Bonita Springs Real Estate Sales Statistics
Bonita Springs Real estate sales have been cooking along and the latest month’s report has us looking at the lowest amount of foreclosure and short sales we’ve seen in a while in the Bonita Springs and Estero Florida areas. Equity sales, the green section, are homes and condos for sale which do not have bank involvement. They are just regular real estate sales.
The market has stabilized quite a bit and we’ve seen a tremendous amount of inventory absorbed as well as the prices of real estate go up. The entry level has been absorbed. Homes that hit the real estate market in the most affordable price points sell quickly, often with multiple offers. It’s not fun being a first time home buyer in the Bonita Springs real estate market, these days.
For more April 2012 Bonita Springs real estate market reports, read also:
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Laurel Ridge Bonita Bay Homes For Sale
Laurel Ridge at Bonita Bay is a single family home community located in Bonita Bay of Bonita Springs, Florida. Laurel Ridge is located just off of Country Club Blvd. Laurel Ridge consists of only one street called Laurel Ridge Court.
Homes in Laurel Ridge were constructed between 1989-2006. There are no vacant home sites remaining on which to build. The community is complete and there are are only resale homes available.
Laurel Ridge at Bonita Bay is a small community with a total of only twenty single family homes. Home sizes range from about 1,700-3,500 square feet of living space. Nearly all Laurel Ridge homes have a private swimming pool. Views from the lanais of homes in Laurel Ridge are of wooded area preserves or lake views.
Home owners in Laurel Ridge not only enjoy the resort lifestyle of southwest Florida but also the great amenities of Bonita Bay. Home owners in Laurel Ridge enjoy easy access to the Bonita Bay walking path system as well as access to the nearby River Walk Park.
Bonita Bay is bordered by Spring Creek, Imperial River & Estero Bay w/direct access to the Gulf. Residents enjoy Bonita Bay’s private beach pavilion, 12 miles of bicycle and walking paths, basketball, boating/canoeing/kayaking, and 3 waterfront parks.
Bonita Bay Club is member owned & offers 5 golf courses, 18 Har-Tru tennis courts, a state of the art fitness center & Olympic pool and a clubhouse offering casual as well as fine dining. Bonita Bay also offers a full-service marina w/Gulf access via the Imperial River.
Due to the smaller number of homes available in Laurel Ridge there are generally not many available on the resale real estate market. Other homes in Bonita Bay which are similar to Laurel Ridge are located in River Ridge at Bonita Bay and Woodlake at Bonita Bay.
To learn more about the amenities of Bonita Bay, read also Bonita Bay Golf and Country Club.
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Four Bedroom Creek Front Pool Home in Historic River District of Downtown Bonita Springs, Florida
27072 Riverside Drive Bonita Springs, Florida
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Enclave at Bonita Bay – Bonita Bay Homes & Villas
Enclave at Bonita Bay a neighborhood of fifty-four single family villa homes located in Bonita Bay in Bonita Springs, Florida. Enclave at Bonita Bay is located just off of Country Club Drive south of the main gate. The Enclave consists of three streets, Enclave Drive, Key Lime Court and Sawgrass Court.
The homes in The Enclave were built from 1988 to 2003. The community is built out and there is only resale real estate in The Enclave available.
Villa homes in The Enclave have from 2-4 bedrooms and from 1,775-2,400 square feet of living area. Many of the homes feature their own private swimming pool. All homes have a two car garage.
Homes in Enclave at Bonita Bay are structured with outside maintenance of the lawns and gardens included in the quarterly assessment. Landscaping is taken care of so living in The Enclave is the next best thing to care free condo living yet owners enjoy the benefits of single family home ownership.
Views from the lanais of homes in The Enclave included wooded views, golf course view or lake view. Home owners in The Enclave can easily access the walking path system of Bonita Bay, which runs beside the community.
In addition, River Park of Bonita Bay at Bonita Bay is nearby and offers additional walking trails, playground, tennis courts, boat ramp, work out stations and more.
Home owner of The Enclave also enjoy use of the many amenities of Bonita Bay which include Spring Creek Park, Estero Bay Park, The Beach Park and optional memberships including marina membership, social membership, fitness membership and golf membership.
For more information about the fabulous, resort style amenities at Bonita Bay, read also:
Bonita Bay Golf and Country Club
Real estate in Bonita Bay which is similar to the Enclave includes Montara at Bonita Bay, Laurel Ridge at Bonita Bay and Cracker Cove at Bonita Bay.
