This morning I woke up in a cold sweat and panic. Miley Cyrus was moving to Florida and she was buying a house for $157,842 in Fountain Lakes in beautiful, down town Estero, Florida. The breakfast nook is red, by the …
We’ve become a condensed society. We stay in our homes which are sandwiched together on the tiny parcels of land so close we could lean out our windows and high five each other yet nobody really knows each other …
An acquaintance I’d met some time ago decided to become a first time home owner. Though I would have probably voted him least likely to ever be tethered by a mortgage he found a home by happenstance and decided to place an offer to purchase …
There have been a few ads spotted out there with the declaration of how much lower the home price is compared to an appraisal from back in the day. Advertising an old “appraised at” price is totally irrelevant to buyers. If a home was …
Recently there’s been a lot of hubbub about the effects of the new Housing Valuation Code of Conduct – HVCC. The HVCC was intended to create a system to eliminate inflated values by either bad or novice appraisers or by predatory lenders …
By Nace Cohen, CPA
President, 1031 Exchange Connection in Naples, Florida
Here we go again, round two of the great Exchange. We all remember what was going on in the world of real estate a few years back. It was simple, buy …
“But I thought it was a buyer’s market” … That’s what the last buyer said to me that had put in a half dozen offers on homes and lost the contract on every single bid. It is, in fact, a buyers market but there are …
In the last several years buying, selling and renting real estate has changed dramatically mostly due to the internet. Consumer do-it-yourselfers are able to research any property, neighborhood and market statistics they need to educate themselves about the local real estate market. …
Photo Courtesy Jeff Turner
The public has gotten fed up watching professional economists stab and miss repeatedly with their predictions over the last few years. If I got a dollar for every time I heard a nationally recognized, and one would assume, college education economist …
1. There are homes for sale on the Imperial River for sale for $100,000. No. There are barely any homes available at that price, let alone on the river. That price is a ridiculous stretch for gulf access real estate in …