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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 18, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – October 11-17, 2008
If you weren’t lucky enough to be on the Cape this week you missed one of the prettiest weeks of the year. The weather couldn’t be more perfect: crystal blue skies, highs around 78 or 80, relatively low humidity and gentle breezes. Mark your calendar: October is a great time ...
October 11, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – October 4-10, 2008
I don’t know about you but I don’t really want to go through another week like the one we just ended. It has been hard to get anything done while glued to the screen watching the stock market fluctuate wildly out of control. Maybe some of the capital pulled out ...
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 27, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – Sep. 20-26, 2008
Hard to believe but it was a year ago this week that I posted the first week in review and what a year it has been. In that time the MLS has recorded 56 sales in the Cape San Blas, Indian Pass and C-30 Corridor market, with 38 homes and ...
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 15, 2008
Cape San Blas Road Open
This morning traffic is flowing freely in both lanes on Cape San Blas Road through Stumphole. The surf has finally quieted back down, and except for the few homes on the southern portion of the Cape which were damaged by the storm, a couple quite severely, life is getting back ...
September 13, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – Sep. 6-12, 2008
It has been a busy week around here but this morning things are getting back to normal. Ike didn’t interfere much with business, and real estate activity carried on. We end the week with a really nice 6% reduction in our overall inventory, coming in at 404 total active listings ...
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
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 6, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – Aug. 29 – Sept. 5, 2008
Luckily it’s a lot quieter around here than it was last week, which is a good thing since this is the last weekend of scallop season for 2008, with Wednesday, the 10th, being the final day, so if you’re wanting to stock your freezer you need to get moving. Lots ...