Condos Just Sold on Toronto MLS®
We are reintroducing the Just Sold report by email only. It will not initially be posted online.
If you are interested you can subscribe to the Just Sold on MLS email bulletin here:
Subscripton link: https://sold.watch/checkoutproduct_id865product_id865/?product_id=865
Thank you.
Since we were compelled to suspend publication of the Just Sold report I have received 1,000’s of emails from from subscribers. Most of the messages have been supportive and encouraged perseverance. Some recommended “fixes” that we are not able to implement.
As many of you know, this is yet another chapter in a saga that has been going on for a decade. It started 2007 when, in conjunction with Bell Canada, I launched the first VOW website in Canada. Although that venture did not end well, it started a revolution that has changed how most Canadians access real estate market information.
In the intervening years, millions of dollars have been expended on legal fees and court cost to bring a resolution to the issues involved in disseminating listing data. The principal proponent of the cause to bring openness and transparency to the real estate marketplace has been my lawyer and friend Lawrence Dale.
The final chapter in this quest will be written by Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal in THE TORONTO REAL ESTATE BOARD v. COMMISSIONER OF COMPETITION. The appeal is scheduled to be heard in Toronto on December 5 and 6.
We appreciate your continued support and remain totally focused on the timely return of the Just Sold report to your email in-box.
Thank you, Fraser
PostScript: Lawrence Dale continues in his quest to bring innovation and enhanced value to real estate practices with his latest venture, Dale Legal Realty Solutions. Buyers in particular can get real professional help … and buyers need all the help they can get in the current real estate environment.
We have received a “cease and desist” letter from legal counsel to the Toronto Real Estate Board. Accordingly we have temporarily suspended publication of the Just Sold report until the legal issues can be resolved.
In anticipation of upcoming changes in real estate industry regulations, concerning the distribution of listing data – see link – we are converting to an exclusive membership platform.
Our Just Sold reports are now available online behind a personal login at https://sold.watch/. You can subscribe here.
Because of the costs associated with maintaining the membership website, we are introducing a monthly subscription fee of $1.00 – paid $3.00 quarterly.
Our existing email subscribers – that’s you – will continue to receive your existing service but new subscriptions will only be available on the new platform. Email distribution will also be available to new subscribers.
These changes are necessary to ensure that our services remain compliant with industry regulations and permit us to provide consumer reporting well into the future.
Since we began publishing the Toronto Condos Sold Report the most frequently asked question has been, “Why don’t you do the same for new listings”?
My thinking has been that information on current listings is freely available on the Internet. But people keep telling me that they would like to be able to easily reference new MLS® listings for a geographic area in a format that they could scan quickly every morning.
We are now publishing the Just Listed report as an online subscription service. The Just Listed report is posted early each morning and links to all of the listings published the previous day on the Toronto Real Estate Board’s MLS® system. See details on subscribing here →
There is a monthly subscription fee of $1.00 (paid $3.00 quarterly) which will help to cover our costs.
This is an online service with the reports appearing on the Sold.Watch website behind your login — it does not currently include email distribution.
The greatest advantage of the Just Listed report, in my opinion, is that you can stay fully informed on the local real estate market without ever having to contact an agent. You have our assurance that you will never, ever, be contacted by a salesperson or marketer because of you participation in this service.
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