ELGIN, IL – January 16, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Aided by attractive prices, low interest rates and mild autumn weather that made late-season home shopping more pleasant than usual, the residential segment of the metropolitan Chicago real estate market closed 2011 with a solid month of sales. Home sales in the seven-county area totaled 6,010 [...]
ELGIN, IL – January 16, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Aided by attractive prices, low interest rates and mild autumn weather that made late-season home shopping more pleasant than usual, the residential segment of the metropolitan Chicago real estate market closed 2011 with a solid month of sales. Home sales in the seven-county area totaled 6,010 units in December, 15.3 percent higher than in the same month of 2010 and 10 percent more than during the prior 30 days, according to an analysis by RE/MAX.
December home sales in the seven-county metro area, based on statistics compiled by Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC, were higher than in any of the prior three months and ranked fifth among all months in 2011. In comparison, December sales in 2010 ranked eighth for the year, while 2009 December sales came in seventh.
Sales in all seven counties were higher last month than in December 2010, with increases ranging from 34 percent in McHenry to 11 percent in Cook. Sales activity rose 5 percent in Chicago.
Even as transaction volume increased, home prices continued to slip. The median price of all homes sold in December was $145,000, down from $150,000 in November and $168,000 in December 2010.
The decline in median price, which was felt in all seven counties, was to some extent a function of an increase in the percentage of total sales represented by distressed properties (foreclosures and short sales). In December, distressed sales represented 45.8 percent of all sales, up from 43.1 percent in November. The median price for distressed sales in December was $87,500.
“The increase in distressed sales was largely driven by a surge in short sales, which totaled 1,031, the largest number of short sales completed during any month of 2011. That total was 51 percent higher than in December 2010, while sales of foreclosed properties came in 12 percent higher than they were a year earlier,” said Laura Ortoleva, a spokesperson for the RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network.
Homes sold in December spent an average of 174 days on the market, up modestly from 163 days in December 2010.
Detached Homes
December sales of detached homes in the seven-county area totaled 3,870 units, 15 percent more than during the same period in 2010 and 9 percent more than the November 2011 total.
The median sales price was $162,000, down 11 percent from December 2010 and 2 percent lower than in November 2011. The average market time for a detached home sold last month was 162 days, unchanged from the prior month but six days higher than the prior December.
Compared to December 2010, all seven counties saw an increase in the number of detached sales completed along with a decrease in the median price. McHenry County (up 31 percent) and Will County (up 29 percent) recorded the steepest increases in transactions. Cook County had the most modest gain, just 8 percent, due in good part to the results in Chicago, where sales of detached homes rose only 5 percent.
Results for the other counties were: DuPage up 15 percent, Kane up 21 percent, Kendall up 21 percent and Lake up 27 percent.
Attached Homes
Sales of attached homes increased by 15 percent in December when compared to the same month in 2010 and were 12 percent higher than in November. Sales totaled 2,140, with a median price of $115,000, 4 percent lower than the prior month and 21 percent lower than December 2010. The average time spent on the market by attached homes sold in December was 197 days, up from 184 days in November and 175 days a year earlier.
Six of the seven counties saw an increase in attached sales compared to December 2010, led by McHenry and Will counties with gains of 52 percent and 46 percent respectively. Other results: Cook up 14 percent, DuPage up 15 percent, Kane up 11 percent, Kendall up 34 percent and Lake down 8 percent. In Chicago, sales increased 5 percent.
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Chase, seeking to fill 400 positions in its mortgage banking area, is holding a job fair on Tuesday in downtown Chicago. The job fair will be Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Chase Tower at 10 S. Dearborn. The new mortgage banking employees, which will include loan processors, underwriters and managers, will also [...]
Chase, seeking to fill 400 positions in its mortgage banking area, is holding a job fair on Tuesday in downtown Chicago.
The job fair will be Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Chase Tower at 10 S. Dearborn. The new mortgage banking employees, which will include loan processors, underwriters and managers, will also work in Chase Tower.
Mortgage banking is a “growth area for us,” said spokeswoman Christine Holevas.
Chase hopes to complete the hiring by early spring.
The 400 mortgage banking jobs in Chase Tower are in addition to 400 Chicago-area jobs that Chase announced last August. Those 400 positions were around the Chicago area and were in numerous business units, including branches.
Chase has about 16,000 workers in the Chicago area.
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By Becky Yerak Tribune reporter
4:18 p.m. CST, December 2, 2011
Getting many website visitors is not enough. Your website visitors must become buyers if you want to succeed on the Internet. This week’s article shows you 5 easy tips that help you to improve the conversion rate of your web pages. Tip 1: Make it as easy as possible Check the usability of your web [...]
