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Mortgages will remain hard to get until common sense returns | Katonah Real Estate

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Long-term rates stayed about the same this week, mortgages just above 4.5 percent for most products. There are many things to write about this week, but the most important news for most Americans is the first retreat from Dodd-Frank toward common sense.

Economic data stayed in pattern — reasonable growth without acceleration. Overall orders for durable goods fell 7 percent in July, but excluding volatile orders for airplanes and such gained 0.6 percent. Pending home sales fell 1.3 percent in July, but from an improved level.

Second-quarter GDP was revised up from 1.7 percent to 2.5 percent annualized, but net of accounting gyrations still two-ish — way under the Fed’s forecast, as is inflation, barely 1 percent annualized. Consumer spending and incomes in July rose 0.1 percent versus forecast gains of 0.2 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively.

The threat of action against Syria is still suppressing rates, but that won’t last long. A brief hail of Tomahawks won’t change anything, serious regional upset unlikely.

 

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CoreLogic: Prices to Rise 12.3 Percent in August | Katonah Real Estate

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The housing recovery will keep rolling right along   through August as price increases continue to score in the double digit range   and rise for the 18th straight month, according to CoreLogic’s   pending sales index.

 

Home prices   nationwide, including distressed sales, increased 12.4 percent on a year-over-year   basis in July 2013 compared to July 2012. Prices are rising   even faster than they did in the first half of the year, when they averaged   10 percent from January through June.     On a month-over-month basis, including distressed sales, home prices   increased by 1.8 percent in July 2013 compared to June 2013,

Excluding distressed   sales, home prices increased on a year-over-year basis by 11.4 percent in   July 2013 compared to July 2012. On a month-over-month basis, excluding   distressed sales, home prices increased 1.7 percent in July 2013 compared to   June 2013. Distressed sales include short sales and real estate owned (REO)   transactions.

The CoreLogic Pending   HPI indicates that August 2013 home prices, including distressed sales, are   expected to rise by 12.3 percent on a year-over-year basis from August 2012   and rise by 0.4 percent on a month-over-month basis from July 2013. Excluding   distressed sales, August 2013 home prices are poised to rise 12.2 percent   year over year from August 2012 and by 1.2 percent month over month from July   2013. The CoreLogic Pending HPI is a proprietary and exclusive metric that   provides the most current indication of trends in home prices. It is based on   Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data that measure price changes for the most   recent month.

“Home prices   continued to surge in July,” said Dr. Mark Fleming, chief economist for   CoreLogic. “Looking ahead to the second half of the year, price growth   is expected to slow as seasonal demand wanes and higher mortgage rates have a   marginal impact on home purchase demand.”

“Home prices   continue to climb across the nation in July with markets hit hardest during   the downturn leading the way,” said Anand Nallathambi, president and CEO   of CoreLogic. “Nationally, home prices are now within 18 percent of   their peak levels reached in April of 2006.”

Highlights   as of July 2013:

  • Including        distressed sales, the five states with the highest home price        appreciation were: Nevada (+27 percent), California (+23.2 percent),        Arizona (+17 percent), Wyoming (+16.4 percent) and Oregon (+15 percent).
  • Including        distressed sales, this month only one state posted home price        depreciation: Delaware (-1.3 percent).
  • Excluding        distressed sales, the five states with the highest home price        appreciation were: Nevada (+24.2 percent), California (+20.2 percent),        Arizona (+14.9 percent), Utah (+13.5 percent) and Florida (+13.5        percent).
  • Excluding        distressed sales, no states posted home price depreciation in July.
  • Including        distressed transactions, the peak-to-current change in the national HPI        (from April 2006 to July 2013) was -17.6 percent. Excluding distressed        transactions, the peak-to-current change in the HPI for the same period        was -12.9 percent.
  • The        five states with the largest peak-to-current declines, including        distressed transactions, were Nevada (-43 percent), Florida (-37.4        percent), Arizona (-32.5 percent), Rhode Island (-29.7 percent) and        Michigan (-27.7 percent).
  • Of        the top 100 Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) measured by population,        99 were showing year-over-year increases in July, equaling the measure        in June 2013.

*June data was   revised. Revisions with public records data are standard, and to ensure   accuracy, CoreLogic incorporates the newly released public data to provide   updated results.

