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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 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 13, 2008
Open For Business
For the first time since Wednesday, the wind has finally subsided, the bay is calm, the sun’s shining brightly and life is good. Cape San Blas Road has one lane through Stumphole open only to local residents and guests with reservations (read that: no rubberneckers, please), so come one down. ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
September 1, 2008
Gustav Is a Big Boy
I have to admit being several hundred miles from New Orleans we weren’t expecting all that much action from Gustav, but the wind has been blowing hard and steady since late Friday afternoon and waves continue to pound away at our beaches even at mid-day on Labor Day. The combination ...
August 30, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – August 23-28, 2008
It’s Labor Day Weekend, the last hurrah of the busy tourist season here and by the looks of the parking lot at Scallop Cove this morning there are a lot of folks hoping to catch a few more rays and a few more fish and scallops before heading back to ...