May all your personal and professional dreams come true! On my investment blog, I posted a short goal setting article and some links.
Carol@TopPropertiesWenatchee.com
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Tierra Verde Offers Serene Luxury and Waterfront Living
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Oxford Place at Tampa Palms Joins List of Wonderful New Condo Communities
Oxford Place will offer future residents a luxurious and status-filled life at an easily-attainable price. One, two, and…
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Housing Market Stronger, Wealthy Americans Confident About Increased Housing Values
You may have thought the housing market was slowing, although if you did, your feelings on the housing market…
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Here is some information out of a recent National Association of Realtor’s press release regarding the home sales market, and predictions for value increases in 2006:
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WASHINGTON (December 12, 2005) – "The housing market for 2005 is headed for a fifth consecutive annual record, and sales activity in 2006 is expected to be the second best year in history, according to the National Association of Realtors®.
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage should trend up modestly and reach 6.6 percent during the second half of 2006. Existing-home sales, expected to rise 4.7 percent to 7.10 million this year, are likely to decline 3.7 percent in 2006 to 6.84 million. New-home sales, projected to increase 7.0 percent to 1.29 million this year, are forecast to drop 4.8 percent to 1.23 million in 2006 – also the second best on record. Total housing starts for 2005 should grow 5.8 percent to 2.06 million units, the highest since 1972, and then decline 4.8 percent to 1.92 million next year.
NAR President Thomas M. Stevens from Vienna, Va., said that housing has always been the soundest investment for most families. “As the old saying goes, homeownership beats the heck out of a drawer full of rent receipts,” said Stevens, senior vice president of NRT Inc. According to the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances, the median net wealth of a homeowner household is 36 times higher than a renter household.
Stevens said that the national median home price has never declined since good recordkeeping began in 1968. “Although there can always be a temporary decline in a given area if jobs are weak and there is an oversupply of homes on the market, people who stay in their homes for a normal period of homeownership generally see healthy returns over time. There are no guarantees, but there are very good odds.”
The national median existing-home price for all housing types, which is experiencing a surge estimated at 12.7 percent to $208,800 for 2005, is expected to rise another 6.1 percent in 2006 to $221,400. The median new-home price is likely to rise 5.5 percent to $233,100 in 2005, and then grow by 7.3 percent next year to $250,100 as higher construction costs impact the market."
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Overall, 2006 is predicted to be a very good year for home sales, yet not as good as 2005. Without much doubt, interest rates will increase (moderately) and forecasts continue to support rising values, but at a slower pace than this year. Some markets will experience less growth than predicted and some will experience more growth than predicted. These are all averages and each region and local market varies with economic conditions. It’s important to work with a real estate professional to constantly keep you informed of current local information… and to explain the pros and cons of any transaction for your specific circumstances.
Carol@TopPropertiesWenatchee.com
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The New York-based Fortress Investments Group is preparing to foreclose on assets owned by Michael Jackson, including the Neverland Ranch and his share of the Beatles music catalogue, to satisfy $270 million in defaulted notes purchased last year from Bank of America. The Neverland Ranch is a 2,700 acre ranch, home and amusement park [...]
I love to watch statistics, specifically those associated with my various Wenatchee real estate related websites. It helps me determine if internet surfers are finding my real estate website easily and whether they determine it to be useful for gathering information and finding properties. Statistics also tell me if my website performance is improving. By "performance", I mean whether it’s easy to find and whether more people are finding it each month.
I’m always striving to improve my Search Engine rankings, which makes my real estate site(s) easier to find. I also work diligently to make the sites useful… and am constantly working on ways to improve the information available. I get tons of statistics from my site statistics section, some of which I find useful and some of it is just for true computer geeks (so I ignore it). Some of these statitics, however, are truly interesting and I like to watch regularly on both my primary real estate weblog and this blog.
The first thing I look at, of course, is overall traffic but there’s more to it than just number of "hits" per month. I DO NOT track individual computers or the activity of individuals… but I do get daily reports of such things as: 1) total visitors, 2) unique visitors, 3) how long they stay, 4) how many pages are viewed, 5) which search engines are sending me visitors, 6) and how many people bookmark my site as a "favorite".
I find all of this interesting AND like to track and compare activity from month to month. This is how I determine, in my own mind, whether the site performance is improving. For example, by tracking how long people stay I can tell if they find the site interesting and useful enough to surf around for a while checking out all the info and actually searching for specific properties available in the Wenatchee real estate market area.
Over the last six months:
* My Google search engine traffic has increased from 1/2% of total traffic to 14% of total traffic
* Most of my traffic comes from MSN (43%) and Yahoo (42%)
These two things tell me my search engine rankings on MSN and Yahoo are very good and that my persistent work to improve my Google search engine rankings is working! Patience truly is a virtue.
My visitor traffic has increased from 686 per month to 1031 per month. Suppose this is because Google now finds me? I think there is a definite correlation.
Unique visitors vary between 435 to 598 per month
("unique visitors" are new visitors, meaning new people that have found me. The difference between "unique visitors" and "visitors" tells me whether people are coming back for new information).
I hope you find all of my sites useful and interesting:
Primary real estate website
This residential real estate blog
My investment real estate blog
My personal blog
If you have any suggestions for improvement on any of these sites, please let me know!
Oh… one other thing: I get quite a bit more traffic on this blog than I do on my primary real estate website… like 300% - 1000% more traffic. I’m not quite sure why that is. Perhaps a lot of people are looking for information in general and aren’t necessarily looking to search for specific properties.
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JMC Communities and Sembler Co. Partner To Launch Beach Drive Luxury Condo Project
According to the St. Petersburg Times, Ovation will be the name of the latest luxury waterfront condo project…
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Midwest Amusement Park in Wescott, Wisconsin faces a February 8 foreclosure sale to satisfy a $380,817 judgement to Northeast Asphalt Inc., of Green Bay, for work done on the park’s USA International Raceway. The Shawano County Sheriff’s Department will auction the property at 9 AM in the lobby of the Shawano County Courthouse, unless the [...]
source: Wisconsin Amusement Park up for February Foreclosure Auction
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