New Homes & New Construction in Bonita Springs New Construction in Bonita Springs is trending as the best value in real estate. You heard it here first. Local Bonita Springs Real Estate (the resale real estate) is suffering from low inventory. Many of the properties that hit the market don’t last long and often sell [...]
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Bonita Springs Real Estate Sales & Statistics If you do not see the video above: http://youtu.be/-pCyeNoxJcs Well, youtube transcripts of this video were absolutely awful so I’m going to just let you listen to the video. The nutshell version is that we cover Bonita Springs real estate sales stats, foreclosures, short sales and inventory. The real [...]
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Bonita Springs Real Estate and Estero Home Sales If you do not see the video above click here: http://youtu.be/Z6AIRWUJdXo Things are looking up for Bonita Springs real estate! The lowest foreclosure and short sales closed in a looong time. Take a look at the real estate video above that shows historical Bonita Springs real estate [...]
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Bonita Springs Real Estate Market Report November 2012 from Chris Griffith State of the Bonita Springs Real Estate Market This is a SWFL real estate market report that includes Bonita Springs real estate and Estero Florida real estate, also. This report is a little broader than I usually prepare. Occasionally, I speak publicly about the [...]
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Hmm, I Wonder if Zombies Sell Their Real Estate … After I stopped by a seller’s home to get a real estate contract signed I headed to Zombicon in Fort Myers. What that means is 1.) Bonita Springs real estate is selling. (Actually, I’m out of real estate listings for the first time in a [...]
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Silver Sands Condominium at Bonita Beach, Bonita Springs, Florida.
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Video of Cedar Creek Bonita Springs Florida Cedar Creek is located in Bonita Springs and offers single family homes. Cedar Creek boasts the lowest home owner association fees in the area and the closest proximity to many conveniences. If you do not see the video above, click here: http://youtu.be/jQngIPE-U6A To learn more about Cedar Creek [...]
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Follow Up On Submitted Real Estate Offers Closed sale. Not long ago I closed a sale on a single family home in San Carlos Park area. It’s a competitive real estate market for entry level housing, usually for first time buyers, just north of Bonita Springs, Florida. Every real estate transaction has a story. This [...]
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Local Bonita Springs Mortgage Broker If I had a dollar for every sad-as-a-country song story about a mortgage loan that didn’t close on time or a real estate purchase that fell apart because of the mortgage I could retire from real estate. As fate would have it, I’m sitting at my computer eating a spicy [...]
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Cash Remains King in Bonita Springs Real Estate Sales Cash talks in Bonita Springs real estate sales. A whopping 64% of real estate sold in Bonita Springs and Estero was paid for with cash, followed slightly by about 31% of real estate sales paid for with conventional financing. About 3% of sales were FHA Mortgages [...]
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Bonita Springs Real Estate and First Time Home Buyers There’s never been a better time to buy a home … unless the buyer is financing the purchase. It’s not because it is difficult to finance real estate or that the banks aren’t lending, it’s because the entry level real estate market is chock full of [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Where Does the Real Estate Offer Go? What happens to an offer after signing it? It’s a fair question to ask of whomever is helping you write the offer, whether it’s your real estate attorney or your real estate agent. If your attorney is involved they’re generally concerned with making sure you’re legally protected. They’ll [...]
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How To Measure Real Estate Agents and Brokerages What do you mean you’re not with Coldwell Banker real estate? I was sitting in a listing presentation interview when the home owner asked that question. Why he thought I was with that particular real estate brokerage, I’ll never know. I’ve never been with that brokerage in [...]
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Selling Real Estate With Care After Probate The only thing certain in life is death and taxes … and probably how emotionally taxing death is when liquidating real estate. Selling real estate is stressful enough for some folks without compounding it with the emotional burden of liquidating the remaining assets of someone dear or even [...]
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Mortgages, Divorce, Refinance and Quit Claim Deeds A couple of great mortgage questions have come in over the last few weeks … Question: We’re considering selling our place and purchasing another and we would like to do back to back closings. Is this something that can be done? Not everyone can pay cash for real [...]
