Pound Ridge, North Salem, Chappaqua Median Ask Prices | Pound Ridge Realtor
Median Ask Price
Pound Ridge $1,120,000
Katonah $750,000
North Salem $799.500
Chappaqua $1,182,500
Mt Kisco $939,000
South Salem $624,000
How many of us, as kids, could resist the temptation to climb the stairs in a strange house to see what was “up there”? Now that we’re grown, we suppress these kinds of urges for the sake of propriety, but they still exist in our subconscious minds, and can be drawn upon quite subtly by a clever designer.
In architecture, spaces that draw on the human sense of curiosity are said to have mystery — they foster the creation of drama or suspense by alluding to architectural spaces or features while keeping them partially concealed.
Mystery can subtly entice us toward a particular space. Let’s suppose there are two hollow 8-foot-square cubes about 10 feet away from you. The front of one is open, so that the interior is completely visible. The front of the other has only a 2-foot-square aperture at the center, so that the interior is largely concealed. Which cube will attract you more?
Most people will approach the enclosed cube precisely because they can’t see what’s inside. Likewise, an architectural space that’s immediately comprehensible presents little challenge to the mind — it simply isn’t as interesting as a space that keeps us guessing. And although entertainment is not a designer’s primary charge, an intriguing space is inevitably more memorable than one that simply functions.
Trulia‘s Chief Economist discuss how price trends, combined with the measures of fundamental market health show which metros are booming, rebounding, humming, or struggling.
The Trulia Price Monitor and the Trulia Rent Monitor are the earliest leading indicators of how asking prices and rents are trending nationally and locally. They adjust for the changing mix of listed homes and therefore show what’s really happening to asking prices and rents. Because asking prices lead sales prices by approximately two or more months, the Monitors reveal trends before other price indexes do. With that, here’s the scoop on where prices and rents are headed.
Asking Prices Rise a Record 0.9% Month-over-Month Nationally
In January, asking prices rose 0.9% month-over-month, seasonally adjusted — the highest monthly gain since the price recovery began. Year-over-year, asking prices rose 5.9%; excluding foreclosures, asking prices rose 6.5%. Quarter-over-quarter prices rose 2.2%, seasonally adjusted. Prices typically fall in the wintertime, but asking prices still rose slightly (0.3%) quarter-over-quarter even without seasonal adjustment, indicating the strength of the price recovery. Asking prices were up year-over-year in 86 of the 100 largest metros.
When prehistoric man first discovered fire it would have had a profound effect upon his life, as until then the sun was the only source of heat. Not only did he now have light, but he also had a way of keeping himself and his family warm.
Around 42000 BCE Neanderthals built hearths in their homes to control their fires and by 3000 BCE braziers had been invented. In 1000BCE North Koreans had invented a form of underfloor heating which was eventually copied by the Greeks and Romans. By the 6th century this type of heating had been replaced in favour of hearths again. The first chimneys appeared around the 12th century, definitely a much better idea than just a hole in the roof.
The introduction of coal as a fuel for the home in the 16th century led to multiple flues and fireplaces. More efficient stoves followed, then in the 1850′s radiators first appeared in Russia, probably a very welcome invention given their winters! Edison made the first electric heater in 1883, a vast improvement on the smoke and soot of a coal fire.
With the rising cost of fossil fuels and electrcity, scientists developed devices which worked on solar energy and came up with the idea of panels to heat domestic water. We may think of this as a very recent invention, given how popular solar panels have become in recent years, but this was actually patented in the USA in 1896!
By the 1990′s it was becoming obvious that we needed to various heating technologies that could save money and also reduce CO2 emmissions. This is why we found an underfloor insulation supplier, that way we could insulate under the floor and keep the heat in the house better. Ultra low-energy buildings appeared in Germany, paving the way for more efficient systems for the home market. With costs rising every year scientists must look at ways of economically improving our home heating systems.
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Hot foreclosure markets have come and gone over the past seven years but one thing seems to stay the same. The markets with the most and the cheapest foreclosures are still located in Florida.
A judicial state that has had its share of controversy over robo-signing practices as well as high levels of negative equity and deep declines in home values since 2006, Florida markets still offer investors the best opportunities to buy and profit by either flipping or renting and holding renovated foreclosures.
To select the best places to buy foreclosures in 2013, RealtyTrac scored all metro areas with a population of 500,000 or more by summing up four numbers: months’ supply of foreclosure inventory, percentage of foreclosure sales, foreclosure discount, and percentage increase in foreclosure activity in 2012.
Topping the list of best places to buy foreclosures in 2013 was the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville metro area in Florida with a total score of 394: 34 months’ supply of inventory, foreclosure sales representing 24 percent of all sales, average foreclosure discount of 28 percent, and a 308 percent increase in foreclosure activity in 2012 compared to 2011.
Five other Florida cities ranked among the Top 20 best places to buy foreclosures: Lakeland, Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Miami.
Late last year, Zillow calculated that the foreclosure discounts in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties shrank to 2.9 percent discount in September, down from 6.8 percent a year earlier Accordiong to Zillow, South Florida’s peak foreclosure discount was 22.7 percent in August 2008. But during the past year, a lack of homes for sale has frustrated buyers and led to multiple offers and bidding wars.
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