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Croton Falls Road Bridge closure planned for rehablitation of the span | North Salem Real Estate

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Croton Falls Road over the Croton River in North Salem and Somers will be partly closed Wednesday through Nov. 22, and completely closed Sunday. The closure will allow for rehabilitation work on the Croton Falls Road Bridge.

Here’s an announcement from the Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation:

CROTON FALLS ROAD LANE CLOSURE STARTS WEDNESDAY

IN NORTH SALEM AND SOMERS

Work is part of the Croton Falls Road Bridge Rehabilitation Project

Motorists are advised that the project to rehabilitate the Croton Falls Road Bridge over the Croton River in the towns of North Salem and Somers will start Wednesday, Aug. 14.

 

Beginning Wednesday Aug. 14, the eastbound lane of Croton Falls Road from Route 100/202 to Route 22 will be closed starting at 8 a.m. and will continue to be closed until Friday, Nov. 22.  A detour will be posted using Route 100/202 and Route 22.

In addition, a one-day full closure is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 18 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in both the eastbound and westbound directions of Croton Falls Road from Route 100/202 to Route 22.  A detour will be posted using Route 100/202 and Route 22.

Motorists are advised to seek alternate routes.  Variable message signs are being used to alert motorists of the upcoming closure.

For additional information, contact Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation at 995-2555

North Salem sales up 11% – Median price up 14% | RobReportBlog

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North   Salem NY Real Estate ReportRobReportBlog
20136 months ending 8/72012
29Sales26
$548,000.00median sold price$477,500.00
$200,000.00low sold price$215,000.00
$8,900,000.00high sold price$2,600,000.00
2946average size2667
$258.00ave. price per foot$239.00
206ave days on market226
$889,137.00average sold price$656,150.00
95.31%ave sold to ask93.09%

Recipe for Summer: Log Cabins With a Contemporary Twist | North Salem Homes

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An American summer isn’t complete without a few essentials: sunscreen, campfires, lakes and, of course, cabins. In honor of Log Cabin Day, we’ve rounded up a few Cabin listings across the U.S. While authentic in style and feel, these standouts push the envelope on classic cabin design.

Jackson, WY

520 S Indian Springs Dr, Jackson, WY
For sale: $11.75 million

Jackson, WY
Named “Wild By Nature,” this architectural beauty sits on nearly 6 acres with unobstructed views of the Tetons and resident wildlife. Entering a striking porte-cochère, visitors are greeted by a moose-antler chandelier hanging from a vaulted cathedral ceiling.

Blairsville, GA

593 Turkey Trot, Blairsville, GA
For sale: $779,500

Blairsville, GA
Surrounded by 12 acres of rolling pastures and a brook, this home adds elegance and charm to the quintessential A-frame cabin design. Known as “Saving Grace Farm,” the home boasts exposed beams in a large contemporary kitchen and living room.

Larue, TX

9033 Safari Shores Dr, Larue, TX 
For sale: $679,000

Larue, TX
Constructed in 2007, this cabin has all the amenities of a modern home with the feel of a woodsy lake house. In the backyard, a large deck provides a prime lakefront view while a dock is the perfect place to cast a line.

McMinnville, TN

131 Bluff Line Dr, McMinnville, TN 
For sale: $642,000

Minnville, TN
This mountain cabin was built in 2006 with nearly every surface made of wood. An angular design, as well as a lofted second floor and partially finished basement set the property apart from simple one-story cabins.

White Sulphur Springs, MT

3 Pine Hill Dr, White Sulphur Springs, MT 
For sale: $339,900

Sulphur Springs, MT
This Big Belt Mountains cabin has several unique details, including a built-in outdoor kitchen, covered porch and a discrete loft space above one of the bedrooms. The nearly 22-acre property also includes a private guest cabin, garage and barn with 2 horse stalls.

Recipe for Summer: Log Cabins With a Contemporary Twist | Zillow Blog.

Home “flipping” trend returns, threatening higher prices | North Salem Real Estate

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“This is our production board,” he said, pointing to a white board, filled with black marker. “When it fills up, it means that I’m really busy.”

Manner now has 18 homes that he’s fixing — and flipping. He pointed to one home he bought for $330,000, and plans on selling for $629,000.

The goal, he said, is to double his profit.

The current frenzy, he said, took off in January. That’s when Charlotte Dewaele began her search.

“I thought we were gonna get a home right away,” she said. She’s already bid on 15 homes.

“We’re getting beat out by people with cash, by investors, and by people putting in offers that are just so much higher,” Dewaele said.

Her expectations were also higher. Her initial hope was to have a home about 1,200 square feet.”Then that went down to a thousand, and now it’s just about anything,” she said.

Her search for anything led to a California house marketed as having “charm.”

The entire house is 672 square feet and with a list price of $268,000.

“It’s overpriced, but it’ll probably sell for a lot more than it’s priced at right now,” Dewaele said.

