Pelican Bay Florida Listings

    “High rental occupancy and rising rents” was how economic trend-watcher Kiplinger.com summed up 2012 – and as the nation counts down to the New Year, owners and future owners of local rental property are clearly anticipating more of the same. Experienced managers have some timely advice for f...

  If you are an Naples, Florida homeowner struggling with the decision about whether listing your home for sale during the winter months is good or bad, there are arguments for either choice. Let’s start with the “pros”: One of the best things I like about listing your home for sale in the winte...

  When you check into the latest realty listings in any town, you come away with an accurate snapshot our current market. But when you are thinking of the future, and where values might be headed, it’s also useful to think nationally. Useful, yes: but careful! There is a tendency to mentally equa...

  Buyers’ agent, sellers’ agent. In every local real estate transaction, the differences are easy to understand, right? Not quite. A potential linguistic trapdoor can lie right around the corner.              For openers, that sellers' agent may also be called the ‘listing agent’ – both mean the ...

  When you visit any of the properties for sale in Naples, Florida this time of year, it’s likely you will notice a little extra sparkle. The holiday touches may be variations on the icy blue-and-white color palette -- or dashes of silver brightening the traditional red-and-green decorations. If ...

  The difference between a ‘Foreclosure’ and a ‘Bank-Owned Home’ may be technical, but  important to understand.  Foreclosures are properties that are auctioned off in a court process. A bank-owned home, on the other hand, is one that has reverted to the mortgage issuer: a bank. A foreclosure can...

  It may be a little early to start putting the champagne on ice, but looking over last week’s releases of housing reports gives us a fairly good idea of how our Pelican Bay housing picture for the year 2012 is likely to end up. “The housing recovery that started earlier in 2012 continues to gain...

  With the rancorous elections finally behind us and Naples, Florida property prices on the rise, public sentiment is markedly improving.  Last week, Neilson released its Consumer Confidence Survey, now showing the strongest level in more than four and a half years. My guess is that 2012 will lik...

  Suppose that selling your home has become this winter’s project, so you sit down to make a list of the best way to go about it. What would you list as the first order of business? For most of us, Job 1 would be making your Naples home as attractive as possible. The most straightforward way to a...

  According to a recent survey, nine out of ten REALTORS® believe that clients who make improvements before selling a house are more likely to secure a successful sale. Why, you may wonder, would anyone take the trouble to run a survey to discover anything that obvious? Possibly because of a foll...