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Real Estate Lead Capture Maybe you’re curious about what your home is worth or you’re a serious buyer prowling the web for the latest new listings or price reductions in the area you want to buy a home in, sooner or later a pop up window will ask for more information. Whether you’re a buyer [...]
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Real Estate Photograph Fails It’s a no brainer that pictures sell real estate, especially in the digital age. What is surprising is that there are still so many homes skating by or even floundering in the real estate market without proper or, at the very least, a weak representation of its unique characteristics whether they’re [...]
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And Sometimes Real Estate Buyers Back Out There you are minding your own bees wax. You’ve tended your real estate, preparing it for sale the way a dutiful seller should, shining it sparkling clean, pricing it right, listing it for sale and before you know it, an offer comes in. The bantering counter offers go [...]
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Condo Inspections, AS-IS Contracts and Nit Pickery It’s mail day! There have been a variety of question regarding home inspections from both buyers and sellers. Here’s the latest and greatest from the mail bag that I’m able to squeeze into six-hundred-ish words or less: Question: The home we’re interested in is offered as-is with the [...]
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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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Tower Condominiums – Sorrento at The Colony Sorrento at The Colony offers fourteen floors of residential living with five floors of Penthouse luxury condominium residences. Each residence at Sorrento at The Colony offers sweeping views of mangrove estuaries, the golf courses of Raptor Bay, The Hyatt Resort and The Colony, Estero Bay and the Gulf [...]
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Real Estate & Tomatoes on The Information Super Highway Most people, regardless of what they do for a living, now have an email brimming with speed of light requests to get things done. Email and the internet have revolutionized the way the world does business and has become one of the biggest time savers [...]
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Save The Drama For Your Mama There’s no crying in real estate. At least there really shouldn’t be. Typically, all parties involved in the transaction have a common goal for real estate to change hands so what is it that makes it all go haywire? So there everyone is, minding their own business when “exhibit [...]
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Price, Condition, Location & Value in Real Estate The snow birds are on their way. This year, like many of the other years, the first signs of their return are the transport trucks delivering their automobiles. To that end, let it be known that a winner of the Facebook “car hauler bingo 2011” contest is [...]
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Single Family Homes at Montara in Bonita Bay Montara at Bonita Bay is located in Bonita Springs, Florida in the community of Bonita Bay Golf and Country Club. The real estate in Montara is offered as single family detached villas perfect for full time occupancy or part time, seasonal residency. The homes owners in Montara [...]
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Making Sense of Condo Maintenance Fees This is going to be exciting! There is nothing more exciting than talking about numbers, budgets and statistics to get everyone hanging on the edge of their seats … or the abyss to boredom. <sarcasm/> One of the more consistent questions asked by real estate consumers is, what exactly [...]
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How Many Short Sales and Foreclosures Are There? For other recent real estate market reports, read also: SW Florida Real Estate | Historical August Sales 2002-2011 SW Florida Real Estate | What Price Range Sold August 2011
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A Decade of Historical Real Estate Sales For more real estate market reports, read also: SW Florida Real Estate | What Price Range Sold August 2011 SW Florida Real Estate | Condition of The Sale August 2011
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Which Real Estate Price Range is Moving? For more real estate market reports, read also: SW Florida Real Estate | Condition of The Sale August 2011 SW Florida Real Estate | Historical August Sales 2002-2011
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Attached Villa Homes at Tuckaweye Bonita Bay Tuckaweye at Bonita Bay is an intimate enclave of attached villa homes located in Bonita Bay of Bonita Springs, Florida. Tuckaweye consists of less than forty residences situated near the entry to Bonita Bay. There is one street through the neighborhood, called Greenflower Court. The neighborhood of Tuckaweye [...]
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So, What’s Your Tenant Up To These Days? If Charlie Rich was a real estate agent he would have totally written something different about what goes on behind closed doors. Most home owners run a decent household with some form of predictable lifestyle behind the closed doors but every once in a while there is [...]
