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People who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. Experiencing failure is inevitable on your journey to be successful. Each defeat is merely an installment to victory. You’ll find that the number of times you succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times you fail and keep …

It’s been an experience so far trying to get all the bugs worked out on the website.  It seems that we’re up and fully functional now so I’m going to start updating the website on regular basis. I recently got a question from a gentleman through an online question and answer session.  While the answer was apparent, I wanted to …

Welcome to Torontonian Online! In an effort to stream line our communications with our audience and to keep you updated on the market and what’s new in real estate, we have made an upgrade to our Blog and moved our blog to a new wordpress database.  We needed this to help us better organize the information as well integrate the …

The power of twitter! I was running low on ideas to post on this blog and while researching through different articles about what I thought were possible suspects for a topic, I came across an article on how to leverage twitter to help you do more with less. One of the suggestions were to leverage it as a think tank; …

TORONTO, March 19, 2009 – Greater Toronto REALTORS® announced 2,565 transactions inthe first half of March compared to 3,183 during the same period last year. The annual rate ofMLS® sales decline was the smallest in five months.Mid-month March MLS® sales increased compared to the 2,044 sales experienced in the firsthalf of February. MLS® sales follow a recurring seasonal trend, with …

Entry-level purchasers are now the engine driving home-buying activity in almost every major centre in Canada, according to a recent report released by RE/MAX. The 2009 RE/MAX First-Time Buyers Report, highlighting first-time buying activity in 32 residential housing markets across Canada, found that improved affordability is prompting many first-time buyers to get off the fence, out of the rental, and …

Toronto Real Estate Board Members reported 4,120 sales in February 2009 compared to6,015 sales recorded in February 2008. The average home price was $361,305 last monthcompared to $382,048 during the same month last year.“A considerable number of transactions continued to take place in February 2009. Motivatedbuyers and sellers, who were aware that market conditions changed over the past few months,were …

TREB Members reported 2,670 sales in January from the 5,075 sales reported in the first month of 2008. Of these, 1,106 transactions took place in the City of Toronto compared to 2,128 in January 2008. In the surrounding “905” area, 1,564 sales were recorded, from 2,947 last year. The GTA housing market has not been immune to the economic slowdown …

TORONTO, January 19, 2009 – Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 888 sales during the first half of January compared to 1,776 in the first 15 days of 2008. “According to Statistics Canada the economic situation throughout Canada changed noticeably over the past year with job losses in the fourth quarter of 2008. Toronto is not immune to this, the GTA housing …

Dear Blog Reader, Welcome to 2009! A new year brings with it a great holiday season, family, friends, treats, turkey and a new year’s resolution. Keeping resolutions is something that the best of us struggle with so we’ve dedicated our Monthly Item of Value (IOV) for January to keeping on track with your resolution. We’ve also included a worksheet for …