Getting many website visitors is not enough. Your website visitors must become buyers if you want to succeed on the Internet. This week’s article shows you 5 easy tips that help you to improve the conversion rate of your web pages.
Tip 1: Make it as easy as possible
Check the usability of your web pages. Your website visitors shouldn’t have to search for something on your pages. Your web pages should load quickly and your website navigation must be easy to use.
Concrete example: For example, our Top 10 Optimizer web page has a clear navigation at the top of the page and a structured navigation on the right side of the page. It’s clear what the page is about and the page does not contain distracting elements.
Tip 2: Create a trustworthy website
Would you buy from your site? Ask someone who’s not affiliated to your company or family to visit your website.
Do they trust your website? Is it clear what your website is about? Is there something that makes your website special?
Concrete example: The full contact address and links to further information are listed on the bottom of every page of our site. The about page contains further information why our company can be trusted:
We have been in business since 1997.
We’re a member of the local chamber of commerce.
Several print magazines have mentioned our products.
We have a clear code of ethics to make sure that you get lasting results.
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Make it clear what you want to website visitor to do. Should they make a purchase? Should they call you? A clear call-to-action will make your web pages more effective.
Every page of our website has a clear call-to-action button. The desired call-to-action is to try the free demo version.
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Make it as easy as possible to perform the desired action. Keep your checkout process hassle free and ensure that information such as your return policy and other frequently asked questions are quickly available.
Concrete example: The download of the free IBP demo version does not require a login. You do not have to enter an email address or further information. Just click the button and you immediately get the desired download.
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Tell your customers why they should buy from you. Why are your products and services better than others?
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Follow the tips above to make sure that as many visitors of your website as possible become customers.
The robo-signing scandal that rocked the real estate industry at the end of 2010 was one more black mark on the U.S. housing market. But in retrospect, it may wind up being the best thing that happened to home sellers this year. That’s because the resulting foreclosure moratorium kept hundreds of thousands of bank-owned properties [...]
The robo-signing scandal that rocked the real estate industry at the end of 2010 was one more black mark on the U.S. housing market. But in retrospect, it may wind up being the best thing that happened to home sellers this year.
That’s because the resulting foreclosure moratorium kept hundreds of thousands of bank-owned properties off the market (thousands in the Chicago area alone) allowing inventories to fall throughout the year and alleviating some of the downward pressure on prices. In fact, a common, though somewhat unexpected, complaint from homebuyers in certain neighborhoods this year was that there just weren’t that many quality choices.
However, it now appears that the nation’s largest banks have addressed their processing problems, and the foreclosure market is ramping up again. According to Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac, default notices rose 33% from July to August and were at their highest level in nine months. The 33% jump was the biggest single-month increase in default notices in four years.
The silver lining for sellers is that the increase in bank activity is focused on the early stages of foreclosures. Bank repossessions were actually down in August according to RealtyTrac. So there may be some time before this new wave of foreclosures works its way into the resale market.
Still with storm clouds potentially gathering, right now could be the best opportunity for the foreseeable future for sellers to make a deal. In the city of Chicago, Months Supply of Inventory (MSI) registered 7.4 months for September, its lowest level in more than two years. And more buyers can afford your home with 30-year conforming mortgage rates at a mouth-watering 4%. While sales rates typically slow in the fall and winter causing MSI to rise, the looming foreclosure inventory could throw off the curve and lead to an oversupply in certain markets next spring. Therefore, our advice to sellers this fall is to get your home in tip-top shape, price it in line with the market, and allow @properties’ comprehensive marketing programs to generate maximum exposure.
A note to buyers: We have gotten so used to low mortgage interest rates that the 4% rates we’re seeing today barely make headlines. Rates actually dipped as low as 3.75% late last month, and sub-4 rates have been popping up now and again into early October. Don’t get caught napping. Today’s rates are a huge deal, especially when coupled with lower home prices. Meanwhile, apartment rents continue to shoot up. Class A rents downtown are up over 15% during the last two years, and are expected to climb even higher. Whatever the future holds for home prices, the day-to-day economics of own vs. rent are looking more and more attractive to buyers.
Remember, you don’t have to be buying or selling a home today to contact me with questions about the real estate market. I’m available to talk anytime, and I always welcome your referrals.
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And that’s not just a pitch from the National Association of Realtors. A recent report from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, titled “Housing: A time to buy,” written by David Kelly and David Lebovitz, made the case for why a home may be a wise purchase. Read more: Mortgage rates plunge beyond expectations. “Although the U.S. [...]
And that’s not just a pitch from the National Association of Realtors.
