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Southwest Florida could net a healthy number of visitors this winter, but the local competition for their business is fierce.
People who manage hotels and condos are starting to realize that visitors have many, many options.
After three years of raising rates, they are now focused on making sure guests return.
David Teitelbaum, president of a small condo-hotel […]
The commercial real estate markets continue to grow with record investment, and individual sectors in many areas are seeing tighter vacancy rates and higher rents, according to the latest Commercial Real Estate Outlook from National Association of Realtors® (NAR).
“The office and industrial markets continue to shine, supported by job growth and trade, while the rental […]
Sarasota-Bradenton posted a pricing decline — 9 percent — to $291,500, though the area’s median has been trending up when compared with the last several months.
The varying pitch of pricing in the region makes perfect sense to David Lipstein, founder of Manasota Key Realty.
“Buyers are looking for bargains — there’s no question about it,” Lipstein […]
A new housing community is going up in North Englewood. Beechwood Builders will build Heritage Creek, a single-family community to be located off State Road 776 in Englewood, a half-mile south of Manasota Beach Road.
Beechwood Builders is a custom home and remodeling builder and has been in business for more than 15 years in the […]
Imagine a Florida with twice as many people, double the congestion and another seven million acres of farms, forests and other rural lands paved over or converted into sprawling towns and suburbs. That’s the “frightening” future Florida will face by 2060 – just 53 years away – unless the state makes dramatic changes soon in […]
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Occupancy rates in Sarasota, Bradenton and Venice apartment complexes dropped nearly 5 percent during the past year and could be an indication that average rents won’t rise much in the months ahead, according to data released Thursday.
The local increase in apartment vacancies reflects a similar trend in every metropolitan area tracked by RealFacts, a […]
Florida’s mild climate and world-class beaches continue to draw Northern retirees seeking temporary refuge from harsh winter weather, but tourism experts say many of these snowbirds are shortening their stays. Rental rates have risen to keep up with spiraling property insurance rates from recent hurricanes, pricing some retirees out of the market. “Prices in rentals […]
Selling one house and buying another is like putting yourself between a rock and a hard place. If you set both closings within the same basic time frame you run the risk of ending up with two mortgages or much worse. If you schedule them with sufficient time between to solve any closing problems you […]
It’s difficult for housing experts to determine whether the market has finally bottomed out, especially since home sales typically slow during the winter months. Moreover, Census data shows that 4.6 percent of the nation’s for-sale and rental homes, or 5.7 million units, sat vacant in the third quarter — up from an average 3.5 percent […]
It ends with a whimper: The 2006 hurricane season concludes today with nary a single hurricane making landfall, a feat not repeated since 2001 and only the 11th time on record. Most forecasters offered explanations on why their forecasts fell short since most predicted an above-average hurricane season last spring; at the same time, they’re […]
MIAMI — July 24, 2006 — Three dozen South Florida home builders and real estate agents mingled last week at Buster’s Bar & Grill in downtown Delray Beach. Standing only feet apart, they shouted pleasantries over the deafening din of Elton John’s Rocket Man and Steve Miller’s Fly Like An Eagle.
The music might have been […]
WASHINGTON — April 11, 2006 — College graduates are flocking to America’s big cities, chasing jobs and culture and driving up home prices. Though many of the largest cities have lost population in the past three decades, nearly all have added college graduates, an analysis by The Associated Press found.
The findings offer hope for urban […]
CHARLOTTE COUNTY — In Charlotte County’s hot housing market, $20,000 is apparently small potatoes.
It’s the figure that county government is offering property owners to fix up their hurricane-damaged homes in an effort to spur affordable housing.
The county’s pilot program has several catches: Homeowners must spend $40,000 of their own money to get the houses back […]