chrisgriffith on March 29th, 2013

Dunk City FGCU Real Estate & No State Income Tax Florida Gulf Coast University – Long before all the sweet 16 hoopla, many people in Southwest Florida were fans of FGCU athletics.  We look at the last few recent wins as rewards for loyalty and just plain fun to watch.  The night that FGCU defeated [...]

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chrisgriffith on November 23rd, 2012

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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chrisgriffith on May 9th, 2012

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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chrisgriffith on February 27th, 2012

Therapeutic Riding Program in Southwest Florida If you’re looking for a way to be involved with the community you may find a great opportunity by giving a gift of your time or a financial gift to the Naples Equestrian Challenge.  the mission of Naples Equestrian Challenge is to improve the lives of children and adults [...]

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chrisgriffith on February 24th, 2012

Editorial Special to Southwest Florida Living Magazine It was about twenty-six years ago that I moved to Southwest Florida. It was probably the first week in the area that I found myself water skiing up and down the Imperial River. Yes, at that time no-wake zones were unheard of. If you were here in the [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 10th, 2011

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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chrisgriffith on September 10th, 2011

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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chrisgriffith on September 9th, 2011

Economic Development, Industry & Business in SWFL The most amazing discovery during the economic development segment of Leadership Bonita was the number of organizations in southwest Florida who offer advice, guidance and incentives for bringing business and industry to Southwest Florida, Lee County and the city of Bonita springs, Florida. A day full of economic [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 10th, 2011

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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chrisgriffith on August 10th, 2011

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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chrisgriffith on August 9th, 2011

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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chrisgriffith on July 9th, 2011

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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chrisgriffith on July 9th, 2011

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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chrisgriffith on June 11th, 2011

Which Real Estate Sales Price is Moving?   For more real estate market reports read also: SW Florida Real Estate | Condition of The Sale May 2011 SW Florida Real Estate | Historical May 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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chrisgriffith on June 11th, 2011

A Decade of May Real Estate Sales Statistics   For more real estate market reports read also: SW Florida Real Estate | What Price Range Sold May 2011 SW Florida Real Estate | Condition of The Sale May 2011 ### All information is deem accurate, not guaranteed and subject to change.  Check the date on [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 31st, 2011

Meet Pecker, My Grand-Bird So there I was minding my own bees wax on the long holiday weekend when the ruckus started. Our quiet little street of less than twenty-five homes has had an on again, off again battle with a little home wrecker who is currently living across the street from me. While I’d [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 2nd, 2011

A Decade of April Real Estate Sales Statistics The final numbers for April 2011 may change slightly as a few sales become recorded over the next few days.  The end of the month happened on a weekend, at the end of Easter weeks so there may be a few properties lingering about, not closed out. [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 2nd, 2011

SW Florida April Real Estate Statistics The larger portion of real estate sales in Southwest Florida continue to be in the $400,000 and under price range, with improvements to the $600-800,000 price range. To review the real estate market reports including historical real estate sales in Southwest Florida and the condition of the sale, read [...]

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chrisgriffith on April 3rd, 2011

SW Florida Real Estate March Statistics Southwest Florida has finally seen a creeping up of the higher end, luxury real estate sales.  The shift wasn’t huge but the change has begun.  The entry level prices have remained the anchor price of the real estate market with four hundred thousand and under leading sales. We’ve been [...]

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chrisgriffith on April 3rd, 2011

Southwest Florida March Real Estate Sales  Watch and learn: As predicted our unit real estate sales are neck and neck with “the boom years”.  We’ve passed 2005 closed unit real estate sales and we’re creeping up on 2006 unit sales. What caused real estate revelation, you ask?  Perhaps the consumers realized our real estate were [...]

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chrisgriffith on March 23rd, 2011

Local Real Estate Statistics Trump Census #Duh At dark o’clock this morning I sat down at the computer with a cup of coffee and the first email I read began, “If my brother is trying to scare me, it worked. What do you have to say to counter this article?” The referencing article was a [...]

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chrisgriffith on March 16th, 2011

Ya Snooze Ya Lose Real Estate Naturally, this is the time of the year southwest Florida is visited by tourists. This year those visitors recognized some of the tremendous real estate values and were inspired to start buying real estate. We’ve had a robust winter sales season and the mountain of great deals which was [...]

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chrisgriffith on March 4th, 2011

What price range of real estate sold in Southwest Florida February 2011?

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chrisgriffith on March 4th, 2011

Ten years of February real estate historical data.

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chrisgriffith on February 17th, 2011

Lawrence Yun, Denny Grimes, Stan Stouder Interview There was an interesting radio interview on WGCU public radio that I thought I’d share with subscribers.  It’s a real estate market update regarding southwest Florida residential real estate and it brushes slightly on the commercial real estate market. The interview is a precursor to the Market Watch [...]