A recent report from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, titled “Housing: A time to buy,” written by David Kelly and David Lebovitz, made the case for why a home may be a wise purchase. Read more: Mortgage rates plunge beyond expectations.
“Although the U.S. housing market remains extremely depressed, we believe that given current valuations and demographic dynamics, now may be the time to consider an investment in housing,” the report said.
Investors may be tempted to play off that theme, positioning themselves for the moment when home buyers come back in droves.
But that’s a trickier proposition than it sounds.
This housing market has been anything but predictable. And the pain inflicted during the housing recession has left deep scars, making it difficult for many people to pin their money to the belief that housing could soon be on the mend.
Plus, any recovery may be slow.
That’s because while prices are down and financing is attractive, it’s harder for people to qualify for mortgages. The high unemployment rate has dealt a blow to household formation, and other would-be buyers simply can’t muster the confidence to buy a home.
Moreover, many homeowners are underwater on their mortgage and won’t be able to sell their home, let alone buy a new one, anytime soon. Read more: Why you can’t get the lowest mortgage rates.
“My own read of the tea leaves is [a housing recovery is] going to take awhile, and there isn’t an obvious place to invest to play that theme,” said Craig Leupold, president of Green Street Advisors, a real-estate and real-estate investment trust research firm.
Home, sweet home
Any brave souls willing to make a bet on the return of the residential real-estate market right now might first look at home builders and the home-improvement stores as places to invest.
Builders have slashed volume in recent years, and are on track to sell 313,000 new homes this year — far fewer than in 2005, when 1.28 million new homes were sold.
In fact, builders have pulled so far back on creating inventory during the downturn, it’s possible the market could run out of existing inventory faster than expected once housing gets back on track, said Eric Landry, director of industrial sector research for investment research firm Morningstar Inc. Read more: New U.S. home sales rise as prices tumble.
“When the confidence does arise, there’s not going to be enough supply to satiate it,” he said. After all, he noted, the population keeps growing and our housing stock isn’t growing with it.
Plus, he said, new buyers will want houses that are near job centers and are built for modern lifestyles, and some currently available houses won’t fit that bill. Read more: Why would you buy a new home?
Some of these home builder stocks come cheap: Compare the current stock price of publicly traded builders PulteGroup Inc. /quotes/zigman/129784/quotes/nls/phm PHM -0.90% and KB Home /quotes/zigman/274921/quotes/nls/kbh KBH +1.43% with their prices five years ago. Each stock trades at about 85% below its five-year high, with Pulte’s shares down 29% annualized over that period and KB Home shares off 27% a year, according to Morningstar.
A weak remodeling market is predicted to last through the first half of 2012, according to the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. But once buying ticks up, expect home-improvement sales to follow — and that’s good news for companies such as Home Depot /quotes/zigman/229488/quotes/nls/hd HD -0.03% and Lowe’s /quotes/zigman/232508/quotes/nls/low LOW -0.42% , since homeowners tend to make improvements either just before they sell or right after they buy.
Other investment vehicles worth considering in a housing turnaround: publicly traded real-estate investment trusts, along with real estate-sector mutual funds and index-tracking exchange-traded funds.
The average real-estate mutual fund is up about 5% so far this year through Nov. 2, versus a flat performance for the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index /quotes/zigman/3870025 SPX -0.63% , according to Morningstar. The researcher’s analysts single out two real-estate mutual funds: JPMorgan US Real Estate /quotes/zigman/370224 SUSIX -1.05% , up 6%, and T. Rowe Price Real Estate, /quotes/zigman/210520 TRREX -0.38% , which has gained 7.5%.
Since a housing rebound would likely accompany a broad economic improvement — and increased consumer confidence — retail REITs also may be worth a look, said Green Street Advisors’ Leupold. Read more: 5 real-estate funds to house in your portfolio.
Retail, particularly large shopping centers, is a key investment theme for Marty Cohen, co-CEO of real-estate mutual fund manager Cohen & Steers Inc. /quotes/zigman/345224/quotes/nls/cns CNS -0.07%
“Despite a very slow growth economy, retail sales have been pretty strong, and the numbers coming out of the regional mall companies have been exceptional,” Cohen said. He pointed to “very few bankruptcies of their tenants; same-store sales in the mid-single-digit growth, and their earnings are coming in very nicely.” 
Watch: Where to invest in real estate.
Higher-end malls are especially attractive because affluent consumers haven’t cut back as much on spending, added George Hunt, who heads equity REIT research at Wells Fargo Wealth Management. In contrast, he said, strip malls aren’t quite as appealing since the small businesses that surround the anchor tenants have been hit so hard by the recession.
