Monthly Archives: September 2013

8 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Engagement | Chappaqua Realtor

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Are you looking for fun ways to get your Facebook fans engaged?

Wondering how other pages are developing their posts to increase likes, shares and comments?

In this article I’ll show you eight examples of how to create Facebook posts that drive more engagement on your Facebook page.

#1: Solve Problems With Photos

Posts with a simple image and a caption that shows fans the solution to a problem or a way to improve their daily lives receive marked engagement.

Whole Foods uses this post tactic to encourage fan discussions about product-related solutions to common problems.

Whole Foods boosts engagement by sharing lifestyle tips.

 

Tips for posting images to Facebook:

  • Larger images tend to get more likes, shares and comments. Use the Upload Photos/Video function to publish photo files directly into your post instead of posting a link that shows a thumbnail.
  • Optimize images for the 403 x 403 pixel display in the timeline. Larger images display from the center of the image, and some of the edges may not appear in the news feed unless a user clicks through.

Find a great selection of socially recommended how-to’s on Snapguide or Reddit’s Life Pro Tips.

 

 

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/facebook-fan-engagement-tips/

 

 

 

Mortgage application filings tumble 13.5% | Bedford Corners Real Estate

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Mortgage application filings fell 13.5% from a week earlier during the survey period ending Sept. 6, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday.

Mirroring this downward trend, the MBA refinance index also dropped 20% from the previous week, reaching its lowest level since June 2009.

Overall, the refinance share of mortgage activity dropped to 57% of all mortgage applications, down from 61% a week earlier. The refinance index alone has fallen 71% from its recent peak in early May, and is now at its lowest level since June 2009.

The average contract interest rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage with a conforming loan limit increased to 4.80% from 4.73%.

Furthermore, the 30-year, FRM jumbo grew to 4.84% from 4.71%.

The average 30-year, FRM backed by the FHA rose to 4.56% from 4.48% a week ago.

Additionally, the 15-year, FRM increased to 3.83% from 3.75%, and the 5/1 ARM rose to 3.59% from 3.49% last week.

 

 

http://www.housingwire.com/articles/

 

Stop blaming rising interest rates for the housing slowdown | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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So you heard that rising interest rates are forcing first-time homebuyers to stay on the sidelines, effectively derailing the housing recovery?

Well, think again, argues Heidi Moore in The Guardian.

As Moore explains it, a true housing recovery cannot occur until a real economic recovery is afoot. Per The Guardian:

Rising interest rates are not wrecking the housing recovery; what is wrecking the recovery is that house prices are rising faster than the ability of people to afford them. Maybe we thought we could cheat history, and that a housing recovery would bring about an economic recovery. That can’t happen. The housing recovery can’t start until the economic recovery begins.

 

 

http://www.housingwire.com/articles/26828-stop-blaming-rising-interest-rates-for-the-housing-slowdown

More than half of Long Island’s 20- to 34-year-olds live with parents | Armonk Homes

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A severe shortage of rental housing on New York’s Long Island due to zoning restrictions is at least partially to blame for the high share of all 20- to 34- year-olds on the island still living with their parents: 55 percent, according to a new report.

Source: New York Times

– See more at: http://www.inman.com/wire/more-than-half-of-long-islands-20-34-year-olds-live-with-parents/#sthash.v6NKK9tr.dpuf

Old-School Daguerrotypes Capture Urban Sprawl of the 1800s | Cross River Real Estate

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firstda.jpgImage via The Atlantic Cities

No, that’s not an Instagram of rural Connecticut, it’s a look at a “busy street” in the Paris of 1838, and also the first print produced by Daguerreotype creator Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. The Atlantic Cities recently dug up this and a few more Dagerreotypes—prints produced via complicated methods and bulky, expensive machinery once lauded for being the first “practicable” photographic process—of 19th-century cities. The images show off urban sprawl from before Chanel and Michael Kors lined the boulevards and starchitect-designed towers stood shoulder to steel-boned shoulder in the most congested bits of town. Below, Philadelphia in 1843 and Washington, D.C., in 1846.