July HPI for the   Country’s Largest CBSAs by Population (Ranked by Single-Family Including   Distressed):

CBSA

July 2013     12-Month HPI

Change by     CBSA

Single-Family     Including Distressed

Single-Family     Excluding Distressed

Los     Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA

22.6%

20.1%

Riverside-San     Bernardino-Ontario, CA

22.5%

21.1%

Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale,     AZ

18.1%

15.7%

Atlanta-Sandy     Springs-Marietta, GA

15.6%

13.7%

Houston-Sugar     Land-Baytown, TX

11.1%

11.9%

Dallas-Plano-Irving,     TX

10.0%

10.7%

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria,     DC-VA-MD-WV

9.1%

9.0%

Chicago-Joliet-Naperville,     IL

8.6%

10.7%

New     York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ

7.8%

8.2%

Philadelphia,     PA

4.3%

4.8%

Source:   CoreLogic.

 

 

 

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Bedford NY Real Estate Under $999k sales up 20% | Median price Up 1.6% | RobReportBlog

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Bedford   NY Real Estate Under $1 Mill ReportRobReportBlog
20136 months ending 9/42012
71Sales59Up 20%
$620,000.00median sold price$610,000.00Up 1.60%
$170,000.00low sold price$263,000.00
$950,000.00high sold price$995,000.00
2177average size2374
$289.00ave. price per foot$259.00
160ave. days on market179
$604,401.00average sold price$598,262.00
95.12%ave sold to ask95.32%

Building and measuring the social world | Katonah Real Estate

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Tamara Mendelsohn leads marketing for Eventbrite with a focus on customer acquisition, retention and branding.

As an expert on e-commerce technology, multichannel retail, and trends in how consumers integrate technology into shopping, Mendelsohn has authored research reports and worked with both retailers and technology vendors to help them shape their strategies.

Hear what Mendelsohn has to say about “Building and measuring the social world.”

 

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120 Marketing Tactics for Blogging Success | Katonah Realtor

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Blogging success can seem like a distant dream when you start out. You aren’t  quite sure what to blog about. The choice of technology can be overwhelming.  Then learning to use the features and functions of your blogging software is a  maze of confusion and confronting choices.120 Marketing Tactics for Blogging Success

What plugins do I choose? How do I optimise for search engines? What are  widgets and how do I use them?

Then you start and draft  your first post.

Then more doubt sets  in.

How do I write those awesome headlines that will draw attention? What marketing  tactics should I focus on to achieve the best results?

Then the killer doubt.

Why would anyone want to hear what “I” have to say?

So you push past the fears and you hit the publish button. You tweet and  share it with your 500 best friends on Facebook. You have started.

Six months into your blogging journey more nagging fears arise. Yes, I have a  few readers. People are starting to leave comments and I am attracting some  attention.

But world domination is felt to be more a fantasy than reality.

Persistence is key

This is maybe what you don’t want to hear. You need to persist. Success is  almost never overnight but a journey of a thousand steps.

It is a matter of keeping the faith in yourself.  Friends and family can  be your worst enemies. Passion, purpose and belief need to come from within.

Press on.

My secret sauce recipe

So what’s worked for me?

What has sustained me and kept me ahead of the blogging curve can be  summed up with three words, reading, writing and doing. Mundane but  necessary.

  1. Read as much as you can offline and online. Blogs, news and books. Watch TED  talks.
  2. Writing drives discovery and research so it accelerates the learning  process. The art of expression facilitates in structuring and making sense of  the incoming information.
  3. Doing is where the rubber  hits the road. My blog is my social media, marketing and digital laboratory.  Helping other brands both corporate and personal keeps also keeps me real and  connected.

A trait to be treasured

But there is one small  human trait that is sometimes overlooked.

Curiosity.

Will that headline work? How do I grow my Twitter followers? How do I make  this blog rock?

Stay curious.

Marketing tactics for blogging success

So what are some tactics that you need to start applying to achieve blogging  success?

Here are some of the key nuts, bolts and tools to put in your blogging  marketing toolbox. This is maybe the longest infographic in the world but it has  some awesome tips to make your blog rock.

 

 

 

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10 Must Have WordPress Plugins of 2013 Every Blogger Should Know About | Katonah Realtor

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How many of you think that having a lot of WordPress plugins slows down your site? That’s only true if you use poorly coded WordPress plugins.

With over 26,000+ WordPress plugins in the repository, it’s hard for bloggers to pick the right WordPress plugin.10 Must Have WordPress Plugins of 2013 Every Blogger Should Know About Read more at http://www.jeffbullas.com/?p=29720#58xgLayr0OZDBLu5.99

I own and mange the largest free WordPress resource site WPBeginner, so I get to test and review tons of free and paid plugins on a regular basis. The site runs over 40 plugins, and it is very fast.

