Richard Silver

Archive for August, 2009

Social Media: REBarCamp San Francisco August 2009

What follows are some notes that I took August 4th at the 1st anniversary of REBarCamp. Due to the amount of information, I am trying to keep it as simple and point driven as possible. It was a great day where 400 + engaged members of the Social Media community got together to share their thoughts in this ad-hoc forum. (more...)Continue Reading...

REBarCamp San Francisco August 2009.

Last week I attanded the 1st Anniversary of REBarCamp. It is an ad hoc event held in the Real Estate community where Social Media and new technologies are discussed. It was a very successful event this year, held at the Trulia Offices. Thanks to all the Sponsors (Torontoism was one) who helped make this a great event. Hopefully this year we will put together at REBarCamp Toronto... Stay Tuned!! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YVdlr4Cr8[/youtube] Please feel free to comment!!Continue Reading...

Real Estate: Seth Godin Strikes Again

If you have not signed up for Seth Godin's Blog you should. It comes every morning to my inbox as an RSS feed (Really Simple Syndication), is short and poignant and often has some very good viewpoints. Today I was especially pleased to see that it was about REALTORS and some of the claims that they make in the public forum. Here is Seth's Blog: August 9th, 2009: The danger of vague claims The sign the broker posted in front of the house...Continue Reading...

Toronto Real Estate Statistics for July 2009

GTA REALTORS® report resale record in July TORONTO, August 6, 2009 - In July 2009, Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported a record 9,967 sales, up 28 per cent from July 2008. The average price for July transactions was $395,414 – up by six per cent compared to the same month last year. "Households confident in their positioning within the current economic environment have taken advantage of housing affordability in the GTA," said TREB President Tom Lebour. "The real estate sector has been one...Continue Reading...

REALTOR.ca and why it is not an MLS System.

Over one year ago now, MLS.ca was replaced by a better product named Realtor.ca: Both are public-facing web sites owned and operated by the Canadian Real Estate Association. The reason for the name change was to help ease some of the confusion in the minds of Canadian consumers who thought that what they were seeing was an MLS system. Those systems are owned and operated by local Boards/Associations and only upload certain data that the local Multiple Listing System decides to...Continue Reading...

Looking For New Construction? Call your REALTOR!

Most Real Estate buyers searching for new builds (condo apartments as well as free-hold) in the GTA don't realize that there is a wonderful tool accessible to members of the Toronto Real Estate Board: Realnet. The reason that they do not know about it is that many practitioners don't realize what is available to them as members of  TREB: On TorontoMLS (not to be confused with Realtor.ca) there is Land Registry information that allows Realtors to confirm the names of all legal...Continue Reading...