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Fed Study: Hot Prices in 2013 Promise Better Inventories in 2014 | Katonah Real Estate

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This year’s hot price increases could be more important than rising rents, credit availability or even underwater homeowners in freeing up the inventories that stifled hundreds of housing markets last season and kept sales from reaching their potential, according to a new study by two Federal Reserve economists.

Price increases and job growth are more important than buyers’ access to credit, freedom from negative equity, owners’ decisions to wait to achieve greater gains and the loss of large numbers of owner-occupied homes to rentals in a market when it comes to building inventories.

Last season opened with  inventories at near-record lows in February, down by 15.97 percent nationally compared to a year ago and is less than half its peak of 3.1 million units in September 2007.  Inventories increased in 100 out of Realtor.com’s 146 markets and even markets, spurring price increases and seasonal increases in homes for sale.

“Current inventories of homes for sale are low given more than a year of house price appreciation,” concluded the study Fed by economists William Hedberg and John Krainer released recently.  “County-level data suggest that many homeowners are waiting for prices to rise further in their markets. Markets that have seen the strongest house price appreciation and job growth are the ones where for-sale inventories have declined the most.”

The economists analyzed a number of widely discussed causes of the inventory decline beginning with the transformation of about 3.5 million formerly owner occupied homes into rentals since 2007.  “It is impossible to say though whether declining sales are pushing down homeownership rates or falling homeownership is pushing down sales, or both are interacting with each other in a complicated feedback process,” they concluded

Nor could they find strong evidence that homeowners are keeping their homes off the market in hopes prides will continue to rise.  “On balance, counties that experienced relatively large increases in house prices over the past year also experienced relatively large declines in inventories available for sale,” they said.

 

 

http://www.realestateeconomywatch.com/2013/12/fed-study-hot-prices-in-2013-promise-better-inventories-in-2014/

The Facebook Conversion Formula: A Blueprint for Turning Fans into Customers | Katonah Realtor

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The Facebook Conversion Formula- A Blueprint for Turning Fans into Customers

Just having a Facebook Page is really just the beginning of building a  successful social media strategy. But with the right formula will not only help  you engage with Fans, but generate hot leads and real ROI from your Facebook  following.

So the Facebook sales cycle in its simplest form is:

  1. Grow your Facebook fans
  2. Promote to gain email and phone inquiries
  3. Nurture those fans to convert them to hot leads
  4. Convert those hot leads into revenue

That is the Facebook conversion formula. In essence a blueprint for turning  fans into customers

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So how do you implement that process?

How to get more (relevant) fans

8.11% of all traffic on the internet comes from Facebook. The people looking for your products are already  on Facebook, the question is how do you find them where they are already  looking? The first step to growing your fan base is developing a user persona around  your ideal Facebook Fan. You can’t find what you’re not looking for.

Traits of your ideal fan, and ultimately your leads and customers, are based  on demographics, interests and likes, jobs experience and geography. Combining  characteristics from each of these categories will allow you develop a usage  scenario. In this case, the usage scenario is how your brand and ideal user  interact on social media and Facebook in particular.

All of your usage scenarios come together to become your content strategy.  Your content strategy should be broken into pillars; categories of content that  are relevant to your ideal fan personas and on-strategy for your business.

Below are 5 examples of types of pillars you may develop for your persona.  All of your content and posts should fit into one of these categories. Note,  that these 5 may or may not be relevant to your own business.

Turning Facebook Fans into sales

Convert your Facebook fans into leads

A fan becomes a lead when they willingly provide contact information, sign-up for your email  newsletter or otherwise opt-in to learn more about your business. This is best  achieved when there is already brand affinity in-place and you have already  positioned yourself as the industry expert.

To build that brand awareness and affinity, you’ll use your content pillars  to create good and engaging content. In providing immense value, you will create  trust and solidify yourself as an industry expert. This exchange of information  will create long-term, loyal customers.

Start by encouraging engagement with your content in the Facebook news feed.  According to a Hubspot Study in 2013, photos on Facebook generate 53% more  likes than the average post. The more likes, shares and comments you receive,  the more visible future content will be to your fans.

