Sotheby's International Real Estate

MAY 19, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Continue reading Luxury Real Estate Headlines: Third Week in May 2023 at Sotheby´s International Realty | Blog.

Closing 109

Closing Sales Marketing 109

Sotheby's International Real Estate

JUNE 2, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Olive, New York | Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty The country estate sits on more than 10 acres of private property. Penn Badgley’s Catskills Home Lists for $1.7

Sales 126

Sales As-is Marketing 126

Sotheby's International Real Estate

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. million and built a roughly 10,200-square-foot home with five bedrooms. Continue reading Luxury Real Estate Headlines: Third Week in February 2023 at Sotheby´s International Realty | Blog.

Sales 115

Sales Marketing 115

Sotheby's International Real Estate

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. London, England | United Kingdom Sotheby’s International Realty Aria House offers arguably one of London’s finest views.

Design 135

Design Sales Closing Marketing 135

Sotheby's International Real Estate

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, and home. Estate Seeks to Set Record – Robb Report Ansel Adams’s Longtime San Francisco Arts and Crafts Home Selling for $5.45M – Mansion Global This $29.5M

Design 121

Design Industrial Sales 121

Sotheby's International Real Estate

JUNE 9, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Austin, Texas | Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty If the lakefront home fetched its asking price, it would set a record for the state.

Design 108

Design Sales Marketing 108

Sotheby's International Real Estate

MAY 26, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Nice, France | Côte d’Azur Sotheby’s International Realty The French artist lived in this two-bedroom apartment for more than 10 years. Henri Matisse’s Former French Riviera Apartment Hits the Market for $2.7

Design 108

Design Marketing 108

Sotheby's International Real Estate

JANUARY 20, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Five of the best homes for sale in Europe for winter sun – Financial Times ‘Relaxed With a Lot of Smiling’—Santa Barbara Was Made for Laid-Back Vino Lovers – Mansion Global $4.5

Design 106

Design Sales 106

Sotheby's International Real Estate

JULY 14, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles, and home. Marbella, Spain | Seville Sotheby’s International Realty A megamansion has hit the market in Sierra Blanca, a gated, celebrity-favored community in the south of Spain.

Land 86

Land Design Sales Marketing 86

Sotheby's International Real Estate

JULY 28, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, and home. Cote D’Azur, France | Côte d’Azur Sotheby’s International Realty The property called Les Moulins du Villars, is a historically important estate located in a stunning natural setting with connections to Grace Kelly.

Industrial 70

Industrial As-is 70

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

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?

Fixed-rate mortgage 73

Fixed-rate mortgage Banks Mortgages Construction 73

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

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!

Marketing 84

Marketing Renovation Closing Construction 84

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Geez, I just watched like ten minutes of this movie and it would not be acceptable in 2023. I don’t regularly cruise Reddit for real estate news, just as I’m not a part of all those insane Facebook groups, but a few people sent me a link to a recent pre-construction launch in Pickering by well-known builder, Mattamy Homes.

Sales 87

Sales Principal Development Construction 87

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

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.

Marketing 122

Marketing Branding Agents Design 122

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

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. In this article we’ll show you actionable techniques to help you work less and accomplish more in 2023 and beyond. Long story short?

Agents 111

Agents Closing As-is Design 111

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

Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

What does it mean when the real estate market is slow, prices have declined, pre-construction sales and prices are even more sluggish, and yet some pre-construction condominium developers in the midtown area are currently charging up to $2,000 per square foot? Is this the classic case of trying to sell a $20-bill for $25?

Construction 74

Construction Sales Purchase and sale agreement Development 74

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

JUNE 17, 2022

There are a few ways that I could start today’s blog. ” Share your own horror story in the comments upon the conclusion of this post. TorontoRealtyBlog. I’ve been attracted to adages, sayings, and other wordplay as of late. “No good deed goes unpunished.” “Nice guys finish last.”

Title 87

Title Investor Staging As-is 87

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!

Development 81

Development Purchase and sale agreement As-is Marketing 81

Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 15, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Nobody gets to the top in this business without a lot of help. I’ve been with Bosley Real Estate my entire career; almost two decades. I got into this business believing in real estate stereotypes that I learned from “The Simpsons.” ” one agent asked. ” Geez.

Brokerage 76

Brokerage Agents Development As-is 76

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. Because negativity sells! Is that a lot? Q3 of 2020: 0.29%.

Land 83

Land Development Pre-approval Banks 83

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.

Sales 82

Sales As-is Pre-approval Marketing 82

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

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

But as sad as this is to say, I always enjoy the start of the fall real estate market, and that helps me get back into things. But as sad as this is to say, I always enjoy the start of the fall real estate market, and that helps me get back into things. How in the world can this be the top story?

Marketing 80

Marketing Banks As-is Agents 80

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

In fact, they’re playing with the boxes about as much as they’re playing with their new toys, which makes me think perhaps in 2023 I can just go with a cardboard theme and forego any actual expenditures? TorontoRealtyBlog. So, how was your holiday break? No, seriously. Tell us ! I got nothing. Anybody else in this boat?

Banks 80

Banks Mortgages Bankruptcy As-is 80

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.

Purchase and sale agreement 83

Purchase and sale agreement As-is Marketing Banks 83

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Toronto Mayor, David Miller, had been pushing for a municipal land transfer tax, even though residents of the city already paid a provincial land transfer tax upon the purchase of real estate, and this was to be Mayor Miller’s baby! and with stories from the community. This tax was coming, no matter what.

Development 102

Development Land As-is Staging 102

Sotheby's International Real Estate

AUGUST 11, 2023

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, and home. Wine Country Estate Is an Amateur Astronomer’s Dream – Robb Report This $4.3M Wine Country Estate Is an Amateur Astronomer’s Dream – Robb Report This $4.3M

Land 65

Land Brokerage Sales Marketing 65

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

If I get fined, I’ll post a copy here on Toronto Realty Blog for all to see. Million and staff will report back during Q4, 2023.” In case you haven’t noticed, all of the topics thus far (and my opinions therein…) are intended to create reactions. Call me or the other readers/commenters out. Did you hear that?

Development 87

Development Land As-is Construction 87

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

I finished the last season at some point in 2023 and, while I had many, many questions about the show, the plots, the accuracy, the ending – and just about everything else that a show-watcher will dwell on upon the conclusion of the series, there’s one scene that I acted out in my mind, over and over. But what did Stan tell Henry?

Agents 85

Agents As-is Closing Marketing 85

Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Thanks to the readers for suggesting blog topics before the long weekend! As you saw in Tuesday’s blog post, I took one such suggestion to heart. I started blogging (ranting?) about the pre-construction condo industry just as soon as this blog was launched back in 2007.

Construction 70

Construction Pre-approval Purchase and sale agreement Development 70

HomeLight

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Be sure to follow The Walkthrough to get future episodes delivered automatically: Apple Podcasts/iTunes | Spotify | YouTube About This Episode Courtney Poulos started her real estate brokerage in 2009, right after the crash. This week on The Walkthrough , she shares five ways to take advantage of a market reset and grow your business.

Marketing 92

Marketing Agents Staging Branding 92