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Just about what you would expect in real estate activity for the week before Christmas – very slow. Our inventory continues its slow downward trend, a very good thing, with the total at 510, down 8 from last week, with 179 homes and 331 lots listed for sale in the ...

It’s a Christmas miracle – we finally have all our permitting in hand for beach renourishment. Received the following update from the Beach Renourishment committee this evening: Yesterday we received our final approved permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As a result, County Administrator Don Butler was able ...

Since it has been so slow I decided to take a few days off this week for R&R and headed to my hometown of Tampa to hang out with friends and do a little late Christmas shopping. Even in Tampa real estate seems to be a topic of conversation and ...

Hard to believe it’s Saturday already, but it is so let’s take a look at what’s been going on with Cape San Blas real estate. In a word? Nothing. Once again it seems as if the only buyers are at the malls because there was no new activity this week ...

Halleleujah – the last hurdle to acquiring DEP’s signature on our beach renourishment permitting was cleared yesterday afternoon, Monday, December 3rd, when a Notice of Dismissal of Petition for Formal Administrative Hearing was signed by the petitioners, Michael and Kate O’Brian-Nicholson and White Sand of Navarre, LLC. DEP said our ...

Not being content with having crashed this site once, when I finally got it back up and running on the 18th I tried the upgrade once again only to crash it so irretrievably that some of the best tech minds at GoDaddy couldn’t figure out what I’d done. I finally ...

Gulf County has had a trash ordinance since 2005 but you’d never know it driving down Cape San Blas Road on any given summer afternoon. Apparently the new code enforcement officer is going to have a go at enforcing it by issuing fines, which would be nice, but the cynic ...

Off to a late start this morning – I’ve been doing a system upgrade this week and haven’t been able to access the site since Tuesday (that’s tech talk for “I screwed up something really bad on Tuesday and have been wrestling with it ever since and it took me ...

Grab a cuppa coffee and settle right in for our Saturday morning week in review of real estate happenings in the Cape San Blas market. About the only noteworthy event this week was the arrival of autumn and with it cool, dry weather. The humidity has been down in the ...

The CCA received an email from the Code Enforcement Officer on additional missing street signs located in the Cape San Blas to Indian Pass area. They will replace the County signs, but it is up to the individual property owners to replace private signs. Following is the list they have ...

I spent the past weekend in Apalach with my husband and friends welcoming the arrival of Autumn and, of course, the annual seafood festival. The weather for the event was the best I’ve ever seen and they had a great turnout. If you’ve never been to Apalachicola or it’s just ...

Time once again for our Saturday morning week in review of what’s been happening (or not) in the world of Cape San Blas real estate. The weather has cooled a bit this week, pleasant as can be; let’s see if our market is following suit. We end the week with ...