 

 

 

Read more at http://www.jeffbullas.com/2013/12/06/the-facebook-conversion-formula-a-blueprint-for-turning-fans-into-customers/#ucYOOSCXLMH6x0jm.99

5 Fab Not-Beige Bedroom Neutrals | Katonah Real Estate

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Let me start off by saying that I am in no way looking to bash beige. There are many beautiful shades of the neutral hue that are appropriate and look fantastic in and on homes. But when I am hired to do a paint color consultation, I often avoid suggesting beige. And clients even ask to avoid it, which leads me to believe that many homeowners are tired of the hue, or they see it as a crutch to fall back on when they’d really prefer something different, something with a little more oomph.
For those of you who just aren’t a fan of bold, intense color but want to move beyond white and beige, I’ve pulled together some of my favorite not-beige neutrals that I think look fantastic in bedrooms. These are softer, more soothing hues that work well with a variety of other colors, materials and styles of decor. Yet they still look fresh and current.

1. Light Purples
Whether you go for a cool lavender or a warmer mauve, the trick to making this color appear sophisticated rather than sugary is to go with a shade that has a good amount of neutralizing gray or brown in it. The paint color here contains both gray and brown, which neutralizes the purple. You get the best of both worlds — a neutral hue with just a hint of color.
Get a similar look with Beguiling Mauve from Sherwin-Williams
This lavender has less gray in it than the previous color, but it still has an iciness, which keeps it soft and soothing.
Get a similar look with North Cascades from Benjamin Moore
This pretty wall color has more red and brown in it, which adds warmth. The hint of brown also nudges it toward neutral territory.
Get a similar look with Plum Frost from Behr.
2. Blue-Grays
A soft blue with a hint of gray is a fantastic choice to create a soothing, relaxing vibe in a bedroom. Those who live in areas where cool and overcast days outnumber warm and sunny ones may want to opt for a hue with more blue and less gray.

Caramoor In Northern Westchester Announces Lineup For 2014 | Katonah Real Estate

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Jeffrey P. Haydon, Chief Executive Officer of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, has announced classical highlights of the 2014 Caramoor Summer Music Festival.

The  festival, which is held annually at the Center’s beautiful 90-acre garden estate in Katonah, New York, will run from June 21 to Aug. 6.
“Caramoor is the premiere destination to experience music in the summer, featuring today’s leading artists such as Angela Meade, Joshua Bell, and Pablo Heras-Casado,” Haydon said. “We are particularly excited about our new artist residency featuring Alisa Weilerstein, an alumni of Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars mentoring program and 2013 MacArthur Genius Grant winner.”
Tickets go on sale Jan. 27, Donor pre-sales start Jan. 20.

The schedule includes:
June 21:  Opening Night The opening night of the festival features celebrated violinist, Joshua Bell and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, led by conductor, Cristian Mǎcelaru, in a program of Ligeti’s Concert Romanesc, Sibelius’s Violin Concerto and Bizet’s Symphony in C.
July 6:  Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Jeffrey Kahane, pianist/conductor The Orchestra of St. Luke’s continues its long and storied relationship with Caramoor. Joining with the orchestra for the July 6 performance is famed pianist and conductor, Jeffrey Kahane.
July 11: The Dover Quartet continues its residency at Caramoor The Dover Quartet, Caramoor’s 2013-14 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence,will delight audiences “with a level of nuance unexpected of musicians so young” (The Wall Street Journal).
Opera/Bel Canto at Caramoor Saturday, July 12 and Friday, July 18: Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia Acclaimed soprano Angela Meade, will return to Caramoor to make her highly-anticipated debut as Lucrezia. The cast also includes mezzo soprano Tamara Mumford, tenor Charles Castronovo and bass Christophoros Stamboglis.
Saturday, July 19: Verdi’s Rigoletto Verdi’s Rigoletto will feature baritone Stephen Powell and tenor John Osborn in the roles of Rigoletto and the Duke. Georgia Jarman will perform the role of Gilda.
July 31, August 1 and August 3: Alisa Weilerstein featured in a residency to close the festival Alisa Weilerstein, named “one of the most exciting American cellists of the new generation” by The New York Times, will participate in an artist residency that will include a master class and three performances, Thursday July 31 to August 3.

 

 

http://mtkisco.dailyvoice.com/events/caramoor-northern-westchester-announces-lineup-2014

Consumer buying power fades as choices and prices shift | Katonah Real Estate

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The sale of all existing homes fell 3.2% to an annual rate of 5.12 million units in October as rising prices tripped up buyers – a data point further constrained by falling inventory levels, the National Association of Realtors noted Wednesday.

