In the last 20 years, there has not been a more attractive market for selling your real estate investments than now. Whether it’s time to downsize, time to sell your vacation real estate, time to relocate for work, time to buy your retirement dream home, or time to move to another state to be near family, home sellers are seeing some of the best sales offers in decades—often for cash and often Continue Reading
The Pros and Cons of Buying a Vacation Home
Thinking about buying a Florida vacation home? You’re not alone. Florida’s 1,350 miles of coastal beauty and seemingly endless sunshine draw millions to our shores each year. Add to that, the Tampa Bay Area is ranked sixth by Travel & Leisure Magazine out of the seven best places to buy a vacation home in Florida, and the idea of a Tampa Bay or Gulf coast vacation home becomes even more Continue Reading
Keep or Sell Your Vacation Home?
Recently, we’ve had the opportunity to help a few clients sell their vacation homes – mostly condos along our beautiful Gulf coast beaches. It wasn’t that they no longer wished to vacation at their favorite beach community, but they were visiting less frequently, and the cost to benefit no longer balanced out. Like these sellers, many homeowners are observing how the market is changing and Continue Reading
How Labor and Supply Chain Shortages Will Affect Real Estate in 2022
If the Pandemic has taught us anything, it's that many of us can be just as productive and effective working from home. This has opened the door for many to live anywhere we want and work remotely. Therefore, many are relocating to seek warmer weather, more cost-effective markets, and more square footage. Often with a new home comes new projects. Couple that with the fact that those of us who Continue Reading
Cash Real Estate Sales Are Skyrocketing: Should You Consider Paying Cash For Your Next Home?
To say that today’s current real estate market is wild is an understatement. Homes are being sold as soon as they go on the market, often for cash and often above the asking price. This is especially true in the vacation real estate and retirement real estate markets. But why have cash sales boomed in our current market? Even if you have the cash available to purchase a home, is it prudent to Continue Reading
