http://www.zacharylouisianarealestate.info/ – Zachary Louisiana Real Estate News. RE/MAX Chairman and Co-Founder, Dave Liniger, reveals his top 10 predictions for the U.S. real estate market for 2012.

As the country shakes off the effects of the worst economic recession in recent history, RE/MAX Chairman and Co-Founder Dave Liniger sees good news for homebuyers and sellers in 2012. Source: YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-mqj4iZlOs

http://www.myflipcamerasecrets.com/ – Learn How To Use Your iPhone 4 or 4S For Real Estate Video Marketing!

Inside the supercharged iPhone Video Hero …

Professional Video based training viewable 24/7 on Mac/Pc and iPhone/iPad.

Easy to follow, step by step learning. Follow along as I make videos in front of you with real biz people.

Quality Sells! I show you how to get the maximum quality out of your iPhone’s video camera. (No need for a big bucks camcorder!)

Keep your viewers focussed. How to shoot rock steady videos without a tripod.

Bad Audio kills sales. Revealed: The microphone you already own but might not realise!

The ‘secret’ accessory that will allow you to use your iPhone with external microphones AND monitor the sound.

How to film an excellent vlog, opt-in or sales page video that will stand out a mile.

How to shoot magnetic customer testimonials to win you more business. (You get my cheat sheet – the questions you MUST ask your clients)

How to make a high value Video Ad (worth $700) for you, or a client, in minutes using an App that edits your videos for you! (Save a tonne of time editing!)

How to light on a budget and make your videos sparkle.

How to create that famous Apple white background look using your iPhone to get your message across crystal clear. (Download by own lighting plan)

Step by step guide to some of the best and most creative Video apps on the market. (Don’t waste precious time with the rest)

Quality Handpicked Music to download and use in your videos, on Youtube or on your website. (Requires a credit)

Easy editing guide to iMovie on your iPhone. (Works with an iPad too!)

Insanely useful accessories guide including tripod ready cases, lighting systems and microphones, so you don’t waste precious money buying bad stuff!

Over 2 hours of fact filled content and rising!

Click Here if you want to harness the Power of Online Video!

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Baton Rouge Real Estate News Video Resource: http://www.batonrougehousingreports.com/

Baton Rouge Real Estate News

Why Baton Rouge Housing Reports?

Because a home is the largest, most important investment most locals make in their lifetimes. Because of the importance of getting this decision right, housing market facts, trends and analysis are provided to help locals execute competent, informed home purchase or home selling decisions.

There’s a new Premier web video resource in Baton Rouge with a residential focus: Baton Rouge Housing Reports Dot Com. This site offers the good news in our market as well as the on-going correction, tips on what improvements really add value, local REALTOR® video update of the month, local real estate expert interviews, local remodeler’s tips, trends videos, monthly and quarterly reports, Top 150 Subivisions trends, current housing charts and stats, gbrmls stats, local NAR stats, special investigative series and a long list of local online resources. Visit Us for the scoop on local housing.

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http://www.batonrougehousingreports.com/ - A Declining Baton Rouge Real Estate Market Looks Like This and Why It Would Cause Low Appraisals. YES, I understand this is long video of 10 minutes, but it will help explain what lenders and appraisers are looking for when they “both” analyze a market.

In this video, local Greater Baton Rouge Appraiser, Bill Cobb, shows what a classic declining market looks like by MLS Chart and Appraisal and how such a weak market could certainly lead to a low appraisal.

Remember that we’re speaking of a specific segment of the Baker housing market in the 1600sf to 2500sf living area range. This study isn’t of the entire Baker housing market, but some of the general comments in the video do apply to the whole market.

This weak Baker Louisiana market had these characteristics: Very Slow Sales. Declining Median Sales Price. 22 Month Supply. 21 Competing Listings Is Oversupply when only 15 sold in previous 12 months. 93% List-To-Sales Price Ratio is weak. 2011 Baker Hills 6 sales, Median $62K, Avg Sold:$52/sf, Avg SP/LP%:97%, Avg DOM:126 Days. 33% Competing REO Sold Rate Since 1/2009.

NOTE: Based on information from the Greater Baton Rouge Association of REALTORS®\MLS for the period of 01/01/2009 to 11/28/2011. This information was extracted on 11/28/2011.

What Are These Baton Rouge Vote For Amendment #1 To Stay Tax Free Signs About?

The Louisiana REALTORS® Association is supporting a constitutional amendment on the November 19th ballot to prohibit any new real estate transfer taxes in the state.

A vote FOR Amendment #1 on November 19 will…

*Protect your home from double taxation. Most homeowners in Louisiana already pay property taxes. Transfer taxes are simply another tax on the same piece of property.

*Keep Louisiana free from additional taxes, especially those that unfairly target homeowners and homebuyers.

If approved by Louisiana voters, we believe this will be an extremely positive development for residential and commercial consumers of real estate – and good for the overall real estate market and economy in Louisiana.

Monitor this important initiative thoughout the fall at STAYTAXFREE.com. Browse the site for related news, background on the issue, answers to frequently asked questions, and learn how you can get involved.