Dewaele’s search is getting more urgent. She’s now six months pregnant. She’s ready to buy a house and has the money, but she can’t.

“It’s very frustrating,” she said.

Laura Key, Dewaele’s realtor describes the current housing market as “a mess.” Each time they find a house, they lose out to those cashing in.

“There’s always multiple offers. Then it’s sold within 24 hours. Then, less than 30 days, back on the market,” Key said.

The flipped houses go for at least $50,000 to75,000 more than what they purchased it for.

Dewaele said she can’t bid that high without “overextending,” as so many others did before the last housing boom went bust.

And she doesn’t think she’ll find a home before her baby is born. “I’ve kind of lost hope,” she said.

 

Home “flipping” trend returns, threatening higher prices – CBS News.

7 Reasons to Fear the Housing Bubble | North Salem Real Estate

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1. Healthy price rebound or too much, too fast?

The one-year period between March 2012 and March 2013 saw the most significant rise in housing prices since April 2006, with property values jumping up 10.9 percent. This number was markedly higher in certain areas, with San Francisco and Phoenix experiencing a gain in prices of more than 20 percent. While it is true that consumer sentiment is on the rise and spending is increasing, the availability of easier credit helps push sales higher and offer up a dangerous metric for those worried about future bubbles. As mortgage rates continue to be quite low — falling from 3.78 percent to 3.59 percent since May of last year — lenders are picking up steam in doling out cash; a feature that is capable of driving housing prices past what is likely sustainable.

 

7 Reasons to Fear the Housing Bubble | Wall St. Cheat Sheet.

The pace of the housing market has picked up | North Salem Real Estate

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Several factors are contributing to the market’s need for speed these days, writes Redfin. Demand is high and supply is low, which forces people to make decisions very quickly. Also, new technology is compressing the timeline from listing to tour and offer.

Today, people can find out within minutes when a new listing has hit the market and to schedule an in-person home tour with real estate agent, all from a smartphone. While market conditions like supply and demand will fluctuate over time, changes brought about by technology are most likely creating a “new normal” for the overall pace of home buying and selling, according to Redfin.

 

The pace of the housing market has picked up | HousingWire.

Investors Exit London for Cities Led by Birmingham: Real Estate | North Salem Real Estate

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For most property investors, the U.K. is a country with one city.

Private-equity firms, pension funds and millionaires from Russia to Qatar spent more on real estate in London than the rest of the country for the first time last year, lifting values there while prices elsewhere sank. Now investors such as Legal & General Group Plc (LGEN) and Aviva (AV/) Plc are being attracted by higher returns available from cheaper real estate outside the capital.

The value of income-producing properties outside London fell 7.2 percent from September 2011 through March while rising 7.4 percent in the city’s center, as a double-dip recession prompted buyers to avoid all but the safest prime assets, according to Investment Property Databank Ltd. That pushed non-London yields, or income as a percentage of the price, to 6.5 percent in March compared with 4.3 percent in London’s most expensive districts, IPD said.

“The shift away from core to a higher-risk mentality is the dominant trend that I see in 2013 and 2014,” Joe Valente, head of research and strategy at JPMorgan Asset Management, said in an interview. “Not everyone is well equipped to go up that risk curve.”

That doesn’t mean all markets are appealing. Investors are focused on properties with steady rental income or those that can be put to better use. Few in the property industry predict that commercial property values outside the capital will appreciate meaningfully until the U.K. economy improves.

Birmingham, Manchester

Pension funds and insurance companies like Legal & General and Aviva are hunting in larger regional cities such as Birmingham and Manchester, where the value of some properties has started to rise and the amount of empty space is lower than in previous recessions.

The Co-Operative Group Ltd.’s headquarters in Manchester was bought by Chinese sovereign wealth fund Gingko Tree Investment and German fund Grundbesitz Europa in February, a person with knowledge of the deal said. The price was 142 million pounds ($216 million), according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. Gingko declined to comment.

Billionaire George Soros’s Quantum fund got a slice of the development market outside London when it bought 5.7 percent of Development Securities Plc (DSC) in January and increased its stake to 6.8 percent this month, according to stock exchange filings. About 90 percent of the developer and property investor’s income-producing assets are outside London, according to its annual report

 

Investors Exit London for Cities Led by Birmingham: Real Estate – Businessweek.

London development generates nearly $1B in sales before groundbreaking | North Salem Real Estate

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Overseas buyers who account for half of new-home purchases in London are helping drive nearly $1 billion in sales in Circus West at Battersea Powerstation, a new neighborhood of 866 homes that will break ground in July, Bloomberg reports.

The project is part of London’s largest redevelopment area, which is centered around a decommissioned coal-fired power plant on the south bank of the River Thames. By 2030, as many as 16,000 new homes are expected to be constructed around Battersea Powerstation.

The old power plant, which was featured on the cover of Pink Floyd’s 1977 album, “Animals,” is said to said to be the largest brick building in Europe. A new U.S. embassy is also planned for the Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area, which will be served by an extension of London’s underground transit system. Source: bloomberg.com.