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The Mexican Butterfly Weed
First, I apologize for the mediocre picture. I was so excited to see the caterpillars that I whipped out the cell phone and snapped a picture right away before the sun set fully. Second, this nature experiment started sort of by accident because I took a picture of the plant in Bonita Bay and it had a monarch butterfly on it. I matter of factly added that I need to find out what the plant is so I can get monarchs in my back yard. The picture of the plant is here: Deerwood Bonita Bay
It wasn’t long until a loyal reader sent me the info on the plant and I was on my way to the Home Depot on Bonita Beach Road. I picked up a variety of plants that attract butterflies, including the Mexican Butterfly Weed. I had a monarch visit within days. I saw them laying eggs and today, when I ate dinner out on the patio with Dillon the Villain and saw the caterpillars. I have dozens of them already!
We are officially, accidental butterfly gardeners! Thanks Minnesota Mike!
Here is some more scientific info about the plant if you’re interested in attracting monarchs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_curassavica
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Real Estate in Burning Tree Bonita Bay
Burning Tree at Bonita Bay is an attached villa home community located just off of Country Club Drive in the community of Bonita Bay. There are a total of forty-two residences located in Burning Tree at Bonita Bay.
Home sizes in Burning Tree range from about 1,500 to about 2,225 square feet of living space. The floor plans offer two bedrooms to three bedrooms plus a den.
All villas in Burning Tree have a two car garage. Homes in Burning Tree at Bonita Bay were constructed from 1988 to 1992 and the community is now built out.
There is only resale real estate available in Burning Tree at Bonita Bay.
While some homes in Burning Tree may have a private pool or private spa, others may not. The community of Burning Tree does have it’s own private community pool set aside for the exclusive use of residents of Burning Tree only.
There is one circular winding street in Burning Tree, called Kindlewood Ln. The landscaping and trees lining the street are mature and inviting.
In addition to the pool, residents of Burning Tree also enjoy the use of Bonita Bay’s fabulous amenities which include private community parks, canoe launches, tennis courts, boat ramp, miles of designated walking paths, plus, optional membership at the Bonita Bay marina, Bonita Bay’s Golf membership, social and sports memberships.
To learn more about the amenities of Bonita Bay, real also: Bonita Bay Golf and Country Club.
Due to the limited number of residences in Burning Tree there may be few, if any, on the resale real estate market. If you’re looking for attached villa residences in Bonita Bay, you can search for more Bonita Bay real estate selections in Anchorage at Bonita Bay, Tuckaweye at Bonita Bay and Oakwood Villas at Bonita Bay.
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Tourist Season and Real Estate Rapture
There’s no doubt we have a seasonal resident population in southwest Florida. The other day, I pulled up to an intersection on a busy street and there were no cars coming, either direction. It had been months of bumper to bumper traffic on that street and it was quite a surprise to see nothing but a dashed yellow line. I said to my friend in the car, “Do you suppose the rapture finally happened and we didn’t make the cut?”
The off-season real estate season is back on the minds of real estate sellers again … and maybe even a few buyers. A reader has asked the reoccurring, annual question; is it even worth the hassle to list real estate for sale in the summer?
The question is not without basis. Not long after the Easter holiday we see the swarm of car carriers parked on the side of US 41 loading up vehicles to take them back north. As a matter of fact, I saw three of them on-loading cars in front of Bonita Bay the day before yesterday. Those who see the vacationers and snowbirds leaving wonder if there are going to be any opportunities to sell their real estate if there aren’t buyers in town.
First, not all of the real estate buyers are from outside the area. If a prospective buyer is, in fact, a northerner their access to resources has changed dramatically. As technology would have it, Google has made the world a much smaller place. Those buyers and sellers of real estate motoring north on I-75 don’t always forget about southwest Florida as soon as they get home. They’re quietly pecking away at the keyboard from their northern base, keeping tabs on the market and absorbing information for their return real estate buying trip and, believe it or not, many times that trip is actually in the summer. A summer buyer once told me that buying real estate in tourist season was like trying to buy a boat on Fourth of July, which is what prompted his return in the summer.
The approach of the summer real estate buyer is quite different from that of the typical winter vacation or seasonal resident buyer. The tire kicking is over. They’ve watched, learned and dialed into focus, more precisely, what they’re looking for in a Florida home or condo. This means that homes for sale may actually have fewer showings but the buyers who are looking are more focused and committed to buying.
Our unit sales do not sell at the same heightened level as in tourist season but we do have a respectable, healthy real estate market over the summer. Out of curiosity I checked and thought I’d share closed unit sales statistics over the summer last year; January 872, February 1,017, March 1,485, April 1,515, May 1,319, June 1,245, July 897, Aug 947, September 801, October 779, November 796, December 927.
Keep in mind that the exaggerated March 2011 through June 2011 sales indicate the big come back and sell-off of the then saturated market. The closed sale figures in winter 2011 actually rivaled the 2004-2005 recorded unit sales. It should be pointed out, for reference, so that it’s understood that those months were unusually high unit sales figures which cast a shadowing the respectable numbers that closed sale over the summer.
