Brave New World for Real Estate and Mortgage Agents
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Brave New World for Real Estate and Mortgage Agents

Branding For Realtors & Mortgage Agents Personal branding is big now.  But doing it well is far from easy. How we present ourselves online and in person plays a key role in how we’re positioned for success. Our persona or self-image can be shaped and it must be shaped for us to be the “solution” others…

Urban Land Institute – Real Estate Forecast to 2018

Urban Land Institute – Real Estate Forecast to 2018

Urban Land Institute Outlook Report The Urban Land Institute released it’s Fall 2016, 3 year Short Term housing and real estate outlook report with predictions from 51 real estate and economic experts. Quite a few organizations including NAR, National Association of Home Builders, Trading Economics, Kiplinger, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Bloomberg, Moodys, and more produce their…

How to Get People to Sell Their Homes – 10 Tactics and 1 Big Strategy

How to Get People to Sell Their Homes – 10 Tactics and 1 Big Strategy

10 Ways to Get Homeowners to Sell After you’ve grown tired of waiting for people to call you to sell their home, you may want to try something new, something that’ll create increasing, consistent touch points with home sellers. Sellers, those ghostly inhabitants of your dream world.  This is about creating a fat pipeline to your…

Toronto House Prices

Toronto House Prices

  Toronto House Prices Toronto house and condo prices continue their relentless rise. We can forecast with certainty that home prices will not decline over the long haul.  Investment in Toronto real estate remains the most secure and profitable vehicle, and add on rental property and you have even more impressive returns.   Condos in…

10 Ways to Avert a Toronto Housing Market Crash

10 Ways to Avert a Toronto Housing Market Crash

How to Avert a Toronto Housing Market Crash? Toronto’s real estate market overheated in 2017 due to housing availability problems but what resulted in 2018/2019 was not a crash. The Toronto market is resilient. Why is an impending Toronto housing crash a disaster for us? The economy may crash creating unemployment and mortgage defaults, scare…

Zillow Homes for Sale

Zillow Homes for Sale

Zillow Homes for Sale Zillow has become a major force in the business of online residential real estate. Pundits are awarding its success to things like Big Data or company culture, but the real reason may be technology. I’ve written a post on Zillow and its leads generation program. Have a look if you’re an agent….

Luxury Home Sales in Canada Continue Record Pace

Luxury Home Sales in Canada Continue Record Pace

Toronto and Vancouver Sizzling Hot Realty Markets Although the US markets such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Charlotte, and Miami are glowing brighter these days, Toronto and Vancouver are actually the hottest markets in the world right now. The Forecast for housing sales and combined with higher condo and home prices means realtors can raise their earnings considerably….

8 Key Skills/Habits of the Best Luxury Real Estate Agents

8 Key Skills/Habits of the Best Luxury Real Estate Agents

What Truly does Create a Successful Luxury Realtor? Realtors who specialize more in the luxury market likely have a few unique personal and professional traits that bode well for them. The stars in this niche might not match our picture of them however. They could actually possess negative traits. As long as they have these…

Montreal Housing Market – Update Predictions for 2019 2020

Montreal Housing Market – Update Predictions for 2019 2020

Positive Outlook for Montreal Housing Market While the Toronto housing market and Vancouver housing market struggles with government regulation and crash talk, Montreal seems to be waking from a sleepy, negative period that made it appear undesirable to outsiders. The changing perception of Montreal’s political stability might be the key driver of home sales here…

Toronto Real Estate Market Forecast – The Pros and Cons of Homebuying

Toronto Real Estate Market Forecast – The Pros and Cons of Homebuying

When Is the Best Time to Buy a Home? A Laser Clear View of Toronto Housing — 2017 to 2018 Spring 2017 is almost here in Toronto, and tens of thousands of homebuyers will make the decision to buy a home. Yet buyers are confused, not because it may be a housing bubble, but because they…

First Time Buyers — A House or Condo is a Great Investment

First Time Buyers — A House or Condo is a Great Investment

First Time Home Ownership Your dream of owning your own home is a smart investment and it’s doable. It’s been that way for a century. With all the negatives you hear about the economy, home prices, huge down payments, and the cost of living, you may have been pushed  into a state of denial and apathy….