McKissock

MARCH 2, 2021

As an experienced appraiser, you’ve likely encountered pressure to hit the purchase price or develop your appraisal based on a predetermined value. So what do you do when you’re asked to hit a certain value? Webinar: The Market Value Doesn’t Support the Contract Price, Now What? This, of course, is unethical.

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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? Like I said: this is just begging for a solid analogy.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What’s the difference between a 7-day vacation and a 14-day vacation? But seriously, what’s the difference? On the seventh day, when everybody around us was looking sad, preparing to head home, we were absolutely elated to be staying! TorontoRealtyBlog. About seven days! To leave now would be way too soon!

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Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Home prices have been rising rapidly in recent years, with some markets seeing double-digit growth. A housing bubble is a sustained but temporary condition of over-valued prices and rampant speculation in housing markets. In this blog post, we will examine the signs of a housing bubble and the risks associated with it.

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The Close

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Newer agents are almost always surprised when I tell them agents and brokers with killer marketing are not more talented or harder-working than they are. So why do some consistently crush their marketing goals while others fail? Smart Realtors create a real estate marketing plan designed for long-term growth early in their careers.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

It’s only been a few days but already, I feel as though this January real estate market is going to be very slow. 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?

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I’ve written blogs from the perspective of both tenants who have a bad landlord, and landlords who have a bad tenant, and all the while, we’ve debated the protections that tenants enjoy in this province in 2023, and whether or not they’re unfair to landlords. Both landlords and tenants can abuse the system and do.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog On Wednesday, I took a look at the pre-construction condominium market in Toronto and how prices and those sweet builder “incentives” look this fall. First, what in the world is TARION? What do they do ? Maybe some of you have already read this. We’ve heard of it. This is true.

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Marco Santarelli

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Unlike the misconception, passive income ideas do require an upfront work to earn, like writing an e-book or building and monetizing a blog. Some passive income ideas—like investing in stocks or renting out a property—may take some work to get up and running, but they could eventually earn you money while you sleep.

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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. Affordability has never been worse in our market, and first-time buyers might be the ones most affected. I remember it vividly.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 4, 2022

Did you just stumble upon this blog for the first time? You were Googling “The Road Ahead,” looking for the 1995 book by Bill Gates , of the same title? Well, now you found this blog! It seems like just yesterday we were shoveling driveways full of snow and getting over our Christmas hangovers.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I find myself saying that a lot lately with respect to market happenings, and that’s the case whether the “stuff” is good or bad. ” It’s a line that I share with a number of agents and the number of times we use it only seems to be increasing in this market. TorontoRealtyBlog That’s good stuff.

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 10, 2024

We wanted to tap a member of the GEM Diamond community, RealEstateAPI ‘s Co-Founder Vincent Harris, for his take on the state of property data and what an API approach looks like. And what problem are you solving? But this is what our API suite makes possible. We’re building roads.” We’ve taken a similar approach.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

The Toronto rental market is on fire! It’s a funny thing, this rental market of ours. Then at other times, the rental market can be so fierce it’s unfair. But guess what? That is how hot the rental market can be, at times. Have you heard? At times, it can be ice cold. I sure didn’t.

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Broke Agent Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Here’s what to know — and how to get in on it. What do you give as a closing gift? What if you could gift a trip to Europe or a week at a luxury spa? If you like keeping up with the points potential of your credit card accounts, you may be familiar with The Points Guy. A knife set? A gift card? NAR) We were intrigued.

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GeekEstate

JULY 30, 2020

Who are you and what do you do? I love bringing new technology and creative ideas into outdated industries, and that’s exactly what we’ve done with The Closing Docs. What problem does your product/service solve? Historically, screeners and underwriters are collecting paper pay stubs and bank statements from applicants.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 6, 2022

What’s that? I’d rather be honest about what social norms and customs were at the time, and take responsibility for my actions. ” Pop Quiz for those born in the 1980’s: What was the very first MP3 you ever downloaded? Was the first MP3 I ever downloaded by one of those banks? TorontoRealtyBlog.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 2, 2021

What people may choose to focus on will differ, whether it’s health, equality, safety and security, or the Leafs being able to win a game-seven. The mere notion of perfection as it pertains to any aspect of real estate, specifically in our market, is a pipe-dream. Not in our market. The world isn’t perfect.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I guess I’m a little behind on my regular updates on changes to the English language by first-year university students with nothing better to do… Yes, my colleague sold a house to a homeless woman who was simply meeting with my colleague and looking at houses every week in order to get a free Tim Horton’s coffee and muffin.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

“David must be having a slow month,” you’re assuming. “He’s probably got some meth lab coming up for sale and he’s just trying to grease the…… tray.” They’ve been consistently looking at houses that are selling in the $1.2 – $1.4M ” asks the sleazy salesperson.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 26, 2023

” It was in 2008 after the market had turned. A property is listed for sale on June 10th, 2008, with an offer date set for Jun 17th. And when we got used to this happening in the market, we simply acknowledged it as a new technique. It was like a physician giving somebody a pill but telling them it was a placebo.

