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   Whether it was the usual Spring Breakers or the beginning fallout of Cape San Blas showing up last week in a national news story as having been named by AirBnB as one of the top five spring and summer vacation destinations, whatever the cause, the Cape was loaded to ...

   According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), new home sales in February were down not because of buyers but because of builders trying to catch up with a back log of orders and putting new starts on hold.  Rapidly rising material costs are another factor; I had a ...

   A recent Airbnb survey of favorite destinations for vacationers this year in the US saw Cape San Blas coming in at fifth place and our market activity certainly reflects that interest, closing the week with thirteen sales and double that number of new contracts, with twenty-six parties signing up to purchase a ...

   Our market is definitely following the national trend of inventory deficit as demand is so outweighing supply and consequently pressuring pricing upward. This past week we had twelve closings and wrote up a staggering twenty-six new contracts. Sellers added twelve new listings, two of which are already under contract, and made four price changes. Compare ...

   The real estate feeding frenzy continued this week with twenty-one closings and fourteen new contracts.  Sellers added twenty-one new listings, two of which are already under contract and two of which are already sold!  They also made five price changes, one of which was a price increase. Our inventory closed at ...

  Our market sales activity is moving intoTwilight Zone territory, as we closed a record 22 sales and wrote up an unbelievable thirty-four new contracts.  Sellers added ten new listings and made thirteen price changes. Our inventory slashed 21 off its total, closing the week at 169, with 45 homes and 124 lots ...

  Somebody cue Buffalo Springfield – “There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear . . . “   Our market is totally white hot on fire. This week we closed five sales and put a record number twenty-nine properties under contract. Sellers offered up twelve new listings, five of which are already ...

   I think someone must have forgotten to pay the sunshine bill because we sure haven’t seen much sun this past week. Even so, it didn’t dim buyers’ views on snapping up real estate as we had four sales (all houses or condos) and wrote up fourteen new contracts. Sellers added a ...

    Area closing attorneys and title teams took a bit of a breather this week closing ‘only’ five sales but Realtors kept on cranking out new contracts, writing up a total of 16. Crazy.  Sellers added eleven new listings to the mix, and made seven price changes. Our inventory dropped to ...

    Where are all these buyers coming from??? We had another phenomenal week closing thirteen sales and adding thirteen new contracts.  Sellers added seven new listings and made eight price changes. Our inventory shed six, closing the week at 224, with 49 homes and 175 lots listed for sale in the Cape ...

     2021 continues to be off to a strong start roaring along this week with five  sales (even with one major player’s attorney’s still closed due to Covid), and an unbelieveable seventeen new contracts. Sellers added seventeen new listings and made six price changes.  Oddly enough, even with all that activity our ...

    One of our primary attorney’s closing offices closed this week due to employees testing positive for Covid, so that has set our market into a tailspin as other offices scrambled to absorb the addtional workload into their already overloaded workloads.  As a result, we  only closed four sales, while ...