Category: Forgotten Coast

Spring arrived right on schedule this week with warm, breezy days and clear blue skies. The azaleas and wisteria are in full blloom, and even the crepe myrtle are starting to show signs of color. Let’s take a look to see if there were any signs of new life in ...

Beware the Ides of March. This week’s market meltdown on Wall Street, especially Friday’s free fall of Bear Sterns, has been a sobering experience and will, I fear, not bode well for our local struggling real estate market as investors and families alike are likely to turn to cash positions ...

March has certainly come in like a lion this week, with over three inches of rain and strong winds, gusting to 35 mph as I write. Let’s see if there’s any chance our real estate market is showing any sign of possibly roaring back into action. Still no significant change ...

I’ve heard a few things this week from friends and colleagues that caught my attention and have me wondering if they might be the early glimmering of daylight at the end of the tunnel for our real estate market here on the Cape. Two bankers told me that the lower ...

CONGRATULATIONS – YOU DID IT! Thanks to your avalanche of emails and phone calls to commissioners yesterday, what looked like a done deal on Tuesday went down in defeat Thursday when the board voted 4 to 1 to deny Ashwood Development’s request to add nearly 100 lots to Ovation for ...

Please take a minute today to address the following – by Thursday morning it will be too late! Yesterday, Tuesday, the Planning Development Review Board met and reviewed Ashwood’s request to increase their density in Ovation by roughly 100 lots and building duplexes rather than the single family homes originally ...

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 ...