Used Homes

Good news this week in the existing home resale market both nationally and locally.


Sales of previously owned homes in the United States increased at a faster-than-expected annual pace in June, an industry survey showed Thursday, the third straight month of gains.
The National Association of Realtors (of which I was a proud member) said sales rose 3.6% to an annual rate of 4.89 million units from a downwardly revised 4.72 million pace in May. June's reading compared with forecasts for a 4.84 million unit annual pace.


The NAR said it was the first time the industry had experienced three straight months of gain since early 2004, providing some hope the higher data indicate an underlying trend. I'm sure the NAR is more than happy to be reporting some good news on any front, and this is encouraging. If you are a Real Estate Broker or Agent here is a list of opportunities to list and sell distressed properties, Click Here! foreclosures, pre-foreclosures and short sales.


The inventory of existing homes for sale declined 0.7% to 3.82 million in June. The median national home price fell 15.4% to $181,800 from the same period a year ago.
"Overall, the news is positive. We have increasing home sales for the third straight month, declining inventory and although prices fell, they declined at a less steep pace," Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, told a press conference. "The housing market is healing after four years of recession," he said.


He said the inventory of previously owned homes for sale represented 9.4 months' supply at the current pace of sales, down from 9.8 months' in May.


This was still above the historic average of six months' supply, which Yun said was consistent with a national price appreciation of around 4%, while seven to eight months' supply would be consistent with no change in median prices.


Foreclosures are still on the rise but this just affords those with the resources to make some serious money in this year and well into the next. Fore a complete list of Government (FHA, VA) Click Here!


Lawrence Yun has had his fumbles in the past particularly with forecasting, something he falls short of here, not looking too far down field. Still healing is better than hemorrhaging.


The NASDAQ market made it above 9000 for the first time since January, investors are hot on the trail of Tech stocks of hardware, phones etc. They like software as well, with a shine for social networking sites and specific social software .


Things may be looking up for a late summer push in more markets.

Television...

Ok, does anyone agree with me that the gray haired old guy in the Volvo commercials is extremely creepy? Do you know who I'm talking about? That guy who orders that couple to look at their new car and everyone starts floating around.

Everyone I have pointed him out to thinks so. Keep the kids away from him.Ok, I pointed out to a 'friend girl' that there seems to be an inordinate amount of commercials and TV that just bash men and generally make them out to be incompetent and clueless about just about everything.

You know the Charter Cable one where the husband tells his wife that he upgraded their High Speed Internet connection and then has to convince her (to the point of pissin' her off) that it was a good idea. What the hell...it's FASTER.

How about the one (Visa Card I think) where the woman is looking at the TV, nothing but static. She goes into the other room and throws the remote at him and says something to the effect he was right, "we need a new TV". She then tells him OK but don't go crazy. Now I know (fellers'?) that I would never, I could never wait for anyone to give me permission to get a new TV. I kid you not, immedietly after I heard NO, when she got home there would be a 75,000" inch Plasma Television with the biggest ass-blastin' surround sound available bolted to the wall in the den.

Oh, I'm not done yet, some viewing rules for my 175,000" inch TV (measured diagonally).

Blocked: Oprah, LifetimeTelevision, OxygenChannel, HomeShoppingNetwork, and oh yeah, that channel with "Say Yes to The Dress".

NOT blocked: ESPN, ESPN2, SportsCenter,Versus, Speed, Spike, GolfChannel...and oh yeah "Manswers" You can see where I'm going with this?

So, my friend says "I have no idea what your talking about". I knew I was not alone, I took action...I Googled 'Man bashing TV'. Turns out a lot of smarter guys than me have been noticing this for alot longer than I have.

I'm just sayin'   

Monitization Changes!

I hope somebody noticed that the Google Adsense AD's are gone.
It's a GREAT PROGRAM. If you want an opportunity to monetize your Blog or Web Site I encourage you to go to GoogleAdSense and investigate for yourself. Once you are set up, Google will place content related Ads along the side columns you pick the type of configuration that's best.

The kicker is you earn MONEY (not credits or discounts) every time someone else clicks on you Ads. Google will mail you a check or use direct deposit, your choice. DON'T click on your own Ads.


I have partnered with SimplyHired.com a killer job search site that covers thousands of job boards all over the world. I created CarolinaPositions.com to focus on job opportunities in the Carolinas ( that's where I stay).

Please take a second to take a look and peruse some of the local jobs here. If you don't see anything you are looking for, you just might discover that perfect job for a friend! Thanks.

I have partnered with many Affiliate Sponsors to fill my advertising space
I'm looking for the right advertisers, there are literally thousands of them.

While I'm hoaring my Web Sites, UpScaleReo.com and REOSpectrumServices.com are two Web Sites that are devoted to REO's.
REO's are foreclosed Real Estate now owned by the lender(banks) or other institution (Fannie Mae). I am still in the process of populating these sites with Affiliate Ads, it's a work in progress.

Have a look and you can do all sorts of things, like look for foreclosures in your area or anywhere else for that matter.

Go here to look for foreclosures or even pre-foreclosures, locally or nationally!

Go...Go Look.

Thanks

- Dave

Sonya Sotomayor...

Sonia Sotomayor…Sonia Sotomayor, Ijust like saying her name! I agree with little I’ve read about what she has to say.
But I like saying her name.

Entrepreneur Magazine

I was reading an old issue of Entrepreneur Magazine (feb ’08 I think) in the library (i think we all know I don't have a library) at work today. During my morning constitutional I ran across a story about a guy named Guy Kawasaki, founder of Truemors.com. At any rate he is a marketing guru (Apple Inc.) and an author of eight books most recently The Art of the Start. He seems like a pretty bright guy, he’s speaking about blogging “ If you can’t speak your mind on your own blog, you might as well give up and stay on the porch”.

“ If you want to evangelize your blog, think of it as a product your trying to sell and market the hell out of it”. He goes on to address the kinds of things to do towards that end, linking to others, e mail promotion etc. You can visit his company web site at http://www.truemors.com/