Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I looked over at my friend at the dealership who knows how crazy I am, and I said, “Is there anything on here I’ll actually use? ” I took a seat, a deep breath, and said, “You had my attention; now you have my interest.” I’m netting out the temperature with what I had and what it is !”

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This is a quarterly feature here on the Toronto Realty Blog and I’m having trouble believing that the last time we worked through these numbers, the summer had ended and it was just after Labour Day. Now here we are in the thick of winter. Then again, this doesn’t really feel like winter, does it? Maybe twice ?

Marketing 74

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On Monday night, a 1-bedroom condominium in Liberty Village, listed for sale at $599,900, solicited twenty-one offers and sold for $715,000. If you’re not impressed by the sale-to-list ratio, that’s fine. Last November, I had a listing for sale in the same building. That was November.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I know I’ve used “The Fork In The Road” for a TRREB stats blog post before. Give me a minute and let me look this up… …ah, yes, it was August of 2022. ” Now, it’s July. ” Now, it’s July. So not even that long ago. It’s the summer.

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Sales Marketing As-is Banks 68

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Last week, I took a buyer client to see two condo townhouses for sale in the same complex. One was listed at $799,900. The other was listed at $1,110,000. Just different listing and pricing strategies. The first condo was listed at $799,900 with an “offer date.” 162% of the list price, wow.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 9, 2022

There’s a reason I wrote last Monday’s blog, and no, it wasn’t “to get out ahead of the bad publicity.” ” “ Beware The Coming Real Estate Headlines ,” I wrote on May 2nd, and if you’d like to be fair to me for just a moment, you can admit that I wasn’t exactly wrong.

Sales 86

Sales Marketing As-is Agents 86

Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Are you tired of the stats blogs yet? But in the meantime, yes, we’re going to look at more stats today. But in the meantime, yes, we’re going to look at more stats today. What’s more important to know? But others are drawn to the sales data, since you can learn about price by looking at sales.

Sales 90

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

And by early, I don’t mean when most kids would be able to absorb something as intense as Jim Morrison, like, say, eighteen-years-old. I think I was like seven. “Roadhouse Blues” is my all-time favourite; something I share with my daughter now. Yes, he was a musician, but not like a drummer or a bassist.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 8, 2023

The funny thing about being a Leafs fan is that you can say, “This is our year” over and over, and when the Leafs finally do win a Stanley Cup, a lot of those fans are going to say, “I told you so.” It made no sense to me, as I wrote in a subsequent blog post as well as my eNewsletter. as I predicted.

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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HomeLight

DECEMBER 22, 2022

DISCLAIMER: As a friendly reminder, this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes, not financial advice. If you need assistance navigating the question, “Should I buy a house now or wait?” But the answer isn’t as clear cut as “now” or “later.” The market outlook: Is now a good time to buy generally ?

Debt-to-income ratio 86

Debt-to-income ratio Agents Loans FHA loan 86

Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog What’s that saying about the finish and the journey? ” I like that one a lot. To absolutely nobody’s surprise, I saw her listing hit MLS today with an agent I had never heard of from a brokerage I had never heard of. Who would list right now? I suppose there are many.

Sales 84

Sales As-is Marketing MLS 84

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

I’ve always liked the song, “The Heat Is On,” by Glenn Frey, as it reminds me of my childhood. Whether it’s the association with Beverly Hills Cop , or whether it’s that unmistakable saxophone in the song’s opening, I”ve always liked this song. Not easy, right? TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Days on market Sales As-is Renovation 75

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? What did I not expect? TorontoRealtyBlog.

Sales 87

Sales Marketing As-is Agents 87

Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 7, 2021

I just looked it up: it’s The Raconteurs. I just spent the last twenty minutes here in my office procrastinating, watching White Stripes music videos and downloading MP3’s – yes, for real, I still do that. SALES: June, 2021: 11,106. NEW LISTINGS: June, 2021: 16,189. ACTIVE LISTINGS: June, 2021: 11,297.

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Sales As-is Marketing 111

Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

” He looked at me with a furrowed brow and I could see the cloud forming a question mark over his head, so I continued, “There’s nobody here. ” He still looked confused. What can I say? Why do people do this? I would never do it. Should be simple, right? The city is empty.”

Sales 89

Sales Marketing As-is Closing 89

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

I could have called this blog post, “Don’t Call It A Comeback,” but I’ve used that before. He said he had spoken to me about five or six weeks ago about a listing I had and that I mentioned I might have one coming out in the area this spring. I think they’d be upwards of $1,200,000 now.”

Sales 77

Sales Marketing As-is Agents 77

Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

” I guess what goes around comes around. Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the new Freed Residences, where studio condos were being pre-sold for upwards of $2,300 per square foot. In fact, I really didn’t learn much from it, other than perhaps the notion that I needed to pen a similar blog post.

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Pre-approval As-is Construction Marketing 78

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I suppose if you really wanted to be amused with the hilarious and often tragic happenings in my industry, you’d have simply read Monday and Wednesday’s blog posts and been done with it! A picture paints a thousand words, or in this case, a picture of the MLS listing paints a thousand-and-one. But 1,119% of list?

