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Southern states experienced a surge in its home sales activity last month because of large volumes of foreclosed home, low interest rates, affordable prices and first-time homebuyers who took advantage of the $8,000 federal tax credit.

Last month’s home sales increase was the first sign of market growth for over three years, according to industry experts. For the given month, home sales rose by 0.5 percent after consecutive drop of 8 percent or higher since January. Experts said that the last time the region experience a year-to-year increase in sales was March 2006.

The 14 states in the region saw their median sales prices drop by 12 percent to $163,200 in June compared to the same time in 2008. Experts said that sales of foreclosed home pushed down property prices and attracted buyers, thus increasing demand especially from first-time homebuyers who are eligible for $8,000 federal tax credit if they purchase properties before November 30.

University of Georgia’s economic forecasting director Jeff Humphreys said that sales activity in the region seems to have hit bottom despite negative factors such as the large inventory of foreclosed home and concerns over the growing unemployment rate.

He explained that hitting the bottom does not indicate a market recovery but a flat sales activity for a long period of time.

Meanwhile, home resales nationwide rose by nearly 4 percent in June compared with the same month a year ago. Home resales in June was the third consecutive month of increase, which is taken as the start of the housing market recovery.

However, the median home sales price across the country dropped to $181,800 or 15 percent. Industry experts anticipate that prices will continue to be under pressure until next year.

Year-to-year home sales activity declined in 13 metro areas in the Southern region. On a positive note, six metro areas posted sales increase last month, compared with the same month in 2008. Posting positive home sales for five consecutive months were Washington D.C., Baltimore in Maryland, Tulsa in Oklahoma and Florida cities of Orlando, Miami and Tampa.

Meanwhile, median prices of existing houses dropped in 14 areas, including Miami which fell 42 percent. This factor, together with tax incentives, large foreclosed home inventory and affordable prices are motivating first-time buyers to choose homeownership over renting.

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Joseph Smith has been educating buyers on the finer points of Foreclosed Home at ForeclosureListingsNationWide.com for over five years.

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We’ve all experienced this before.  I’m typing in “iPod Touch” in a search engine, but accidentally spell out “iPod Tuch.”  I immediately realize my mistake as I see the popular question, “Did you mean: iPod Touch?”, encouraging me to search for the correct terms.  However, many of the listings that pull up are relevant, so I don’t redo the search with the correct spelling.  Then I see the paid search ad on the side with the incorrect search query inserted in.  I can’t help feeling annoyed

PPC ads like I just described implement what’s called a DKI or Dynamic Keyword Insertion technique.  These ads automatically insert search keywords into a paid ad.  This form is popular because, if used correctly, it can produce very specific results that will generate quality traffic.

However, the use of DKI in PPC ads can result in annoyance, as in my situation, mistrust or even generic and weak ad content.  I am going to outline some of the pros and cons of using dynamic keyword insertion in your paid search ads.  Then you can see for yourself if this method is right for you!

PRO:  Customized Ads

Sometimes, DKI can greatly increase your traffic.  For example, when searching for foreclosed homes in Provo, UT, I came across this specified landing page.  It seems like this page would be exactly what someone would be looking for with their search.

CON:  Incoherence

However, with the same site, I found I could type in anything for the name of a city in Utah where I would like to find foreclosures.  The result?  You get the picture.  Obviously, there is no place called Crappy, UT.  With DKI, by allowing any search term at all to be included in your ad or landing page, you run the risk of becoming incoherent and purposefully spam-like to the public eye.

CON:  Generic and Misspelled Ads
When you create a PPC ad using DKI, your wording will need to be deliberately vague, so that multiple terms can be inserted without changing the meaning of the ad.  The problem with this is that the ad will be weak.  Even if the ad does include the specific word that was searched for, there is little likelihood that it will be strong enough content wise to draw a quality click.

All-in-all, pay-per-click ads using DKI appear desperate and can even resemble spam.  If you choose to use this technique in your paid ad, do so carefully and choose only key words that both fit your ad and are relevant to the service or product you are advertising.  Stay tuned for more posts on social media, SEO, web design and PPC!

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Doing a short sale on your house can be one of your best options when needing to move out of your property quickly. Whether you already know everything there is about a short sale or don't know anything, this may be a great article to get some basic knowledge on one of the few ways to avoid foreclosure when behind on payments. We are short sale experts and pride ourselves on knowing the ins and outs.

The most often asked question we get is simply: What is a short sale?

A short sale is simply when your bank/lender agrees to accept LESS than what is owed on your mortgage. For example, if you owed $100,000 on your mortgage, they (your lender) might be inclined to accept $80,000 instead of the full $100,000. That leads us right into another question: why would lenders be willing to do this?

More times than not, if someone is in the process of being foreclosed on or has no equity in their property and can't sell, banks would much rather have to sell short of the mortgage than to actually have to move forward with the foreclosure. Going through with a foreclosure costs lenders much more $ versuses if they were to do allow a customer to short sale their property. There are numerous costs involved with a foreclosure: holding costs, advertising, commissions to realtors, etc.

Now you may be wondering: " How can you help me? "

We are short sale investors and our main buying strategy is short sales. If you are in need to short sale your house, we will negotiate with your lender for a payoff and purchase your short sale. We buy short sales in all areas of the country and in all different kinds of conditions.  Our houses range from  the  extremely  handy-man  fixer  uppers  to the  executive, million dollar homes.

We would absolutely love the opportunity to speak to you about buying your house as a short sale.

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Alex Locklear
Motivated Property Solutions, LLC
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