Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Last November, I had a listing for sale in the same building. The unit was previously tenanted, and my client took my advice and cleaned it, painted it, staged it, and we put it on the market. We had very few showings on this condo, and eventually, showings just stopped. That was November. Let me call TRREB help desk.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog I laughed when I read a comment on one of last week’s blogs that said something like, “So you’re only blogging twice per week this year, but each blog is twice as long?” ” Well, that would be a net gain for Toronto Realty Blog then, wouldn’t it? Absolutely not.

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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. ” Nah. We all know how that goes.

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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. Believe it or not, this is the eighth year I’ve been working with this format; the top five blogs followed by the top five posts. 3) Market Frustration.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

That’s exactly what it is. But all-time records are about longevity! But I still hope he doesn’t… I’m a self-described stats nerd. I keep stats on things I don’t even care about. I just love stats. I don’t. It’s not personal. Or maybe it is. Wait, it is.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Did I ever tell you that I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro? And what better way to celebrate than by standing on the roof of Africa? The fall of 2022 showed us a very slow real estate market, but it wasn’t just price growth that was slow, but rather sales as well. True story. Polé, Polé.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

What a magnificent two-and-a-half weeks it was! And considering how 2020 went down for just about everybody on this globe, it’s an honour and a privilege to refer to any period of time this year as “magnificent.” TorontoRealtyBlog. That was, by far, the most “time off” I’ve had in a long, long while.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” Times have changed, most certainly, and whereas we used to think of the fall season and conjure up thoughts and images of fallen leaves, corn mazes, and pumpkin patches, we find ourselves here in 2021 where it’s all about who might have a cold. COVID has affected everything around us. Nothing is the same.

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Where was I, and what was I doing when I heard that the January, 2022 TRREB stats were released? “The TRREB stats are out,” he told me, last Thursday afternoon, “And they’re…… interesting.” ” “What is it?” “So it’s, what, barely moved?”

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2021

– 4) What is going to happen in the downtown condo market? I was on CTV Your Morning last Thursday to discuss the 2021 real estate market, and it’s never easy to get meaningful points across, over five or six questions, in a mere four minutes. 416 Condos: November, 2019: $659,855. A rough ride.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

I want you to remember this blog post, and where you first heard what I’m about to say. Some, because these sentiments don’t jive with your goals for the market moving forward. But I can’t help draw attention to what I see out there, and then there’s always that “feeling” as well.

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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. So how about a reference from The Jeffersons then? 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.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 10, 2021

Quite the interesting week on Toronto Realty Blog! Well, for me , at least… The main character of Monday’s blog found my post, took issue with it, and then told me, “You have one hour to take that down, or I’ll file a RECO complaint.” from October to November, and 2.5% from November to December.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

And then in an attempt to get unbiased, factual, and accurate news on what’s happening (if that’s even possible anymore…) I went to my BNN app. What does it say about the state of society and news media that to get accurate insights on what’s happening in one country, I have to go to a news app from another ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

To start the fall market? And we did this to start off January 2021, not just as a stand-alone blog, or even a two-part series, but rather a three-part series that spanned the entire first week back! Well, what can I say? What was the most eventful moment of my winter break? We did this after Labour Day, right?

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Well, maybe Thursday’s blog was a mouthful. All that time off over the holidays without an outlet for my thoughts – both about real estate, and not, and you had to know that the first blog back in January would be lengthy. It’s blogs like these that often make me feel guilty of being unoriginal, however.

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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! What’s the point of sending a holiday card if it’s obvious that your assistant or some high school kid wrote them for you? 1) The Market. 1) The Market. 4) Rental Market.

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That should tell me just how little I know myself these days… These five topics are too important and too complex to explain, predict, and discuss in 200-300 words each. The fall real estate market is going to be epic, and that’s going to help and hurt a lot of people. I’m not worried about brevity here.

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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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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And even if you don’t read the newspaper, and have zero apps on your cell phone, you would still undoubtedly have heard about the rental prices in our city from somebody , somewhere. Inventory has skyrocketed, as I wrote HERE in an early-September blog post. But that’s just accepting market rent. Apparently, not.

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