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December 13, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week in Review – Dec. 6-12, 2008
Thoughts of shopping fill the air as we draw another week closer to Christmas and Hannukah, and we had a few shoppers decide to pick up a little piece of paradise for some lucky person on their list. Virtually no change in our inventory, standing steady at 378, down one ...
November 22, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week in Review – Nov. 15-21, 2008
No evidence of global warming around the Cape this morning – IT’S COLD OUTSIDE! It was 40 out here on the peninsula when I woke up, and according to weather.com it was 35 in town. There’s been a bit of a chill on our local real estate market this week ...
November 8, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week in Review, November 1-7, 2008
What a tumultuous week. The 22-month campaign marathon finally, mercifully came to an end while the stock market continues to whip wildly back and forth like a loose fire hose. It doesn’t look as if the stock market is going to be the safe haven of choice any time soon, ...
November 1, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – October 25-31, 2008
Lots going on this weekend what with Halloween and the Apalachicola Seafood Festival. There’s been lots going on in real estate, too, with investors starting to look for bargain properties to snap up. Our inventory of active MLS listings in the Cape San Blas, Indian Pass and C-30 Corridor drops ...
October 4, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – Sep. 27 – Oct. 3, 2008
Well, the world didn’t end this week as everyone predicted, so if Wall Street is still alive I guess there’s hope for real estate, too. Aother nice drop in our inventory this week, down 10 to 388 with nine fewer homes (160 vs. 169) and one fewer lot (228 vs. ...
September 20, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – Sep. 13-19, 2008
The two major news stories sharing the headlines this week have been the wildly undulating international financial markets and the rescue and recovery efforts in Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. The one glimmer of sunshine in the news comes out of California where housing sales soared upward 13.6 ...
September 12, 2008
We’re All Texans Tonight
Living in a coastal community is 99% bliss, but when hurricanes threaten life gets challenging. We on the Cape have had some inconveniences from Ike but no life threatening problems. I’ve been listening on the internet tonight to KTRH from Houston where the storm is bearing down and as a ...
September 12, 2008
Local Traffic Being Allowed Through Stumphole
7:00 p.m. UPDATE – We have a fluid situation here, absolutely no pun intended. I just had a call from Paula Pickett, Executive Director of the Gulf County Tourist Development Council, who drove out to the Cape within the hour, and was told the road is such that if it’s ...
September 12, 2008
Stumphole Closed Again This Morning
7:40 a.m. – The Sheriff has re-closed Stumphole this morning as waves continue to break over the rocks. High tide is at 8:30 and there is hope they can reopen Cape San Blas Road to traffic after the tide subsides later on this morning. I will let you know as ...
September 11, 2008
Ike Closes Stumphole
3 p.m. Update from Gulf County Emergency Management: Gulf County remains under a High Surf Advisory and a Coastal Flood Advisory. These conditions will continue to lead to hazardous rip currents as well as dangerously high surf along Gulf County’s beaches. These conditions will be life threatening to anyone entering ...
September 4, 2008
Stumphole Badly Battered
Although the county was able to quickly reopen Cape San Blas Road to traffic again by late Monday afternoon after closing it at 10 a.m., the rocks at Stumphole took quite a thumping and FDOT will hopefully make repairs quickly. I saw three of their crew members out yesterday with ...
September 2, 2008
Back To Normal
Sorry, kids – you’re going back to school today. Cape San Blas Road is re-opened and once again traffic is passing through Stumphole. Overall I think the beach looks good, admittedly there was ersosion but it could have been much, much, worse. Here’s the latest update from the beach restoration ...