Tag Archives: Chappaqua NY Homes for Sale

Chappaqua NY Homes for Sale

All-cash deals make huge comeback | Chappaqua Homes

Leave a reply

Call it the summer of the cash sale. All-cash home purchases skyrocketed during the summer months of 2013, with their share of total sales growing by more than 40 percent from the beginning of June to the end of August, amid sustained appetite from investors, a recent spike in interest rates and tight inventory.

Cash purchases accounted for 45 percent of sales in August, up from the 2013 trough of 32 percent seen in April and May, according to RealtyTrac data provided exclusively to Inman News. RealtyTrac That indicates that the market share of cash sales has increased 41 percent in just the last three months.

The recent meteoric rise in cash sales’ market share hit its fastest clip yet in August, with cash purchases’ share of total sales jumping 6 percentage points month over month to 45 percent. That’s the highest level that RealtyTrac has recorded since March 2012, right around when home prices hit their post-meltdown low.

Looking back a year, cash sales’ market share was up a whopping 50 percent in August, RealtyTrac said.

Read more…

 

http://www.inman.com/2013/09/26/cash-sales-share-of-total-purchases-skyrockets-by-nearly-a-third-in-2-months/#sthash.kfMp9Gaz.dpuf

The Beautiful Thing About Dad’s Chair | Chappaqua Real Estate

Leave a reply

n a recent weekend afternoon, I awoke from a much-needed nap to find a curious new addition to our living room: a big, bulky, well-worn, dark blue leather recliner. I rubbed my eyes in disbelief like it was Christmas morning. Funny how you can never know how much you really needed something until it’s right there in front of you. My wife’s father had just dropped off the chair. It was a gift from his mother, my wife’s grandmother. I’m told that my wife’s grandfather had sat in this chair for many, many years before he died. I stared in awe at the thing. I finally had my first Dad Chair. And then a peculiar thing happened. Neither my wife, son nor I had laid claim to the chair, but in my mind it was immediately obvious that it was mine. This was for Dad. Me.
I felt territorial and possessive. My mind raced with thoughts of me sitting in the chair drinking scotch and saying wise things, of reading thick leather-bound literary tomes and, of course, watching football games every Sunday. But we don’t even have a TV. And I hate scotch. And I read trashy detective novels and rarely say wise things! What gives?

by Mitchell Parker

Save to Ideabook
Email Photo
You can see here that the chair is nothing outstanding. (But man, it’s comfortable.) So why am I feeling so animalistically “manly” about a simple piece of furniture?
Turns out, there are a lot of factors involved with my brutish behavior. “Generally, the Dad Chair is a protected base for the dominant male in a home,” says environmental psychologist Sally Augustin. By “generally,” Augustin is referring to the obvious fact that there are many different households, some without any males at all. My emotional behavior concerning this chair is really a culmination of biological as well as cultural influences.
eclectic living room by Shannon Malone

Save to Ideabook
Email Photo
Let’s take a look at the latter. “There is a lot of nonverbal communication going on with these chairs,” Augustin says. “From the first ‘50s sitcoms, dads have had control of the living room recliner, and that recliner now screams Dad to all of us raised in the West.” That might help explain my impulse to drink face-contorting malt whisky and watch a sport I care very little about.
And I do have many memories of my father’s claimed territory throughout multiple houses we lived in when I was growing up. He never really had a Dad Chair, but he certainly had his spot, marked by an indention in the sofa, where he would sit every night, his knees bent and his feet tucked up under himself, with a slight lean against the left armrest so he could reach his glass of wine on the side table. He and my mother moved to a new place in San Diego about a year ago, and sure enough, the sofa arrangement is the same, and his spot was reclaimed.

New Castle Group Hosts Meeting On Coyote Safety | Chappaqua Real Estate

Leave a reply

Team New Castle 2013 will hold a meeting to discuss coyote safety on Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m at Horace Greeley High School.

James Horton of QualityPro Pest and Wildlife Services will discuss different methods of maintaining coyote’s fear of humans, such as hazing. Effective forms of hazing include using a noisemaker such as an air horn when confronted with a coyote.

Horton was the licensed wildlife control expert hired by Rye Brook after a coyote attacked two children, a 2-year-old and a 14-year-old.

Nearby towns such as Rye Brook, Rye, New Rochelle,  Danbury, Conn. and Brookline, Mass. have become proactive, hiring trappers to trap coyotes.

The first 100 guests will receive a free air horn necklace.

Horace Greely High School is at 70 Roaring Brook Rd in Chappaqua.

 

http://chappaqua.dailyvoice.com/news/new-castle-group-hosts-meeting-coyote-safety

 

8 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Engagement | Chappaqua Realtor

Leave a reply

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/

 

 

 

Cardinal Dolan Enjoys Event-Filled Visit To Westchester | Chappaqua Real Estate

Leave a reply

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan commended Archbishop Stepinac High School for its upstanding students and technological innovation during his visit on Wednesday.

Dolan, the Archbishop of New York who was identified as a close contender during the last papal conclave in March, visited the school to say Mass, meet students and faculty, answer questions and tour the new technology center.

“Our board and the entire Stepinac community appreciate not only his visit, but the opportunity to show the Cardinal firsthand how Stepinac has transitioned to a 21st century education model while retaining our deep commitment to our faith,” William F. Plunkett Jr., chairman of the Stepinac Board of Trustees, said.

Some of Westchester’s dignitaries were also present, including County Executive Rob Astorino, Deputy County Executive Kevin J. Plunkett and White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach.

