by Fatima Khokhar | Nov 26, 2013 | Buzz Around Naples, Naples Area Market Conditions
The secret is out. National media outlets such as Kiplinger and Market watch highlight our slice of paradise as one of the top retirement spots for investors and high net worth individuals alike. Home builders have ramped up production of homes to keep up with pent up...
by Fatima Khokhar | Oct 9, 2013 | Buzz Around Naples, Naples Area Market Conditions
Listen to the Podcast version of this post on BlogTalkRadio. Cindy Carroll, President of the residential division of Carroll and Carroll Real Estate Appraisers and Consultants presented her insights into the state of the local Naples real estate market last week. ...
by Fatima Khokhar | Sep 11, 2013 | Buzz Around Naples, Naples Area Market Conditions
What a far cry from the “lazy days of summer”! The Naples market has been performing at a speed that has left many buyers stunned! Some properties are going under offer in days and others are being taken off the market to be renovated in order to attract a larger pool...
by Fatima Khokhar | Jun 26, 2013 | Buzz Around Naples, Naples Area Market Conditions
Buyers have come out in droves and are embracing our heat and humidity to score deals on real estate outside of the “season”. The pace of sales has been staggering at our brokerage firm Downing-Frye Realty as general manager, Mike Hughes released the following...
by Fatima Khokhar | Mar 20, 2013 | Buzz Around Naples, Naples Area Market Conditions
Season is code word for madness in Naples. Over the past few years “madness” has been reserved to reference the crowded streets, restaurants and beaches as seasonal visitors inhabit our slice of paradise between January and March. This year “madness” has also...
by Fatima Khokhar | Feb 8, 2013 | Buzz Around Naples, Naples Area Market Conditions
Weather people in the Northeast have their work cut out for them today as a massive storm is set to dump several feet of snow as it makes its way from New York to Maine this weekend. Here in Naples it is unseasonably warm as temperatures rose to 78 degrees today....
by Fatima Khokhar | Dec 21, 2012 | Buzz Around Naples, Naples Area Market Conditions
We round out 2012 in sunny Naples and the hot topic continues to be Inventory! Where is the inventory? We spent much of 2011 having plenty of properties to show prospective buyers and now many “new” resale properties are those that were taken off the market earlier...
by Fatima Khokhar | Nov 15, 2012 | Buzz Around Naples, Naples Area Market Conditions
Recovering? From the surprise, expectation or the (now) well-known fact that the Democrats have retained their footprint within the walls of the Oval office for four more years. Coining the term “financial cliff” as the newest buzz word in the aftermath of this...
by Fatima Khokhar | Oct 25, 2012 | Banking And Finance, Buzz Around Naples, Naples Area Market Conditions
October has been a very busy month; the news world is in a tizzy with the presidential debates, continued drama over the European debt crisis and the “return of the housing market”! As usual the media chooses to bombard the public with facts and figures and it is our...
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