Author: Sherri Dodsworth

There were fireworks all over the Cape this week including our real estate market with Sellers lighting up the MLS with sixteen new listings and nine price changes. A good bit quieter on the sales side with just two closings and four new contracts. Our inventory took a nice dip, ...

Summer arrived right on schedule this week with temperatures on the Cape soaring into the 90’s on opening day. Our market was hot as well, but on the listing side, with just three sales and two new contracts, and sellers adding sixteen new listings and making seven price changes. I ...

Recovery progress continues with our road repairs at Stumphole looking to be getting really close to nearing completion. We measure progress in small steps, such as we’re now able to drive through that entire stretch on paved roadway. Sweet. It’s still one-day traffic through the rocks area, but you can move on ...

 After baking through blazing hot days without a drop of rain since May 12, our dry spell finally broke on Thursday with drenching rain and a forecast to expect much of the same for about the next week or so. Bring it on! We have been parched. Our market damped down as ...

What a wonderfully busy Memorial Day Weekend we had – encouraging to see so many families returning to our gorgeous beaches, and the weather couldn’t have been more perfect for the traditional launch of summer. That beach was selling itself as we had five sales and five new contracts.  Sellers listed twenty-two ...

 It’s Memorial Day Weekend, and unofficial start of summer or not, sizzling weather is arriving right on schedule as record high temps are forecast to blanket the southeast for the next week.  Our market is following suit with a seriously sizzling hot week, with ten sales and five new contracts. Sellers served ...

Absolutely gorgeous week wrapping up with lots of visitors out on the beach while road reconstruction and repair work continues area-wide. We’ve been busy with real estate activity as well, with six sales  and four new contracts, and a lot of new For Sale signs went up with sellers adding ...

It’s been a fun week around the Forgotten Coast with the annual influx of Plein Air artists out and about capturing our beautiful area on their canvases. Buyers captured some real estate for their portfolios as well, closing three sales and writing up four new contracts. Sellers listed nine properties ...

Never have I reveled in the return of Spring and all the greenery of new leaves and wildflowers it ushers in with it as I have this year. So welcome to finally start seeing some leaves on trees and green grass returning.  Since October it has seemed as if Hurricane ...

Major celebration this week when after nearly seven months of chassis-jarring, jolting passage through Stumphole, one freshly-paved, gloriously smooth lane re-opened and we can once again glide right through there. It’s still one lane so the stop lights remain on either end but it marks most welcome progress none the ...

Way too much going on this week to cover it all by Friday night – I will need to finish this up in the morning with a mid-day to early-afternoon Saturday post.  I apologize for the disruption in the coffee routine for my faithful early Saturday morning readers and will ...

The big news around here this week was NOAA finally acknowledging the obvious: Michael was a category 5 hurricane when it slammed into the panhandle, making it one of only four cat 5’s to ever hit the US, the last being Andrew in 1992, preceded by Camille in ’69, and the Labor Day ...