chrisgriffith on February 29th, 2012

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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chrisgriffith on October 19th, 2011

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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chrisgriffith on February 2nd, 2011

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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chrisgriffith on June 6th, 2010

What is the standing inventory of existing real estate for sale in SW Florida?

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chrisgriffith on December 2nd, 2009

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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chrisgriffith on November 4th, 2009

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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chrisgriffith on September 6th, 2009

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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chrisgriffith on September 6th, 2009

Gulf Front and Beach Front Real Estate Sales Much like the Southwest Florida Real Estate Market Update, the beach front, Barefoot Beach and Bonita Beach Hickory area has seen an up tick in sales.  There’s no better way to see where your going by looking at where you’ve been.  While sales are up, there remains [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 12th, 2009

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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chrisgriffith on February 24th, 2009

Gulf Front | Beach Front Real Estate The communities of Barefoot Beach and Bonita Beach in Bonita Springs, Florida are home to the most prestigious real estate in Bonita Springs, Florida. Due to the proximity to the Gulf of Mexico most homes and condominiums are steps to Barefoot Beach, Bonita Beach and some homes and [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 12th, 2009

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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chrisgriffith on December 23rd, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on November 30th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on November 20th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on October 29th, 2008

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 [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 19th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on September 16th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on August 30th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on July 20th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on July 8th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on June 11th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on May 29th, 2008

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 [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 7th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on April 30th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on April 9th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on March 31st, 2008

Barefoot Beach of Bonita Springs – Real Estate on The Gulf Recently I was reading a luxury home real market report and how the market was holding up under the pressure of ballooning inventory. I decided to take a look at the Barefoot Beach real estate on the Collier County side of Bonita Springs, Florida [...]

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chrisgriffith on March 31st, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on March 12th, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on February 18th, 2008

Sellers, Is Your Home a Prize Fighter or a Bench Warmer? Today I will be out with a lovely couple from Wisconsin looking for their Florida home. I try to stay upbeat and not hyper critical of what other agents consider “marketing” but it’s a nightmare, plain and simple. It is literally a struggle for [...]

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