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The Shadow Inventory is Slowly Disappearing | Katonah NY Homes

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Florida, California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey were home to four out of ten distressed properties in the nation in January, an indication of how far east America’s foreclosure nightmare has moved.

CoreLogic reported that the overall shadow inventory is down 28 percent from its peak in January 2010, when it reached 3 million homes. Current residential shadow inventory as of January 2013 was at 2.2 million units, representing a supply of nine months. This figure represents an 18-percent drop from January 2012, when shadow inventory stood at 2.6 million units.

“The shadow inventory continued to drop at double the rate in January from prior-year levels. At this point in the recovery, we are seeing healthy reductions across much of the nation,” said Anand Nallathambi, president and CEO of CoreLogic. “As we move forward in 2013, we need to see more progress in Florida, New York, California, Illinois and New Jersey which now account for almost half of the country’s remaining shadow inventory.”

“The shadow inventory is declining steadily as properties are moving through the distressed pipeline,” said Dr. Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic. “States like Arizona, California and Colorado are experiencing significant declines year over year in the stock of serious delinquencies, a positive sign for further improvement in the shadow inventory.”

As of January 2013, shadow inventory was at 2.2 million units, or nine months’ supply, and represented 85 percent of the 2.6 million properties currently seriously delinquent, in foreclosure or REO.

Of the 2.2 million properties currently in the shadow inventory (Figures 1 and 2), 1 million units are seriously delinquent (4.1 months’ supply), 798,000 are in some stage of foreclosure (3.2 months’ supply) and 342,000 are already in REO (1.4 months’ supply).

The value of shadow inventory was $350 billion as of January 2013, down from $402 billion a year ago and down from $381 billion six months ago.

Over the twelve months ending January 2013, serious delinquencies, which are the main driver of the shadow inventory, declined the most in Arizona (40 percent), California (33 percent), Colorado (27 percent), Michigan (25 percent) and Wyoming (23 percent).

CoreLogic estimates the current stock of properties in the shadow inventory, also known as pending supply, by calculating the number of properties that are seriously delinquent, in foreclosure and held as real estate owned (REO) by mortgage servicers, but not currently listed on multiple listing services (MLSs). Transition rates of “delinquency to foreclosure” and “foreclosure to REO” are used to identify the currently distressed unlisted properties most likely to become REO properties. Properties that are not yet delinquent, but may become delinquent in the future, are not included in the estimate of the current shadow inventory. Shadow inventory is typically not included in the official reporting measurements of unsold inventory.

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18 Tips for Optimizing Your Pinterest Images to Improve SEO | Katonah NY Realtor

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Pinterest is perfect for businesses with small marketing budgets, and you can improve SEO and drive traffic by optimizing your images.

22 Tips for Optimizing Pinterest Images to Improve SEO 18 Tips for Optimizing Your Pinterest Images to Improve SEOThe image-based social media site is an online bulletin board that lets you collect and share images by “pinning” them to virtual boards. It has been one of the fastest-growing consumer Web properties — according to comScore, it ranked 28th among U.S. Internet users in January, with about 30 million unique visitors.

Pinterest users spend more money, shop more frequently, and purchase items more often and in larger quantities than users on any other social network. If you believe that Pinterest is a viable social media marketing platform for your business and your initial attempt at using it hasn’t yielded the positive results you were looking for, it’s time to optimize your presence — starting with the images you post.

Maximize your Pinterest image optimization

Here are 18 great tips about growing your brand with Pinterest marketing through image optimization, brought to you by PinnableBusiness.com.

  • File names become your image titles, so name them accordingly. Names with lots of letters and numbers won’t rank as well.
  • Pin from a variety of different sources, not just from your own site. Re-pinning, liking, and commenting all play a role in where your image will appear.
  • Pinning gives you the best opportunity to go viral. Uploading is okay, but not as beneficial.
  • After you upload an image, you should edit your pin to add a link. Pinterest doesn’t automatically add any links to uploaded pins, so it’s important to do this to drive traffic.
  • Pinterest descriptions can be up to 500 characters, but longer ones annoy many users. Use a short caption that incorporates major keywords, and add more info in the pin’s comment section.
  • Research Pinterest to see what catches your eye and compels you to engage with an image, and try to replicate that feeling with your own images. More engagement leads to more followers, and more followers equals more power.
  • Remember that Pinterest is a social media platform, not an advertising platform. Comment, like, and repin other people’s images.
  • Create a variety of different boards and make sure the titles of the boards are keyword-rich. A board named “Stuff I Like to Do” isn’t as effective as “Birdwatching in Seattle”.
  • Add the “Follow” and “Pin It” buttons to your website. The key to social media is empowering people to share your content.
  • Be yourself and express your personality and that of your brand. Communicate your unique voice through the images you post.
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YouTube, Get On This (Part 2): The YouTube Wish List Continues | Mt Kisco Real Estate

