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2013 

Real Estate Headlines - 22 - Worth of Attention... 2012 Best Home Sale Year in Five Years source: money.cnn.com According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR, graph right,) December 2012 sales (of previously-owned homes) pace was was down slightly but up 12.8% from one year ago. 2012 was...
01/27/2013
New Development Paloma in Bonita Springs Bonita Springs is Booming - Hawthorne, Bonita Lakes, Bonita Isle, and now Paloma The new construction and new development announcements just keep coming fast and furious. The last announcement was Bonita Isles and we are just days away from the grand openi...
01/25/2013
2011 versus 2012 Naples Area Contracts Overall 2012 was up 18% over 2011 We track all kinds of numbers in real estate as do most other businesses and markets. Real estate is, after all, a market just like any other. The graph above shows significant improvement overall in the number of pending sa...
01/24/2013
Real Estate Investors Seek Next Hot Home Market Low Inventory and Rising Prices Pushes Investors Out of Tapped-Out Markets Based on an article in Tuesday January 22, 2013 USA Today. For the most part investors are large insitutional organizations and major real estate focused investment companies...
01/23/2013
Green Market comes to Miromar Outlets Estero, Florida and Miromar Lakes, Florida, Grandezza Every Sunday from 10AM to 2PM the fresh farmer's market is at Miromar Outlets. It sets up in the furthest west parking lot from Ben Hill Griffin Parkway. There's something for everyone! In addition to the ...
01/22/2013
Reprinted with permission __________________________________ Fla.’s housing market continues positive track in Dec. 2012   ORLANDO, Fla. – Jan. 22, 2013 – Florida’s housing market had more closed sales, higher pending sales, higher median prices and a reduced inventory of homes for sale in Decemb...
01/22/2013
Real Estate Headlines - 21 - Worthy of Attention... Now more expensive to rent than buy source: businessinsider.com David Kelly of JP Morgan offered the chart to the right that captures the imbalance. With the housing bubble not that far in the past, Americans have been wobbly about making a buyi...
01/17/2013
Bonita Isles Bonita Springs...Springs to Life! Grand Opening set for early February I first wrote an introduction to Bonita Isles in November 2012. With the Grand Opening still to come, I have been getting a lot of inquiries in anticipation. There are very good reasons to get in early and under t...
01/15/2013
Real Estate Headlines - 20 - Worthy of Attention... Shadow Inventory Declines source: mortgagedailynews.com According to CoreLogic, the shadow inventory of financially distressed homes is still shrinking. As of October there was 2.29 million properties or a 7.2 month supply. This is a 12% decreas...
01/07/2013
Think you want to buy a short sale? A determined listing and buyer agent didn't give up, neither did the buyer The saga begins in February of 2012. Yes, I did say February 2012 and has concluded, finally, at 8:30PM on January 4, 2013 when the seller handed me the keys. I'm the selling agent on th...
01/06/2013
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Author Bio: Bob Pisa moved to the Naples area after spending 30 years in the Boston area. He was raised in the metro-NYC area and graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY) in 1974. His career has been primarily in high-technology manufacturing and enterprise software for multi-national companies. Bob was also a successful small business entrepreneur and ultimately sold his start up business after six years of operation to a major corporation. He is the former Vice President for the Grandezza Master Homeowner's Association (two terms) and former President of the Santa Lucia Homeowner's Association (three terms.) Bob attained his real estate license in 2005, and is working in commercial and residential real estate. He is a member of Naples Area Board of Realtors®, NAR, and Florida REALTORS.