avoid dry months without pay. Real estate has an overall average conversion rate of 4.7%, but top performers convert up to 12.0%. Continuous lead generation creates a constant flow of clients to work with that will, in turn, create predictable income.

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The Close

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Email marketing was a close second, and emerging in the top 3 was video marketing (which, to be fair, is often a component of social media thanks to Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube.). The #1 reason agents want to maintain a presence on social media is to stay top of mind amongst their sphere of influence.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

” A listing agent calls you to say that she’s expecting five or six offers tonight, but when pressed, she confirms she has zero registered offers? “That’s good stuff.” “That’s good stuff.” Let’s tell some of those stories today, shall we? Well, folks, that’s what happened!

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Yardi Marketing

APRIL 21, 2022

Sarah: I looked at applications-by-source and cost-per-lease for five of our top sources: Google Ads, website SEO and three different ILSs. Our sites began to pick up more traffic as we optimized them more effectively, and they became our second top source, bringing in a total of 1,952 applications last year.

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Realty Biz

MAY 18, 2021

Linkedin has the greatest organic reach of any social media platform in 2021. This reach means that any updates, videos, or images you post to Linkedin will have the potential to reach a vast number of users without spending any money on ads. This post will look at five simple techniques for driving real estate leads using Linkedin.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Then, I pulled the SI-joint in my lower back right before the long weekend and had to hobble around the house and the office for five days. Then, I pulled the SI-joint in my lower back right before the long weekend and had to hobble around the house and the office for five days. I’m a person that thrives on routine.

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GeekEstate

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Coverage-wise, if you saw our 2021 predictions, you know I’m deeply committed to putting climate change front and center in the years ahead. In 2022, I could conceivably appear at events in the six largest GEM hubs (or even the top 10) in the U.S. So what did we do? For the first time, we have hard data to answer that question.

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Fancy Pants Homes

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

All in all, the house has five bedrooms, including a four-room master suite, which spans the entire west wing of the home, and three-and-a-half bathrooms. The movie gained such notoriety that today, “ it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas ” around the time TV channels start running Home Alone for the millionth time.

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App Folio

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s recorded that rents have fallen in 41 of the top 100 metros in the U.S. however of the cities hardest hit by outbound migration, New York City and San Francisco are at the top of the list. . In addition, crowded streets and public spaces have made cities less desirable for many due to safety concerns and social distancing.

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Kyle Handy

MARCH 28, 2023

In this blog post, I’ll share 11 smart ways to find real estate leads on LinkedIn in 2023. When you advertise or post content on Facebook, Instagram, or another popular social media site, you directly compete with this more lighthearted, entertaining content. While this is a fraction of Facebook’s 2.7

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The Close

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Stay top of mind by maintaining regular communication, even if that communication is automated. If you’re looking for a robust CRM with all the bells and whistles, check out Elevate , which consistently ranks as one of our top picks for best CRM. Engage Your Sphere of Influence With Regular Communication. Visit Elevate.

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Disclaimer: Information in this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only and provide a high level overview of some of the top iBuyer programs. To help you navigate through selecting an iBuyer, we’ve put together a roundup of the top iBuyers as we head into 2022 and details about working with each.

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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. Picking my top five posts is always a difficult task, given I’m the author. That was a year in which Ms. 3) Market Frustration.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Earlier this month, RISMedia announced the 2021 Real Estate Newsmakers and, for the fourth consecutive year, its 2021 Newsmakers Hall of Fame—a select group within RISMedia’s annual Newsmaker honorees, which celebrates icons in the industry for their long-standing and/or exemplary service. Realogy Expansion Brands. Lennox Scott.

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RIS Media

JULY 9, 2021

Then you start seeing bulging, and it becomes soft on the surface.” “A building constructed in 2021 should not generate as much concern in 2061 as we have today about a building built in 1981,” he says. We’re checking out every crack, chip and rust stain and asking whether they might portend a catastrophe. It’s a challenging task.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Do I bother starting with the obligatory, “I’ll try to make this post shorter this time around?” 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.

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As reported by The World Bank , one-fourth of companies saw sales drop by 50% between October 2020 and January 2021, with about 25% experiencing declines of up to 72%. Here are five simple tips. The Wall Street crash in 1929. The September 11th attacks. The recession. Should you be concerned about sales during a crisis?

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

hour drive to wherever you’re going when there’s “no traffic” is a five-hour torture-fest on a Friday. TorontoRealtyBlog. 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. Why do people do this?

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 22, 2022

And now, it’s the system , so let’s get down with early-2021’s hottest buzz word and ban “blind bidding.” TorontoRealtyBlog. Those of you who are not currently working in the real estate industry probably aren’t familiar with the publication, “Real Estate Magazine,” or REM as we know it.

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