Author: Sherri Dodsworth

   We’ve enjoyed a beautiful week of autumn weather and it apparently put a lot of folks in the mood for wanting a place of their own to stay her.  One buyer went to closing, and six others wrote up contracts.  Sellers added three new listings and made one price ...

October may just be my favorite month of the year here on the Forgotten Coast. The air is cool, the humidity low, and the skies crystal clear. It just puts you in a good mood. Seems a lot of folks were feeling pretty good about the area this week, too, ...

Real estate has been very quiet around here this week and I can’t pinpoint any specific reason as to why that may be the case. Rentals seem to be strong, the weather is good, and interest rates are unchanged. Nonetheless, we only managed two sales and one new contract. Sellers ...

We had lots of visitors around the Cape this week, with some areas in Georgia reportedly on Fall break.  Property managers were busy, but the out-of-towners apparently were here to soak up the sun and surf rather than snapping up properties as none of them wrote up new contracts.  We ...

Our real estate market returned to a more normal pace during the first full week of autumn, turning in three sales and six new contracts. Sellers added five new listings, and tried price adjustments on four others.  Our inventory barely changed, shedding only one, closing the week at 300 total, ...

The Cape got some great news this week – we’re going to have a scallop season after all!  Albeit only for 16 days, beginning today, September 23, and running through and including October 8.  By starting the season this late in the year, the scallops should be pretty good size.  ...

Florida experienced a historical week. From the northernmost regions of our state in deluged Jacksonville to our southernmost points in devastated Key West, to the hard-hit southwest Naples/Fort Myers region, so many areas are reeling in the destruction left in Irma’s wake. The sheer geographical magnitude of the storm was ...

All focus has been on Hurricane Irma this week and as I write this we’re keeping our eye on its track, trying to estimate just what impact we can expect here.  All the talk of storms didn’t deter folks from finding their piece of paradise along our coast, though, as ...

As we head into the Labor Day Weekend, summer may officially be coming to a close, but luckily buyers didn’t get that memo as they were still here snapping up great real estate deals.  After several quiet weeks, we seem to be back on track, closing four sales and adding ...

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of my first blog post. Back in August 2007 there wasn’t much real estate activity at all and I knew I had to get real creative on how to generate business without spending a lot on traditional advertising. I knew a bit about web design, ...

  I know two weeks does not a trend make, but we have yet another slow week, with three closings and only one new contract. Sellers added seventeen new listings and changed prices on six others. Our inventory grew by fifteen, ending the week at 297, with 87 houses and 210 lots ...

Living in a coastal community is 99% bliss, but when hurricanes threaten life gets challenging. I’ve been listening on the internet tonight to KTRH from Houston near where the storm is coming ashore and as a fellow coastal resident with a keen feeling of “there but for the grace of ...