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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 February 2nd, 2011

 Southwest Florida Real Estate Statistics   For additional Southwest Florida Real Estate Market Reports, Read Also: SW Florida Real Estate: Historical Sales January 2002-2011 SW Florida Real Estate: Condition of The Sale January 2011 ### All information is deem accurate, not guaranteed and subject to change.  Check the date on this report for freshness.  If you [...]

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chrisgriffith on February 2nd, 2011

Historical Real Estate Market Report   For additional real estate market reports for January 2011, read also: SW Florida Real Estate: Condition of The Sale January 2011 Real Estate | What Price Range Sold January 2011? ### All information is deem accurate, not guaranteed and subject to change.  Check the date on this report for [...]

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chrisgriffith on February 2nd, 2011

Foreclosure, Short Sale or Equity Owned Real Estate   For additional real estate reports for January 2011, read also: SW Florida Real Estate: Historical Sales January 2002-2011 Real Estate | What Price Range Sold January 2011? ### All information is deem accurate, not guaranteed and subject to change.  Check the date on this report for [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 14th, 2011

Bonita Springs National Art Festivals 2011 The Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs currently has two fine arts / fine crafts festivals scheduled for the year 2011 at the Promenade at Bonita Bay Shopping Center.  Works of art from over two hundred National and International artists will be available for viewing.  Proceeds help support [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 7th, 2011

Southwest Florida Real Estate Statistics Real estate sales for the month of December 2010 indicate the largest share of closings are for properties under $400,000; a little over 79%.  Additional real estate market reports for December 2010 are located: SW Florida Real Estate: Condition of The Sale SW Florida Real Estate: Historical Sales in December [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 7th, 2011

Foreclosure, Short Sale or Equity Owned Real Estate Real estate buyers are often interested in the amount of distressed real estate an area may be experiencing.  The month of December 2010 offered a slightly higher amount of short sales and foreclosures that closed.  The quarter end and year end likely had to do with the [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 7th, 2011

December Real Estate How Many Units Sold Each Year? You can’t see where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been.  To put into context the unit real estate sales of December 2010, there are nine other years to compare it to.  The graph indicates the lean real estate years are behind us.  With such [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 28th, 2010

Warm and Toasty Florida Beaches Bonita Springs Real Estate takes on a new appeal when there are blizzard like conditions up north.  When folks get snowed in or have just had their fill of cold they start surfing the web and they remember their friends in sunny southwest Florida.  Yesterday, I had a chat with [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 20th, 2010

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chrisgriffith on December 6th, 2010

What was the condition of the real estate that sold in November 2010.

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chrisgriffith on November 10th, 2010

Snow Birds support local Bonita Springs and Southwest Florida businesses.

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chrisgriffith on November 7th, 2010

Real estate sales points that sell the most in Southwest Florida

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chrisgriffith on November 1st, 2010

Condition of the real estate sale in Southwest Florida.

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chrisgriffith on November 1st, 2010

Historical real estate sales for ten years during the month of October.

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chrisgriffith on October 3rd, 2010

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chrisgriffith on September 6th, 2010

What price range of real estate sold in August 2010?

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chrisgriffith on September 6th, 2010

What percentage of real estate sales in Sunshine MLS are short sale, foreclosure or equity owned?

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Tips for sellers of real estate to freshen their market reports to get their home sold. Absorption rate calculator and recent closed sale comparables.

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chrisgriffith on August 5th, 2010

Historical real estate sales for the past decate in Southwest Florida.

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chrisgriffith on August 5th, 2010

What price range of real estate sold during July 2010?

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chrisgriffith on July 14th, 2010

Someone Has To Buy Those Homes How does one eat an elephant? The answer is one bite at a time. There were so many distressed properties on the market at one time that is was almost insurmountable to believe that it could ever be behind us. In a market full of short sales and foreclosures [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 29th, 2010

Chickee huts built by the Seminole Indians of Southwest Florida.

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chrisgriffith on May 12th, 2010

So Far, Only Tanning Oil on Our Beaches Sooner or later I figured someone would ask the question “Is the oil on your beaches yet?” Well it started. I’ve gotten it a few times already from potential buyers flying in from outside of the state of Florida. This is a big story with a huge [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 12th, 2010

There is No Oil on Southwest Florida Beaches The area shown right now is Louisiana, Mississippi and the Panhandle area.  If you’d like to track any changes or to follow the threat, click the image above to launch the updated page or click this link for the NOAA site:  http://deepwaterhorizon.noaa.gov/bookshelf/1947_TMF72-2010-05-08-2100.pdf

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