Myth Debunked…”Plugin quantity doesn’t matter”

In this article, I will share the 10 must have WordPress plugins of 2013 that every blogger should know about.

#1. Floating Social Bar

Most social media plugins for WordPress are slow and bloated. Floating social bar is the fastest social media plugin for WordPress that adds a horizontal floating share bar to your content.

10 Must have WordPress Plugins

Floating Social Bar is easy to use with its drag-drop interface, and its eye-catching floating display allows you to maximize your social shares.

#2. WordPress SEO by Yoast

Yoast’s WordPress SEO is the most comprehensive SEO plugin for WordPress.

Not only does it allows you to optimize your articles for SEO, it also comes with comprehensive features such as XML sitemaps, Twitter cards, Google Authorship and Facebook meta data.


Read more at http://www.jeffbullas.com/2013/08/30/10-must-have-wordpress-plugins-of-2013-every-blogger-should-know-about/#hv8rCXJxyBuXUlqw.99 

 

 

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5 Cool Apps to Save You from Social Media Overload | Katonah Realtor

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Do you need a break from  social media overload?5 Cool Apps to Save You from Social Media Overload

Your friends and colleagues  are constantly learning about something new, and it’s hard to keep up. The only  way to stay connected was to waste time going through piles of social media  websites, blogs and news feeds.

This torrent of data and  information is a big problem in life today. In order to be connected with the  world around you, keeping across it all and obtaining an understanding is  important.

Curation and control of this data explosion is necessary to keep your  sanity.

Luckily, developers have  been hard at work creating some pretty cool social news apps that will help you  to stop wasting time and to stay connected with what really matters.

Here are 5 cool apps to save you from what sometimes seems to be a social  media overload.

1. LikeHack

LikeHack  is available now and is an intuitive approach to social news. This social news  reader is designed for people who value their time, and it goes beyond a  glorified RSS feed and really delivers some interesting benefits.

LikeHack is appropriate for professional and people who need their news from  many places and quickly.It is designed for busy people because it saves and  stores posts you’ve shared and liked on Facebook and Twitter and learns what is  most interesting to you.

What do I really like about LikeHack?

  • Saves time by collecting everything for you
  • Helps to make sure you only see interesting content
  • Allows you to read the news even without internet access
  • Lets you only use one app for multiple sources of content

Facebook is a busy place, and it is easy to get overloaded and frustrated,  especially with friends posting everything they find online. LikeHack makes  sense of all the information going through your feeds and can figure out what  would be most interesting for you. While doing this, it is also able to get rid  of the annoying filler articles that take up space, which the BBC picked up on  when they wrote.

“Likehack filters out the noise to provide a digest of interesting stories  based on your typical sharing history.”

Lifehack 5 Apps that will change your social media

LikeHack offers a good selection of sources for news including Facebook and  Twitter, but also many industry blogs, which is almost obligatory nowadays.

Even though it is still in the beta stage, Likehack really does deliver what  it says. For social media specialists, entrepreneurs, and people who simply  value their time, Likehack is something worth trying.

 

 

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Construction revival set to boost growth | Katonah Real Estate

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The housing recovery has sparked a construction revival that, with tight inventory, could boost the economy for years to come, NPR reports.

Construction has been “one of the most important things that’s been missing from this recovery,” and the rebound could contribute a full percentage point of growth to gross domestic product (GDP) over the next three to four years, an economist told NPR.

Source: NPR

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Bank to sell O.J. Simpson home in foreclosure auction | Katonah Real Estate

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More than two years after a foreclosure notice was filed against the home of notorious former footballer O.J. Simpson, a Miami-Dade judge has ordered the Kendall, Fla., property seized by the bank.

Simpson bought the home in 2000 for $575,000, and was imprisoned for kidnapping and robbery in 2008. He stopped paying the mortgage in 2010 and now owes the bank nearly $900,000. The bank plans to sell the home at auction on Oct. 29.

Source: The Real Deal via Gossip Extra

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Sinkhole activity picks up | Katonah Real Estate

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It’s a terrifying thought: falling into a sinkhole while sleeping in the comfort of your own bed. But sinkholes, according to CNBC, are more common than most homebuyers realize. CNBC has more on how this growing realization could impact home construction.

The news agency outlines the potential impact:

As builders are forced to go farther and farther out of cities in search of developable land, compromises such as building on less than ideal sites have to be made to deliver competitively priced properties,” said Peter Zalewski, an expert in Florida real estate development. “We think this factor is only going to contribute to the sinkhole problem in the future on the Florida peninsula. At the end of the day, technology can only serve as a stopgap against Mother Nature.

                    Source: CNBC