Sotheby's International Real Estate

JUNE 25, 2021

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Hot property: five homes for sale in the French Riviera – Financial Times. These 7 Sprawling Estates Come With Equestrian Stables on Property – Architectural Digest. What You Get: $2.2

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Sotheby's International Real Estate

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. million, making it one of the top-three most expensive listings in the area, according to the Vail MLS. $33 Late Bee Gees Singer Robin Gibb’s Former Estate for Sale for $13 Million – People.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

As to why we usually set offer dates for Monday or Tuesday, you can read more about that in a blog post that I wrote last month: “When Should You Move Your Offer Date?” In fact, we make predictions for many real estate events! Yes, a prediction game. How many offers? Personally, I think it’s pretty tame.

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Sotheby's International Real Estate

APRIL 16, 2021

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Our top properties of the week – The Spaces. Hot Property: Five Homes in the US Sun Belt – Financial Times. Seville, Spain | Sergio André, Seville Sotheby’s International Realty .

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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. It’s the end of the year!

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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. ” Most of the funds raised come directly through the real estate industry. .

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

I’ve been working in the Toronto real estate market for nearly two decades, and the market, the industry, and real estate in general have been called many things. Simply put: we’ve grown accustomed to mania in the Toronto real estate market! Who cares about a flat real estate market?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

And this, folks, is one of the craziest things I’ve seen in real estate reporting in a long time. Today, the headline associated with that URL reads: This is so bizarre, and while you may be thinking, “There has to be more to the story here,” there really isn’t. Wait, what? Here’s the URL: [link].

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The Close

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In real estate, lead generation is key to keeping your business growing, your income flowing, and deals closing. You must continue filling the top of the funnel in your lead generation process to avoid dry months without pay. General Real Estate Lead Stats. Email advertising in real estate converts 1.4%

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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. Read the full story here. According to this story from Redfin , “Nearly 40% of homes in the U.S. Read the full story here. A record-breaking 39.2%

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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? It’s only been a few days but already, I feel as though this January real estate market is going to be very slow. Prices topped the list with Sales & Inventory ranking second. Any new developments?

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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? Let’s tell some of those stories today, shall we? “That’s good stuff.” “That’s good stuff.” Well, folks, that’s what happened!

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Do you remember my story about the January TRREB stats, and how in the first week of February, agents were all waiting with bated breath to find out what the ‘new’ average home price was? And do you recall my telling a similar version of this story one month later? TorontoRealtyBlog. What did I not expect?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 8, 2021

Not by three, or four, or five. The Toronto real estate market in the month of February absolutely obliterated several very notable records, not the least of which is price. From $843K to $852K and back to $843K in a 3-month blitz that represents the busiest 3-month period in the real estate calendar, traditionally.

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Fancy Pants Homes

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The story of eight-year-old Kevin McCallister — who, accidentally left behind by his family during the holidays, is forced to defend his home from two dimwit burglars — is arguably the best Christmas movie of all time. So we just had to track it down in real life. Revisiting the Home Alone house: A walk down memory lane.

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Lab Coat Agents

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Originally Featured On The Follow Up Boss Blog. But let’s be real. We asked leading agents and real estate coaches for their most reliable, most overlooked, and craziest ideas for free lead generation with only one condition: That they worked. How to Get Real Estate Leads at No Upfront Cost.

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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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Yardi Marketing

APRIL 21, 2022

Sure, you need art to tell the story of your community and inspire prospective renters to take the next step. Sarah Wieman, senior manager of branding and marketing at PRG Real Estate , is no stranger to this concept. Sarah Wieman, senior manager of branding and marketing at PRG Real Estate , is no stranger to this concept.

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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. Allan Dalton.

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GeekEstate

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We were created to provide an objective lens into the trends, companies, people, and ideas shaping the future of real estate. 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. So what did we do? …from sectors far and wide…. …

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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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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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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

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. For example, real estate prices could be a topic every year!

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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 ? There’s no real methodology to my choosing, if I’m being honest. But I also like to consider how these blog posts age , and whether or not the content turned out to be relevant, eye-opening, or predictive.

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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.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Every year, there were five topics. The story broke in the media and later that day, I ran by and watched workers continue to work even though the project was apparently being canceled… 2016: Foreign ownership. It happens so quickly, and you’re simply along for the ride. That sounds weird, I know. 3) The Rental Market.

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HomeLight

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

HomeLight is partnering with the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) to launch the Black Real Estate Agent Program. It’s an effort that we believe will change lives and make the real estate industry more inclusive. Black Real Estate Agent Program – information and application.

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HomeLight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A national pandemic shut real estate down, at least temporarily, and some states declared real estate agents “non-essential.” ” Despite that, real estate defied all expectations during our national economic recession. Our first year is in the books, and what a year it was!

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Greg Kurzner , a leading real estate investor in Atlanta, bought and renovated a home in Stone Mountain, Georgia a few years ago. TJ Sayers , a real estate investor in Birmingham, Alabama, owns a company that typically buys 50-60 properties per year, many of which become rentals. Bad renters turn investment sour.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

Looking back on it, I suppose I didn’t “need” to write a thousand words or more about my holiday break in Thursday’s blog post, thereby extending the length of the blog and only allowing us to examine two of the ten discussion points for 2023. Is that a lot? Is that rhetorical? Q3 of 2020: 0.29%.

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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. Elf on A Shelf.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

As I wrote in my year-end blog, my wife and I had consulted with our family doctor and resident COVID expert to put together a plan enabling us to see my mother over the holidays, and thus I haven’t been “out there” in eighteen days. ” How in the world did I get 2 1/2 weeks off?

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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! I always think I prefer the “Top Posts” to the “Top Stories”, but then I sit down to write the top stories, and I realize that this is a thicker, fuller experience.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

What would you do if you knew absolutely nothing about real estate but really, really wanted to learn? Would you read the Toronto Real Estate Board’s press releases? Would you read some random real estate agent’s biased blog? Like, five people? Where would go turn to? One hundred?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

I got into real estate in July of 2004. Here’s the GTA average home price since the year before I got into real estate: You could pick any point on that line, and I guarantee, you’d have found multiple economists, financial analysts, authors, and “experts” who were predicting the market crash.

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