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Polo-Playing Prince Harry Takes Greenwich By Storm | Chappaqua Real Estate

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Prince Harry and his teammates hold up the trophy after winning the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup at the Greenwich Polo Club. Photo Credit: Synergy

GREENWICH, Conn. — Prince Harry saved the best for last by scoring the winning goal Wednesday in his charity polo match in Greenwich and celebrating a successful whirlwind weeklong visit to the United States.

Harry played on the winning side of the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup at the Greenwich Polo Club and raised more than $1 million for his charity, Sentebale.

“It is wonderful to be here at Greenwich Polo Club in Connecticut for the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup 2013,” Prince Harry said. “The success of our three previous polo events has helped Sentebale make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable children in Lesotho, the Mountain Kingdom of southern Africa.”

He founded the charity with Prince Seeiso from the Lesotho Royal family in response to the plight of the neediest and most vulnerable of Lesotho’s people, many of whom are victims of extreme poverty and Lesotho’s HIV/AIDs epidemic. Sentebale — which means “forget me not” in the African language of Sesotho — was started in 2006 in memory of the two men’s mothers.

 

 

Polo-Playing Prince Harry Takes Greenwich By Storm | The Bedford Daily Voice.

Watch Out For Coyotes In Westchester This Spring | South Salem NY Real Estate

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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – While coyote incidents are on the decline overall, Westchester County experts say that coyotes are typically more active during the spring season and it could be the reason for an increase in coyote attacks on small pets in Westchester County.

Two recent incidents involving pets caused New Castle Police to send out an alert to residents about coyotes Monday, but the latest statistics on coyote reports to the Department of Enivronmental Conservation show that incidents in New York are on the decline. There were at total of 36 incidents reported to the DEC in 2012, down from 39 in 2011 and 80 in 2007, according to the latest reports released by the DEC.

Statistics may not be helpful for the Westchester families who have recently lost pets to recent coyote attacks. But Maggie Ciarcia, a licensed NYS wildlife rehabilitator who serves Westchester County, said there is a strong correlation in coyote attacks on small pets during the spring season.

“Right now is the time of year when coyotes have their babies,” Ciarcia said. “The coyote pups are typically born in late-March into early-May so they’re more likely to hunt for any food they can find in the spring. They’ve been here all along, not just to have their pups, but they’re typically more active in the spring.”

Coyotes view domestic dogs as a threat to their young during the “spring denning season,” according to the DEC. Ciarcia said the incidents in Chappaqua were most likely the result of one mother looking to feed and protect its young.

“My guess would be those all involve the same coyote family,” Ciarcia said. “Normally they eat mice or rodents and do a great job of keeping the rodent population down but coyotes can become very situated to humans and to easy food. So we always warn people not to feed coyotes or leave food for outdoor pets.”

 

 

Watch Out For Coyotes In Westchester This Spring | The Bedford Daily Voice.

Report: Jennifer Lopez Buying $10 Million Mansion in Hamptons | Bedford Hills Real Estate

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Jennifer Lopez might just be “Jenny from the Block,” but her newest block is a stretch of three acres in exclusive Water Mill, NY.

According to the New York Post, Lopez has toured the estate several times with her twins and current boyfriend, 25-year-old Casper Smart. Lopez reportedly paid $10 million for the home, which previously demanded $425,000 as a summer rental. Lopez has been looking for a Hamptons-area estate for years; there were previous rumors that she picked one up back in 2011, shortly after her divorce to Marc Anthony.

The singer and actress’ new place is not only luxe — a must-have for someone who brought in $52 million last year and is ranked above Oprah on Forbes’ Most Powerful List —  but also incredibly private.  Situated on its own cul-de-sac, the updated but classic estate is made up of two lots, with room for plenty of celebrity musts, like guest houses and tennis courts.

Built in 2004, the 8-bed, 4.5-bath measures 8,5000 square feet. The landscaped grounds include a large pool, patio area and plenty of hedges to keep paparrazi at bay.

