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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 …

TORONTO, December 17, 2008 — Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 1,487 resale transactions during the first half of December, from 2,868 sales recorded in the same period a year ago, Toronto Real Estate Board President Maureen O’Neill announced today. The average price of a home in the Greater Toronto Area is currently $360,652. This compares to an average of $404,707 recorded …

Commentary regarding November 2008 Quick Stats: 2008 2007 % Change Number of Active Listings 27,037 18,309 + 48% New Listings this month 9,925 10,692 – 7% Sales this month 3,640 7,313 – 50% Average Days on Market 41 32 + 28 Average Price $368,582 $393,747 – 6.4% List Price vs. Sales Ratio 96% 98% – 2% Months of Inventory 7.43 …

It’s amazing how different things tend to bring about different feelings or remind you of good times. It’s when you hear that track which you listened to during the best year of your life and all of a sudden you’re filled with excitement, happiness, content and all the feelings that you experienced and associated with that song when you were …

(NC)—One of the major elements in the successful performance of work around the home, both inside and outside, is the proper choice and use of tools. In this respect, the seal of the Canadian Standards Association is a reference, because it indicates that the tools bearing the seal respect the Canadian Standards of manufacturing and safety, and are equipped with …

We’ve been working on a new website for the past couple of months and we’re happy to report that the new website is now ready and is being launched to the world wide inter web. Following is a comparison between the two websites visually. Old website New website There are some very noticable features that I’d like to point out …

This will be a first! I’m not writing about real estate in my Toronto Real Estate Blog but I wanted to share some thoughts that relate to my real estate business and personal life. I’ve been using the word insanity to define a lot of things lately such as my work and my life… I even nicknamed a friend Insanity …