#10032894 - 04/02/21 05:32 AM
dat real estate v.2021
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We had a thread on this from a year ago, a new thread is worthy of a discussion considering where things are at. Looking to see what others are seeing.
Tail end of Jan and all of February were completely insane for detached, anything and everything was set for a bidding war and going on a face ripping rally. Condos were sluggish, but picking up, then here we are in April everything is changing by the day.
Detached cooling off, prices staying high, condos now ripping (building dependent).
Couple of examples.
Worked with a few investor clients, 1 particular example I am intrigued by: Downtown condo, solid building, sat listed since November. I made an offer, some back and forth got it for $796/sq. ft, which is roughly what they went for in ‘16/’17. This was in the dead of winter, no one was buying, new lockdown announced, client was nervous.
Fast forward 3 months to today, same building, last unit sold at $1,020/sq. ft. $150k ‘gain’
Listed another condo on the bay corridor 2 weeks ago, wasn’t too keen on sellng it because it had a tenant on a fixed term until end of summer, you usually take a haircut on these listings. Told my buddy to list regardless to see if the lack of inventory will prevail, if not just terminate and relist later. Sure enough, even with a subpar tenant on paper on offer night we got out with a firm offer and got maybe 5k-10k less than what it would’ve gone vacant. Still a win here, 'over asking' bro  wow such amaze, many triggered.
Detached Markham/Toronto which are predominantly my stomping grounds, just a shitshow. From the back to back 60 showings, 30 offers on a typical detached listing, I’d have to say more than 50% of listings with offers dates that I am watching are now failing, houses are getting relisted at ask, not selling and then terminating. You will get the odd sales now in March that still breaks a record mostly because uninformed buyers, but it’s a wild west.
Big wild card now is the fear put into everyone with Bank of Canada revisiting the interest rate hike. Literally 4 months ago there were promises of no hikes until 2023, it’s now on the table…no shit.
Never a dull moment. How things have changed in 12 months from what was a pretty uncertain time.
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#10032972 - 04/02/21 09:34 AM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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#10032990 - 04/02/21 09:53 AM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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I can't even fathom buying a house these days. Back 10 years ago when we first bought we were the only offer and got it 10k less than asking. Now I hear you basically have to offer as much as you're comfortable spending and hope you get accepted lol
It's pretty bad, being on the listing side of a few of these it's crazy to see how:
1. Uneducated realtors are and how they are pushing their clients into total junk.
2. How much help people are getting from their parents.
3. I went firm on a deal on one listing, guy couldn't get financing after being 'pre approved' either place didn't appraise for purchase price or he did something stupid like buy/lease a car between pre approval and purchase...parent had to co sign for him to close.
Sucks being a buyer, it sucked especially in February. Things are better and reality is if you are buying and selling you have a natural hedge, up market or down market. Being a first time home buyer sucks, might as well keep waiting it out.
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#10032994 - 04/02/21 09:55 AM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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It was terrible. Sunk backyard, broken elevator for wheel chair taking a big chunk of space, dirry,
Original AC from 1970 that probably doesn't work.
If things like these are deal breakers for you, I have a surprise for you...you will never buy. Short of material deficiencies all houses will require some work...what you listed in nothing $ wise compared to purchase price. You are better off buyng pre con if you can afford it than trying to get into the resale market.
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#10033062 - 04/02/21 11:22 AM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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The fact that you can get a detached in this market for that price is a win, that's a townhouse in many places.
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#10033165 - 04/02/21 12:52 PM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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The fact that you can get a detached in this market for that price is a win, that's a townhouse in many places.
Sadly I will likely never own a detached home in the city. I have no parents help and will not qualify for a $1M plus mortgage. even 10% down is $100k in cash, plus closing costs, plus needed repairs.
I don't mind moving out of the city tbh tho, just have to either a) continue to be able to work from home with my T.O job (unlikely) or b) find a job in the area where i'd be moving to. At this rate, I'll be moving to North Bay.
Vas, you're a realtor now?
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#10033306 - 04/02/21 02:47 PM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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Things should cool off, lots of ppl getting nervous since as of this week BoC said rate hikes aren't off limits, yet a few months ago they said no rate hikes until 2023. If anything brings prices back to reality it will be a rate hike.
If you are serious about moving north, look into cities part of the Feds RNIP initiative, I have a few ppl looking for multiplexes up there since cap rates are solid and they are attracting better rents. Sudbury road trip! If you get a 6 plex and live in one you can get solid LTV and up to 40 year amorts. You will effectively get paid to live there. I mean doe sit matter where we play COD from?
Yes, full time Realtor now...since there was a shortage and all 
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#10033376 - 04/02/21 04:02 PM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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how can anyone afford over $1.5M for a detached is beyond me.
that's almost $3M of pre-tax income or 30 years making $100k going straight into a house. you gotta marry rich.
People that own property already and selling/buying is where a lot of this money is coming from. One of my current clients bought a condo downtown 6 years ago and after selling it they now have a 40% downpayment on a $1M home with money leftover for renos. Where it's sucking is for first time home owners.
RB has only touched the service on how insane the market was back in Jan/Feb. I was in situations where there were 40 offers, yes not a typo. 40 fucking offers and that's for a house that was only on the market for 5 days.