Real estate actually does continue to sell over the summer in Southwest Florida. When it’s priced appropriately and has been properly prepped for the market there is no reason why it shouldn’t sell over what is typically thought of by many as the “off season” summer market.
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Real Life in Bonita Springs is a project by Chris Griffith dedicated to writing useful blog posts for consumers about the Bonita Springs, Florida area. Find out what it is really like to live in Bonita Springs, Florida by reading about our fair city. You’ll get the latest in local real estate information, Bonita Springs real estate market reports and a little bit of humor. If you have topic ideas, feel free to request a story about the idea, after all, this site is just for you.
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Things to Do – Take the Causeway to Sanibel Island
Just about thirty minutes away from Bonita Springs is the world famous vacation spot, Sanibel Island. Home to great beaches and a laid back island atmosphere, Sanibel also has several great attractions to visit. If you take a day trip from Bonita Springs to Sanibel, take a list of a few things to do while you’re on the island. Here are some suggestions:
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Visit C.R.O.W. Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife
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Visit the Sanibel Lighthouse
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Have lunch at The Mucky Duck or The Bubble Room
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Continue your drive and visit Captiva
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The Truth About That 10% Real Estate Value Increase
Did you know that the second Tuesday of every month all of the real estate agents of southwest Florida show up at a secret location, one minute before midnight, to formulate a plan to manipulate the entire real estate industry? Well neither did I. Apparently, I didn’t get the invitation.
Believe it or not, there really isn’t a huge, clandestine plan to dupe the general public into buying real estate they don’t want or need. The market will and is ironing itself out. It’s true.
It shouldn’t be that hard to believe that a down real estate market wouldn’t last for forever. Not that any consumer shouldn’t be cautious and do their homework as they’re preparing to buy or sell real estate. Those same economists throwing around that projected ten percent value increase figure have been “off” before.
The fact of the matter is that the now watered down phrase “real estate is local” is true and has never been more important. The answer to the state of your real estate, not my real estate, not your friend’s real estate, has been sitting pretty, all this time, right there in the local numbers. All that most heard from the report last week was that real estate values in Naples would be up by “as much as ten percent” by the end of the year. It’s plausible given the market conditions but not a definite for every single real estate owner.
It’s sort of like the surgeon general announcing that the average life expectancy in the United States has been extended to the age of seventy-eight and then someone you know or love passes at the age of fifty-three. Rip off or reality? It was an average and unfortunately we all know someone out there who is going to draw a shorter straw than someone else in life expectancy and in the real estate market.
So, what’s a home owner or a home buyer to do? Get to the bottom of the numbers. Either figure out how to calculate the numbers yourself or find a real estate agent who is capable of calculating inventory absorption rates for you, for the area in which you live or are thinking of purchasing real estate. A simple calculation can tell you where the market stands and likely which direction the real estate values are moving.
The reality is that there are still a few communities out there with excessive inventory. I attended a meeting in a bundled golf community where the manager of the community boasted that only six percent of the real estate behind the gates of the community was currently listed for sale. Six percent sounds optimistic but given the rate of closed sales recorded in that particular community there was fifteen months of standing inventory. Meaning that theoretically, if no other real estate were listed in that community, ever again, it would take approximately fifteen months to sell off the existing inventory.
Unless there is a surprise run on real estate in that particular community it could be speculated that there is a strong possibility that they are not going to enjoy “up to a ten percent increase” in property values across the board when the New Year rings in. There may be a particularly popular floor plan experiencing a surge in sales that will, however.
It takes drilling down and running the numbers level by level from the county, from the city, to the neighborhood, to the street or even to the floor plan to determine the inventory, the direction of that particular local market and a reasonable projection of that market in the near future … that’s the local in “real estate is local” and the truth about which side of that projected “up to ten percent value increase” your real estate is currently positioned and where it might be at the end of the year.
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Real Life in Bonita Springs is a project by Chris Griffith dedicated to writing useful blog posts for consumers about the Bonita Springs, Florida area. Find out what it is really like to live in Bonita Springs, Florida by reading about our fair city. You’ll get the latest in local real estate information, Bonita Springs real estate market reports and a little bit of humor. If you have topic ideas, feel free to request a story about the idea, after all, this site is just for you.
You can subscribe to a weekly email newsletter by visiting www.LifeInBonitaSprings.com and entering your email in the subscription area on the center pane of the web page or by adding us to your reader by subscribing to this blog. Oh, and if you’re reading this content anywhere else but www.LifeInBonitaSprings.com or Naples Daily News it is probably stolen.