Lopez hasn’t purchased a home in quite some time. The entertainer still owns an enormous spread in Hidden Hills that she purchased with Anthony in 2010, as well as two homes in Glen Head, N.Y. The star previously owned a waterfront estate in Miami Beach and another home in Beverly Hills.

 

Report: Jennifer Lopez Buying $10 Million Mansion in Hamptons | Zillow Blog.

Jennifer Love Hewitt Buys Sleek Pacific Palisades Home | Armonk NY Homes

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Jennifer Love Hewitt listed two of her homes earlier this year — one for sale and one for rent — so the news that “The Client List” actress just picked up a new home is no surprise.

According to property records and a report from The Real Estalker, Hewitt paid $3.25 million for a super modern pad in Pacific Palisades. The property was first listed for $3.399 million in early February and reported a pending sale — assumably due to Hewitt’s bid — in mid-March.

The home was previously owned by 7 for All Mankind jeans co-founder Peter Koral, who sold the high-end denim company for a hefty sum in 2007.

The same year, the house was designed by local architect Melinda Gray using contemporary wood and glass. The kitchen includes top-of-the-line, energy-efficient appliances and, like many modern homes, the floor plan is open, leading to a sleek outdoor living space. The home boasts both a rooftop deck and a private patio, which has a pool and lounging area complete with a fire pit and flat-screen TV.

 

 

Jennifer Love Hewitt Buys Sleek Pacific Palisades Home | Zillow Blog.

Homes for Cyclists in 5 Most Bikeable Cities | Bedford Corners Homes

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For kids, bikes are the best and sometimes only form of independent transportation. For quick trips to the park or a best friend’s house, a two-wheeler or even a trike can’t be beat.

Once most Americans hit age 16, the car is often preferred. But as gas prices and environmental concerns increase, the bike has come back in popularity for the 16-and-older set.

Many cities have embraced the rise in bicycle commuting by installing bike lanes, starting shared-bicycle programs and offering storage. Even if your city isn’t on the most “bike-friendly” list, the number of homes and apartments catering to cyclists is increasing nationwide.

In honor of Bike to Work Week, we’ve rounded up cycle-convenient cribs in the five most bikeable cities, according to Walk Score’s 2013 rankings.

Portland, OR

Portland is often No. 1 or 2 most bikeable city, which is determined based on the number of bikers on the road, bike lanes, hills, connecting roads and destinations. This year, Portland scored highest, which isn’t surprising given its growing bike culture, due in part to the popular TV show “Portlandia.” The bike-friendly city boasts that 6 percent of its commuters go by bike, in comparison to the .05 percent that bike to work nationally.

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3738 SE Lincoln St, Portland OR 97214
For sale: $299,900

This Portland home’s proximity to downtown makes biking the obvious commuter choice. A detached garage is also the perfect place to stash your bike in case of rainy Pacific-Northwest weather.

San Francisco, CA

This city’s steep hills don’t deter cyclists. San Fran has several bike trails and a goal of becoming the North American city with the highest per-capita bicycle use. So far, they’re well on their way, earning the No. 2 ranking in this year’s bikeable cities list.

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1930 Mission St UNIT 203, San Francisco CA 94103
For sale: $550,000

A bike-friendly home complete with cyclist art. This 1993-built condo sits in the heart of the Mission District near bike lanes. Bike storage is also available in the building.

Denver, CO

Despite its high elevation nearly a mile above sea level, Denver is a very bike-friendly city with miles of bike trails and a substantial bike-sharing program.

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4511 Federal Blvd, Denver CO 80211
For sale: $350,000

According to the listing description, this Denver house is the best of urban living. A single-family home with plenty of living space, the house is conveniently located a short walk or even shorter bike ride from downtown, local shops and cafes.

Philadelphia, PA

Philly is a relatively new addition to the top-five most bikeable cities, but this isn’t surprising. The city has dedicated resources to its cyclist commuters, with over 200 miles of bike lanes and/or trails.

