Second Home Strategy: Business Week Article
A Second Home—for Now In the coming decades, baby boomers will only be driving prices up By SUSAN SCHERREIK Business Week Online Closer to age 50 than 60, today's retirement-home buyers favor a farsighted strategy: They're looking for...
Southwest Florida Anchorages
We've said it before, we'll say it again... there is so much to explore on the waterways of Southwest Florida, it's hard to get it all done. Even for people that have southwest Florida waterfront homes, exploring the InterCoastal Waterway and Gulf of Mexico beaches...
Square Footage in Southwest Florida Homes
In local Southwest Florida MLS listings, there are two measures of a home’s square footage. The first is the area “under air” (the portion of the home that is air conditioned and heated).A newer 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath home typically is 1500 to 2300 square feet under air....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Using an Ira to purchase an Investment Property
The Basics of an Ira Real Estate Investment from the SageRealtor Newsletter Archive In this issue, we highlight a little-known IRS provision that lets you extend real estate purchasing with tax-deferred dollars. Using self-directed IRAs some investors are now...
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...
Case Study: Cape Coral Waterfront Home Buying
Working the List - Finding the Best Deal from SageRealtor News September 2006 Buyer's Profile: UK national, avid boater, entrepreneur in manufacturing, self-proclaimed "cheap Irishman," looking for a DEAL Objective: one or two waterfront homes for investment and for...