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Luxury Homes in Creekside – Bonita Bay Real Estate
Creekside at Bonita Bay is located at the north end of the Bonita Bay, bordering Spring Creek. The Creekside Bonita Bay subdivision is comprised of approximately one-hundred luxury homes which run along the streets called Pond Apple Ct, Oak Hammock Ct, Osprey Nest Ct, Creekview Dr. and Red Oak Ct.
The homes in Creekside at Bonita Bay were built during the time period of 1991-2003. The luxury estate sized lots offer more room between homes with open areas, mature trees and layered landscaping.
Homes in Creekside at Bonita Bay vary in architectural style and offer from traditional Florida style cracker homes to classic Mediterranean style homes.
Homes in Creekside at Bonita Bay range in size from about 2,900-6300 square feet of interior living space. Each residence has it’s own swimming pool and many homes in Creekside at Bonita Bay also have a private spa, also. Homes in Creekside at Bonita Bay enjoy views which range from views of Spring Creek to golf course, nature preserve, lake or a combination.
Homes in Creekside at Bonita Bay are close to Spring Creek Park and the Bonita Bay walking path system. The walking path system winds its way through the entire community connecting the various internal, community members only parks.
Parks inside the gates of Bonita Bay feature canoe launches, boat ramp, tennis courts, playground, bocce, butterfly gardens, nature trails and more.
In addition, home owners in Creekside Bonita Bay also may purchase a sports, fitness, tennis, marina or golf membership. To learn more about the amenities of Bonita Bay read also: Bonita Bay Golf and Country Club
Homes and neighborhoods similar to Creekside at Bonita Bay include Woodlake at Bonita Bay, Bay Woods at Bonita Bay and Hidden Harbor at Bonita Bay.
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Mira Lago Bonita Bay Homes
Mira Lago is a small enclave of a mere twenty-nine detached villa homes. The homes in Mira Lago at Bonita Bay were built between the years of 1996-1998. The community is now built out and there are only resale real estate available.
The homes in Mira Lago range from 2,666-4,000 square feet of interior space.
The design of the homes offers architectural elements that included barrel tile roofs, climbing bougainvillea, decorative shutters and arched or Palladian windows.
Some of the villa homes in Mira Lago have the tropical, entertaining friendly courtyard floor plan, also.
Mira Lago consists of only one single street, Mira Way, which is paved a hand set brick paver street lined with mature grandfather oak trees which adds to the charm of the Mira Lago neighborhood. The legal description of Miral Lago is Bonita Bay Unit 33.
The location of Mira Lago is quiet and secluded toward the back of Bonita Bay near the bay, Spring Creek and Spring Creek Park.
In addition to the three private community parks within the gates of Bonita Bay, there is a beach park on Hickory Boulevard.
Communities with similar homes to Mira Lago at Bonita Bay include Bermuda Cove at Bonita Bay, Siena at Bonita Bay and Anchorage at Bonita Bay.
Additional amenities of Bonita Bay include a full service marina on the Imperial River, a golf equity that allows play at all of the Bonita Bay courses, fitness, tennis and sports memberships.
To learn more about the amenities of Bonita Bay, read also: Bonita Bay Golf and Country Club.
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Mahogany Ridge Luxury Homes Bonita Bay
Mahogany Ridge at Bonita Bay is a small enclave of homes in Bonita Bay located near the bay and Spring Creek. Homes in Mahogany Ridge were built between the years of 1998-2001. The neighborhood is completely built out and there is only resale real estate available in Mahogany Ridge.
Every home in Mahogany Ridge has it’s own private swimming pool or pool/spa combination.
Home sizes range from approximately 2,800-4,300 square foot of living space and have a minimum of three bedrooms or larger plus a two car attached garage.
The legal description of Mahogany Ridge is Bonita Bay Unit 43. The community of Mahogany Ridge consists of one cul-de-sac street, Mahogany Pointe Ct.
The street is constructed of hand set brick pavers which lends to the Mediterranean ambiance of the area. Spiral Columns, arched windows, wrought iron gates and crawling bougainvillea add charm and unique architectural details.
Home owners in Mahogany Ridge are within bike riding distance or a short walk to Spring Creek Park one of three private park amenities within the gates of Bonita Bay.
In addition to the parks, Bonita Bay offers a beach park on Hickory Blvd. plus memberships are still available for the tennis, fitness, marina membership and golf on variety of Bonita Bay golf courses. To learn more about the amenities of Bonita Bay, read also: Bonita Bay Golf and Country Club
Homes in Bonita Bay which are similar to Mahogany Ridge homes include Coconut Isle, Augusta Creek at Bonita Bay and Mira Lago at Bonita Bay.
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