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2601 Pennsylvania Ave APT 812, Philadelphia, PA 19130
For sale: $390,000

This 3-bed, 2-bath condo is a desirable corner unit in a striking art deco-style building. Not only is bike storage available; the condo is a short distance from some of the best cafes and restaurants in Philadelphia.

 

 

 

Homes for Cyclists in 5 Most Bikeable Cities | Zillow Blog.

How to Generate More Leads With Your Blog, 5 Tips | Waccabuc Realtor

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Does your business have a blog?

Would you like your blog to bring in more leads for your business?

You already know you need to create awesome blog content, but there’s more to business blogging than just that.

You also need to include a few tactics to help you bring in the leads you want.

Here are some useful tactics to entice and capture leads used by top marketing business blogs!

#1: Place Opt-In Forms Around Your Blog Content

There are several areas on your blog that you can use to introduce visitors to calls to action such as free trials, free consultations or a simple mailing list opt-in form. These areas include your header, sidebar, the end of blog posts, your About page and your footer.

Unbounce, a landing page software creator, encourages people to try their software or sign up for their mailing list in their sidebar and post footers.

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Unbounce has lead generating calls to action in their sidebar.

KISSmetrics, a web analytics software company, uses their blog footer along with the sidebar and ends of posts to encourage subscriptions and free trial signups.

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KISSmetrics has lead generating calls to action in the footer of their blog.

While it might seem like overkill to put lead capturing options in so many places on your blog, it’s really not if you consider the fact that a visitor may only notice them at certain points during their visit.

While reading a blog post, for example, readers may ignore your header and sidebar. But if they are impressed by your blog content, then they will notice a subscription option at the end of the post.

Alternatively, if they make it to the homepage of your blog and scan all the way down the latest post titles and summaries, they might be interested in subscribing in the footer.

The key is to place your opt-in form in various locations on your blog where you have captured your readers’ attention.

#2: Regularly Create Free, Downloadable Content

HubSpot has the leading inbound marketing blog to complement their marketing platform. If you follow their blog, you know that they are constantly creating free, downloadable marketing content in the form of ebooks, whitepapers, templates and other valuable digital material. They not only promote their free content on their blog, but on their social networks as well for additional traction.

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HubSpot markets free content on their blog and social networks.

In exchange for all of these downloads, people must provide their name, email and additional information about their business. Free content is the perfect lead generator!

The key to getting the right kind of leads with your free content is to create content that will attract your target customer base. You don’t want to capture just any subscriber—you want to capture someone who will want to learn more about your products and services.

#3: Incentivize Sharing With a Referral Program

What’s better than offering free content to capture leads for your business? Offering more free content to those who help you build leads.

Marketo, a marketing automation software business, created a free coloring book for marketers. Their incentive offer was a free hard copy coloring book—and crayons—for each person who referred five people to download the digital copy.

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Using referral incentives to generate leads.

Now, instead of just one new lead from their blog, they have the opportunity to capture five more!

Consider ways you can incentivize your readers to refer more leads to your business.

 

 

How to Generate More Leads With Your Blog, 5 Tips | Social Media Examiner.

Goldman Sachs’ DIY Outlook Hinges on Housing Recovery | Cross River Real Estate

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Rising home prices stand to benefit home-improvement retailers, especially Lowe’s, although investors may have to wait until second-quarter results are out before they see meaningful acceleration, Goldman Sachs said in a new research report.

For now, first-quarter strength will likely be shrouded by unfavorable weather comparisons after a much colder-than-normal period following a more-mild-than-usual first quarter of 2012.

Recent economic data point to a sharp uptick in prices with the median price for a home resale rising the most since 2005 and the S&P/Case-Shiller indexshowing the best annual increase for single-family home prices since May 2006.

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Both of these are correlated to increases in do-it-yourself same-store sales trends, Goldman said. The firm also talked with private remodeling firms in five different markets in the eastern half of the U.S. to gauge the health of the housing environment.

