August 2008

It’s Labor Day Weekend, the last hurrah of the busy tourist season here and by the looks of the parking lot at Scallop Cove this morning there are a lot of folks hoping to catch a few more rays and a few more fish and scallops before heading back to ...

Have we reached the bottom of the market yet? This article from the Florida Association of Realtors caught my attention today. Is this the real estate turnaround? On the heels of an increase in Florida home sales, a spike in new home sales and an upswing in consumer confidence, traffic ...

Not much change since this morning in the weather, still blustery with occasional gusts and brief periodic rainshowers, but the heavy bands still seem to be to the east of us, over around Wakulla and stretching out into the gulf south of St. George Island. With the center of the ...

Fay has dominated the scene for more than a week now as she’s made her agonizingly slow and meandering path to the panhandle. We’re all just ready for her to be gone. As I’m writing this on Saturday morning we’ve only had about 3 inches of rain, but the heavy ...

I drove around the Cape this morning and other than some deck chairs and small items blown around there was little evidence of our being in the midst of a tropical storm. Of course the winds so far have been blowing off shore and we’re in the eye of the ...

As of 10 p.m. Friday night, Fay has been a pussycat, 7/10’s of an inch of rain so far, breezy, gusty winds, and a few hours of power outage, but really nothing more than we often get from normal summer afternoon storms. Not much wave action on the beach as ...

It’s been a rainy, soggy week along the Forgotten Coast, and with Miss Fay cruising through the Caribean this morning it looks as if we’re in for yet another rainy week. The rain didn’t dampen interest in people looking for coastal real estate, though, as we have three new contracts, ...

The kids started heading back to school this week in North Florida and Georgia so it was a bit quieter around here with a noticeable dip in the amount of visitors out and about. Quieter on the market side as well, with only one sale and no new contracts, twelve ...

It’s been the busiest week in real estate we’ve had since I started this blog almost a full year ago so we’re just going to jump right in and get started, because there’s a lot of territory to cover. Yes! ’bout time. The total inventory of active listings in the ...