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Historic Fort Myers Real Estate 2008-11-01 06:52:00 The eclectic neighborhoods making up historic Old Fort Myers
offer an introspective view into the early days of our city. It is not hard to envision early settlers flocking to the neighborhoods surrounding the winter estates of great men like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone.It is most exciting to drive around Old Fort Myers and see the early architecturally important homes undergoi Read more:Estate
Captiva Among Most Expensive in US 2008-10-31 10:33:00 Forbes magazine recently ranked Captiva Island as one of the most expensive zip codes in the US. No argument here from the peanut gallery as it is close to $2M for a decent single-family home on Captiva these days.One bedroom Captiva condos in South Seas developments like Bayside Villas or Tennis Villas start in the mid $300,000s.Captiva cited as one of most expensive zip codes in U.S. [Captiva C
Fort Myers REO Listings Popular 2008-10-30 06:59:00 I was just reviewing stats for my web site, www.greaterftmyers.com to see what pages buyers have been looking at over the last 30 days. As has been the case for the past several quarters, Fort Myers
foreclosures, Fort Myers short sales, Cape Coral foreclosures and Cape Coral short sales topped the list.There certainly is much buyer interest and enthusiasm for REO properties in the Fort Myers area
Excelling Realtors 2008-10-28 06:17:00 A recent Washington Post article titled, Working Harder For Every Sale, chronicles several Realtors
going the extra mile to sell a clients home. I applaud the creativity and initiative put forth by these excelling realtors.Recent statistics from the National Association of Realtors suggest that 82% of all real estate purchases begin on-line. If you have a home to sell, one of the best ways to n
Fort Myers $7M Homes 2008-10-25 07:20:00 Let's imagine for a moment that you are doing some fall cleaning and under the mattress you find some Google stock certificates left over from the dot.com boom that are now worth $7M.......Now what? How about buying a home in Southwest Florida!There are a several options choose from in the $7M range with the majority either in a riverfront setting in Fort Myers
or along the beach in Captiva.My $7 Read more:Homes
Housing Market is Mixed Bag 2008-10-23 06:22:00 Confusing day for anyone reading up on the Southwest Florida housing market.......The News-Press reports that Lee second in foreclosures in Florida during September, with one in every 72 homes is facing foreclosure. On the other hand, WINK News reports that Home Sales Hit All Time High.What does it all mean? Well from my perspective, things are so bad they are good. That is unless you are sitti Read more:Housing
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Cape Coral Gulf Access Bargins 2008-10-21 08:35:00 NBC2 featured a story on the deals that are currently available for Cape Coral
gulf access homes. Cape Coral neighborhoods with affordable gulf access homes include the Yacht Club area and the Gold Coast. In some instances, out-of-town buyers are scooping up these homes sight unseen.... Read more:Access
Cape Coral Vacant Lot Purchase 2008-10-20 07:50:00 Brookwood Financial Partners of Salem, MA acquired 279 vacant lots in the planned Northeast Cape Coral
gated community of Bella Vida. The sale included 116 town-home lots and 163 single-family lots. With a total acquisition price of $4,890,250, the per lot average price is $17,527.Bella Vida was developed by D.R Horton. Other D.R. Horton communities in the area include Catalina Isles in Fort Mye Read more:Purchase
Fort Myers Urban Lifestyles 2008-10-17 06:39:00 Living in an urban setting where life goes on without jumping in the car several times a day can be very rewarding. I had this experience in my late twenties living in Downtown Boston. Walking to work, jogging along the river and trying new ethnic restaurants.....what could be better!Unlike some of our older livable cities like New York, Chicago, Washington DC and Boston, much of Florida was dev Read more:Lifestyles
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Cape Coral Income Property 2008-10-16 10:30:00 A word of caution is in order for Cape Coral
investors looking to acquire income generating residential property. Currently we have a major over-supply of rental properties on the market and a shortage of tenants.This clip from NBC2 highlights the current problem: Read more:Income
Affordable Homes in Southwest Florida 2008-10-09 07:05:00 NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams ran a story, The flip side of foreclosures: Affordable homes, which prominently featured the Fort Myers and Cape Coral area.The net-net take away is that affordability has returned to the area in a big way. If you are just starting your search for a new affordable home in SouthwestFlorida
, visit our Fort Myers foreclosures and Cape Coral foreclosure pages. T Read more:Homes
Fort Myers Luxury Home Sales 2008-10-01 06:14:00 With a drum roll we bring you the top priced home sale in Fort Myers
for the month of September.Last month's chart topper was an Iona Riverfront Estate. This home located at 14962 Maya Lane has 5,467 SF and sold for $3.8M ($695/SF). Complete with tennis courts, a deepwater dock and 1.5 acres of tropical river frontage, this home is a beauty. Congratulations to listing agent Sabine Halboth and se Read more:Luxury
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Treeline Corridor Fort Myers 2008-09-29 07:27:00 The Treeline Corridor was recently featured in a News-Press article authored by Don Manley.For those of you from out of town, Treeline Avenue parallels I-75 and runs from Colonial Boulevard until it connects with Ben Hill Griffin Parkway just south of the airport. Treeline provides significant traffic relief for those traveling north-south west of I-75.The section of Treeline between Colonial Boul Read more:Myers
Red Sox Real Estate 2008-09-28 16:53:00 As the Red Sox
continue their spring training relocation dance with Sarasota, it appears that the most viable spots in Lee County for a new Red Sox complex are in Estero. A new spring training complex in Estero makes all the sense in the world.First and foremost, Estero is close to the Coconut Point Hyatt where the Sox brass including Larry Lucchino stay during spring training. No more schlepp Read more:Estate
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Affordable Gulf Harbour 2008-09-19 06:08:00 The other day one of my colleagues used the words "affordable" and "Gulf Harbour
