Today was a special day for the Toronto Condominium industry as Urbanation released their latest findings on the Toronto Condo market for the first quarter of 2012. Reaching a new height, the results surpassed industry expectations in total units sold.
Since their inception in 1981, Urbanation has been regarded as the Toronto Condo industry analytics leader making their Urbanation’s Condominium Market Survey an “industry bible”. As such their predictions are extremely valid and should be considered heavily. For the first quarter of the 2012 fiscal year, they have calculated that 6,070 units were sold.
Now the question is what should we expect in the future for the Toronto Condominium market?
-We believe that the market is poised for continued growth as the upward trend from the first quarter should continue well into the second, third and fourth quarter of 2012. That number 6070 units sold are just the beginning of what is to come.
-One key fact that Urbanation found is that 30% of that number all stem from 4 major developments; INDX, Massey Tower and Casa II in Toronto and PSV in Mississauga.
-This is a considerable portion to come from such a small portion of the total 338 new developments in the city however these 4 are some of the newest and most advertised projects in the city.
There are those that believe that the market is becoming more mature however. We are seeing huge development opportunities especially in GTA areas such as Missisauga and Vaughan. These first quarter results are the best since our mini recession began in 2008. We truly think that this growth is just the start.
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Properties are constantly being developed all around the world, making it harder for you as an investor to choose where to invest your hard earned cash. Land is the one asset that never depreciates, however, when it comes to selecting the property that’s right for you, you should always consider these 3 crucial points:
-Location
-Maintenance
-Price
Location
Being one of the most crucial aspects, a good location is critical to attracting patrons to stay in the hotel. The real question here is, how does one define a ‘good’ location? What separates ‘good’ from ‘great’? Well, a great location for a property is found in metropolitan areas that are highly populated and highly visited. This is the easiest way to drive through traffic and continue sales to the hotel or condominium. In addition to this, the residual value of the land will grow in the future because of its location.
Maintenance
Property maintenance is what allows for continued success for the condominium or hotel. Without adequate upkeep, the property would receive bad customer reviews and the returning users would diminish. Property maintenance is represented by the general improvement of the property, making it more visually appealing and structurally sound. Quality is an aspect that Trump takes very seriously and the only way to thrive in this category is through the rigorous maintenance standards that we uphold.
Price
The third and final point to consider is the price. I think we can all agree that price is always the single most critical factor to making any type of financial decision. All Trump properties are priced fairly and respectively of the included immenities, land, location and demand that they hold. Offering a premium product, Trump prices are reflective of this.
All three of these elements are fundamental to investing in real estate. Donald Trump uses them at the heart of all initial property decisions he makes and so should you.
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Around the world, the Trump name is recognized for its opulent portfolio of properties and developments, where a commitment to excellence is standard. The expectation when arriving at any Trump operated location is of incredible quality from the moment you are greeted at the to the time of your departure.
Donald J. Trump has built the idea of:
- Consistency into all of his work so that wherever you go, the same world-class and luxury amenities will be found.
- Every single building, from Trump International Hotel and Tower Toronto, to Trump International Hotel Las Vegas is situated in the most popular and vibrant areas of the city.
- Aside from the panoramic and breathtaking views, all locations are in close proximity to local hot spots and venues.
So now begs the question, why should you invest in a Trump? Well investing a Trump operated property means two things:
- Quality
- Land value
The areas that Trump invests on are in high-density areas where the value of the land is poised for increased value appreciation. No matter where you go in the world, when you see Trump on the side of the building, your expectation will always be exceeded. That is the Donald J. Trump way.
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To much anticipation, the ceremonial red ribbon was cut Monday at Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto® by the Trump family and Talon International Development Inc. in honour of its grand opening.
Donald Trump and his family, Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric made their grand entrance to the building’s lobby at the corner of Bay and Adelaide in an elite convoy of perfectly polished, black Escalades at 10a.m.
A media frenzy ensued capturing the Trumps’ smiles and waves as they warmly greeted all in
attendance during the first moments of the big day’s events.
Led on a tour of the building’s acclaimed amenities and deluxe model suites, the Trump family viewed the prestigious residences located within the 65-story building. These residences boast stunning views that can only be seen from Trump® Toronto and will ultimately house the most exclusive, who’s-who of the city. With each detail exuding luxury, the residences of Trump® Toronto are the most extravagant in their kind.
While the surrounding streets were abuzz with paparazzi and captivated onlookers, Mr. Trump and Alex Schnaider and Val Levitan of the Talon International Development team were presented with commemorative jerseys from the Toronto Maple Leafs', John-Michael Liles and Toronto Blue Jays' JP Arencibia in celebration of the momentous day.
Following a few words from Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, the Trump family and Talon International Development team suitably cut the thick, crimson red ribbon with golden scissors, similar to the golden shovels used when ground was first broken on the building in 2007. (Pictured below from left to right, Jim Petrus, COO, Trump Hotel Collection, Alex Shnaider, Chairman, Talon International Development Inc., Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump)
Although the event was by invitation only, the official ribbon cutting of Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto® is a landmark achievement for all Torontonians. Standing taller than any other Canadian residence, the opening of Trump® Toronto represents an elite class of sophistication and style in the city’s downtown core that has changed the Toronto skyline and will be cherished for generations to come.
