Category: Cape San Blas

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 ...

I’ve been hearing a lot of different things about the status of the beach renourishment program so I decided to stop by the the offices of Manson Construction this afternoon to get the facts straight from the contractor. I met with the project manager, Billy House, who told me they ...

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 ...

It’s been an absolutely beautiful week on the Cape weatherwise: clear and sunny, highs in the upper 60s/lower 70s, with cool, clear nights in the 50s. It’s been a decent week for the real estate market, too; not as red hot as last week, but decent, with one new contract ...

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 ...

We rarely experience here on the Cape what the rest of the country might call winter, but last night we went down into the mid-30’s, frigid regions we only reach every couple of years. With the cold snap came gale-force winds out of the north, producing super-low tides; this morning ...

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 ...

I took a look at 2006 sales to see how they stacked up against ’07 and was surprised to see virtually identical results: TOTAL SALES:Â Â Â Â 2006 – 54 Â Â Â Residential – 36 Â Â Â Lots – 18 TOTAL SALES:Â Â Â Â 2007 – ...