Category: Business

To see if all the whispers I’m hearing of people unable to keep up with their mortgages is as bad as it sounds, I decided to check the court records to see if there are any signs of trouble. There are. I checked the number of Lis Pendens filed in ...

With only 1 1/2 business days left in the year, I think we’re close enough to start taking a look at how 2007 stacked up against previous years. I went back through 2003 and built a spreadsheet showing year by year comparisons of residential sales (lot and land sales will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Driving 130 miles round trip from the Cape to Panama City hospitals for health care is scheduled to become a thing of the past by Spring of 2009. If you haven’t driven past the community college on Hwy. 98 recently, you’ll be surprised the next time you do as huge ...

Time once again for our Saturday week in review of real estate activity in the Cape San Blas market. Fairly quiet week, with the greatest activity being new listings and price changes. Only one sold and one new pending. Our total tally at week’s end of active listings is 568, ...

Dealing with all the regulatory agencies that control any type of human activity on the beaches, especially construction, is a daunting gauntlet of government red tape. Right now hundreds of property owners are facing the possibility of the State of Florida deciding on a whim that with the stroke of ...

One of the contributing factors stagnating our market is the incredible increase in property taxes in the past few years exacerbated by the inequity in taxes between homestead and non-homestead properties. With the vast majority of our properties having absentee owners, this is a major concern here. When people are ...

Two years ago the Cape cocktail circuit buzz was all about development, and everyone you knew had some sort of project working. It seemed as if everyone you met was involved in developing land in one way or another. Today it seems developers are so scarce they should apply for ...

Most people are crying when they ought to be buying, and buying when they out to be crying. Donald Trump was on MSNBC this week in a show called The Billionaire Inside You. He talked about the real estate market as a great investment and how in the ’80s it ...