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If you've ever played a sport that regarded the 'assist' as an important statistic, you know how valuable it can be. I grew up playing soccer for most of my adolescence, and although I was never the highest scoring player, I was always one of the most regular contributors to making assists. And to be honest, setting my teammates up for success somehow felt even more rewarding than scoring goals myself.
In marketing, assists can be extremely valuable, too. So for you marketers who have always exercised a bit of a competitive drive as well as a love for analytics, you might just go into marketing shock from all the awesome stuff you're about to learn about the role of assists (and how you can leverage them) in inbound marketing.
What Are Conversion Assists, and Why Are They Important?
When we talk about assists in the marketing world, we're generally referring to what we call conversion assists. Simply speaking, conversion assists are pages on your website that your visitors viewed before they converted into leads or customers.
Understanding a website's conversion assists can help marketers identify the most influential pages and interactions on their website. In doing so, they can learn a lot about why those pages are and aren't effective and apply those insights to both improving poor-performing web pages on their site and enhancing other components of their marketing to increase conversions.
How to Analyze Your Conversion Assists and Improve Conversions
Want to start improving the conversion of your web pages? Analyze your conversion assists and start making changes for the better by following these 5 steps.
Step 1: Identify your top conversion assist pages.
The first thing you'll need to do is understand which of your pages are your best-assisting website pages. For HubSpot Professional and Enterprise customers, starting today you can access a new tool, Conversion Assists, in your Analyze tab. The tool will allow you to analyze pages by specific categories (e.g. landing pages vs. standard pages vs. blog posts) as well as by specific date ranges. Users will also be able to toggle between a tab showing conversion assists for leads (the pages leads viewed before they converted into leads) and conversion assists for customers (the pages customers viewed before they converted into customers). It will provide a percentage for each conversion assist page, which represents the percentage of leads/customers who viewed that page before converting. In other words, the pages with the highest percentage indicate your top-assisting web pages.
For Google Analytics users, identifying your conversion assist pages is a little bit trickier, though still doable. Click here to find out how.
Step 2: Identify patterns among your top pages.
There could be a number of reasons why your top pages are...well...your top pages. The trick here is to use some logic to identify what these reasons actually are. For example, it would make sense that your products/pricing pages have high assist percentages for customer conversions, because you'd assume that most of your customers would check out those pages before becoming customers, right?
Draw conclusions like this for the rest of your conversion assist pages. Look at your top-assisting landing pages, for instance. What types of offers (webinars, ebooks, etc.) contribute the most to conversions? What topics do they cover? Do you notice that landing pages that are formatted a certain way have higher assist percentages than others? Apply similar logic to your blog pages. Do you notice that certain topics you're writing about have higher assist percentages than others? How does this vary between leads and customers? For example, blog posts about topic X might have high assist percentages for leads, whereas blog posts about topic Y might have high assist percentages for customers. Once you identify some of the reasons behind why your top-performing pages are top performers, you can start to make improvements to poor-performing pages and adjustments to other aspects of your marketing.
Step 3: Leverage insights from top pages to improve lead nurturing efforts.
Use the insights you've gathered from your top customer conversion assist pages to inform and improve your lead nurturing campaigns. Adjust the individual emails in your lead nurturing series to include relevant content (e.g. landing pages and blog articles) that have the highest assist percentages for converting customers. This will enable you to create more effective lead nurturing campaigns that increase lead-to-customer conversions.
Step 4: Create more content on topics similar to those of top pages.
If you've noticed that certain types of offers (e.g. ebooks vs. webinars) or certain topics covered in your content have higher assist percentages than others, this could indicate that your target audience prefers content in one format over another or wants to learn about certain topics more than others. Use this information to inform future content creation so you spend your time creating the kinds of content your audience is interested in -- and, thus, the type of content that converts them!
Step 5: Improve the calls-to-action on poorly performing web pages.
For this exercise, you'll want to switch it up and take a look at some of your worst offending web pages so you can improve the calls-to-action (CTAs) on those pages. The idea here is, if a web page is low on your list of conversion assist pages, it's probably not sending traffic to pages that are successfully converting visitors. The likely reason is that the page's CTAs either aren't getting clicked on in the first place, or the landing pages those CTAs point to aren't effectively converting visitors.
To identify which of these problems pertains to your poorly performing pages, you need to first take a look at the individual CTAs on your pages. You'll likely encounter one of two problems:
Problem A: If a CTA points to a landing page that has a high conversion assist percentage itself, what you likely have on your hands is a CTA click-through problem. Maybe the language of the CTA doesn't effectively demonstrate the value of the offer, perhaps the button isn't placed prominently enough on the page, or maybe the button just doesn't have an appealing or eye-catching design. The only way to find out is to conduct some A/B testing so you can isolate different variables and ultimately improve the click-through on your CTAs. Here's a great blog post to get you started with A/B testing your CTAs.
