Sotheby's International Real Estate

JUNE 24, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Top-Performing Douglas Elliman Agent Pulls Team to Sotheby’s International Realty – The Real Deal. Five Beach Home Hot Spots That Aren’t the Hamptons – Mansion Global.

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Sales Closing Agents Marketing 103

Sotheby's International Real Estate

APRIL 1, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Five of the world’s best homes for sale with beautiful gardens – Financial Times. 40-Acre Napa Valley Estate With Olive Groves and Cabernet Vines Asks $15 Million – Mansion Global.

Brokerage 94

Brokerage Design Sales Marketing 94

Sotheby's International Real Estate

JUNE 3, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. This six-bed apartment in a 16th-century palazzo has a long and storied history. Five of the best homes for sale in Venice – Financial Times. Betty White’s L.A. 6 tropical homes in Hawaii – The Week.

Land 107

Land Design Sales Marketing 107

Sotheby's International Real Estate

JULY 29, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Five of the Best Homes with Vineyards for Sale – Financial Times. Continue reading Luxury Real Estate Headlines: Final Week of July 2022 at Sotheby´s International Realty | Blog.

Land 101

Land Sales Marketing 101

Sotheby's International Real Estate

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Hot property: five homes for sale that offer December sun – Financial Times. Continue reading Luxury Real Estate Headlines: Third week in December 2022 at Sotheby´s International Realty | Blog.

Design 89

Design Sales Marketing 89

Sotheby's International Real Estate

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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 Amsterdam – Financial Times. Continue reading Luxury Real Estate Headlines: Third Week in October 2022 at Sotheby´s International Realty | Blog.

Design 111

Design Agents Sales Marketing 111

Sotheby's International Real Estate

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. This four-bedroom penthouse apartment occupies the top three floors of an 11-story building in the affluent Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood, in Mexico City’s southwestern Miguel Hidalgo borough.

Sales 87

Sales Design Agents Marketing 87

Sotheby's International Real Estate

MARCH 4, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. This 17th century colonial home complete with green shutters in Long Island has five bedrooms and is on the market for $1.9m. Bruce Willis’ Former Estate In Turks & Caicos Lists For $37.5

Sales 109

Sales Marketing 109

Sotheby's International Real Estate

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Unprecedented urban estate on Lincoln Park’s finest street totaling more than eight city lots. Sprawling Historic Estate in Connecticut Hits the Market for $15 Million – Mansion Global.

Sales 81

Sales Marketing 81

Sotheby's International Real Estate

MARCH 17, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. The property has five lodges, endless views and serves as conservation sanctuary with significant tax incentives. Hot property: five homes in Irish landscapes – Financial Times.

Land 91

Land Sales As-is Marketing 91

Sotheby's International Real Estate

MARCH 25, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Hot property: five homes for sale near surfing hot spots – Financial Times. Continue reading Luxury Real Estate Headlines: Fourth Week in March 2022 at Sotheby´s International Realty | Blog.

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Renovation Residential Sales Marketing 92

Sotheby's International Real Estate

JANUARY 28, 2022

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Part of Former Frick Estate in New Jersey Sells for $27.5 Five of the world’s best homes for sale with indoor swimming pools – Financial Times. $2 Ever dream of living like royalty?

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Sales Marketing 66

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.

Sales 64

Sales Agents As-is Inspection 64

Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Not even one comment about the new blog? And nobody noticed that Monday’s blog extended into Wednesday and that I posted on Thursday instead. This was both a function of launching the new version of Toronto Realty Blog, as well as TRREB releasing the September stats on Wednesday instead of Tuesday.

Sales 84

Sales As-is Design Marketing 84

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].

As-is 83

As-is Marketing Sales Brokerage 83

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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Fixed-rate mortgage Banks Mortgages Construction 73

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? But the property was tenanted until “late 2022,” per the listing. “Late 2022.”

Marketing 84

Marketing Renovation Closing Construction 84

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?

Sales 72

Sales Marketing As-is Agents 72

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%

Agents 94

Agents Closing Design As-is 94

Realty Biz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This week we look at the top real estate professionals in Mobile, Alabama. Yes, real estate people are still not like vacuum cleaners or smartphones, though some lead-generating platforms pretend they are. I’ve lived in this part of Alabama, and many “real people” are doing business there.

Agents 85

Agents Renovation Branding As-is 85

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog On Thursday, I couldn’t help but note a lot of stories about Canada’s population growth. The CBC picked up the story: “Canada’s Population Grew By Record 1 Million In 2022, Spurred By International Migration” But of course CBC would pick up the story. Scratch that.

Construction 77

Construction Mortgages As-is Marketing 77

Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

Seriously, only a sprinkle of comments on Monday’s blog post? The news cycle in real estate is an interesting one. Case in point: who among you knew that Daniels Corporation, who built every existing condo in Regent Park, had lost out on its bid to construct both Phase Four and Phase Five? TorontoRealtyBlog.

Pre-approval 91

Pre-approval Construction Development Commercial 91

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?

Brokerage 74

Brokerage Agents Construction MLS 74

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.

Marketing 81

Marketing Banks Sales As-is 81

The Close

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When I worked in real estate in Manhattan, I noticed a pattern among my fellow agents: The people who complained about working 80-hour weeks weren’t closing very many deals. Long story short? Well, you’re going to have to embrace yet another real estate cliché that turns out to be true: Work smarter, not harder.

Agents 111

Agents Closing As-is Design 111

The Close

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Smart Realtors create a real estate marketing plan designed for long-term growth early in their careers. To help you crush your marketing goals in 2023 and beyond, we worked with top-producing broker and coach Sean Moudry to put together a real estate marketing plan template that can serve you for your entire career.

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Marketing Branding Agents Design 122

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.

Branding 52

Branding Marketing As-is Development 52

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

While I’m going to detail a rental scam that I witnessed, first-hand, earlier this year, first I need to regale you with the story of the truly “best” scam I’ve ever seen work. The first roommate of his, who he did not insist appear on the lease along side him, left five weeks into a one-year lease commitment.

Banks 100

Banks Agents As-is Industrial 100

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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Development Purchase and sale agreement As-is Marketing 81

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. 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? We manually categorized every member by sector, role, and geography.

Residential 83

Residential Property Management Industrial Staging 83

Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 27, 2022

My father has famously told this story many times, including to any and every girl I ever introduced to the family, so here goes… It’s “Parents Night, 1986.” For those who played along in last Thursday’s blog, thank you for trying! How could none of you guess that? It’s Rainbow Sherbert. Rocky Road.

Sales 105

Sales MLS Marketing As-is 105

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?

Development 87

Development Purchase and sale agreement Land As-is 87

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.

Pre-approval 82

Pre-approval Construction Development Agents 82

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

While the older agents in your office might not impress you with their questions about how to “do a Twitter,” or when they try to fax something on the printer, or when they put a Tide Pod in the Keurig, they are great for stories about yesteryear. And these stories are important! But I started in real estate in 2004.

Agents 71

Agents MLS Sales As-is 71

HomeLight

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve heard the stories. This week on The Walkthrough , Shaheedah Hill — an Atlanta real estate agent with more than 100,000 YouTube followers — has practical advice to help you conquer those fears and start making videos. Shaheedah’s YouTube course: YouTube for Hyperlocal Real Estate Agents.

Agents 107

Agents Principal As-is Marketing 107

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%.

Land 83

Land Development Pre-approval Banks 83

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.

As-is 96

As-is Marketing Title Agents 96