Greetings and welcome to this month's Market Report!  I hope all is well with you and thanks again for your referrals.  It's the highest compliment I can receive! Before we get to last month's data, I ran across a great article about the wide variances in real estate markets around the country. For example, two houses went on the market for similar prices at about the same time earlier this year. One got 25 offers. The other got none.  There are many variables that determine demand, f... read more

Greetings and welcome to this month's Market Report!  I hope all is well with you and thanks again for your referrals.  It's the highest compliment I can receive! I keep telling you, this is a great time to buy in Southwest Florida.  Below is a quick summary from a recent Naples Daily News article reporting on Naples leading the country in 2025 price decline.   Naples, Florida, led the U.S. with the largest decline in housing prices in 2025, dropping by 6.5%. Despite th... read more

Greetings and welcome to this month's Market Report!  I hope all is well with you and thanks again for your referrals.  It's the highest compliment I can receive! I happened to see some interesting news regarding the health and wealth of Collier County residents in a Naples Daily News article, September 22. Here is what they had to say: According to newswire Stacker, Collier County has the longest life expectancy in Florida. Residents live to be 84.7 years on average (6.2 years longe... read more

Greetings and welcome to this month's Market Report!  I hope all is well with you and thanks again for your referrals.  It's the highest compliment I can receive! Before we get into this month's report, I just want to address a recent Naples Daily News (NDN) article which portrayed our real estate market as, "the worst EVER".  Statistics and numbers can be deceiving and NDL did not disappoint in demonstrating that matter.  Have prices softened from the record highs during the Cov... read more

Before we review last month's data, each month I like to share interesting facts about our local real estate market.  With that in mind, Naples Daily News reported last year that Southwest Florida has the highest concentration of construction workers in America, with more than 60,000 employed in the Collier and Lee industry. But they're having more trouble making ends meet here than nearly all their North American brethren in the building world, based on new data this past week from trade publicatio... read more