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Last Ditch Home Selling Method When I was growing up in Northern Ohio I recall finding Indian artifacts in the fields. I grew up on a farm near the river and not far from Lake Erie so it would appear that it was a primo spot for hunting and growing crops. There were arrowheads all [...]
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Single Family Homes in Cranbrook at Bonita Bay Cranbrook at Bonita Bay is a quiet enclave of twenty five single family homes. It located in the heart of Bonita Bay near River Park and the Imperial River. Cranbrook consists of only on winding street named Thornbury Lane. The homes in Cranbrook vary in size in [...]
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Buy a Foreclosure and Earn a Foursquare Badge! More often than not there is a buyer at the other end of the phone or an email requesting help to purchasing a foreclosure. Today, I actually received an email asking what’s the best value is, foreclosure or short sale? It’s been years since a day has [...]
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Single Family Estate Homes at The Sanctuary The Sanctuary at Bonita Bay is a neighborhood of 62 homes located just north of Naples, Florida, within the gated, 2,400-acre master-planned community of Bonita Bay in Bonita Springs, Florida. Homes in The Sanctuary at Bonita Bay are free-standing, single family homes with lake, golf course, or wetland [...]
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Real Estate is Selling Off – Deal With It So here we are half way through a sweltering southwest Florida summer. Worlds away are our seasonal residents who have all but forgotten us and cubical dwelling number crunchers who will soon be speculating about Florida real estate. Right about the time the first of the [...]
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How Many Short Sales and Foreclosures Are There? For other recent real estate market reports, read also: SW Florida Real Estate | What Price Range Sold July 2011 SW Florida Real Estate | Historical July Sales 2002-2011
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A Decade of Historical Real Estate Sales For more real estate market reports, read also: SW Florida Real Estate | What Price Range Sold July 2011 SW Florida Real Estate | Condition of The Sale July 2011
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Which Real Estate Price Range is Moving? For more real estate market reports, read also: SW Florida Real Estate | Condition of The Sale July 2011 SW Florida Real Estate | Historical July Sales 2002-2011
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Real Estate Questions and Answers Do I have to use a real estate agent in the state of Florida? Well, probably not. Gawd bless ya if you’re a seller and you found a buyer on your own. It happens more often in the tight knit communities; pool side real estate transactions. Whether you’re a buyer [...]
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The Ever Expanding Real Estate Contract For the first time in my career I looked at the massive pile of paper at the business end of my printer and said, “It’s official, I’m a one man ozone layer wrecking crew.” I may as well be fracking or strip mining and sign up for the Global [...]
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A Decade of Units Sold Real Estate While nationwide real estate reports claim that we’re just buried in foreclosures and short sales … the numbers tell the truth, the actual story. The real estate snap shot for the Bonita Springs and Estero area has now cut it’s single family home inventory from over twenty six [...]
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Which Real Estate Price Range is Moving? For more real estate market reports, read also: SW Florida Real Estate | Condition of The Sale June 2011 SW Florida Real Estate | Historical June Sales 2002-2011 ### All information is deem accurate, not guaranteed and subject to change. Check the date on this report for freshness. [...]
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How Many Short Sales and Foreclosures Are There? For more real estate market reports, read also: SW Florida Real Estate | What Price Range Sold June 2011 SW Florida Real Estate | Historical June Sales 2002-2011 ### All information is deem accurate, not guaranteed and subject to change. Check the date on this report for [...]
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Choosing a Real Estate Attorney or Law Office You may have already asked or someone may have told you but using a real estate attorney to close your real estate transaction isn’t required in Florida. It is, in professional opinion of most real estate agents, a very wise choice for most transactions. The real estate [...]
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What We Can’t Tell You About Your Neighbors Prior to ushering buyers around in my car I’ve occasionally recommended buyers drive around a little to familiarize themselves with the area. If, for example, there is a cute little cottage that buyers think they just have to see but I know it’s built between a Quikkie [...]
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Is Your Agent Selling Buggy Whips or Real Estate? There are plenty of folks reading this in black and white print who don’t use or enjoy computers. I’ve had a few phone calls (and letters) from folks who remind me that not everybody has access to the internet. As a consumer, you don’t have to [...]
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