Every buyer-to-be uses open houses differently. For some, they offer a rich looky-look experience at the very, very beginning of their house hunt. This empowers you to learn exactly what sort of place you can get for the money, at various price points and various spots Continue Reading

The state will spend $5 million next year to entice people to bring their aches and pains to Florida, under a measure that completed its first Senate committee exam on Monday. The bill would require Enterprise Florida, the state's public-private business recruitment Continue Reading

Millions of Americans say they want to buy a home this year, but many won't be able to, according to a new survey from Zillow. The reasons: Limited supply of homes, soaring prices and strict lending standards."The dream of homeownership remains very much alive and well," Continue Reading

Sanibel Historical Museum: click here to go to their website Sanibel Historical Village Twilight Talks, 7:00 p.m. at the Old Schoolhouse - March 19th"Ding" Darling Wildlife Society: click here to visit their website for more information FREE Winter Refuge Programs and Tours Continue Reading

New cell tower off Donax to service Sanibel's east end.  Only Sanibel would enclose a cell tower and turn it into a giant American flag.   Continue Reading

he City of Sanibel and Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) hosted a joint ribbon cutting ceremony for the Starr D. Thomas Memorial Boardwalk that connects the city's Pond Apple Trail with SCCF's Shipley's Trail and the Bailey Homestead Preserve. The Pond Apple Continue Reading

IRVINE, Calif. – March 6, 2014 – CoreLogic released new analysis showing that 4 million U.S. homes returned to positive equity in 2013. Overall, 42.7 million mortgage homeowners have equity (86.7 percent); 6.5 million homes (13.3 percent) do not. Florida ranked second in Continue Reading

The latest housing report from REAL Trends is now available! The REAL Trends Housing Market Report for January 2014 shows that the rate of housing sales increased at the slowest rate in the last 30 months on a year over year basis. Sales of new and existing homes in January Continue Reading

More buyers and current homeowners are weighing the merits of a “green” mortgage, according to U.S. News & World Report. Energy-efficient mortgages allow homeowners to roll the cost of “green” home improvements – such as solar panels, geothermal heating, tank-less water Continue Reading

A visitor was asking Toll Bros. CEO Douglas Yearley about the location of property in another state. Instead of trying to describe it, Yearley called to his assistant and asked her to get Google Earth up and running in the conference room where he and the visitor were Continue Reading