In his homily, Dolan told the 700 students, faculty and staff the story of Cardinal Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, a Croatian cardinal who maintained his Catholic faith in the face of the Nazi and Communist regimes.

He praised the school for continuing Stepinac’s legacy with its commitment to service and religious lifestyle.

As part of the mass, he blessed over 700 rosaries for each member of the Stepinac community. Later, he answered questions from students about his religious journey and duties as Archbishop.

Dolan concluded his visit by touring the school’s tech center, which has helped make Stepinac the first high school in the United States with a complete online textbook library.

“It sends a message to the community that although Stepinac has a time-honored tradition,” Mayor Roach said of Dolan’s visit. “It is committed to moving forward every day.”

The school presented Dolan with several gifts, including a painting to hang in the school in his honor, a Stepinac hat and sweatshirt, and a memorial tree planted in his honor.

Dolan returned the favor by saying he would grant the students a day off in the near future, which elicited a loud round of applause.

 

 

http://chappaqua.dailyvoice.com/news/cardinal-dolan-enjoys-event-filled-visit-stepinac

Ostentatious Mansion in the Los Angeles ‘Burbs Wants $12M | Chappaqua Real Estate

Leave a reply

Location: Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. Price: $12,000,000 The Skinny: Back in 2011, Donald Trump sold his ridiculous golf estate in the affluent Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes for just over $7M. Perhaps you looked at that mansion and thought, This is nice, but it just doesn’t contain enough vulgar displays of wealth. Is there a gaudier place somewhere around here? Cue 3300 Palos Verdes Drive West, which just hit the market for $12M with, coincidentally, the same exact asking price that The Donald’s place started with. Some of the over-12,000-square-foot home’s, uh, flashier details include a “hand painted ceiling mural of the Allegory of the Winds, a mosaic of over 15,000 pieces of stone and an exquisite angel statue over the fireplace” and, in the dining room, “ceiling molds from Caesars Palace”—the casino, maybe? Apparently the person who commissioned architects Edward Carson Beall and Associates to build the place in 1997 had spent 25 years traveling around the world and acquired “a collage of architectural ideas.”

New Castle approves 28 apartments to count under Westchester fair housing settlement | Chappaqua Homes

Leave a reply

The New Castle Town Board voted 3-2 Tuesday to grant a special permit to allow the construction of 28 affordable apartments on Hunts Lane in Chappaqua that will help Westchester County meet its goal under the 2009 fair housing settlement.

The developer, Conifer Realty, originally proposed 36 units but the project was downsized after criticism about the height and bulk of the building on a small lot.

“The town had wanted this site developed for years and Conifer stepped forward,” said Al DelBello, the attorney for Conifer.

DelBello said the board members took into account the town’s obligation to provide affordable housing.

“They did talk about how important it was to provide people of lesser means with the opportunities that Chappaqua has to offer,” he said.

As of June 30, the county counted 122 units completed and occupied, 192 units with building permits and 394 with financing. The county must facilitate the construction of 750 affordable units under the settlement.

 

 

New Castle approves 28 apartments to count under Westchester fair housing settlement – Northern Westchester.

NAR survey reveals stark differences in tech use by firm size | Chappaqua Real Estate

Leave a reply

Most Realtor-affiliated real estate brokerages have a single office, are independent, and use fewer technology tools than their larger brethren, according to a report released today by the National Association of Realtors. The report, NAR’s 2013 Profile of Real Estate Firms, includes the results of an online survey fielded in August with 6,671 responses from Realtor executives at real estate firms nationwide.

Results were broken down by whether a firm specialized in residential or commercial brokerage and by the size of the firm: one, two, three, or four or more offices. Eight out of 10 real estate brokerages surveyed operated out of just one office — employing a median of two full-time licensees.

Only 8 percent of brokerages had four or more offices. In terms of technology, the largest firms reported that 20 percent of their customer inquiries or business leads and an equivalent share of the firm’s sales volume were generated from the firm’s website, and that 5 percent of leads and sales volume came from social media.

By contrast, single-office firms reported 10 percent of their leads and sales volume came from the firm’s website and that less than 1 percent of both came from social media.

While more than 90 percent of all firms reported using a multiple listing service website to market their firm’s listings, single-office firms were less likely than the largest firms to use any other websites for marketing. This includes NAR’s official website, realtor.com, which is used by 90 percent of the largest firms but only 78 percent of the smallest firms.

 

read more…

http://www.inman.com/2013/09/10/nar-survey-reveals-stark-differences-in-tech-use-by-firm-size/#sthash.dOm0ob4B.dpuf

Work Begins at New Millwood Firehouse | Chappaqua Real Estate

Leave a reply

Work is underway at the long awaited Millwood Firehouse.

The fire department announced on its Facebook page that it had received a permit from the New Castle Building Department on Aug. 27.

Site work began on Aug. 30, according to the Facebook page. Currently, a path is being carved out and vegetation is being cleared.

The 9-acre 18,000 square foot site is located at 100 Millwood Road. Millwood’s current firehouse at 60 Millwood Road was built in the 1920s.

Millwood Fire District voters approved a bond referendum in 2011 for up to $13.95 million in spending for the new firehouse.

The commissioners board said the fire department expects to move to its new home on the fire company’s original firehouse’s 90th anniversary.

Construction is expected to be completed by late fall 2014.

 

 

 

http://chappaqua.dailyvoice.com/news/work-begins-new-millwood-firehouse