May 2009

Summer arrived right on time after a rain-soaked and windy Memorial Day weekend. The weather ever since has been sunny and hot and happily so is local real estate. No change in our inventory of active MLS listings in the Cape San Blas, Indian Pass and C-30 Corridor market since ...

The question I’m hearing from nearly everyone I come in contact with lately is, “Well, is anything selling?” and I tell them absolutely, things are picking up again noticeably, as evidenced by the fact that this is the second week in a row we’ve had four new contracts. In other ...

Good News! The MLS Links Gremlin is gone. Turns out it was an Internet Explorer 8 issue so I uninstalled IE8, and everything’s working much better, including my computer in general. My good deed for the week is to caution you against installing this system nightmare on your computer. Stick ...

Unfortunately, the MLS links gremlin is back – the work-around solution I had figured out last week is no longer working. I think it may be an Internet Explorer 8 issue. I apologize for the inconvenience; it will let me email links but not post them online. Go figure. I ...

This I hated to see. Gracie O’Malley’s, a restaurant in Simmons Bayou open less than a year, showed up in the MLS for sale after posting a closed sign on the marquee earlier in the week. This place has unbelievable views overlooking the bay from its more than 300 square ...

Local real estate is moving again as shoppers return; I showed more property in April than I have in the previous six months. Although our inventory remains basically unchanged at 410 (158 homes and 252 lots), up only one from last week, we had two sales and two new contracts, ...