– See more at: http://www.inman.com/wire/london-development-generates-nearly-1b-in-sales-before-groundbreaking/#sthash.11pcSR3Y.dpuf

 

London development generates nearly $1B in sales before groundbreaking | Inman News.

The 10 Commandments of Twitter- Jeff Bullas | North Salem Realtor

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When I stumbled upon Twitter 54 months ago I was bemused, flummoxed and even curious. What is this social network that keeps me to 140 characters, sounds like a bird and seemed…well…. pointless?10 Commandments of Twitter

I tweeted here and there and collected 31 followers in 90 days of meandering. Even followed people with large Twitter tribes on topics as diverse as food, photography and politics. Malcolm Turnbull, the local senator must have thought I was a Twitter groupie.

Luckily he didn’t report me for stalking.

My progress on Twitter was slow, confused but persistent. Despite this I continued to tweet, retweet and play. My curiosity was undiminished.

Obsession on Twitter is not unknown. Some people such as Jennifer Aniston’s boyfriend at the time tweeted so much that she decided that he loved Twitter more than her.

She moved onto boyfriend number twenty seven.

Twitter is more powerful than you think

Twitter’s sometimes chaotic nature does make management of the torrent of tweets seem like herding cats. It is essential that you plug your Twitter account into a management tools such as Hootsuite and Tweetdeck. This will help you manage your stream with lists of people and hashtags that categorise on topics.

The real power of Twitter is that you can build a follower base that allows you to share a focused stream of content that adds value to your followers daily lives.

There are no fancy Facebook “Edgerank” algorithms to throttle your tweets and choke your content distribution.

Its pure and wild. I like that.

So what are some fundamental principles that you should embrace if you want Twitter to work for you?

The 10 Commandments of Twitter

Here are 10 commandments that may guide you to the Twitter promised land of a large and loyal following.  That engages with you and shares your content with speed and velocity.

Thou shalt

Moses used this term so I thought that I couldn’t go wrong if I borrowed the term “Thou shalt”

1. Write a meaningful “bio” description

If you are using Twitter for purely personal reasons then go crazy and knock yourself out with a crazy and cute bio. If you are serious then make sure that when they read it they know in a heartbeat what you are about.

2. Have a link

I don’t know how many times I have looked for a link to take a deeper dive into a Tweeter to see what they do and where they have come from but get stymied. If you don’t have a blog then take them to your Linked account or Facebook page.

Let them discover the real you. The bio is just the start

3. Be focused

Build a tribe of Twitter followers who are passionate and interested in your topic of interest. That can be done with tools such as Tweepi or Twellow.

4. Automate where appropriate

This may seem evil to some but as you grow your follower base things like following back become time consuming and unmanageable. Automate the boring tasks such as content distribution and follow back but not the conversation and engagement
Read more at http://www.jeffbullas.com/2013/05/08/the-10-commandments-of-twitter/#rCCZyAZAUwH7oUCG.99

North Salem Realtor | Gmail’s spam filter is killing your drip campaign: Top tips to get personal

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Businesses that sell directly to consumers love to automate their work.  Whether it’s a regular postcard blast, outsourced call center, or an email drip campaign, staying “in contact” with a company’s sphere of connections has always been easier when it is scheduled, standardized, and managed in a way that takes as little custom interaction with individuals as possible.

While the lack of unique, personal interaction could certainly be criticized, it’s indisputable that many companies have been very successful at reaching a large audience at a low cost with email drip campaigns.  The “set it and forget it” mentality is attractive to a busy marketing department, and even if it only creates a marginal return on investment, it allows salespeople to feel that they’re keeping in touch with their client base.  Email drip campaigns allow us to reach a larger audience, at a faster rate, with much lower labor and financial costs than nearly any other marketing.

Enter Gmail And Its Ever-Encroaching Spam Filter
Google’s Gmail products are quickly taking over the email ecosystem.  In less than ten years, Gmail went from an invitation-only beta product to the most popular web-based email in the world.  With over 400 million users. the product is becoming ubiquitous for personal email accounts.  It is also the fastest-growing business-class email platform.

In short, Gmail is the prevailing platform for consumers, and any business marketing to consumers must craft their contact plans around the parameters that Google creates.  When Gmail first started, it had a spam filter like most other email platforms.  It picked up a fair percentage of spam, but it erred on the side of caution, letting plenty of bulk mailers and generic content through to the user’s inbox.

More recently, though, Gmail’s spam filters have become aggressive.  Google’s goal is clearly to keep a user’s inbox as clean as possible.  The company has decided that a few casualties along the way are justified when the overall outcome is less spam in the inbox.  This means that a far higher percentage of newsletters, customer update emails, and other drip campaigns are finding their way directly into Gmail users’ spam folders, never to be seen by the intended recipient

via next.inman.com