Category: Cape San Blas

This is the first weekend of the 2008 scallop season and the weather forecast looks good for people to get out in the bay and play. If you’re new to scalloping, here are a few guidelines to get you going. First of all, you’ll need a current Florida fishing license. ...

Big weekend shaping up as the 4th of July visitors begin pouring in. Big day on Tuesday, July 1, too, my birthday, which Gulf County always celebrates by officially opening Scallop Season for the summer. I’m hearing it should be another good year so I hope you’ll be able to ...

Sorry about not posting a review last Saturday but I took a much needed week vacation in St. Augustine with friends and left real estate totally behind for a few days. Tanned, rested and ready I’m back at it with renewed vigor. Slight dip in our inventory, with 469 active ...

Warm and breezy week with beach renourishment progressing rapidly and ahead of schedule. It’s amazing to see how wide our beautiful beaches are becoming once again and the sand is every bit as white and powdery as the original. They’re working the Cape Breezes area where I live and each ...

Four-dollar-a-gallon gas made for a fairly quiet Memorial Day weekend out on the bay as the cost of filling those boat engines climbed into the triple digits. It’s been anything but quiet in real estate activity, though. Definitely starting to see a bit of a pickup in activity. Our inventory ...

The lazy, hazy days of summer arrived right on schedule this Memorial Day weekend here on the Cape with gorgeous weather, mid to high 80’s but with a steady, cooling breeze and lower than normal humidity at 68%. After taking a play day off yesterday I’m ready to get back ...

More indicators we may be near or at the market bottom in the news this week. Data released Tuesday by the National Association of Realtors show that in former housing-boom hot spots like Florida, Nevada and California, single-family home prices dropped 20% to nearly 30% in the past year. (See ...

Spring is the season of renewal and growth and unfortunately that’s exactly what our inventory did this week after holding steady for the past three. It grew nearly 2% with a total of 466 (up from 458), with 174 houses (vs. 171) and 292 lots (vs. 287). There was a ...

Our volunteer fire department, the South Gulf County Volunteer Fire Department, has been trying for three years now to find a mere one acre piece of land on which to build a fire station to protect the residents of and visitors to the northern section of Cape San Blas. Many ...

Yesterday we looked at what sold, so today we’ll start off by looking at our three new contracts. One is the Camp Palms lot at Indian Pass which closed on the 30th, so I’m not sure what the deal is with that. The other two are homes, one a single ...

April showers bring May flowers and this week it brought the most buyers and sales activity we’ve seen since I started this blog back in September. Lots to cover (about time!) so let’s just jump right in. Inventory is holding steady for the third week in a row, completely unchanged ...

It all depends which side of the fence you’re sitting on whether the Cape San Blas real estate market is improving or not. Sellers would say “no”, but buyers are starting to say “yes”. One encouraging sign in this market correction is that our overall inventory continues to go down, ...