At KeyBanc Capital Markets, REIT analyst Todd Thomas recommends three shopping center operators: Acadia Realty Trust /quotes/zigman/229735/quotes/nls/akr AKR -1.27% ; Glimcher Realty Trust /quotes/zigman/132859/quotes/nls/grt GRT +0.55% , and Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust /quotes/zigman/208288/quotes/nls/rpt RPT -0.42% .
Rooms with a view
If you think that housing sales will remain low, your best bet might be to snap up rentals at low prices.
Those with wherewithal and patience might invest in a low-priced property and turn it into a rental, which can be a lucrative move at a time when rents are on the rise because fewer people have the means — or the desire — to buy a home. Read more: Why investing in rentals could be a good move.
Some firms help the novice investor buy an income-producing single-family home and offer property-management support. These companies buy single-family home foreclosures, update them to new construction standards, find quality tenants, and sell the income-producing properties to investors.
“It’s geared toward your business owners and professionals who want to diversify their portfolio of investments and want to get benefits that come along with owning real estate,” said Eric Workman, vice president of sales for MACK Companies, which is based in the Chicago area. “Owning real estate without having someone else manage it for you becomes a full-time job,” he said.
Another, more liquid, option is to invest in apartment REITs. They’ll suffer if there’s a strong return to homeownership, but the sector should be solid for at least another 18 months, said Wells Fargo’s Hunt.
One big reason to look at apartments: Supply is at a 30-year low, and for every percentage point that the homeownership rate drops, another 1.1 million renters enter the market, Hunt said.
Plus, many 18- to 32-year-olds may still be wary of homeownership, since for the past several years all they’ve seen is home prices going down, Hunt added. And this is a generation that isn’t as secure as they’d like to be in their jobs, he said, so not being tied down to a mortgage will likely be important to them. Read more: Stay-at-home 20-year-olds key to housing rebound.
Several residential REITs that appeal to KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Karin Ford include American Campus Communities Inc. /quotes/zigman/346906/quotes/nls/acc ACC -0.28% , Camden Property Trust /quotes/zigman/130204/quotes/nls/cpt CPT -0.35% , Education Realty Trust Inc. /quotes/zigman/362445/quotes/nls/edr EDR -0.42% and UDR, Inc. /quotes/zigman/457422/quotes/nls/udr UDR -0.45%
Said Cohen & Steers’s Cohen about recent college graduates and young families: “They’re not house buyers…they’re renters. And that has helped the multifamily rental market be very strong.”
Quoted By: Amy Hoak is a MarketWatch reporter based in Chicago.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-housing-deserves-a-home-in-your-portfolio-2011-11-04?pagenumber=2
Three things that you can do when you discover spammy backlinks: Most websites have links from low quality websites and it is very difficult to do something against these links. You cannot influence which websites link to your site. For example, a competitor could add your website to a link farm network or the competitor [...]
Three things that you can do when you discover spammy backlinks:
Most websites have links from low quality websites and it is very difficult to do something against these links. You cannot influence which websites link to your site.
For example, a competitor could add your website to a link farm network or the competitor could spam search engines and directories with your URL.
If you find that low quality websites link to your site, you can do several things:
1. Relax and let them link
- Linking is a significant factor in Google’s ranking algorithm but it is just one of many factors. Other factors are the content of your web pages, the site structure and the appearance of a keyword in the different web page elements.
2. Ask the webmaster to remove the links
- If you have a high quality website and get links from spammy websites, try to contact the website owners and ask them to remove their links. Google will not help you with that.
- If the webmasters of the spammy website are not cooperative, don’t worry and focus on the links that are under your control.
3. Optimize your links and your web page content
- Optimize all of the factors that influence indexing and ranking on Google. The Top 10 Optimizer in IBP has been designed for exactly that task.
- It analyzes dozens of factors that influence the position of your website in Google’s search results and it shows you what exactly you have to change so that Google will list your website on the first result page.
Focus on things that can be influenced by you
Google knows that you cannot influence all of the links that point to your site. Low-quality links come from websites with low Google rankings and they cannot pass much ranking power to other websites. Chances are that Google simply ignore these links for the ranking algorithm.
For that reason, you shouldn’t worry too much about links to your website that you cannot control. Focus on web page optimization and high quality link building.
Lower caps on government-backed jumbo loans could reduce options for some homebuyers Beginning Saturday, the beleaguered housing market will confront the latest hurdle to its recovery: The size of mortgages that the federal government can back will be drastically reduced in high-priced regions. When the bubble burst, mortgage banks had nearly stopped lending, except for [...]
