Daily Archives: August 16, 2013

How to Use LinkedIn Sponsored Updates | Bedford Corners Realtor

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Are you wondering how to use LinkedIn Sponsored Updates?

Does your business have a LinkedIn company page?

Do you want to grow your following outside of your company page?

In this article I’ll show you 6 steps for creating and measuring the impact of your first LinkedIn Sponsored Update.

Why Sponsored Updates?

If you’re one of the 3 million companies that have a LinkedIn company page, you’ll know that you can post updates directly from your company rather than as an individual. And you can like and comment as your company as well.

And now, just like Promoted Posts and Sponsored Stories on other social sites, LinkedIn has launched its own Sponsored Updates function, which runs on the same principle.

If you’re a B2B marketer, Sponsored Updates allow you to promote your message to others outside your company page following. At the same time, you can target who sees that message, so your marketing efforts can be focused on the right people.

Here’s how to use Sponsored Updates:

#1: Create Your Post

Post your update to your company page as normal. You’ll need to wait a few minutes and then refresh your page until you see the Sponsor Update button.

 

 

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http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/linkedin-sponsored-updates/

 

California housing affordability declines as home prices rise | Katonah NY Homes

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California’s post-recession moment for housing affordability appears to be ending fast.

Rising home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area and other coastal markets shut out a big chunk of the state’s home-buying population last quarter, according to data published Monday by the California Assn. of Realtors. Rising mortgage interest rates also didn’t help.

The rise in mortgage costs will probably keep values from skyrocketing, but price appreciation will probably continue, said Leslie Appleton-Young, chief economist for the association. That means housing affordability probably won’t improve any time soon.

“It is going to continue to deteriorate, but perhaps at a lower rate,” Appleton-Young said. “I do think you are going to see a cooling off of price appreciation.”

Thirty-six percent of Californians could afford a single-family home at the state’s median price in the second quarter, down from 44% in the first quarter, according to the association’s housing affordability index. The state hit a record high for affordability in the first quarter of 2012, with 56% of home buyers able to buy a median-priced home.

People looking to buy a house needed to earn a minimum of $79,910 a year to qualify for a home at the statewide median price of $415,770 in the second quarter. In the prior quarter, a minimum annual income of $66,800 was needed to qualify for a home at the median home price of $350,490.

Richard Green, director of USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate, said the decline in affordability is just the latest indication of wage stagnation in the U.S. In the post-World War II boom, home prices and wages rose in sync, making homeownership increasingly accessible, but that ended in the 1970s.

“People are not making more money, except at the high end,” Green said. “This gets at the broader problem, which is not a housing problem…. It seems to me the problem is much more of an income one.”

Madera County, in the Central Valley, was the most affordable county in the state, with 71% of home buyers there able to afford a home. San Francisco and San Mateo counties were tied for the least affordable, with only 17% of people able to buy a home in those jurisdictions.

 

 

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-housing-affordability-20130813,0,1509728.story

 

Are local housing markets recovering too quickly? | South Salem Homes

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While housing bubble concerns are overblown, there are cities where the pace of recovery is perhaps too strong, given current market dynamics, CNBC reports.

The news publication is sounding the alarm on potential bubble territories:

“Nationwide, the housing market is not in a bubble. But there are probably some markets that are at risk for getting into bubble territory if they continue at the pace that they’re going,” said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac.

                    Source: CNBC

New Renderings Revealed Of Metropolitan By COMO Hotel | Waccabuc Real Estate

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With construction progressing rapidly towards a December opening, new renderings (and what look like interior designer schematic thingies) have dropped of the Metropolitan by COMO on Miami Beach. The hotel, a renovation of the long-shuttered art deco Traymore Hotel, will have a rooftop spa and hydrotherapy pool, a beachside pool with direct beach access, a private dock on Indian Creek, two restaurants, and interiors by italian designer Paola Navone.

HotelChatter suggests that “We envision guests using the hotel’s own private dock on Miami’s Intracoastal Waterway to be transported from the airport to the property” to which we say, that would be sooo awesome, but although the airport’s adjacent to the Miami River, there’s gotta be some major infrastructural issues to work out there. (not to mention, the hotel is actually on Indian Creek, no the Intracoastal, but that’s just splitting hairs)

Florida Luxury real estate market takes off again | North Salem Real Estate

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Southwest Florida’s luxury real estate market has awakened from its prolonged hibernation with a vengeance this summer — the season when activity for high-end home deals is usually at its slowest.

From locals seeking an upgrade to European investors and even athletes training at Bradenton’s IMG Academy, an influx of millionaires scouting homes in the region has helped the industry dodge its typical summer lull in a big way.

Some areas are leading the charge, but in all, brokers say luxury real estate is clearly mounting a comeback.

“There’s a slight frenzy going on right now,” said Michael Moulton, an agent with brokerage Michael Saunders & Co.’s Longboat Key office. “Things are selling good across the country right now, and with inventory dwindling, people are trying to take advantage of the market before prices rise like they did below the $1 million mark.”

Buyers in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties snapped up 56 homes priced above $1 million in July, a 51 percent increase from June and a 124 percent jump from the same time last year, property records show.

With another 45 luxury deals pending in Southwest Florida — and the average shelf-life for those listings shrinking — industry analysts believe the luxury home market is beginning to flirt with the same boom-like conditions that have amplified the more intermediate price ranges since late last year.

 

 

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http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20130812/ARTICLE/130819911/2055/NEWS?Title=Luxury-real-estate-market-takes-off-again

 

Investors place their bets on luxury homes | Mt Kisco Real Estate

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Recently, there has been a surge in high-end and luxury property flipping nationwide.

Beginning in 2011, flips of homes valued at $1 million or more have risen nearly 40% across the U.S., according to RealtyTrac.

Between 2011 and 2012, high-end flipping soared 456 percent in Phoenix (150 properties from 27); 867 percent in Orlando (29 homes from 3); and to 73 properties from 10 in Las Vegas.

                    Source: Reuters