Existing-home sales is a measure of sales on all single-family residences, townhomes, condos and co-ops. Compared to last year, October sales remained 6% higher than the 4.83-million unit sales pace reported last month. But this is not an unusual occurrence given the fact that prices have been rising year-over-year for the past 28 months, NAR said.

With the national median existing-home price up 12.8% from last year, buyers are facing rising prices at a time when lower inventory levels are pushing them even higher. Yet, the fall in existing-home sales suggests potential homebuyers are not keeping up.

“The erosion in buying power is dampening home sales,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. “Moreover, low inventory is holding back sales while at the same time pushing up home prices in most of the country. More new home construction is needed to help relieve the inventory pressure and moderate price gains.”

Right now, the median existing-home price in the U.S. is hovering at $199,500, an increase of 12.8% from October 2012.

Distressed home sales also are much lower today, falling 25% from October 2012 levels. With fewer foreclosure-related sales, the median price of existing properties continues to escalate beyond many borrowers’ reach.

Only 9% of October sales were classified as foreclosures, while 5% were short sales. Foreclosures faced a 17% discount when compared to similar properties, with short sales discounted by 14%.

The shrinking U.S. housing inventory hit 2.13 million existing home sales in October, a 1.8% decline, and a 5-month supply of homes at the current sales pace. That compares to a 4.9-month supply in September when the market was still moving at a faster pace.

The tightest inventory conditions popped up in the markets of Oakland, Calif.; San Francisco; San Jose, Calif.; Denver and Stockton-Lodi, Calif., NAR said

 

 

 

http://www.housingwire.com/articles/28048-existing-home-sales-decline-on-falling-affordability-tighter-inventory

All Aboard Florida’s Ft. Laud. Station Will Be In Flagler Village | Katonah Real Estate

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All Aboard Florida is planning to announce on November 22nd that their Fort Lauderdale train station will be just north of Broward Boulevard, in Flagler Village. The Las Olas Riverfront site is out. It will likely span the tracks from the empty Florida Power & Light lot on the west side of the railroad tracks between Broward and NW 2nd Avenue to the Broward Central Terminal bus depot on the east side of the tracks, a location that was established as the preferred spot on the railroad’s environmental assessment report. This completes selection of the project’s four station locations in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando.

Also in the environmental assessment report (it was full of goodies), the station, which will be designed by firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Zyscovich, will be centered around a great hall with an elevated waiting room and concourse above the tracks connecting to a 35 foot wide central platform. Sure, it won’t be as monumental as the Miami terminus station, but it won’t exactly be dinky either. · Fort Lauderdale FEC Station [Curbed Miami] · All Aboard Florida coverage [Curbed Miami]

Tour The Touraine’s Last Remaining Penthouse, Asking $20M | Katonah Real Estate

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Toll Brothers’ Upper East Side Touraine opened for sale at the end of 2011, and Penthouse 1 actually hit the market not long after. A sprawling duplex on the top two floors of the Lucien Lagrange-designed building, reps opted not to aggressively market the 5BR/5.5BA unit until recently, when the building at Lexington Avenue and 65th Street was almost finished and it could be properly staged. Curbed photographer Will Femia captured the detailing (marble, marble everywhere), views, and other elements of the 4,326-square-foot space, which is asking a mere $19,995,990. The other three penthouses went for $5,820,688, $9,771,116, and $13,579,371, respectively, which hints at the mammoth scale of this unsold unit. The rest of the 22-condo building has sold and closed, with some apartments already turned around as rentals.

  • First, a look at the two-tiered floorplan to orient yourself.
  • The PH is located on the top two floors of the Touraine, shot here from the north.
  • The PH from the outside.
  • Beginning on the lower floor, this is the guest bedroom on the western side of the apartment.
  • Its accompanying bathroom…
  • … and the view form the tub.

 

 

 

 

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/11/14/tour_the_touraines_last_remaining_penthouse_asking_20m.php

Overheated’ San Francisco market cools off | Katonah NY Real Estate

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The number of homes and condos sold in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area fell 3.9 percent in October from a year ago, a level that’s 11.2 percent below the historic average for the month.

The San Francisco Chronicle said despite the decrease in sales, to 7,595 homes and condos, price appreciation has continued in the “overheated” market.

 

 

Source: sfgate.com. – See more at: http://www.inman.com/wire/overheated-san-francisco-market-cools-off/#sthash.wedGnhiY.dpuf