Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

If you know the names Alessandro Munge, Philippe Starck, and Brian Gluckstein, then you’re either incredibly obsessed with design, or you’re incredibly obsessed with real estate. But you will also findhis name attached to a massive new real estate development in Toronto, known as Freed Hotel & Residences.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

TorontoRealtyBlog Are you reading your very first blog post here on Toronto Realty Blog? Instead, I’ve been writing about the perils of pre-construction condos since I started this blog back in 2007. Your “Buying Pre-Construction Condos and CAKE!” It boggled my mind.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

That’s how I’ve felt about the 2024 national budget for the last few weeks, and while the budget won’t be released until April 16th, I’m already anxious about it. I want to try not to make this blog post political since it’s supposed to be about the newly-announced Renters Bill of Rights.

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Toronto Realty Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

” My response was, “Thanks, old lady ,” but fortunately that only resonated in my mind, and in practice, I simply forced a smile. ” I guess what goes around comes around. Yours truly was included, along with three others. But the irony is: that experience is eventually going to come full circle.

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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?” What’s the sale price? In fact, we make predictions for many real estate events! How many offers? It’s quite simple.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog Geez, what happened to “More MLS Musings?” ” Perhaps I got carried away this year actually writing about real estate! An “unpriced offering” as it’s referred to, and this is very common in commercial real estate. But what if there’s no offer date?

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Toronto Realty Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

What’s the best film trilogy of all time? Star Wars comes to mind, but that was a trilogy until they made three prequels, then George Lucas sold his company, and they’ve since made countless sequels and prequels. TorontoRealtyBlog. Any Clint Eastwood fans? ” Indiana Jones , perhaps? The Matrix ?

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

While I’m sure Thomas prefers seabass or beef tenderloin to standard fowl, I’m sure he enjoyed his metaphoric chicken dinner in 2020 with a side of McCain Smiles … Newer readers won’t know what I’m talking about, but the veterans do, and they’re already debating whether to skim this part.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog What’s that saying about the finish and the journey? For those of you who enjoy running , you’ll probably have your own saying about how your goal isn’t the finish , but rather the run itself. The sights, sounds, feelings, and of course the clear mind that I enjoy oh-so-much.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

While the symptoms of OCPD might be present in my outlooks and opinions, I certainly hope it doesn’t undermine what I’m about to say. We have a saying in real estate that goes like this: When the market changes, it changes overnight. See what I mean? And what about INFLATION? It’s never slow.

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Toronto Realty Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Why is real estate so expensive in this city? And upon speaking to a rep for one of Toronto’s largest developers yesterday, I learned that this $950/sqft figure is real, and it’s spectacular! ” But what happens when the real estate market slows down? Gawrsh, I mean, come on! Imagine that?

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

But those three things together and do you know what you get? What is my point? It’s not unreasonable to assume that your new “free” service is actually being paid for by, well, you. I noted in a CTV Your Morning interview last month that about 35% of the cost of a new condo is taxation. But then what?

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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

JANUARY 8, 2024

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. Well, what can I say? Yes, I’m the one who takes out the garbage, and yes, my wife primarily handles cooking.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

I wanted to call this blog “Monday Morning Quarterback: Hate To Say I Told You So,” but it seems I’ve done that bit before… January 22nd, 2021: “The Friday Rant: Hate To Say I Told You So!” perhaps Billy Joe Armstrong’s best-known work could lend a title to today’s blog. Good Riddance.

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Toronto Realty Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

But a little more than two weeks into the 2024 market, it’s all crickets. Virtually no listings, and most of what’s being listed was already on the market last year. Early prediction: January of 2024 will see the fewest sales EVER in a month of January. What was it called again? What a complete waste.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Our comprehensive guide to the best real estate marketing tools provides you with a helpful assortment of easy-to-use, effective marketing products to turn your business into a revenue engine in 2024. We know — you didn’t get into real estate for the love of marketing or tech.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

There are people the same age as Toronto Realty Blog who are now old enough to drive cars, which absolutely boggles my mind! Somebody asked me this year, “What was the first blog post you ever wrote?” What did I write in that blog for which the RECO complaint was launched? So I looked it up!

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The Close

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The biggest challenge for any successful real estate agent is managing your marketing, follow-up, and team members while trying to service your current and past clients. After 28 years in real estate, I have tested almost every real estate software available—some were good, some really bad!

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 10, 2023

In any event, I will tell any story about the rental market, good or bad, pro-tenant or pro-landlord, anti-tenant or anti-landlord, so long as there’s a learning experience for the TRB readers and those who randomly stumble upon this blog when they’re Googling tenants’ or landlords’ rights. My story ends here?

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

” That’s what I emailed to a client on Sunday after she sent me the listing for a $3,000 per month, 2-bedroom house that she wanted to go check out. I took her and her roommate around the city in 2007 when they wanted to upgrade their current rental, but as she’ll laugh about today, “We were such a waste of your time!

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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? 4) Real Estate Commissions. 4) Real Estate Commissions.

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Notorious ROB

JUNE 12, 2022

In part 1 , we covered legal and regulatory challenges to the real estate industry. But in the meantime, even the modest Fed action has had real results in the real world. It seems an apt metaphor for what the Fed has caused on purpose, and is bringing about, again on purpose: recession. Revelation 6:5–6 NASB.

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Marco Santarelli

MARCH 10, 2023

As we move into 2023, let's take a closer look at the latest market statistics to gain insight into what we can expect in the coming months. What to Expect in 2023? Existing home sales have declined for the twelfth consecutive month, according to the National Association of Realtors. while pending sales increased by 15.7%. to 80 days.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

TorontoRealtyBlog I know I don’t actually write blogs on a retro typewriter like the one in the photo above, but I really, really liked that picture… I do wear glasses when I write, however. In this space last year, I penned over 5,000 words about the “top blog posts” of 2022. ” Fair point.

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GeekEstate

JANUARY 12, 2023

Drew Meyers // Founder, Geek Estate. In all seriousness, the ramifications of what’s coming from OpenAI’s ChatGPT and others are beyond immense. [Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of our 239th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 600 GEM members on January 4th, 2023.]. PROPTECH TRENDS.

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