Free Baton Rouge First Time Home Buyers Seminar November 10 2011 by Access Real Estate Group

First Time Home Buyer Seminar in Baton Rouge. We will cover the current real estate market, the home buying process, credit requirements, loan programs, Seller assisted closing cost, title issues and closing process.

Welcome to the AREG Home Channel! My name is Larry Miller with Access Real Estate Group. I just wanted to take a minute to let everyone know about the first-time home buyer seminar coming up November 10 at 6:30 PM at the Jones Creek library. The seminar is open to the public. It’s free admission, so call our office at 225-756-1919 to reserve a seat just.

To give you a quick overview of some of the topics, we’re going to be talking about ,I’ll be covering the real estate market in today’s environment, some of the things that are involved in the home buying process.

Free Baton Rouge First Time Home Buyers Seminar November 10 2011 by Access Real Estate Group

We are going to have a great lender come in. He’s got to talk about the financial institutions today, what’s going on with that you’ll do you need to do to be prepared to buy a home in today’s market. And then also one of the area’s top real estate attorneys is going to come in and talk about some other things that pertain to that side of the business.

We do encourage you to call our office to set up a reservation seating is limited so call 225-756-1919, and will reserve a seat for you. You don’t want to miss it it’s going to be a great event and we look forward to seeing you there again call our office at 225-756-1919 to reserve a seat. Seating is limited. So thanks we look forward to seeing you there. We’re going to have great time!

http://www.baton-rouge-real-estate.com/ – Baton Rouge Housing Makes Homevestors Top 100 Markets To Invest In Rental Property List

Homevestors of America, Inc., the We Buy Ugly Homes national real estate investor franchise, recently graded the Top 100 United States Housing Markets for their potential to be in the best rental property markets. Baton Rouge was ranked #66. Read more abut the this news here!

About HomeVestors

Dallas-based HomeVestors of America, Inc., the #1 buyer of houses in the U.S., was incorporated and began franchising in 1996. The first real estate franchise investment company, HomeVestors trains and supports its independently owned and operated franchisees that specialize in buying older homes in need of repair, and updating or rehabbing them. Most commonly known as the “We Buy Ugly Houses” company, HomeVestors strives to make a positive impact in each community. In 2010, for the fifth consecutive year, HomeVestors was among the prestigious Franchise Business Review’s “Top 50 Franchises,” a distinction awarded to franchisors with the highest level of franchisee satisfaction. For more information visit www.HomeVestors.com . HomeVestors has franchise opportunities available in 97 of the 100 markets listed on the current ranking. To learn more about the HomeVestors franchise, visit www.HomeVestorsFranchise.com . NOTE: Source is Homevestors Website.

http://www.baton-rouge-real-estate.com/ – Baton Rouge Home Appraisers: Where’s The Bottom For Greater Baton Rouge Housing? Correct Answer Is Based On Local Incomes!

Last week, David Jacobs, with the Baton Rouge Business Report, reported a startling study about how high and out of sync Greater Baton Rouge housing prices are when combined with transportation. The article, Baton Rouge-area household spends 52% of income on housing and transportation, was published on 8/9/2011. In the article or study, the CNT recommends spending no more than 45% and that combining local housing prices with true transportation costs provides “an accurate measure of of the true affordability of housing”.

Other Studies. We also know that according to Core Logic, Baton Rouge is in its’ 9th straight month of home price correction. We also know from the 24/7 Wall Street study that Baton Rouge made America’s 10 Sickest Housing Markets list this month.

We’re In For More Correction. It would appear, based on these 3 studies, that Greater Baton Rouge Housing is in for more correction.

This is my reply below to David Jacobs submitted on 8/10/2011:

I read your Business Report Weekly and wanted to thank you for reporting on this. This has really helped me. Just 3 weeks ago, I was ready to go for a visit to the LSU Real Estate Research Department with similar questions as to where should GBR Housing be priced relative to local incomes? I think this is a foundational question going forward and might possibly shed some light on where the bottom might be in local housing prices in the future. If GBR housing is out of proportion, by how much or by what percentage? Are the current still nose-bleed high housing prices sustainable? Obviously if we asked this question in 2007 from some of the Zachary and ASC $300,000 neighborhoods, the answer today is probably not. $140/sf for new homes wasn’t sustainable across the board. This is why builders like DSLD Homes are having such success……because the insanity in local new home prices from 2006 to 2008 was never sustainable based on local incomes.

As a local home appraiser, I’ve been scratching head all along here wondering WHY local housing is so expensive…..in Louisiana. Baton Rouge has been a wonderful place to grow up and now raise my family, but we’re not California with almost a perfect climate where one would expect high prices. Why are home prices so high here….still in 2011? Even with the modest correction, it would certainly seem that we’re still at nose bleed levels on the pricing of some local housing relative to local incomes. I scratch my head monthly on this issue.

