Richard Silver

2010 Cabbagetown Preservation Association’s Tour of Homes

It's coming!   Sunday, September 19 from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm. This is one of the signature events in the Cabbagetown season and a great place to get new ideas for your upcoming bathrooms and kitchens.  Tour this great Neighborhood! Experience stylish living in lavishly designed and updated private Victorian homes on this self-guided tour through the Heritage Conservation District of Cabbagetown. The 2010 Tour features seven unique interiors, ranging from the splendor of an authentically restored and decorated Victorian mansion to...Continue Reading...

Condominium Corner: Status Certificates

Within the process of listing and selling a Condominium recently, I got a bit of a run-around from a management office that I thought I might share with you: Before listing we called to order a Status Certificate and was told that the staff person dealing with Status Certificates was out of town on Holiday. We asked for a request form to fill out and dutifully wrote out a cheque for $100 and mailed both to the management office. Not having...Continue Reading...

Toronto Area REALTORS® Report Mid-Month Resale Housing Figures

TORONTO, August 17, 2010 ‐ Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 2,732 sales through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) during the first two weeks of August 2010. This represented a 29 per cent decrease compared to the 3,832 sales recorded during the same period in 2009. New listings, at 4,770 were down eight per cent compared to the first two weeks of August 2009. “Throughout the better part of the last year, the number of monthly sales was well above the expected long-term trend....Continue Reading...

Toronto Real Estate: Neighbourhood in focus: the Beach

Beach, The Beaches or The Beach? To locals in the Queen and Woodbine area, it is The Beach. Only the uninitiated call it The Beaches. And that is only a part of the east-end snobbery that other Torontonians can only dream of. Among locals, one MUST live west of Woodbine. And God forbid if you live north of Gerrard. Shorts and T-shirts on fabulous bodies abound but so do beer bellies and strollers. The old watering holes and pubs are being replaced by...Continue Reading...

Toronto Realtors Housing Market Watch

Here is the most recent Toronto Real Estate Board's Housing Market Watch. Lots of information here depending on the area that you live in. If you have any questions let me know. Toronto Real Estate Market Watch July 2010View more documents from Richard Silver.Continue Reading...

Toronto Area REALTORS® Report Monthly Resale Housing Figures for July 2010

TORONTO, August 5, 2010 - Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 6,564 sales in July – a 34 per cent dip from the record 9,967 sales reported in July 2009. New listings, at 10,825, dropped to the lowest level for the month of July since 2002. “The level of July sales remained below the expected long-term trend. The market has become more balanced following record monthly sales through most of the winter and early spring,” said Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) President Bill...Continue Reading...

Today’s Rant: In Praise of Term Limits

For a good part of my life I have been involved in volunteer organizations. From an early age volunteerism was encouraged by my family. It is something that has given me a lot of joy as well as a huge education in what is the potential of the human spirit. I was lucky enough to work with June Callwood  or as we used to call her, Saint June. She was responsible for many of the community services that support Torontonians. I...Continue Reading...

Toronto Area REALTORS® Report Mid-Month Resale Housing Figures

TORONTO, JULY 19, 2010 ‐ Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 2,790 sales through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) during the first two weeks of July 2010. This represented a 37 per cent decrease compared to the 4,437 sales recorded during the same period in 2009. New listings decreased by eight per cent  annually to 5,184. “Last summer existing home sales spiked well above the expected long-term trend. Sales were also unseasonably high during the first four months of this year,” said Toronto...Continue Reading...

The Cabbagetown Forsythia Festival….

It has been such a crazy time the past few months that I finally went in to my Vado HD Video Camera and realized that I had taken these videos of the Cabbagetown Forsythia Festival. This is a great event in early May in Downtown Toronto and one of my favourite times to see the kids and their parents emerging from their warm winter accomodations and start to deal with the first signs of Spring. However this year, the Forsythia were...Continue Reading...

Last week at REBarCamp San Francisco.

Last Monday at the 3rd REBarCamp San Francisco there was a heated discussion generated by Joel Burslem's recent blog called "The Death of the Real Estate Blog" for 1000 Watt Consulting . I don't think that I have ever been in a room so filled with the movers and shakers of Real Estate Blogging...the Big Kahunas were there: Jay Thompson , Bill Lublin , Rob Hahn , Heather Elias , Derek Overby , Dale Chumbley , Todd Carpenter , Maya Paveza , Andy Kaufman , Mike Mueller , Ginger Wilcox , Kelly...Continue Reading...