Bonita Springs Real Estate Values … Up, Up and Away When buyers of real estate began cautiously moving back into the southwest Florida real estate market when there was plentiful inventory at rock bottom prices there were skeptics questioning whether it was the right time to buy. Certainly, the communities which were experiencing excess inventory, [...]
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Inventory Bonita Springs and Naples Real Estate Market Typically, I get an email or a phone call from potential buyers who are beginning the search for a home in Southwest Florida. They’ve been “educated” by whatever news sources they watched or read about the Florida real estate market. Most of the time it’s pretty far [...]
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Selling Real Estate Before Season Ends It’s crunch time. There are about ten weeks before Easter and the beginning of the end to our busy tourist season. If you are a southwest Florida home owner whose goal is to sell your real estate by the end of “season” it’s time to reevaluate the market and [...]
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What is the standing inventory of existing real estate for sale in SW Florida?
What Price of Real Estate is Selling? This year November brought not only our returning snow birds but a truck load of home buyers trying to make it under the wire for the first time home buyer tax credit deadline. Buyers and their agents were working feverishly to get their transactions closed by the end [...]
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Doom & Gloom or Puppies & Daisies? Last week CNNMoney.com reported that area housing would drop another 26 percent. It got a lot of attention and started some chatter. The biggest question people have when they see reports are if they’re true or not. Seriously, is it possible that housing values can drop further and [...]
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I Swear It’s The Last Real Estate Market Report … This Week Care to know how many units of real estate were sold during the month of July? Well it’s below and I even go back three years so you can see the improvement, or weakening of the market. For the most part it’s all [...]
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April 2009 Bonita Springs and Estero Florida market reports, absorption rates and sold real estate inventory reports. Historical access to prior months of real estate sales.
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Uneventful But at Least Not Disappointing Real Estate So I shocked myself by getting this real estate market report out earlier than my foot dragging self. The fact of the matter is that market reports are time consuming. On top of that I like them to be somewhat entertaining if I can help it. I [...]
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Click the video for your complimentary background music while you read. (if you don’t see the video above click here) November Real Estate Was Kind of “Meh” Here you go. The November 2008 absorption rates and sales numbers for the Bonita Springs and Estero Florida real estate market are ready. At least I got to [...]
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Bonita Springs & Estero Real Estate Numbers (psst. if you don’t see the Love Shack video up above click here) Here you go, your bona fide, 100% authentic Bonita Springs real estate market report with a side of Estero real estate market report. I’m only about two weeks late. Better late than never, right? So [...]
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Real Estate Has No Short Term Fixes Some people who decide to sell their Bonita Springs home find out the value that they had in mind isn’t really the reality of their current situation. Well, I guess a fair number of them find that out, not just some of them. There is a photo snapshot [...]
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Beating a dead horse usually involves a dead horse, a striking object of some type, a person who is delivering the beating and an observer that is probably in denial about what is happening. Feel free to pick your character in this act. Sometimes I wonder if everyone has just grown used to the sounds [...]
Fire up the video below so you’ll have some back ground music. If you don’t see the video box below the link to the tune is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCbOEZ8c8dM Welcome home to Bonita Springs, snowbirds. We’ve noticed that you’ve returned. My own parents will be back in two weeks. Brace yourself, Waffle House, Pappy is gonna [...]
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For those of you who are seasonal residents thinking of coming back home to Bonita Springs, Florida here’s the latest and greatest market report for the humid, rainy month of August. Be glad you missed it. The good news is that those lakes that were low or empty are filled up again courtesy of Fay [...]
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Before we get started on this long overdue market report, feel free to take the option to click play and enjoy a little background Simon. If you don’t see the video below click here: Here’s the July Bonita Springs real estate report, better late than never! I’ve been a tad on the busy side and [...]
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A Tale of Pricing Riverfront Gulf Access Homes Sometimes when homes don’t sell as fast as expected the homeowner becomes frustrated. The current state of the Bonita Springs real estate market has brought sales to some home sellers while other homes remain unsold. The only thing that is obvious about the current real estate market [...]
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If you don’t see the video above click **here** for background music while you read. There must be 50 ways to leave your lover, so said Paul Simon. There are probably just as many ways to do a real estate market report, too. Here’s how I do my monthly Bonita Springs real estate market reports: [...]
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You Gotta Enter to Win Would you believe that things are picking up? What would it take for you to believe things are picking up? Well, Bonita Springs real estate is picking up. Watching the agents working at my own office and even at other offices it is clearly evident that conditions are improving. Every [...]
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Spring Run – Another Happy Golfer Finds a Home Has hell finally frozen over in Bonita Springs, Florida? My Gardenia model in Spring Run at the Brooks has sold! That one was like lugging a 100 pound bag of bricks up a mountain. This little Bonita Springs condo was just a collateral damage of the [...]
Bonita Springs Sales and Listings Update Folks, we’re winding down from tourist season here in Bonita Springs, Florida but we’re still seeing sales activity. The last several weeks have seen a steady increase in pending and closed sales. The same tune is playing about Bonita Springs real estate, it has to be priced right and [...]
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It’s Just an Offer, Not an Insult Sometimes a buyer’s offer isn’t received so well. Seller’s may still have in their mind that their home is not only worth what they paid for it, but even more. If it’s been said once, it’s been said a million times. A home has to appraise to close [...]
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Bonita Springs Estero Sales & Absorption Rates The last few days have been a hectic, wake up at dark o’clock kind of schedule. I was up early this morning to attend an economic seminar at the Naples Board of Realtors in Naples, Florida. The economist that was speaking shared what I already knew about the [...]
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Condos For Sale in Rapallo Last week I had one of my listings host the company breakfast at Keller Williams Elite Realty in Bonita Springs, Florida. I figured I’d have a room full of real estate agents learn about my cute little Spring Run condo listing while filling their bellies with bagels and fruit. If [...]
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The Sign of The Times? Yesterday I had a visual home inspection on a recently contracted condominium in Bonita Springs. I spoke with a few neighbors while we waited for the buyers to arrive and naturally, we talked about real estate. Everyone always has a question or opinion about the market. Usually everyone asks the [...]
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