“We heard consistent feedback that reinforces our expectation of strengthening sales in remodeling-oriented categories, and for larger projects,” the report said. “Note that all of these players—like most pros—source only a small part of their materials for big box retailers, but these sales are certainly rising, and to the extent that they are representative of the broader market, they bode well for overall demand.”

Analysts also noted that the ratio of residential improvements to gross domestic product remains lower than its level a year ago, with upside of 10 percent until it returns to its historic average.

Even with these sharp rises, home prices have further room to run, said Jed Kolko, Trulia’s chief economist. Currently, 91 of the 100 largest metro prices remain below their fundamental values, according to the company’s analysis.

“Right now, prices are still actually 7 percent undervalued relative to fundamentals,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “That’s even with the big price increases we’ve seen over the past year.”

Citing rising home prices and discussions with remodeling firms, Goldman raised its 12-month price target on Lowe’s to $46 with a “buy” rating and upped its target forHome Depot to $81 with a “neutral” rating. Home Depot, it noted, already has a premium valuation and near-peak margins, while Lowe’s margins are well below its historical peak levels.

A separate report from Oppenheimer was also bullish on the two home-improvement retailers with “outperform” ratings on each. The housing market recovery is likely to propel consumer spending for the foreseeable future, driving both home-improvement sales and home-goods sales, its analysts said.

 

 

Goldman Sachs’ DIY Outlook Hinges on Housing Recovery.

Angie’s List breaks 2 million paid user mark | Katonah Real Estate

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Review service Angie’s List announced today that it has doubled its customer base over the past 18 months and that the total number of households that pay to use the site surpassed 2 million over the weekend.

“Realizing such momentum in membership growth is truly a testament to our commitment to help consumers find the best local service providers,” said Angie Hicks, a co-founder of the company, in a statement. “Our members drive Angie’s List.”

Angie’s List, which helps consumers find many types of professionals including real estate agents, appraisers, and mortgage brokers, topped the 2 million mark on Sunday, and passed the 1 million mark in October of 2011, the company said.

“It took us more than 16 years to get to one million paid households but just 18 months to double it,” Hicks said.

Angie’s List claims to offer more reliable reviews than other sites by strictly enforcing rules designed to guard against fake ones.

Users can post reviews of home services providers inluding handymen, remodelers, roofers, electricians, painters, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) contractors.

 

 

 

Angie’s List breaks 2 million paid user mark | Inman News.

More millennials see homeownership as a good investment | Bedford NY Real Estate

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PulteGroup survey: Intention to buy rose among most 18- to 34-year-olds in the last year

Most millennials that make more than $50,000 a year are more interested in buying homes than they were a year ago, a recent survey by homebuilder PulteGroup, Inc. found.

Nearly two-thirds, or 65 percent, of renters between 18 and 34 who responded to the survey and had an income above $50,000 said that their intention to buy has “significantly or somewhat increased in the past year,” PulteGroup said.

“Millennials have witnessed the housing boom and bust, but still believe homeownership is a good investment,” said Fred Ehle, vice president for PulteGroup, in a statement. “Consistent with other third-party research that shows more than 90 percent of millennials plan to buy a home someday, we see a lot of young adults who are making financial sacrifices to afford a place of their own.”

As part of the survey, PulteGroup also polled people on what home aspects matter most to them. The company found that millennials highly value efficient use of space in a home, with 69 percent of respondents indicating that they “overwhelmingly want an open layout space in the kitchen and family rooms for entertaining family and friends.”

Millennial survey respondents also said these features were either very important or extremely important to them:

  • 84 percent said ample storage for daily items;
  • 76 percent said space for TV, movie, or sports watching;
  • 73 percent said the entry to the home;
  • 63 percent said an outdoor living space or deck; and,
  • 36 percent said the ability to conduct business from home.

 

More millennials see homeownership as a good investment | Inman News.

Mortgage Rates – Today’s Home Loan Rates and Trends | Chappaqua NY Homes

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