Tag Archives: Toronto Real Estate

The condo craze in Toronto and the speculation of a real estate bubble has industry experts wondering how much of an impact foreign investors have on the market. Are cash-rich foreign investors really fuelling the “condomonium” in Toronto? Click here to read the full article.

Architect Frederick Herbert for Percival Leadley, 1904. Then. 21 Elm Avenue, circa 1910.   Now. August 2011.   Rosedale homes often have an interesting and rich history. Like Leadley, many of the families who lived in these homes were entrepreneurs who owned many of the enterprises and factories today. They produced and sold goods, and industrialized our city.   What …

June 5, 2012 — Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 10,850 transactions through the TorontoMLS system in May 2012 – an 11 per cent increase over the 9,766 sales in May 2011. Sales growth was strongest in the ‘905’ regions surrounding the City of Toronto. “Sales growth in the ‘905’ area code was stronger than growth in the City of Toronto across all …

Feedback matters when selling your home! I have a rigorous process in our office of following up with all the agents that have shown our seller’s property to collect feedback and submit it to the seller on weekly basis.  We start our process by emailing the agent three hours after the showing has been completed through automated means.  This doesn’t …

List to last OR Listings are the gift of real estate Gods! I first heard this saying when I was starting out in this business in the late 90’s and never really understood what it meant.  This is the time when the real estate market was going through a lot of change including the advent of Buyer Representations.  As a …

I’m starting a new home search! This will not be the first home I’ve ever bought but its definitely a first experience to buying a home to live in exclusively. I’ll explain! The first home that I ever bought was with my brother and the whole family was to be living in it. We still own that house in Brampton …

It has been an interesting week for me and one of my clients!  Thursday started off with a BBM early in the morning while I was at the bank that read, “F*** me” and followed with a story that went on to explain that the property is flooded.  Let’s go through it in a bit of detail and lay out …

In light of my earlier post about a new record set in the Toronto Real Estate Board for highest percent of list price ever offered and accepted, I thought it would be beneficial to talk about what are the different ways that you can make sure your offer stand out from the competition and accepted by the seller. Offer over …

January 5, 2012 — Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 4,718 transactions through the TorontoMLS® system in December 2011. The December result capped off the second-best year on record under the current Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) boundaries. Total sales for 2011 amounted to 89,347 – up four per cent in comparison to 2010. “Low borrowing costs kept Buyers confident in their …

TORONTO, December 16, 2011 — Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 2,699 transactions through the TorontoMLS® system during the first 14 days of December. This result was 11 per cent above the number of transactions recorded during the same period in 2010. On a year-to-date basis, sales amounted to 87,407 – up 4.3 per cent compared to 2010. “We have had the …