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Bedford NY Real Estate Mortgage Rates | Bedford Luxury Homes

Each day the Research staff takes a look at recently released economic indicators, addressing what these indicators mean for REALTORS® and their clients. Today’s update highlights mortgage rates and inflation.

 

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  • The rate on a thirty year fixed rate mortgage remained relatively unchanged last week at 4.69%, but is down 26 bps from mid-April.
  • The average annual inflation expectation in the U.S. over the next ten years declined by 9 bps to 2.39%.
  • The decline in long term interest rates reflects conflicting signals from the latest employment report – more people employed, but a higher unemployment rate due to a bigger labor force.
  • Incredibly, despite rising and accelerating consumer prices and producer prices, the global bond investors have largely discounted any future inflationary pressure.  If there is a change in this sentiment, interest rates could quickly spike upward.

 

 

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Bedford NY Prudential Douglas Elliman Partners With British Luxury Realtor | Crain’s | Bedford NY Luxury Properties

To expand its presence overseas, Prudential Douglas Elliman has established a new partnership with Knight Frank Residential, a United Kingdom-based global real estate agency and consultancy.

Under the relationship, Prudential Douglas Elliman and Knight Frank Residential will share and promote some exclusive listings among their respective client pools. As a result, both firms aim to refer business to each other and, in turn, earn commissions off more closed deals.

Prudential Douglas Elliman expects Knight Frank Residential property listings from Europe and other parts of the globe to appear on its website in the coming weeks. Brokerages across the city are striking similar strategic partnerships to boost business. Just last week, 5-month-old Town Residential partnered with property manager Cooper Square Realty to capture more clients.

“There is a high percentage of international buyers who like to invest in New York real estate,” said Dottie Herman, chief executive of Prudential Douglas Elliman, adding that the exclusive partnership was a year in the making. “They feel it’s a good investment.”

Only the top 5% of Prudential Douglas Elliman’s properties will be advertised by Knight Frank Residential—most often limited to the $3 million-plus properties in New York City, the Hamptons, Long Island and Westchester, the brokerage said.

While the partnership is new, the Manhattan brokerage is already close to benefitting from the referral arrangement. Knight Frank referred to Prudential Douglas Elliman a client who wanted to sell a 10-room co-op on Park Avenue. The New York firm started marketing the property in March for $11.8 million, and Ms. Herman said the listing is very close to going into contract.

Prudential Douglas Elliman is the city’s largest residential brokerage, based on number of agents. It currently has roughly 2,000 agents in the city. Knight Frank Residential, part of privately owned global property consultant Knight Frank, has established similar exclusive partnerships with other brokerages in the United States.

“We selected Prudential Douglas Elliman because they can provide our clients with access to the best properties in New York,” said Patrick Ramsay, managing partner of Knight Frank Residential, in a statement. “Our companies share similar values and business practices to ensure the highest level of service for our clients.”

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America’s Richest Towns | Bedford NY Real Estate

Want to buy Billy Joel’s Sagaponack home? Last month the piano man dropped the price on his oceanfront house on Long Island’s East End again, this time from $19.9 million to $18.5 million. It started out at $22.5 million when he first listed the property in 2009.

And Joel is not alone. Across the U.S., prices last year continued to decline even in the richest neighborhoods. Sagaponack, a village with a population of only 582 (it swells during the summer), saw home values drop 14.5 percent from 2009 to 2010-yet it once again earned the No. 1 position on Businessweek.com’s ranking of the Most Expensive Small Towns in the U.S. It held on to the top spot because, despite the dip, median home values were $3,406,640, the highest in the nation, according to real estate website Zillow.com.

Working with the website, Businessweek.com identified the 50 most expensive small towns (populations less than 10,000) nationwide where median home values are the highest. We evaluated data on 4,624 cities and census-designated places from November 2010, the most recent available. Some expensive communities, such as Bel Air, Calif., were not included as they are neighborhoods rather than cities or census-designated places. Of the 50 most expensive places-many of which are second-home markets-nearly half are in Long Island’s Nassau and Suffolk counties and about one-quarter are in California. None of the towns in the ranking had a median home value of less than $1 million.

Biggest Price Declines

Values dropped in 33 of the 50 most expensive small towns. The biggest decline, 15.7 percent, came in Woodside, Calif., home to such tech billionaires as Oracle’s (ORCL) Larry Ellison and Apple’s (AAPL) Steve Jobs. Values in the second-most expensive town, Jupiter Island, Fla., were down 11.3 percent from a year ago, to just over $2.8 million, and in No. 4, Los Altos Hills, Calif., they were down 13.6 percent, to a bit more than $2.1 million.

In eight of these towns (five of which are among the top 10 most expensive), values were more than 10 percent below levels of a year ago. Nationwide, home values were down 5.1 percent, Zillow.com’s data indicate.

Only 17 places experienced increases in home values. The winner was Kings Point, N.Y., a wealthy suburb of New York City on Long Island’s Gold Coast, where prices rose 13.5 percent.

In the Hamptons, “prices have not yet rebounded,” says Michael Schultz, vice-president in Corcoran’s East Hampton office. With prices down, he expects activity to pick up in the first quarter this year.

Fewer High-End Sales

Home to wealthy Wall Streeters, corporate executives, and celebrities, the Hamptons saw both unit sales and prices down year-on-year after rising in early 2010. The third-quarter drop in the median sale price in the Hamptons-North Fork market was due to a shift away from high-end sales-only 11 homes sold at or above $5 million in the third quarter, down from 20 sales a year earlier, according to a report by Miller Samuel, a New York real estate appraisal services firm.

“Across the board, everyone brought their homes down 15 percent to 20 percent. Sellers are becoming more realistic” and buyers are more conservative, says Harald Grant, senior vice-president in Sotheby’s International Realty’s Southampton office.

After a strong first half in 2010, unit sales in Sagaponack and nearby Bridgehamptonwere down 18 percent year-on-year in third quarter, and the median sale price was down 53 percent, according to a report from real estate brokerage Corcoran. Despite this short-term softness, “Sagaponack is a strong market because it has cachet,” Grant says.

A Premium to Rub Elbows

What makes small towns such as Sagaponack attractive is their proximity not just to natural beauty and first-class golf courses but also to other wealthy people. That’s why the most expensive small towns often cluster around major financial centers. A survey of U.S. metropolitan statistical areas by consultancy Capgemini shows that New York City had 667,200 high-net-worth individuals, or people with investable assets of $1 million or more, in 2009-far more than any other metro in the country. Other wealthy areas include the Los Angeles metro area (235,800), Chicago (198,100), Washington, D.C. (152,400), and San Francisco (138,300).

Of the 50 most expensive small towns, 22 are in New York-namely, Long Island-and 13 are in California. Others were in Colorado, Florida,Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Washington.Making the ranking for the first time was even one town in Tennessee.Belle Meade (a very rich town in Tennessee).

Some well-known markets are less active. “Our really high-end market is almost frozen,” and buyers do not seem to want to buy above the $6 million level, says Paul Grover, a partner in Robert Paul Properties, a Cape Cod brokerage. With Wall Street turning around, he anticipates that demand will pick up, “but we’ll see it in New York first.”

That note of hope is one that many real estate brokers and home sellers across the U.S. share. In expensive small towns like Sagaponack, however, even the battered prices might strike many Americans as wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. It’s hard for someone who lives in a house valued in the mid-six figures-or less-to empathize with sellers asking prices in the seven- or even eight-figure range. But no owner likes to take a haircut when selling his home. Just ask Billy Joel.

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