December 2007

I know we typically only focus on the Cape San Blas area real estate market but this sale on an interior lot in Mexico Beach in this morning’s MLS hot sheet made me choke on my coffee. The property is located in one of the many new subdivisions that mushroomed ...

Another slow holiday week for real estate around Cape San Blas, with no new contracts or closed sales, but a couple of very attractive price changes. The inventory sits at 507, down only 3 from last week, with 178 homes and 329 lots listed for sale in the MLS. There ...

To see if all the whispers I’m hearing of people unable to keep up with their mortgages is as bad as it sounds, I decided to check the court records to see if there are any signs of trouble. There are. I checked the number of Lis Pendens filed in ...

With only 1 1/2 business days left in the year, I think we’re close enough to start taking a look at how 2007 stacked up against previous years. I went back through 2003 and built a spreadsheet showing year by year comparisons of residential sales (lot and land sales will ...

Just about what you would expect in real estate activity for the week before Christmas – very slow. Our inventory continues its slow downward trend, a very good thing, with the total at 510, down 8 from last week, with 179 homes and 331 lots listed for sale in the ...

It’s a Christmas miracle – we finally have all our permitting in hand for beach renourishment. Received the following update from the Beach Renourishment committee this evening: Yesterday we received our final approved permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As a result, County Administrator Don Butler was able ...

Since it has been so slow I decided to take a few days off this week for R&R and headed to my hometown of Tampa to hang out with friends and do a little late Christmas shopping. Even in Tampa real estate seems to be a topic of conversation and ...

Hard to believe it’s Saturday already, but it is so let’s take a look at what’s been going on with Cape San Blas real estate. In a word? Nothing. Once again it seems as if the only buyers are at the malls because there was no new activity this week ...

Halleleujah – the last hurdle to acquiring DEP’s signature on our beach renourishment permitting was cleared yesterday afternoon, Monday, December 3rd, when a Notice of Dismissal of Petition for Formal Administrative Hearing was signed by the petitioners, Michael and Kate O’Brian-Nicholson and White Sand of Navarre, LLC. DEP said our ...

Not being content with having crashed this site once, when I finally got it back up and running on the 18th I tried the upgrade once again only to crash it so irretrievably that some of the best tech minds at GoDaddy couldn’t figure out what I’d done. I finally ...