Category: Business

CONGRATULATIONS – YOU DID IT! Thanks to your avalanche of emails and phone calls to commissioners yesterday, what looked like a done deal on Tuesday went down in defeat Thursday when the board voted 4 to 1 to deny Ashwood Development’s request to add nearly 100 lots to Ovation for ...

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Like roadweary vacationers anxious for the ride to be over and finally reach the destination where the fun begins, we’ve all been wanting to know when this market will finally reach its bottom and begin to turn around. ...

Lots of activity around the Cape this week: construction on phase two of the bike path is underway, road crews are just about finished widening the road and shoulder between the Tradin’ Post and Stumphole, the beach renourishment equipment has been moved into place up in the state park, and ...

On January 29, Floridians went to the polls and voted for a Constitutional Amendment which significantly impacts both homestead and non-homestead properties. I’ve received a lot of questions about these changes, and with the homestead exemption application deadline fast approaching on March 1, I’m reprinting here a well-written set of ...

Another beautiful week on the Cape, cool, crisp, sunny days, tailor-made for strolling our beautiful deserted winter beaches. Our real estate market was a little bit warmer with one new contract and one sold. Sixteen Sellers dropped their prices (some significantly – we’ll take a closer look in just a ...

What a difference a week makes! Lots of good news to report as this week was as bristling with real estate activity around the Cape San Blas market as last week was quiet, so let’s get right to it and see what all’s been going on. First good news: we ...

Another quiet week for the Cape San Blas area real estate market, with virtually no change from last Saturday: our inventory is up by two, to 502 this week vs. 500 last week, with 178 homes and 324 lots. Maybe it had something to do with all the news this ...

I apologize for the site being down for the past several days but sometimes I wander down cyber alleyways I have no business exploring and bad things happen. Thanks to the techies at GoDaddy for getting us back up and running again. They said they would put a child-proof block ...

There’s been a fair amount of activity compared to the past several weeks surrounding the holidays, so let’s take a look at what’s been going on in real estate the past week in the Cape San Blas market. For the first time since we started tracking activity back in early ...

Now that 2007 is officially in the bag we can take a look at what actually sold during the year and see if the data can serve as meaningful guideposts for better results in 2008. There was a total of 55 sales in the Cape San Blas, Indian Pass and ...

I know we typically only focus on the Cape San Blas area real estate market but this sale on an interior lot in Mexico Beach in this morning’s MLS hot sheet made me choke on my coffee. The property is located in one of the many new subdivisions that mushroomed ...

Another slow holiday week for real estate around Cape San Blas, with no new contracts or closed sales, but a couple of very attractive price changes. The inventory sits at 507, down only 3 from last week, with 178 homes and 329 lots listed for sale in the MLS. There ...