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MLS Property Management Agents Land 75

Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 27, 2022

Atop the wall is a banner that reads, “GRADE ONES, WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE TYPE OF ICE CREAM? And in the middle of the paper in giant letters, it reads, ‘DON’T LIKE ICE CREAM!'” The only flavour of ice cream that I ever took a liking to was Rainbow Sherbert , and only from Baskin Robbins.

Sales 105

Sales MLS Marketing As-is 105

Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For those of you who have commented in the past, “I usually skip the stats posts,” you’ll want to close Google Chrome right now. This time around, it wasn’t real estate agents who buy and sell like insiders, or the evil foreign buyer, or those damn flippers and speculators, but rather investors.

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Investor Sales As-is Marketing 109

Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

August of 2010, which honestly seems like an eternity ago, I went to Africa with my father with the goal of conquering the highest peak on the continent. My father was 63-years-old at the time and I remember looking through the log book of every person to summit for months , and I swear to you, I didn’t see anybody older than him.

Sales 65

Sales Marketing As-is Short sale 65

Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

Case in point: did you ever think we’d see the day where there’s an “offer date” for a property listed for lease ? One of our TRG agents recently showed a unit, listed at $2,100 per month. But guess what? I asked my colleague, “Was the property under-listed?” I sure didn’t.

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Title Agents As-is Banks 98

Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Who says the market is cold, right? Do you know what I’m talking about? But now that January is in the rear-view mirror, I can’t help but look back at what was possibly the oddest month I’ve seen in real estate in quite some time. What can we possibly say that January was ?

Sales 75

Sales Agents As-is Marketing 75

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Thinking back upon it now, everything seems just a wee bit blurry. What a magnificent two-and-a-half weeks it was! A reader commented on the year-end blog, something about my plans to spend time with my mother, and COVID, and I deleted the comment. ” How in the world did I get 2 1/2 weeks off?

Sales 126

Sales As-is Marketing Closing 126

Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

What is luxury? Now we’re on to something. Like a Rolex? Just like art. ” I don’t see a $23,995 Hermes Birkin handbag as a “luxury” item because I think it’s an exceptional waste of money, since the purse simply carries your keys, wallet, and makeup, much like a $300 purse would. .”

Marketing 72

Marketing Sales As-is Design 72

Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

I mean, only 148 new listings in C01 and C08 on Tuesday? For reference, anything above 80 is what I would call “busy.” ” Anything over 100 is what I would call “near peak market conditions.” I’d say the market is doing exactly what I had expected it to do!

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Sales Marketing As-is Investor 68

Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Pop quiz for those that were either childhood friends of mine, or part of the “David Fleming Trivia” game at my bachelor party in 2013… What were the two C.D.’s My long-time best friend from grade school likes to remind me of this just about every time I see him. And so what? 2) Ace Of Base: The Sign.

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Sales As-is Marketing Title 81

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 some random real estate agent’s biased blog? ” What in the world must a novice real estate enthusiast think? And what of the article in the middle? Like, five people? One hundred?

Sales 96

Sales Marketing As-is Agents 96

The Close

DECEMBER 13, 2022

So why do some consistently crush their marketing goals while others fail? Like any long-term project, writing your real estate marketing plan can be frustrating and time-consuming. Before you start working on your marketing plan, you need to assess your past performance to see what worked, what didn’t work, and how you can improve.

Marketing 122

Marketing Branding Agents Design 122

Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 13, 2021

What’s worse: cheerleading or gaslighting? ” In the end, I think most home-owners, whether investors or end-users, could care less about why the market is increasing, so long as it continues to do so. And trust me when I say that most of us believe it will continue to do so. And what happened?

Sales 69

Sales Pre-approval Fixed-rate mortgage MLS 69

Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

He showed me his “log” back when I was a kid, and it looked exactly how you’d expect it took: leather-bound, tattered, ball-point-pen blue ink marking up the thick white pages on the inside. Now you have guys doing tricks and flips on a damn snowboard at 20,000 feet, hurtling toward the earth at terminal velocity.”

Sales 85

Sales Marketing As-is Agents 85

Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 14, 2022

I turned down not one, but two offers to lease on a rental listing where the tenants were both offering all twelve months of rent up front! I had a “day off” and yet I found myself talking to sixty people, reviewing nine offers to lease, and working through two offers on a freehold listing for sale. Wait, back up.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Friday’s post was fun, right? I’ve been waiting to look at rental figures, since I think that’s having a massive effect on the overall condo market. And while the $955,615 average sale price recorded in November represents a 1.3% ” That reader was correct. Those were tough times, no doubt.

Sales 80

Sales Marketing As-is Land 80

Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Let’s start today’s blog post with a quote: “This is going to be 2017 all over again.” That’s right, nobody said this. First and foremost: we don’t know what this market, here in June of 2022, is just yet. What legislation? ” It almost didn’t matter what they said.

Sales 93

Sales Fixed-rate mortgage Lending Marketing 93

Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 6, 2022

” She said he made $122,000 per year and was looking to rent for $2,650/month. That’s a 26% GDS ratio, with the standard being around 36% or less. ” Such is the state of the downtown Toronto rental market right now, at least, from what I’m hearing. I’m a realist, what can I say?

Marketing 82

Marketing Pre-approval Agents As-is 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. Now that’s relatable! Are you a baseball fan? Probably not.

Sales 92

Sales As-is Marketing Technology 92