{"id":50514,"date":"2009-11-27T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bubble-watch-brokers-camp-out-for-a-week-for-new-condo-development-2009-11"},"modified":"2009-11-27T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T13:03:09","slug":"bubble-watch-brokers-camp-out-for-a-week-for-new-condo-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/50514","title":{"rendered":"Bubble Watch: Brokers Camp Out For A Week For New Condo Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look what the amazing flood of dollars all around the world is doing to poor real estate brokers north of the border in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhome.ca\/homes\/realestate\/article\/730576--agents-duel-over-condo-sale-lines\">Toronto Star<\/a>: Competing lines of real estate agents waiting to buy new luxury condos turned ugly on Bloor St. this morning with jabbing, shouts, threats and accusations of queue-jumping<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Some of the agents, who lined both sides of Bloor at Bedford Ave., had been waiting for more than a week to buy units in the X2 development at Jarvis and Charles Sts. Others arrived last night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">By this morning, there were three separate lines of potential buyers, each claiming the right to have first crack at the condos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhome.ca\/homes\/realestate\/article\/730576--agents-duel-over-condo-sale-lines\">Curbed<\/a>, which spotted, the article couldn&#8217;t believe this line:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s our job with a hot market nowadays,&#8221; broker Amir Geran said before dawn as he stood in the north-side lineup, the one that ended up getting priority. &#8220;You have to line up for condos like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Mortimer, we&#8217;re back!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bubble-watch-brokers-camp-out-for-a-week-for-new-condo-development-2009-11#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/foreign-currency-buyers-making-huge-bulk-purchases-of-distressed-florida-condos-2009-11\">Foreign-Currency Buyers Making Huge, Bulk Purchases Of Distressed Florida Condos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-clocktower-is-brooklyns-poshest-address-2009-10\">Spend Your Bonus Money On Brooklyn&#8217;s Most Expensive Condo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/miami-condo-glut-starts-to-ease-2009-7\">Miami Condo Glut Starts To Ease<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look what the amazing flood of dollars all around the world is doing to poor real estate brokers north of the border in Toronto. Toronto Star: Competing lines of real estate agents waiting to buy new luxury condos turned ugly on Bloor St. this morning with jabbing, shouts, threats and accusations of queue-jumping Some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}