44 days ago by alzander

I keep hearing that a house has been on the market for X number of days so that makes it a better or a worse deal. In our market, I will disagree with that assumption. In fact, Days on Market (DOM) has become less of an indicator of a home than almost any other statistic. There are homes that have b ...

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72 days ago by alzander

Get ready for more listings on the market. As sure as the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west, the Charlotte County real estate market sees an upward spike in listing inventory every October and November. It is already starting in Punta Gorda Isles and Burnt Store Isles. This “spike” has n ...

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85 days ago by alzander

A common theme that I am hearing when visiting people who are considering listing their homes is that they do not think that they should list their homes now. They feel that it is pointless because “no one can get a loan”. I believe that this thinking is totally incorrect. I agree that there are man ...

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94 days ago by alzander

I was recently asked if we have “hit bottom”. I don’t think that there is a more loaded question for a Realtor. If I say “Yes” and the market drops in 5 months, I look like a misguided fool and if I say “No”, I am called a pessimist who does not believe in the product (the local real estate market). ...

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94 days ago by alzander

They say that statistics can paint any picture, any color depending on the interpretation. I will do some of my own hypothesizing of the Punta Gorda/Port Charlotte/North Port Board of Realtors statistics released last week. There are some interesting numbers. For example, within the Board covered ar ...

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101 days ago by alzander

We have seen a bit of a shift in the type of buyer for the Punta Gorda – Port Charlotte market buyer over the past year. I do not think that this is a long-term/permanent change but it has definitely affected our sales somewhat. In the past, a percentage of our typical buyers were “snow-birds” or se ...

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106 days ago by alzander

Sometimes it truly does depend on how you look at the situation to decide if it is good or bad. The Punta Gorda Isles/ Burnt Store Isles (PGI/BSI) real estate market has good news, bad news and some that I am not quite sure is which. Transactions in Punta Gorda Isles and Burnt Store Isles are defini ...

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437 days ago by admin

Well, we did it again. Punta Gorda made its way onto another Top 10 List. This time U.S. News & World Report named Punta Gorda as one of the top 10 “Best Healthy Places to Retire”. As a matter of fact we were the only city named in Florida (and actually the whole southeastern United States)! You can ...

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465 days ago by admin

A lot of people were disappointed when Skybus airlines ceased doing business earlier this year. That being said, when 120,000 passengers passed through our little airport in four short months we proved there is demand for a passenger airline service in Charlotte County. Well, the good news is that t ...

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589 days ago by admin

For those of you who have visited Punta Gorda recently, I think you will agree that we have a lot of development going on in our downtown. It really is quite exiting. Two new buildings are near completion and another has just begun development. The projects on the home stretch are the Sunloft Center ...

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