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Earlier, we talked about some things that needed to be improved with YouTube.  But that was only the beginning.  There are so many more things that could make the experience better.  So without further ado, let’s take a look at Part 2 of the YouTube Wish List.

These Are Things We Want, YouTube (Part 2)

Tim Schmoyer, who gives us Creator’s Tips every Thursday, has quite a few awesome suggestions, and I still have a roster of wishes from Ronnie Bincer at Video Leads Online, which will complete this (initial) list.  So in no particular order:

A More Robust Editor

One of the big problems with uploading your videos is if something is just a bit off, you can’t do too much to it without re-uploading, and especially if you have a video with lots of views, you don’t want to start all over again.  A more robust editor would be great for tweaking older videos, adding outro slates, updating your video intro/bumper, etc.

More Access to YouTube Live Stream

This is by invitation only, for accounts in good standing, and there’s nothing you can particularly do to get on it.  But YouTube Live would be pretty awesome for those who would like to use more than a webcam for their events and putting them on Google Hangouts.  You can set up multi-camera events with this thing.  And you can even put ads on it.  So you see how valuable an option this would be for most people.  But, the help section does promise this is rolling out soon, so stay tuned.

Better Analytics Concerning Subscriber and Non-Subscriber Engagement

Tim mentioned this one, and I said, “Yes!”  This is a big one, because it’s very difficult to see how your subscribers are interacting with the video versus non-subscribers.  When you see your view count, how many times are your subscribers contributing to that total?  How many times do they comment?  You don’t need to know any personal information, just the general stuff.  Another big thing Tim mentions is “how does one video perform in converting non-subscriber views into subscribers versus another?”  And how many people see the video in their feed and don’t watch it?  These kinds of analytics would be extremely helpful in figuring out how your audience watches your videos.

Allow for More Than One External Linked Website

A few months ago, YouTube made it so that you could link  your videos to an external website.  Finally, you were able to get people to click on an annotation that took your audience off YouTube so you could do things that YouTube doesn’t allow you to do, like sell your own merchandise.  With reason, YouTube wants you to link to a site that is “all you,” and not something that tricks viewers into going to a non-relevant site.  But what if you have a bunch of relevant sites?  You can’t link to all of them, just the one.  So having the ability to send people to multiple relevant sites would be pretty awesome.

Better Ways to Collaborate and Interact with Your Audience

Right now, you can make comments, and maybe interact with people through social media.  And that’s about it.  But “video responses” could be much more interactive than they are now, where you could respond to a comment, common comments, or multiple comments, with video.

Improved System to Help People Know that the Annotations Are Not On

You may have turned them off, or didn’t know you ever turned them off.  So a little message somewhere in the bottom part of the player might be helpful.

Analysis of Average Retention

Right now, YouTube tells you the total watch time for your videos, but not the average retention, or how long a video is keeping viewers watching.  Knowing which ones keep the most interest can make it easier to know which ones to feature on the channel page and which ones to link to in the outro slate.  And going back to the subscriber/non-subscriber data, being able to distinguish the retention between those two groups would be helpful.

Mass Updates to Annotations

YouTube came out with Bulk Actions a few weeks ago, and you could do use almost everything with it except annotations.  If you have annotations that need to be updated, you have to go to each video and change each one individually.

Mobile Analytics

This is apparently coming soon, but right now you can only really see the views from a mobile device.  You can’t separate all the other data, though, from desktop viewing.

Is That All?

I’d like to thank Tim and Ronnie for giving me suggestions.  All of these would make running a YouTube channel better.  Read Part 1 here and comment below if you have any others to share.

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