It's better now, but people are still paying a premium for homes. It's not even about whether the buyers agents are doing a shitty job educating their clients. Truth be told listing agents don't even know how much a home will sell right now as all it takes is that one buyer that is willing to pay a premium, whether it's because they really love it or have lost out on multiple offers and on every missed house means the next one is going to be more. See where this is going?
Also biggest pet peeve are the idiot agents all saying SOLD FOR OVER ASKING. Fuck off, unless you listed at market and it sold for over asking sure go gloat. But fucking listing a house for $800k when it's $1.3M is horse shit.
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#10033429 - 04/02/21 05:06 PM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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how can anyone afford over $1.5M for a detached is beyond me.
that's almost $3M of pre-tax income or 30 years making $100k going straight into a house. you gotta marry rich.
What hator said, a lot of people are moving up and have a natural hedge of selling high and buying high.
The biggest factor however is that interest rates dropped significantly (Fixed has gone up in the last month however). I don't have the numbers in front of me but since covid the rate drop increased purchasing power roughly by 20%, which is reflected in price appreciation (even though appreciation disproportionately outpaced purchasing power).
Being a first time buyer right now is not worth it unless you are comfortable carrying such a large amount or have help from parents (majority do).
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#10033430 - 04/02/21 05:08 PM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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how can anyone afford over $1.5M for a detached is beyond me.
that's almost $3M of pre-tax income or 30 years making $100k going straight into a house. you gotta marry rich. People that own property already and selling/buying is where a lot of this money is coming from. One of my current clients bought a condo downtown 6 years ago and after selling it they now have a 40% downpayment on a $1M home with money leftover for renos. Where it's sucking is for first time home owners. RB has only touched the service on how insane the market was back in Jan/Feb. I was in situations where there were 40 offers, yes not a typo. 40 fucking offers and that's for a house that was only on the market for 5 days. It's better now, but people are still paying a premium for homes. It's not even about whether the buyers agents are doing a shitty job educating their clients. Truth be told listing agents don't even know how much a home will sell right now as all it takes is that one buyer that is willing to pay a premium, whether it's because they really love it or have lost out on multiple offers and on every missed house means the next one is going to be more. See where this is going? Also biggest pet peeve are the idiot agents all saying SOLD FOR OVER ASKING. Fuck off, unless you listed at market and it sold for over asking sure go gloat. But fucking listing a house for $800k when it's $1.3M is horse shit.
I am buying you a vanity plate as a present. Who is in for a group buy?
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#10033632 - 04/03/21 05:36 AM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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Congrats on the new purchase!
This is a perfect example of a natural hedge, I obviously don't know the exact numbers, but will run them here for illustrative purposes as I think you are a good case study. In particular moving up from a smaller place into a bigger place, you generally have 2 advantages. On a relative % basis cheaper/smaller homes appreciated more than larger homes, also once you crack over the $1M mark you have less competition as you need 20% down to buy. This is area dependent, in some places it's completely incorrect, but by and large it holds some truth.
Here is why you have a natural hedge. The total mortgage amount is a little higher, but your payment is lower and more of it is going to principal anyway. If you match the normal scenario payment then you are coming out ahead. The risk here is interest rates, but in general whether you move in a crazy or down market at the moment in time it's all a wash. The risk is in long term exposure to interest rates, which we are all at risk for anyway.
Existing owners are hedged, new buyers are priced out.
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#10033823 - 04/03/21 10:32 PM
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i moved to McCowan and 16th in Sept 2019. We paid 1.1M for 2 car garage detached house. Now, the area is 1.7M+. 
There has been thought of moving back to 16th and 9th and being mortgage free if moving wasn't such a pain and other factor like help from family, school zone.
To think I bought my first condo 485sq ft condo at "Downtown" Markham back for 169k back in 2005. (I'd be laughing if I kept that....)
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#10033849 - 04/04/21 05:33 AM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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Cornell isn't cheap either.
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#10033880 - 04/04/21 10:09 AM
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Cornell isn't cheap either.
Yup. There really isn't anywhere that is "cheap" now. Even Jane and Finch has gone up A LOT.
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#10033897 - 04/04/21 12:02 PM
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The worst I've seen are suburbs outside of kitchener, like 20min outside of the city in the middle of a farm field are now a million.
outside of KITCHENER
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#10033944 - 04/04/21 08:46 PM
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Cornell isn't cheap either.
"Cheaper"....but its super small lots.
The ones with the coach houses in the back would be decent. Get someone to pay for part of your mortgage.
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#10033968 - 04/05/21 05:03 AM
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Those are awesome, they were around 1.4M last year, that's when I stopped looking.
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#10034244 - 04/05/21 05:44 PM
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The worst I've seen are suburbs outside of kitchener, like 20min outside of the city in the middle of a farm field are now a million.
outside of KITCHENER
Buddy just dropped a cool mil on a place out there, lol.
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#10034375 - 04/05/21 10:01 PM
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I remember looking at those  ... I was asking around, and ... at the time, it was ~$55k or so for that coach piece .. I was like wtf who would want to live atop a garage.... The ones with the coach houses in the back would be decent. Get someone to pay for part of your mortgage.
Markham Stouffville is a quick walk away. I'd think there would be nurses (who is ideally hot and young) that would want to rent one. LOL
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#10034411 - 04/06/21 04:43 AM
Re: dat real estate v.2021
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Those coach houses rent really well, I went and looked at few...I've seen some get $1,800/month.
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