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Charming Façade, Crisp Interiors in East Hampton | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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Just outside the village is this newly built house asking $2.049M. What we love about it is the incredibly sweet exterior combined with the modern, bright, airy interior. The house is compact at 1875sf, but there are still three bedrooms and three beautiful bathrooms, and the open plan feels spacious. The plot is similarly small, at 0.16 acre, but offers a gunite pool for lazy summer afternoons. Plus, you’re within easy walking distance to town, restaurants, and the movies. Make a deal to buy the furniture and move right in!

 

 

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A pool that cleans itself? naturally with pool cleaning service| Pound Ridge Homes

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Summer’s heat is not far behind the bursting of spring blooms and windy rains. Imagine yourself cooling off by floating in a backyard pool that feels immersed in nature.

Natural swimming pools use plants or a combination of plants and sand filters to keep the water clean and clear without chemicals, these and others accesories  you can find. They were developed in Austria and Germany in the 1980s and have since grown in popularity worldwide. contemporary landscape by Genus Loci Ecological Landscapes Inc.

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They can be designed in a multitude of ways: Some look like natural ponds; others may be disguised as standard tiled pools. And if you want to clean leaf from pool and want to buy blower then you must visit to Worx WG546 Turbine Cordless Leaf Blower Review. Power failure is a common problem when you face a flooding situation and your sump pump will, at best, be a sitting duck unable to provide any relief. A battery backup sump pump system is your only reliable solutions in such a scenario. It’s most often installed on the basement floor to drain away any water when power is unavailable, to the pump directly, from the house supply line. When the power fails, the battery back-up sump systems are available to power the secondary pump so that water can continue to be pumped from the basement sump pit until the main power supply is restored. Pressure Coach provide a best sump pump for your swimming poll and other use.

Whatever look you are trying to achieve, the principles of function are the same for both natural swimming pools and traditional ones, the best bet is always to get a custom swimming pool.

How they work. Natural swimming pools rely on a constructed wetland of plants and gravel to filter the water in an area called the regeneration zone. This zone is like a water garden; a variety of plants selected by a natural pool specialist or a landscape architect create an ecosystem that cleans the pool water, I always recommended Maple Land Works Services for the perfect landscaping.
traditional landscape by R. P. Marzilli & Company Landscape Contractor
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How the zones interact. The regeneration zone’s size and depth are related to the volume of water to be cleaned. The planted zone is shallower than the swimming area. Clean water slowly flows from the planted zone into the swimming zone.

A specialized water skimmer removes large debris that falls on the water’s surface in the swim zone. The skimmer is fitted with a fine sieve that removes small debris before the water is circulated into a biological filter. Additional equipment, like UV light filters and filters that use sand to remove phosphorous, is helpful in maintaining the balance in a natural pool system.

traditional pool by Armond Aquatech Pools
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How much space do you need? Natural swimming pools can be small enough for an urban yard or extra large for a rural property, Swimming Pool Remodeling Contractors recommend have an adequate maintenance. The relationship between the regeneration and swimming zones can also vary depending on the space available. For instance, a rectilinear pool can be designed as the swimming area, with the water circulation apparatus running underground to the regeneration zone. In the most common setup, the regeneration zone is directly adjacent to the swimming zone, as shown here, with edges that allow for a specific volume of water to flow over the edge. Generally, the size of the zones should be equal for adequate water cleansing.
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Gallup: Most investors see real estate as best long-term bet | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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Real estate is considered by most investors one of the best long-term bets, with stocks trailing slightly as the market enters a sixth bull year and many have been nervous about how long the run will go.

Indeed, Gallup said recent volatility in the stock market may have tarnished stocks’ image as the best long-term investment option, according to the survey, conducted April 3-6, which published April 17.

Gallup said rising house prices are just one reason why Americans are putting their bucks back into houses. In 2002, during the real estate boom that came ahead of the mortgage crisis and before gold was offered as an option, half of Americans polled gave real estate the best-investment nod. Sales trends for new homes are at historically low levels, while prices have run up more than 13% over the past year.

 

 

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Skyrocketing real estate prices trigger backlash against foreign buyers | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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Leading overseas real estate expert Andrew Batt has told Singapore TV there is a lot of money being invested in foreign property and it will go to those countries that make it easy for investors.

Batt, international group editor of the Singapore-based PropertyGuru website, was interviewed on the Real Deal slot on Channel NewsAsia about global regulation and managing foreign investment.

He talked about property regulations for overseas buyers in Singapore and Malaysia and how changes in the U.K. market would affect Asian investors.

Batt, who is a regular guest, told presenter Annalisa Burgos, “There is a lot of money out there right now looking for investments in property, so the countries where it becomes easier to invest, where there are less tax regulations, the money is going to go to those kinds of places.”Looking at Singapore, he pointed out that the government had raised the buyer’s stamp duty by an extra 15 percent to try to deter overseas investors.

