Working day in and day out in real estate has its positives and negatives. Often these come as the flip side of the same experience. Here’s what I mean. I get to meet many new and interesting people as I help clients buy and sell properties and any phone call
I was having a conversation the other day with Drake, and he was quite surprised when I told him that forget about the six, the five is where it really is these days. Full disclosure, Drake is the nickname I have given one of Diane’s fish in her aquarium. Fuller
I’m going to admit right off the bat that I’ve been watching a lot of episodes of the TV show Mad Men lately. Whenever I watch a lot of a particular show or read a particular book series, it tends to influence how I view the world for a brief
There are no shortage of green topics these days. Whether it is marijuana legalization or the explosive growth of medical marijuana dispensaries in Ontario over the last year, we see lots of news stories about marijuana and the money in play. I recently rented out a commercial space to
When Diane and I sold our last house a few years ago, I was surprised to find that a lot of potential buyers spent the majority of their time in the basement. It was unfinished, had a pretty low ceiling and contained what appeared to the remnants of a lost
First off, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. Secondly, this isn’t the start of me providing you with really bad advice. I will not be following this up with comments about how car insurance is for suckers, or suggesting an all cheeseburger diet. (Mental note – drive to get cheeseburgers
As of today, Good Friday, March 25th, 2016, there are 4,848 places for sale in Toronto. That includes both freehold homes as well as condominiums. The latest population figures for Toronto proper (not the GTA, just Toronto) places it about 2.8 million residents. That means there is one place for
Given I spent an hour shovelling snow this morning and then took twice as long to get to my morning appointment, winter weather is definitely on my mind today. When I saw the latest market data for February, it gave me the idea to talk about how the weather outside
I’ve been in some bad homes. Condos with layouts that make me scratch my head, where the bathroom has an inexplicable diagonal jog behind the tub and living rooms are bisected by a pillar that makes placement of a couch or TV pretty much impossible. Houses where modern touches have been
On this cold Friday, I thought I would warm your heart with some of the pictures I’ve come across while previewing listings for clients. To be clear, these are not photos that you will gaze on with appreciation, marvelling at the composition and quality. If I had to describe one
I’ve been thinking a lot about multiple offers lately. I know, I know, as far as opening lines for an article go, that’s right up there with watching paint dry. (Mental note – write future post on drying paint.) Multiple offers on a property happen fairly regularly in a seller’s market,
Oh boy. I’ll be honest, as soon as I wrote this post title, I regretted it. For the last decade or so, predicting real estate has been a bit of a chump’s game. If I had a dollar for every time an economist, business magazine or bank predicted the collapse of
With only 15 days until Christmas, today is a good day to talk about how the holidays impact real estate. I know this is a fascinating topic, because every year my family can barely contain their excitement when I start discussing this as we open presents on Christmas Day. The
As we all love to do, I spent the morning reviewing the latest Toronto Real Estate Board sales statistics. I think I speak for everyone when I say that nothing compares to a hot cup of coffee and a detailed review of the index and benchmark prices of real estate
It’s Friday in late August, so I know you feel like doing math. Damn autocorrect. I meant to say, it’s Friday in late August, so there is no way you feel like doing math. So I will do it for you, because it’s actually kind of interesting.
