Southwest Florida Real Estate Articles

Listing Terminology

Whether you are looking at listings for a potential property purchase or you are working with an agent to determine a home valuation, you will want to know these basics of the terminology in the listing detail or the Comparable Market Analysis (CMA). Active: The...

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Money Magazine: Why Buy Your Retirement Home Now

It's Never Too Early to Plan for Sunshine Don't wait until you retire to buy the home you'll live in for the rest of your life. By Marion Asnes, Money Magazine NEW YORK (Money Magazine) - These days, many 40-year-olds are already thinking about how and where they want...

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Cape Coral Waterfront Properties: Understanding Value

Cape Coral Waterfront Properties: Understanding Value

Cape Coral Waterfront Property - What Influences Value?from Southwest Florida Real Estate Newsletter 2009Happy New Year! There's a heck of a storm raging through the northeast today, and our phone is a ringing with people saying they've had enough of the tundra and...

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What is a Short Sale?

Overview of the Short Sale Process Short sales are becoming less frequent in southwest Florida, but there are still some short sale properties available. A short sale means the owner owes more than the house can sell for in the current market or it is nearing...

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Why We Chose Southwest Florida

Part 1 Lifetyle. Lifestyle. Lifestyle. For us it was all about boating. Prior to moving here, we lived in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. We loved boating on the St. Croix River (our boat was slipped at Afton Marina). But we could really only use the boat 3 to 4...

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