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Bedford Hills NY Real Estate Up 27%, Prices Up 48% | RobReportBlog | Bedford Hills NY Homes
Bedford Hills NY Real Estate Report | June 2011 | RobReportBlog
Bedford Hills NY real estate was up 27% in the first half of 2011 when compared to 2010. The median price of a Bedford Hills home was up 48% to $947,069 compared to $637,500 in 2010.
2011 Bedford Hills NY Real Estate Sales stats (six months)
14 homes sold
$947,069 median price
$6,250,000 high price
$355,000 low price
3892 average size
$354 average price per foot
186 average DOM
94.34% average sold to ask percent
2010 Bedford Hills NY Real Estate Sales stats (six months)
11 homes sold
$637,500 median price
$9,500,000 high price
$388,500
3541 average size
$473 average price per foot
238 average DOM
85.51% average sold to ask percent
View Tonight’s Full Moon, Apply for School District Committees – Bedford-Katonah, NY Patch | Bedford Hills NY Real Estate news
1. Full Buck Moon
There’s going to be a full moon tonight, the seventh one in 2011. It’s also known as the Full Buck Moon, a Native American term, livescience.com reports, because it comes at the time of year when new antlers push out from the foreheads of buck deer. If you’ve ever read Cynthia Rylant’s Long Night Moon to your kids (a great pick!) you also know that July’s full moon has also been called “full thunder moon,” given the frequency of summer thundershowers.
2.The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Little Radical Theatrics presents its Summer 2011 production, a Rupert Holmes musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Performances start tonight at 7:30 p.m. and go through July 17. Click here for more on the plot and tickets.
3. Westchester named one of America’s Top Digital Counties
The results of this year’s evaluation of America’s top digital counties are in, and Westchester County is once again in the top 10. The annual study by the Center for Digital Government and the National Association of Counties (NACo) recognizes Westchester’s “exemplary digital service” to its residents. For more on the study, click here.
4. Katonah-Lewisboro schools seek committee members
The Board of Education of the Katonah-Lewisboro School District is inviting community members to serve on three of its committees: the Audit Committee, Finance Committee and Sustainability Committee. Those interested in participating must send a cover letter, letter of interest and resume to the District Clerk by Monday, July 25, 2011. Click here for details.
5. Teaching artists of NY Philharmonic at Caramoor
The group “Kaleidoscope” (The Teaching Artists Ensemble of the New York Philharmonic) will be at Caramoor Saturday at 1 p.m. to present a new interactive program for families. Kaleidoscope will invite the audience into the world of America’s musical forebears to see what makes American music sound “American” and what is unique about each composer. It’s billed as a hands-on, interactive performance; click here for details.
Don’t forget about our Weekend Planner – lots of ideas here for families and anyone who wants to get out this weekend!
10 markets with fastest-rising real estate prices | Inman News for Bedford Hills Real Estate buyers
South accounts for 6 of 10 metros with highest jumps in median list price
Southern metro areas dominated a list of the 10 markets with the biggest year-over-year increases in median list price in April, according to monthly data released this week by Realtor.com. The data considers 146 metro areas nationwide.
Two Florida markets saw the highest jumps: median list price in Fort Myers-Cape Coral rose 25.7 percent to $225,000, and the median in Miami rose 8.6 percent to $239,000.
Shreveport-Bossier City, La., followed with an 8.1 percent increase, to $173,000. Fort Myers-Cape Coral and Miami also saw the biggest year-over-year drops in inventory: -25.3 percent and -29.9 percent, respectively.
The two Florida markets were the only metros in the top 10 to move properties at a slower rate than the national median: 95 days. Median age of inventory for each was 116 and 129 days, respectively.
In order to obtain the median age of inventory for each market, Realtor.com subtracted a property’s listed date from whichever was earlier: its end listing date or the end of the time period, and took the median of all the resulting individual days on the website.
The three other Southern metros to make the list were Charleston, W.V.; Tyler, Texas; and the Virginia segment of the Washington, D.C. metro area. (Realtor.com separates data for metro areas that encompass multiple states.) The Washington, D.C., metro was the fastest-moving among the 10 markets with a median inventory age of 57 days.
In the U.S. overall, the median list price fell 4 percent year-over-year in April, to $191,900.
Two Midwestern metros (Columbia, Mo.; and Peoria-Pekin, Ill.) and two Western metros (Fort Collins-Loveland, Colo.; and Anchorage, Alaska) made the list. No market in the Northeast was among the top 10.
Eight of the 10 metros saw their inventory decline year-over-year last month, six of them by double-digit percentages. Only Anchorage and Tyler saw their total listings rise: 15.7 percent and 3.6 percent, respectively.
Nationally, total listings fell 8.3 percent.