Problem B: If your CTA points to a landing page that has a low conversion assist percentage, this probably indicates that the offer on that page isn't one of your best ones. In this case, try swapping the CTA on the page with one that points toward a landing page that you've noticed has a high conversion assist percentage.
Marketers should take this analysis even one step further by factoring in the website visitor's likely stage in the buying cycle when they're visiting certain pages, and aligning that knowledge with the most appropriate CTAs for that stage. For example, if you're analyzing a product page with a low conversion assist percentage and you've identified that its CTA falls under the category of Problem B, the new CTA you choose should be one that both (A) points toward a landing page with a high customer conversion assist percentage and (B) also represents a more middle-of-the-funnel offer like a product demo or free trial. This is because someone visiting a product page is more likely to (A) already be a lead and (B) be closer to a purchasing decision.
As you can see, analyzing your conversion assist data can offer a wealth of information and insights into the strengths and weaknesses of your marketing. Taking the time to conduct this 5-step analysis can help you increase conversions and create a more efficient lead generation and lead nurturing marketing machine
Read more: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/31165/Conversion-Assists-How-to-Leverage-Your-Site-s-Most-Influential-Pages.aspx#ixzz1pCw5jfIc```
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I just gave an insider point of view to the Toronto Sun and I thought you'd be interested in reading it before you go out condo shopping this weekend.
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A good time to buy
Dianne Daniel
Lower than inflation interest rates. An unprecedented rental supply shortage in Toronto. One of the hottest growth markets in North America. What does it all add up to?
The ideal time invest in a condominium, says Roman Bodnarchuk, founder and CEO of CondoOutlet.com, an independent condominium marketplace.
“The number one reason is the interest rates,” says Bodnarchuk, pointing to four- and five-year mortgages currently offered at 2.89 and 2.99 per cent. “We’ve never seen this in the history of our country… this party will end very shortly,” he says.
But why buy a condo? Because there are some great opportunities out there to cover your costs with rent if you do your homework, he adds. And Bodnarchuk should know a thing or two about it.
CondoOutlet.com recently completed an extensive analysis of both new and resale condominiums in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) for a true insider view of the market. The real eye-opener he says , is that no two neighbourhoods are the same.
“It’s an area-by-area analysis that you have to do,” he says, noting that in some neighbourhoods new condos are selling for less than resale and in others the situation is reversed. “…We typically show people three projects – two resale units and one new – and we compare the pro and cons of each.”
Right now, Bodnarchuk’s list of great opportunities includes four GTA developments: King West Condominiums at Liberty Village; Absolute Towers in Mississauga; San Francisco by the Bay in Pickering and, RAIN Condos in Oakville. For anyone seriously considering a condo investment in 2012, he provides the following advice:
-Lock into your mortgage in order to take advantage of the incredibly low interest rates and to guarantee a positive flow from your rental.
-To ensure that you’re getting value for your money, you need to compare maintenance fees and consider the costs per square foot with similar resale developments.
-Be patient. This is the one time when you don’t want to be the first in line. “Some of the best deals are when a developer is down to the 20, 10 or five units they want to close that project to go onto the next one,” says Bodnarchuk. “They wont necessarily discount the price, but they will throw in a free locker, a free parking space, $50,000 in upgrades or pay the condo fees for three years.”
-Diversify. A financial advisor would never tell you to put all of your money into one stock and the same holds true in real estate, he says. For example, great condo opportunities are currently available in Tucson, Arizona, where some units start at $69,000 with the ability to lock into a 30-year mortgage at less than four per cent.
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The Mansions of Avondale features a living with a unique environment with a garden inspired theme that matches the serenity and beauty of its homes. The entire neighborhood inside the Avondale is connected to a central park through a series of walkways, mews, and garden courtyards. This condominium developed by Shane Baghai is situated at the Yonge and Avondale area is one of the Toronto’s quality residential condominium.
Developed by Shane Baghai Group of Companies and designed by Rafael Bigauskas Architects Inc, this residential structure is fully furnished with great amenities: indoor pool, gym, party room, 24 hour concierge, and parking. Aside from that, each suites varies sizes ranging from 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom or 2+Den from 600 to 1200 sq ft.
Located at the heart of Willowdale, one of Toronto’s famous neighborhoods, The Mansions of Avondale at 51 Harrison Garden Blvd is within the area of great places like the North York entertainment and shopping district with retail shops like Loblaws, Future Shop, LCBO, Theatres, and to North York Civic Centre & Shopping Concourse, North York Library, Community Indoor Swimming Pool, and Toronto Performance Art Centre. Plus an access to access to Yonge subway line.
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We are pleased to announce that tomorrow will be the grand opening of CondoOutlet's new flagship retail store in the heart of downtown Toronto. Location at 143 King St. E.
Here you'll get to talk to a licensed realtor who'll give you an unbiased view on ALL the condos available for sale in Toronto's GTA right now. This is one of the biggest investments you'll make in your life and it pays to do your research with a CondoOutlet Genius before you start negotiating with developers.
Our new King St. CondoOutlet Store hours will be Monday to Friday 10am to 8pm & Saturday and Sunday 12pm to 5pm. Contact us now for more information.
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