Stats Annual Report
The FastStats Annual Report provides a summary of national housing trends for the year in review and an outlook on real estate for the year to come. You can also find insights on the health of the MARIS marketplace.
The Quick Facts section provides charts and graphs of common market statistics, such as number of closed/pending sales, new listings, medium sales price and more. Each key area includes results from the past five years and lists top/bottom five performing counties in the MLS.
Other key components of the FastStats Annual Report include reviews of property types, home prices, bedroom counts, showings, and overviews of each market area in the MLS.
This report is typically generated early January and is a great way to quickly gather pre-generated market data.
MarketStats: InfoSparks Report
If you prefer to create your own year-end report and do not want to wait until January, you can easily do this with InfoSparks.
You can start by going to the My Areas tab to create a custom market area using the polygon and circle draw tools. Once you’ve created your custom area, you can select it from the dropdown in the InfoSparks criteria section (see below). If you do not want to create a custom area, you can select a predefined area from the dropdown.
There are 12 metrics available, including medium sales price, pending/closed sales, days on market, months supply of homes for sale, and more. Static graphs are great for printing, but we recommend using a live graph when sharing digitally via a link (on social) or embed code (on your website). The live graph provides you the ability to deliver the latest data to your clients each time the page is refreshed. Help your clients stay informed and up-to-date!
If you need help navigating through these reports, you can attend our in-person MarketStats class to learn more.
Matrix: Agent Product and Inventory Report
In Matrix, there are a number of on-demand reports that you can create under the Market Reports tab. The Agent Production and Inventory Report provides a summary of your sales for the year:
There are only a few pieces of information needed to generate the report: inventory start/end dates, MLS ID, inventory set to “no”, and product details set to “yes”. The latter two fields will ensure that only sold properties are included in the report and will also provide records of each listing.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us!If you didn't know his name before last December you know his name now. Tyler Carpenter, one of the house cars out of the Kryptonite Chassis stable won the biggest win of his career last December. During the Gateway Dirt Nationals we all got to see the ultimate underdog story as the kid from West Virginia came to St. Louis and won in front of the dirt world against the best in the country. "I just want to be amongst em'" Tyler Carpenter said in December about putting Kryptonite Race Cars on the map. Tyler is taking that next step to try and put his name and chassis brand out there.
After multiple wins early in the 2020 race season he will look to try to roll that success over to the Summer Nationals Hell Tour that starts next Wednesday night at Brownstown Speedway. The highly followed tour will get Tyler in the limelight of the sport once again. The grueling tour that will hit 26 different tracks over the next two months is one of the toughest series' in all of racing.
Tyler will roll into Brownstown next Wednesday night with a load of confidence and desire. He wears his heart on his sleeve and that is what attracts a lot fans to his following. He will be sure to sell plenty of t-shirts as he rolls up and down the Hell Tour trail. As to how many of the Summer National shows Tyler commits to is still up in the air. We are awaiting a firm statement from Tyler Carpenter Racing on what the plan is over the next two months. Once we hear we will be sure to update. Stay tuned as "Country Roads Take Me Home" comes to a track in the Midwest near you!In advance of his show at the Gothic Theatre, the folk singer-songwriter chatted with 5280 about his new album, Por Favor, his affinity for the mountains, and his love of playing in Colorado.
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By the numbers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says adverse drug events, or ADEs, are a serious and growing public health problem, noting the following statistics:
29 percent of American take five or more medications.
700,000 emergency room visits and 120,000 hospitalizations are due to adverse drug events annually.
$3.5 billion is spent on extra medical costs for ADEs annually. The numbers of adverse drug events will likely grow due to the aging American population, development of new medications, the discovery of new uses for older medication, the increased use of medication for disease prevention and increased coverage for prescription medications.
Older adults (65 years or older) are twice as likely as others to come to emergency departments for adverse drug events (more than 177,000 emergency visits each year) and nearly seven times more likely to be hospitalized after an emergency visit.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Like so many primary caregivers, Debbie Benmamen takes great pains to organize the medications of her elderly parents.
Her 88-year-old father, who has a heart condition, is on 20 different drugs. Her 74-year-old mother suffers from memory loss and is on 14 medications. Some drugs have to be taken with meals and some multiple times a day.
Add to that home nurses who also have to keep track of medications.
Not taking the right drug or skipping a dose, says Benmamen, can result in an illness, a hospitalization or even death.
“It was a just a nightmare keeping everything straight. I was pulling my hair out,” says Benmamen.
But a year ago, she found an ally in an at-home medication dispensing machine, the Philips Lifeline Service, that allows her to load it with weeks of medications and has safeguards to assure that the medications were dispensed.
“It’s been a lifesaver,” says Benmamen, who loads her father’s machine once every two weeks and her mother’s once a month. “It’s truly a godsend.”
Few using
Roper St. Francis Lifeline has been offering the service to clients for three years, but few have taken advantage of it locally, says Kelley Hallman, Lifeline coordinator for Roper St. Francis Healthcare.
Hallman says that more attention has been focused on the service, which includes a machine connected to a phone line to service monitors, since being featured on NBC’s “Today” show this year.
“It (the service) surprisingly hasn’t gotten a lot of attention until then,” says Hallman, adding that “a lot of doctors and hospices don’t even know about it.”
How much?
She says that the service, which costs $75 a month, can extend the time that a person can remain at home, instead of under more supervised, expensive care.
That fee covers the lease of the machine and 24-hour monitoring.
An alarm on the machine notifies when a cup with medications needs to be dispensed. The alarm will go off every minute for 40 minutes until it is. If it’s not, the machine sends a message to the primary caregiver and monitoring service.
According to Philips, the service has a 98.6 percent dispensing adherence level among monitored subscribers.
Independent living
The service has helped keep some residents at The Palms senior living community in Mount Pleasant in an independent living scenario, according to Dorothy Cryan, residential services manager for independent living.
“Many of them are on a plethora of medications and they may not need all of the services of assisted living,” says Cryan.
“This helps them maintain more independence.”
Another benefit is a peace of mind, says Cryan.
“The residents who have this service really like because it provides them assurance that they have taken their medications and they don’t have to worry.”
Reach David Quick at 937-5516 or dquick@postand courier.com.
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