Median List Prices Median Age of Inventory $ % yr.-over-
yr. change# days on site % yr.-over-
yr. changeUnited States $191,900 -4% 95 13.1% Fort Myers-Cape Coral, Fla. $225,000 25.7% 116 8.4% Miami $239,000 8.6% 129 14.2% Shreveport-Bossier City, La. $173,000 8.1% 73 28.1% Washington, D.C.-Md.-Va.-W.Va. (Va.) $369,900 6% 57 14.0% Columbia, Mo. $168,000 5.1% 60 0.0% Peoria-Pekin, Ill. $144,900 3.6% 82 17.1% Fort Collins-Loveland, Colo. $249,900 3.5% 82 10.8% Anchorage, Alaska $289,000 3.3% 60 39.5% Charleston, W.Va. $159,900 2.9% 82 32.3% Tyler, Texas $200,000 2.6% 91 15.2% Source: Realtor.com
Among the 10 markets with the fastest-dropping median list prices, Western metro areas prevailed, accounting for six among the top 10; two are in the South and two are in Midwest. All 10 saw double-digit declines compared to April 2010. No Northeastern market made that top 10 list.
Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc, Calif., saw the biggest price decline: down 26.2 percent to $498,250. The market was also one of two to see its inventory rise year-over-year, by 6 percent. The other was Reno, Nev., with a 9.5 percent increase.
Inventory declined by double digits in six of the remaining eight markets. Savannah, Ga., experienced the sharpest decline: -48.3 percent.
Savannah was also one of three markets with a median age of inventory above the national median. The market’s median inventory age was 198 days in April, though that represents an 11.2 percent decline from April 2010.
Median List Prices Median Age of Inventory $ % yr.-over-yr. change # days on site % yr.-over-yr. change United States $191,900 -4% 95 13.1% Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc, Calif. $498,250 -26.2% 75 2.7% Detroit $89,900 -18.2% 62 72.2% Fresno, Calif. $160,000 -15.3% 59 3.5% Reno, Nev. $170,000 -14.6% 96 7.9% Atlanta $159,900 -13.6% 81 3.8% Los Angeles-Long Beach $325,000 -12.2% 61 -1.6% Tucson, Ariz. $175,000 -11.8% 88 12.8% Savannah, Ga. $210,000 -11.7% 198 -11.2% Chicago $212,000 -11.3% 102 15.9% Seattle-Bellevue-Everett $309,900 -11.2% 70 16.7% Source: Realtor.com
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Bedford Hills NY Landlords Can Check Potential Tenants On-Line | Bedford Hills NY Homes
How to Run an Online Background Check for Free
By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, PCWorld
I know what you’re thinking–but hear me out. Plenty of reasons for doing an online background check exist, and not all of them are sketchy.
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In fact, everyone should do at least one online background check on–you guessed it–themselves. After all, if you can find out sensitive information about yourself with a little (free) online sleuthing, there’s no telling what employers, stalkers, and ex-girlfriends or -boyfriends will be able to uncover.
So here’s how to do a thorough online background check without dropping any cash.
If You Know Your Target’s Name
If you know name of the person you’re looking for, the first places you should check are the usual venues–good old search engines and social networks. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are all good stepping-stones for discovering valuable information about people.
Searching Your Social Networks
Social networks are fantastic sources of information–and it’s all completely self-volunteered. This is why social networks are particularly handy for employers–because if it’s on your Facebook page, it’s not only information about you, it’s information you’ve chosen to share with the world.
Facebook is indisputably the social networking standby–no surprise, as it boasts 500 million users. You can search for people by name and e-mail address, and modify the results by location, school, and workplace. If nothing shows up, they may have made their profile private and unsearchable.
If that’s the case, you can do a site-specific Google search, and any public pages or groups they may have commented on will show up. For example, my personal Facebook profile is private and will not show up in Facebook search results, but if you type site:Facebook.com “Sarah Purewal” into Google, you’ll see that I have commented on PCWorld’s Facebook page. You can now see my profile picture, as Facebook doesn’t allow users to make this private, even if you still can’t search for me using Facebook’s search.
Alternatively, you can use Openbook.org to search across Facebook’s public pages (including status updates) for any search string you want and find search results listed with names, profile links, and pictures–perfect for your background check.
Other social networking sites, such as LinkedIn and Twitter, are also worth a look. LinkedIn usually reveals much less information about a user, because it’s primarily a work-oriented social network. However, it is an excellent place to verify user’s résumés and work histories (though, of course, a user can lie on his or her LinkedIn profile very easily).
Twitter is a different type of social network. Unlike Facebook and LinkedIn, Twitter asks for very little identifying information from their users. Thus, you’ll often find people’s Twitter accounts via their Facebook or LinkedIn pages–not necessarily by searching Twitter. Twitter can still give you a wealth of information, though it’s more likely to give you an insight into their personality, interests, and style, rather than information you can use to find their address or phone number.
Find the Basics: Phone Number and Address
Okay, so you’ve Googled your target and discovered all of their sordid beer-bong photos on Facebook, but what you really want is to be able to contact them. How can you get their phone number and address?
Look up phone numbers with ZabaSearch. (Click for full-size image.) ZabaSearch is a fairly accurate phone number lookup service. It offers a free way to look up people’s phone numbers (you can narrow it down by state), along with premium services for reverse phone number and social security number lookups. I say “fairly accurate” because while ZabaSearch’s database includes listed and unlisted numbers, it’s hit-or-miss when it comes to cell phone numbers–and who doesn’t have a cell phone these days?