Please understand, I’m not a conservative appraiser. Whatever the housing market’s decision has been, in the form of home sales, I reflect in my reports. However, we’re now about 9 months into this local correction and I’m beginning to think that locals are finally coming to their senses on what they pay for local housing relative to local incomes. There are A LOT of sellers in denial right now, and Hurricane Katrina didn’t help with that at all. It only made it worse. Today, some local Real Estate Agents are hiring me for my Listing Appraisals on their listings that have been on the market for months now, they know are overpriced and they bring me in to show the seller the reality of the local numbers in comparison to sellers perception that their home is worth more.

The chart below doesn’t indicate a huge problem in GBR housing, not like some sour markets in the USA where there’s 3-4 years of supply. However, talk to most appraisers locally and you’ll find that we’re checking “Slow” market for growth or sales and in some subdivision/markets, there’s been such few home sales that it’s become very difficult to complete appraisals for the lack of comps sold within 3 to 6 months, especially under $125,000.

These are some of the things I’ve been thinking about in GBR Housing since 2007 and going forward. Are we fairly priced or still way out of balance? Yes, the market is correcting back to some sense of sanity…..finally…..and how many more months or years will it be till we reach equilibrium (sanity) based on local incomes.

New Homes Are Still Priced High. I still see a local builder and have them say something like, “This market is killing me…when the market coming back?!”. And that builder just doesn’t get it….that the post Hurricane Katrina builder’s market isn’t coming “back” in terms of such exaggerated pricing. The odd thing here is the LHBA (La Home Builders Association) would probably tell you today that we’re too low for their builders to make a decent profit on local home building. What they experienced in 2006-2008 (unsustainable pricing) and expect in the future just wasn’t/isn’t sustainable.

This is why I believe that new TND in Zachary recently announced will take a decade or more to build out because $140/sf to $200/sf just isn’t what local incomes will support and until local builders understand this, they’ll be more developments started and then finished by DSLD Homes. This is also why I believe that new Wyndam Estates development in Denham Springs with 1600sf homes on “tiny lots” in $190′s or $120/sf will also take much, much longer than expected to fill and should be filled with homes in the $150s to $160s. It’s about market economics and local incomes and the local economics, at least outside of Baton Rouge itself, is in favor of DSLD Homes pricing. Those builders and developers that fail to understand local incomes will continue to have their fledgling developments sold to and finished by developers like DSLD Homes after spending millions to break the dirt.

Bill Cobb, Appraiser

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Below is a compare and contrast showing the marketing differences in perspective of home listing photo at normal elevation versus elevated elevations. Local Real Estate Agents prefer to combine normal photos and elevated photos in their marketing plan for their listings.

This service is also included in Bill Cobb’s AVG Pre-Listing Appraisals whether those are ordered by Local Real Estate Agents or for those selling FSBO without an Agent, see Greater Baton Rouge Pre-Listing Appraisals

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http://www.zacharylouisianarealestate.info/ – Zachary LA Home Appraisers: Zachary Hills Estates Subdivision 2011 Update. Zachary Hills is built up with a variety of both older 16-20 to 21-30 year old homes as well as newer homes in the 1 to 10 year old range, which creates a wider gap in the up and downs of home price trends charting. I said that to say that the ups and downs on the chart may not be as wide if the same age homes were compared.

Since the Federal Tax Credit Expiration in May 2010, the number of home sales in Greater Baton Rouge has continued to decline. Zachary Hills Subdivision, with only 1 home sale in the first 5 months of 2011 (as of 5/27/2011), appears to be experiencing this same trend of lower number of home sales.

A recent analysis of and home appraisal in Zachary Hills Estates Subdivision revealed this interesting finding. From 2008 to 2011, the median sales price has continued to remained in flux. From 2008 to 2011, the median sales prices have varied from $185,500, $193,500, $186,900 and in 2011 it’s currently $159,900 BUT based only on 1 sale at $91/sf of an older 21-30 year old home. The chart below has not yet been updated to reflect this 2011 sale.

CURRENT LISTINGS. There are 3 current listings from $170,900, $180,000 to $199,900 with 2 active and 1 pending or under contract. The Average Listing Price per sq. ft. is $99/sf.

NOTE: Based on information from the Greater Baton Rouge Association of REALTORS®\MLS for the period of January 1, 2008 to May 27, 2011. This information was extracted on 5/27/2011. YES, permission was granted by GBRMLS to use Subdivision Price Trends Chart Report!

ABOUT ZACHARY LOUISIANA HOME APPRAISERS:

Bill Cobb is Greater Baton Rouge’s Home Appraiser frequently called upon by banks, homeowners, and savvy real estate investors to assess property values. A home appraiser with 20 years experience, Bill Cobb brings a wealth of knowledge to the table as a home appraiser.

Bill’s company, Accurate Valuations Group, serves Greater Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish, West Baton Rouge Parish, Western Livingston Parish and Northern Ascension Parish).

Contact Bill Cobb and Accurate Valuations Home Appraisal Group for your next home appraisal:
Office: 225-293-1500, Cell: 225-953-0638
Fax: 1-866-663-6065
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