October 2007

If you’ve driven along C-30 between the Cape and Simmons Bayou lately, you’ve no doubt noticed the inordinate number of survey crews lining the sides of the road. I’ve had a number of e-mails and calls from folks wondering what’s going on so I decided to check it out. Turns ...

Driving 130 miles round trip from the Cape to Panama City hospitals for health care is scheduled to become a thing of the past by Spring of 2009. If you haven’t driven past the community college on Hwy. 98 recently, you’ll be surprised the next time you do as huge ...

Time once again for our Saturday week in review of real estate activity in the Cape San Blas market. Fairly quiet week, with the greatest activity being new listings and price changes. Only one sold and one new pending. Our total tally at week’s end of active listings is 568, ...

Dealing with all the regulatory agencies that control any type of human activity on the beaches, especially construction, is a daunting gauntlet of government red tape. Right now hundreds of property owners are facing the possibility of the State of Florida deciding on a whim that with the stroke of ...

One of the contributing factors stagnating our market is the incredible increase in property taxes in the past few years exacerbated by the inequity in taxes between homestead and non-homestead properties. With the vast majority of our properties having absentee owners, this is a major concern here. When people are ...

Two years ago the Cape cocktail circuit buzz was all about development, and everyone you knew had some sort of project working. It seemed as if everyone you met was involved in developing land in one way or another. Today it seems developers are so scarce they should apply for ...

Our inventory inched up a bit again this week, reaching 558 active listings in the MLS for Cape San Blas, the C-30 corridor and Indian Pass, with 202 homes (up 3) and 356 lots (up 5). Once again there were two sales, one home and one lot. The home was ...

Most people are crying when they ought to be buying, and buying when they out to be crying. Donald Trump was on MSNBC this week in a show called The Billionaire Inside You. He talked about the real estate market as a great investment and how in the ’80s it ...

Selection. There are over 3,300 properties listed for sale in the MLS in Franklin and Gulf Counties. Regardless of the price range you’re looking for, there are plenty of properties from which to choose. The inventory of homes was at its lowest in May 2004 when there were only 312 ...

Autumn is finally in the air this week as we take our Saturday look back at real estate activity in the Cape San Blas market. Let’s see what the current inventory is. As of this morning the total inventory of homes sits at an even 550, up a bit from ...

It’s October and we should be getting underway with our beach renourishment program but some meddlers from Destin have filed a suit against FDEP preventing them from issuing our permits, so we have to wait to see what the judge will say. We were scheduled to have the hearing in ...

I can’t believe it’s Saturday again already – this week flew by – but it is, and each Saturday I take a look at what went on in the Cape San Blas real estate market. We’re seeing yet another slight reduction in inventory this week, coming in at 539, five ...