“I know there are suggestions that foreign property buyers had driven up prices, so it makes sense if you want to curb that particular sector of the buying community then you need to target it specifically.

 

 

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Captain Courageous Style in Massachusetts | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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Karen Swanson’s historic Manchester, Massachusetts, home was built in 1850 by a prosperous local sea captain named John Carter, and although most of the house has the architectural detail of that period, the kitchen was a relic of the 1950s (or thereabouts). Swanson, owner of New England Design Works and an award-winning kitchen designer whose personal tastes are more modern, made a kitchen that straddles the line between traditional and contemporary, with a small nod to the home’s original owner.
Kitchen at a Glance Location: Manchester, Massachusetts Size: 280 square feet (26 square meters) Photography by Evan White

The old kitchen had fixtures and finishes that had given up the ghost. The room stood in front of a large utility room.
AFTER: Swanson took over the utility room, gaining workspace and allowing more natural light to enter the kitchen through two exterior windows. A no-longer-working brick chimney lies behind the oil painting. The bricks could not be removed, so Swanson stuccoed over them and tucked a small laundry room behind the old structure.

Wings, Wind and Water Inspire a Bathroom | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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When Sara Baldwin’s family built a house outside of Eastville, Virginia, in a pine forest on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay, it only made sense that she would design the bathrooms. Baldwin is the owner of New Ravenna Mosaics, a leading designer and manufacturer of custom mosaic tile, and has access to all kinds of materials that can make a sublime bathroom.
To design her daughter’s bath, Baldwin found herself channeling memories of her childhood on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, where she grew up on her family’s farm. Her parents shared the land with her grandmother, Dorothy McCaleb, a woman who loved nature — especially birds. “We had swallows nesting in a birdhouse and under the eaves of our house,” Baldwin says. “In the evenings, as they zoomed around eating bugs, my grandmother and I would watch them.”

Fast-forward to the present day during the construction of Baldwin’s own house, and the designer found herself drawn to slabs of Azul Macaubas, a dramatic blue stone from Brazil. She purchased a number of slabs at a trade show and used some of them to line the back wall of her daughter’s bathroom, for reasons both practical and design-minded.
“I didn’t want the room to be too girly, and I wanted it to work for her as she grew up,” Baldwin says. “Plus, the lines of the stone reminded me of undulating wind currents in the sky.”
Functionality and aesthetics also drove her design of a one-legged mahogany vanity. “I love the way it looks,” she says. “But I also thought another leg close to the wall would be hard to clean around.”
With the sky-colored palette set and with memories of her grandmother in her head, it only made sense for Baldwin to use New Ravenna’s Flight stone mosaic in the surround encircling the tub and shower.
Bath hardware: .25 Collection, Waterworks
The tile pattern will look familiar to anyone who has watched swallows ride the wind like so many avian kites.
“Our tile is customizable, so you can pick the size, number and position of the birds,” says Baldwin. “I wanted them to look natural, like the snapshot of a flock I had in my head.”
Looking closer, you can see that the birds are also made of Azul Macaubas — which is fitting. “When you examine a bird’s feathers, there is sort of an iridescence and so many amazing blue undertones,” says Baldwin.
In a homage to the nearby waterfront, Baldwin chose tiles that have a striped effect that reminds her of boating. To coordinate with the strong blues in the room, she chose 3- by 6-inch tiles with cerulean tones and separated them with white strips of Thassos marble. Because of the dearth of soft surfaces in the room, she opted for a shower curtain over a glass door.

Twelve of 20 tracked cities post drops | Pound Ridge Real Estate

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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. home prices slipped in January for a third straight month after a particularly harsh winter, according to data released Tuesday, as strong year-over-year appreciation showed signs of moderating.

U.S. home prices ticked down 0.1% in January, with 12 of 20 tracked cities posting drops, according to S&P/Case-Shiller’s 20-city composite index. After seasonal adjustments, home prices in January rose 0.8%. Separately, the Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that prices rose 0.5% on a seasonally adjusted basis in January. The FHFA bases its home-price gauge on information from mortgages sold or guaranteed by Fannie Mae/quotes/zigman/226360/delayed/quotes/nls/fnmaFNMA+2.63% and Freddie Mac/quotes/zigman/226335/delayed/quotes/nls/fmccFMCC+2.65% .

On a year-over-year basis, home prices rose 13.2% in January, down from 13.4% in December and a recent peak of 13.7% in November, according to the Case-Shiller data.

“The housing market is showing signs of moving forward with more normal price increases,” David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, said in a statement.

Including January, prices remained about 20% below a 2006 peak.

 

 

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