" in the same sentence. Yes, we are talking about that Gulf Harbour along McGregor Boulevard in Fort Myers.Today there are 182 properties for sale in Gulf Harbour's 18 distinct neighborhoods. A whopping twenty Gulf Harbour properties are currently listed at asking prices below $200,000. These twenty sub $200K list
Web 2.0 Real Estate 2008-09-16 15:36:00 The Washington Post discusses the rapidly growing importance of web 2.0 practices in the real estate industry. Wikipedia defines Web 2.0 as: a living term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of we Read more:Estate
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Foreclosure Investing 2008-09-15 06:13:00 The NY Times recently featured an article about investors that are focused on distressed property investing. The article touches on the three stages of distressed property: pre-foreclosure/short sale; properties in default that are being auctioned and real estate owned (REO) property.It is estimated on a national basis that one in every 416 families is in foreclosure, the highest rate including t Read more:Foreclosure
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Mortgage Fraud 2008-09-14 06:05:00 The party is over for one Cape Coral couple, Ron and Lisa Luczak, who last week plead guilty to a mortgage fraud scheme. The racket which targeted Cape Coral property, used straw-man buyers, over-inflated appraisals and contract assignment fees involving at least 37 properties and $27M in home loans. In an 18 month period, Lisa Luczak's Cape Coral firm, Cape Coral Equity and Development Group rec Read more:Mortgage
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Naples Sales Up 2008-09-13 07:48:00 A bit of positive real estate news for Naples
and Collier County. In August, real estate sales volumes of were up for the 7th consecutive month. August saw 373 closings up from 293 in August of 2007. Median selling prices have declined dramatically during this period, from $375,000 to $238,000.Reports like this reinforce the fact that Southwest Florida has suddenly become quite affordable again Read more:Sales
Cape Coral Gold Coast 2008-09-09 13:30:00 Question: Name an affordable sailboat access community in Southwest Florida?Answer: Cape Coral
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Yes indeed, affordability has returned to the waterfront real estate market in Cape Coral.Where else can you find a direct, sailboat access single-family home for under $250,000?The Gold Coast of Cape Coral is the place!The Gold Coast is located in Southeast Cape Coral between Del Prado Boule
Fort Myers Football Bars 2008-09-07 07:43:00 If you are new to the area or just in town this weekend looking for a Fort Myers
golf home, one of the questions you may be wrestling with this morning on week one of the NFL season is............HOW AM I GOING TO WATCH THE GAME? Thanks to the News-Press for this list of SW Florida establishments that feature games from NFL teams.BUFFALO BILLS• BUFFALO CHIPS RESTAURANT: 26620 Old U.S. 41, Boni Read more:Football
Seller Tip - MLS Report Quality 2008-09-06 05:51:00 Great column by Chris Griffiths in the Naples News for home sellers about inspecting your MLS listing. Making a few key changes to the listing information can greatly improve your house's chances of selling.A stale, incomplete or inaccurate listing in the MLS system truly hurts your chances of sucess. Poor MLS listing photos, which are common on our market, are also a downer as chronicled in thi Read more:Quality
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Buyer Tip - Short Sale Questions 2008-09-05 20:11:00 Short sales are by far the most controversial and least understood type of real estate transaction in the market today. Many local Fort Myers short sale realtors are just fishing for an offer to start the short sale process. If this is the case, don't be the unlucky one to have the 6 month offer out there that never gets answered. It happens, we see it every day. It is FRUSTRATING!Thanks to bl Read more:Buyer
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Cape Coral Rose Garden 2008-11-19 13:15:00 Cape Coral
's first tourist attraction was the Rose Garden
, located in Southwest Cape Coral on the site that is now Tarpon Point. Cape Coral's developers, Leonard and Julius Rosen, developed the Rose Garden as a tourist destination to entertain visitors who came to look at buying property in Cape Coral. In its mid-1960s hey day, the Rose Garden had over 40,000 rose bushes. Complete with a refl
FGCU Real Estate 2008-11-16 10:39:00 According to a recent study, Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) contributed $389M to the Southwest Florida economy last year. With over 10,000 students and growing, FGCU is one of the true cogs of our economy.One of the questions I get asked quite frequently is what neighborhoods are convenient to FGCU? Certainly San Carlos Park is a popular community with both the FGCU student body and faculty Read more:Estate
Are Flips Possible Today? 2008-11-15 08:12:00 Interesting article in the Seattle PI about the feasibility of doing flips in today's real estate market.If "flipping" a house in today's real estate market seems riskier than trekking with a ragtag band of hobbits to Mordor, take heart: Home flippers can still find plenty of opportunities, though they're not entirely without risk.We are starting to see some renewed investor activity here in South Read more:Possible
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Gulf Access - A Way of Life 2008-11-14 15:49:00 Fun article in the News-Press about the benefits of living on the water here in Southwest Florida.Nothing beats the convenience of having a boat behind your house on lift, that is ready to go at a moments notice. No fighting traffic to the marina, rowing to the mooring or waiting in line to lanch the boat on a crowded ramp.With the current real estate market conditions, a gulf access home may now Read more:Access
Home Buyers Should Mark to Market 2008-11-09 07:31:00 Outstanding column in Naples Daily News offering buyer advice for navigating through today's market conditions. The column is authored by Tom Selck, a semi-retired architect and owner of Design Outside the Box.Buyers
rule again after a decade. There aren’t many, but they will be happy. This may be the best time we will ever see to buy or build. But a new rule book is needed for this game. Buyi Read more:Home Buyers
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