WhitePages.com also offers a free phone number lookup, and throws in an address to boot. WhitePages appears to update its database more frequently, as it found a recent address change of mine that ZabaSearch missed (within the last year). However, it does not list unlisted numbers. WhitePages also offers a premium, reverse phone number lookup, and will show you the location of the phone. Of course, this is simply the location of the phone’s origin, and is based on the phone’s area code–when I look up my phone number, for example, it says my phone is likely located in Conway, South Carolina. (This is incorrect, as my phone is currently located in California, but my phone’s area code is from South Carolina.)
Criminal and Public Records
Finding an address or phone number is child’s play. Only when you’re looking for criminal and public records do things start to get interesting. If you want to know if your hot coworker has ever been divorced, or if your neighbor might be running a drug ring out of her apartment, this is how you can find out.
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Gas vs. Wood Burning Fireplaces | Bedford Hills NY Homes
You plan to build your dream home. You’ve pored through home plan books, picked out the perfect design, found a beautiful lot in a great neighborhood and worked out a deal with a well-regarded builder.A wood-burning fireplace will appease the die-hard traditionalist in any group. After all, who doesn’t love the rustic scent and the popping sound of a home-brewed blaze? The smell and sound of a true fire evoke images – real or imagined – of cozying up in front of a crackling blaze after a particularly challenging snowball fight or a day of building snowmen.
After years of rental apartments and settling for less, you’ve earned this home. You’ve promised yourself some of the amenities you’ve always wanted and, not surprisingly, a few well-placed fireplaces top that list. Your new home will include a fireplace in the family room so that, after a day of sledding, the kids can warm chilled fingers and toes and hang soggy mittens and mufflers up to dry.
A second fireplace in the living room adds an elegant touch to formal gatherings, and in the master suite, yet another fireplace serves as a romantic backdrop. Perhaps even more important than adding some old-time charm and comfort to your new home, a fireplace also answers that nagging question, “Where will we hang the Christmas stockings?”
Before you settle down in front of a warm blaze with a comforting beverage and your favorite novel, you need to make an important decision about whether you want a gas or a wood-burning unit. Today’s marketplace offers new-home builders plenty of choices when it comes to fireplaces, and consumers need to study up before making a choice.
To choose which type of fireplace works best for you, learn the differences between the two and define your priorities.
Even today’s “old-fashioned” wood-burning fireplaces present more choices than those of the past. High-energy models from a number of manufacturers often include insulated fireboxes that keep cold outside air outside and trap warm air that would otherwise escape up the chimney or out the sides.
Many of these models also feature blower systems that redirect heated air from the chimney out into the room.
Because traditional wood-burning fireplaces can emit gases and particles that harm the environment into the air, some communities regulate or even prohibit them.
Heatilator offers an outside air kit system that reduces lost energy by using outside air for combustion.
Another option available with some wood-burning fireplaces is a filter that helps eliminate dust and smoke from inside air.
A gas fireplace, which combines ease of use with the heating ability of a furnace, will appeal to those people who cringe at the idea of prying themselves off the sofa every couple of hours to fetch another round of wood.
At the flick of a switch, you’ll enjoy the warmth of a realistic blaze. A couple more flicks of the switch adjust the flame height and heat output.
In recent years, gas fireplace manufacturers have worked hard to create a blaze that resembles a real fire. Ceramic logs, tall, dancing flames and burning “embers” underneath imitate traditional fires.
Because gas units do not include a chimney, they also allow the homeowner some versatility when choosing a spot for the new fireplace.
9 Tips for Getting Vacant Homes Ready for Winter | Bedford Hills NY Real Estate
Houses that will sit empty through the winter need attention to avoid frozen pipes, reports Long Island American Water, which is part of American Water, the largest investor-owned U.S. water and waste water utility company
The company offers these tips for ensuring that pipes don’t burst:
· Search for pipes that are not insulated, or that pass through unheated spaces such as crawl spaces, basements, or garages. Wrap them with pre-molded foam rubber sleeves or fiberglass insulation.
· Wrap really vulnerable pipes with electric heating tape with a built-in thermostat that only turns heat on when needed.
· Seal cracks and holes in outside walls and foundations with caulking to keep cold wind from pipes. Look for areas where cable TV or phone lines enter the house, to be sure holes are tightly sealed.
· If hot-water radiators heat the home, bleed the valves by opening them slightly. Close them when water appears.
· Before really cold weather sets in, make certain that the water to outdoor hose bibs is shut off inside the house and the lines are drained.
· Drain any hoses and air conditioner pipes.
· Wrap the water heater or turn it off.
· Make sure gutters and downspouts have been cleaned to remove debris that could freeze and cause clogs during cold weather.
· Know where the main water shut-off valve is located in case it needs to be shut off during an emergency.
Source: Long Island American Water (11/16/2010)