Lower caps on government-backed jumbo loans could reduce options for some homebuyers
Beginning Saturday, the beleaguered housing market will confront the latest hurdle to its recovery: The size of mortgages that the federal government can back will be drastically reduced in high-priced regions.
When the bubble burst, mortgage banks had nearly stopped lending, except for government-backed mortgages, which were capped at $417,000. Buyers of high-priced homes, mostly on the coasts, found themselves frozen out of the market, unable to get so-called jumbo loans.
So in early 2008, government-backed enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raised the cap on loans they could guarantee to as much as $729,750 in the most expensive housing markets. The higher cap did not have much of an effect on Chicago because the government never labeled the metropolitan area as a high-cost market.
Now, home prices are stabilizing, though down more than 30 percent from their peak, and the government wants private capital to jump back into mortgage lending. So the caps are being reduced, to different levels in different parts of the country. This will make it more expensive and harder for some buyers to finance their purchases.
The housing industry is not happy.
“Nobody wants to see anything that would cause even a single buyer to change his or her mind,” said Keith Gumbinger of HSH Associates, a provider of mortgage information.
The new cap would have prevented Fannie and Freddie from purchasing only about 50,000 mortgages in 2010, worth about $30 billion, compared with the $600 billion in mortgages they acquired during the year.
And the loan limits won’t revert to the national base of $417,000. For instance, in Los Angeles the cap will drop to $625,500, so the only buyers who will be affected are those who need a loan in excess of that amount.
The maximum limit for loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration is also declining. In the Chicago area, the current loan cap of $410,000 for an FHA-backed mortgage will drop about 10.8 percent, to $365,700. And while that’s above the six-county median house price of $318,000, local industry insiders are worried the decrease could wipe out an entire segment of potential homebuyers.
They are the people who were banking on financing their purchases with an FHA loan and will now have to make higher down payments to keep their loan amount below the new maximum loan limit. Or they’ll have to look elsewhere, either to loans secured by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that have higher down payments or to lenders willing to hold mortgages in their own portfolios rather than sell them on the secondary market.
Private mortgage loans are harder to come by, said Loretta Alonzo, owner of Century21 Alonzo & Associates in LaGrange Park.
“The loans that they’ll have to get come with more down payment and usually at a higher interest rate,” she said.
Reference: Tribune reporter Corilyn Shropshire
I know what you’re thinking. ‘Here we go again. It’s the Bear Market of 2008 back to punch us in the stomach and take our lunch money one more time. There goes the stock market. There goes the real estate market. There goes the global economy.’ Certainly the events of early August have been unsettling, [...]
I know what you’re thinking. ‘Here we go again. It’s the Bear Market of 2008 back to punch us in the stomach and take our lunch money one more time. There goes the stock market. There goes the real estate market. There goes the global economy.’
Certainly the events of early August have been unsettling, even maddening. The triple whammy of a slowing U.S. economy, the ongoing European debt crisis and Standard & Poor’s downgrade of U.S. credit has rattled an already fragile consumer confidence.
Lou Barnes, a mortgage banker from Boulder, Colo. said it best in an August 8 interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Developments blog: “Who wants to get out of bed today, let alone buy a house?”
Yet a lot of people right here in Chicagoland did get out of bed today and buy a house. Why is that? Is it because the same fundamentals that existed yesterday – record low mortgage rates and record high affordability – still exist today? Is it because local apartment rents are rising faster than Starlin Castro’s batting average? Or could it be that real estate (like our now AA+ rated US debt) is still considered a relatively safe long-term investment?
That’s a radical concept in 2011. But an investment that can also shelter you and your family, provide a large tax deduction, serve as a hedge against inflation, and allow you to put down roots in a top community or school district has to be given serious consideration – especially if it comes at a discount of more than 33% off its peak value… especially if it’s in the business, cultural, tourism and innovation hub of the Midwest… especially if you plan to live there for a while.
As it stands today, there are only 18 nations in the world rated AAA by Standard & Poor’s. Among them are Guernsey, Liechtenstein and Isle of Man. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather live in AA+ Chicago, Illinois, USA.
What will the stock market do tomorrow? What will the housing market do tomorrow? If we knew that, we’d all be sipping fruity drinks on our own private island. But if the last century of American economic history is any indication, the long-term trend is up. I believe that, which is why I’m in the real estate business. And @properties believes that, which is why we’re continuing to invest in and expand our business even in tumultuous times.
As in 2008, we’re keeping a cool head, focusing on hyper-local market conditions and framing most conversations about housing, not around the headline of the moment, but around your individual wants and needs at your particular stage in life.
I’m here to help, so please contact me if you have any questions or are getting ready to buy or sell. And remember I always appreciate your referrals.
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