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Notorious ROB

APRIL 5, 2023

In my post about the likely impact of the commission lawsuits against NAR and four corporations, I mentioned that I had a conflict of interest when it came to the issue of real estate auctions because I had been working on an auction-related initiative for a while. What Makes DPX Unique? DPX has been my passion for over a year now.

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The Close

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Maybe the market is sluggish or sales are plateauing. We have some tried-and-true ways to make more money as a real estate agent so you can build a thriving business no matter what. Your previous clients know you, and they know that you’re the expert who can get them what they want. Related Article.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

What the hell does that actually mean? What the hell does that actually mean? But the point I’m trying to make today is that you can seemingly make a market out of anything. by WATA, which not only sold for $870,000 last year, but which is now being offered for sale again at a reasonable $1,305,000.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

Part of me wanted to play off the old, “what came first, the chicken or the egg?” And if we try to extend the “chicken and egg” riddle to “buy-first or sell-first,” that’s likely where we’d end up. Anybody read this in a previous blog post? I started selling real estate in 2004.

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Realty Biz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Should you be concerned about sales during a crisis? Should you be concerned about sales during a crisis? 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%. Does This Make You Greedy? The recession.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 25, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog A client and loyal blog reader asked me this week, “What are your biggest pet peeves about the industry?” Then again, I regularly use this blog as an outlet, so I’m sure we could come up with five, ten, or one hundred in no time. I will do what I want, when I want, and act with impunity.”

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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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HomeLight

AUGUST 31, 2022

DISCLAIMER: As a friendly reminder, this blog post is meant to be used for educational purposes only, not legal or tax advice. Our tool analyzes the records of recently sold homes near you, your home’s last sale price, and other market trends to provide a preliminary range of value in under two minutes. over the previous year.

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GeekEstate

JULY 7, 2020

Who are you and what do you do? What problem does your product/service solve? Working with our customers, we’ve now grown to add additional features like eSigning, bank account verification, and loan payoff verification services. What are you most excited about right now? What’s next for you?

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HomeLight

AUGUST 16, 2021

You’ll learn how to prospect for distressed properties, how to approach homeowners, how to work with banks, and much more that will position you as the local expert with solutions to help those in need. Christina’s course: Working with Foreclosures and Short Sales. HUD Homes for Sale. ?. Enjoying this episode?

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Lab Coat Agents

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Originally Featured On The Follow Up Boss Blog. Ask your average Realtor what the best source of free leads is and you’ll probably hear one of two replies: Cold calling. Start a blog. With an outcome like that, it’s not surprising Eric is building a system around this tried-and-tested lead gen tactic. “We

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Norada Real Estate

JUNE 22, 2022

Financing turnkey rental properties is the most difficult question to solve for a buyer with no experience in the real estate market. ” But, if an investor does not have that much cash in hand, finance is required to meet the purchase price of an investment property. What is a Turnkey Rental Property?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JULY 24, 2023

Discussing politics is always a sticky subject, and when you consider that no election has ever resulted in one party receiving 100.00% of the vote (at least outside of North Korea, China, or Russia…) , I suppose it’s fair to assume that no matter what is thought, written, or spoken about politics will always result in dissent.

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The Close

MARCH 1, 2022

Consistently generating real estate buyer leads is what sets successful agents apart, especially early in their careers. We reached out to real estate high-rollers from across the country to get the inside scoop on the best strategies to spark and cultivate relationships with real estate buyers, and here’s what they had to say.

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Kyle Handy

JANUARY 2, 2023

However, as an independent contractor, especially if you are not making estimated quarterly taxes, April represents the time to dive into your savings and write one of the most significant checks you’ll likely write all year. What We’ll Cover How does a new agent get real estate leads? Create a blog 30.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The marketing for the home was a thing of beauty as well, and I know that both my clients were drawn in by the gorgeous photos, with the beautiful staging, and the really neat virtual tour. Rather than return to the home time and time again to plan for furniture purchases, or to look at paint colours, they simply used the 3D walkthrough.

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