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Naples Florida Short Sales (edit/delete)

GREAT SHORT SALE VALUE ALERT

Naples Florida Short Sales

New Short Sale Listing that is a great value.  Buyer paid $ 559.900.00 for the new home in 2006 plus the lot. THIS HOME IS OFFERED AT $ 159,900.00

This is a 4 bedroom home plus den.  3 car garage, tile roof, a 2.57 acre lot and more is only $ 159,900.00

CONTACT THE KROL GROUP , THIS OPPORTUNITY WILL NOT LAST CALL 800-214-4945 OR 239-430-1700

 http://www.johnkrol.net to get more information on this new listing and other pre-foreclosure opportunities.  We also have REO lists from bank owned properties.

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Naples Florida Market Report Buyers Move To Higher Priced Catagories (edit/delete)

Naples Florida Market Report Buyers Move To Higher Priced Catagories

BUYERS MOVE TO HIGHER PRICED CATEGORIES
Report Shows Inventory Declines 14 Percent

 

To contact our office for a free list of REO's or Short Sales

BRITISH BUYERS CLICK FOR A FREE BUYING IN FLORIDA CONSULTATION

TO CONTACT BROKER JOHN CALL 800-214-4945 OR 239-430-1700 OR EMAIL naplesflbroker@aol.com

TO SEE A SATELLITE VALUATION OF A PROPERTY YOU ARE INTERESTED IN GO TO http://www.naplespropertyvalues.com

NAPLES, Fla.-December 18, 2009- Buyers are purchasing higher priced property in the Naples area as consumer confidence continues according to a report released by the Naples Area Board of REALTORS® (NABOR), which tracks home listings and sales within Collier County (excluding Marco Island).

"The Naples area is following a traditional market recovery as buyers are going up the price scale and purchasing higher priced property. This is a considerable change from what we have seen in the past two years,"

Overall pending sales for properties in the $300,000 to $500,000 category increased 230 percent with 155 contracts in November 2009 compared to 47 contracts in November 2008.

Pending sales increase in the $300,000 to $500,000 price segment was seen in both the single-family home market, which was up 200 %, and the condo market, where pending sales increased 282 % in November 2009 compared to November 2008.
 
The report provides annual comparisons of single-family home and condo sales (via the SunshineMLS), price ranges, geographic segmentation and includes an overall market summary. The statistics are presented in chart format, along with the following analysis:

Overall pending sales increased 118 percent with 880 contracts in November 2009 compared to 403 contracts in November 2008.
 
Overall pending sales under $300,000 increased 108 percent with 593 contracts in November 2009 compared to 285 contracts in November 2008.

Single-family home pending sales increased 83 percent with 449 contracts in November 2009 compared to 245 contracts in November 2008.

Overall condo sales increased 136 percent with 248 sales in November 2009 compared to 105 in November 2008.

The overall median closed price decreased 11 percent to $173,000 in November 2009 from $195,000 in November 2008.

For the 12 months ending November 2009, the overall median closed price decreased 37 percent to $179,000 from $285,000 for the 12 months ending November 2008. Excluding the $300,000 and under segment, comprising a majority of foreclosure related property sales, the overall median price for the market dropped by only 7 percent in a comparison of the 12 months ending November 2008 and the 12 months ending November 2009. 

The median refers to the middle value in a set of statistical values that are arranged in ascending or descending order, in this case prices at which homes were actually sold.

The available inventory decreased 14 percent to 9,469 in November 2009 compared to 11,116 in November 2008. 
  

 
 
To view the entire November report, visit http://www.NaplesArea.com

 Moving To Florida Will Make You Happier

 

WE HAVE THE PROOF THAT MOVING TO FLORIDA WILL MAKE OUR BUYERS HAPPIER!!!
 

Livescience.com  has reported a new survey listing the happiest states....
 
1. Louisiana (this report was BEFORE Katrina)
   2. Hawaii
   3. Florida
   4. Tennessee
   5. Arizona
   6. Mississippi
   7. Montana
   8. South Carolina
   9. Alabama
  10. Maine
  11. Alaska
  12. North Carolina
  13. Wyoming
  14. Idaho
  15. South Dakota
  16. Texas
  17. Arkansas
  18. Vermont
  19. Georgia
  20. Oklahoma
  21. Colorado
  22. Delaware
  23. Utah
  24. New Mexico
  25. North Dakota
  26. Minnesota
  27. New Hampshire
  28. Virginia
  29. Wisconsin
  30. Oregon
  31. Iowa
  32. Kansas
  33. Nebraska
  34. West Virginia
  35. Kentucky
  36. Washington
  37. District of Columbia
  38. Missouri
  39. Nevada
  40. Maryland
  41. Pennsylvania
  42. Rhode Island
  43. Massachusetts
  44. Ohio
  45. Illinois
  46. California
  47. Indiana
  48. Michigan
  49. New Jersey
  50. Connecticut
  51. New York

FOR A HAPPY PRICED PROPERTY CONTACT BROKER JOHN AT 800-214-4945 OR 239-430-1700 ( FORMERLY FROM NEW JERSEY # 49 ON LIST AND NOW HAPPY! )

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HERE ARE A FEW POINTS FOR HOME OWNERS TO CONSIDER WHEN DECIDING WHO TO LIST WITH:

----- Virtual tour and professional pictures.....nearly18% of buyers come from the internet and they look at pictures ad virtual tours.  I'm tired at looking at beds and toilets in MLS listings.  Without a proper wide angle lens, a consumers camera will just take parts of a room.  Make sure you list with a firm that will give you professional pictures and a custom virtual tour.

----- Long term membership at the Better Business Breau (BBB).  Integrity and honestly matters, ask your firm to prove it!  Most firm would not survive a favorable rating given the number of complaints.  Asking the question about complaints is important, but the firm needs to prove it.

----Showing access to your home.  Believe it or not, most agents do not provide 24/7 showing access to make appointments to see your home.  I fell showing access is very important yet most sellers have no idea how hard it could be for other agents to get a simple appointment.  Some agents promise you that they will accompany all showings, but have no back up support and end up loosing showings.  I had one buyer who had up to 3 million to spend, however, one listing agent could not accomidate 2 requests for showing.  My buyer said forget it, they can keep it....you do not want this type of representation.

----- Broad distribution of listing.  I syndicate listings to over 50 websites.  Find out what e-marketing is done to get maxium web exposure globally.  What information sharing is done with affiliate offices around the globe.

----- Study the marketing plan carefully.  Don't list with an agent who is all about self promotion and not about marketing your home.  Be careful of print media.  About 1% of buyers come from print media, yet many agents send all their budget there and try to impress you with newspaper and magazine ads.  These are used as listing tools to get you to sign, Beware, you want an agent to market your property to where buyers come from.

----- Beware of 100% commission agents who do not want to share the commission with a broker providing a platform to help sell your home.  Remember, these agents simply pay the broker a fee to hang their license, say $100.00 per month and the broker nor the agents in the office have any interest in your marketing needs.  You are listing with 1 persons checkbook and if they are out sick, you arer out of luck.  I feel Broker support is a important element of a successful service.  Only a handfull of these 100% agents can afford to have the support mechanisms.  Also , be aware of the hated agent who is hard to work with in the community.  It is best to interview 3 or more agents with their brokers before you make a decision.  Afer all, selling your most important asset, you should seek out the best representation possible.

----- Look for feedback tools. Any good agent should provide showing feedback directly from the showing agent, also give you automated , ongoing seller's reports of new listing happening, reported sold sales, pending sales, expired listings, and all of this should be checked and emailed daily to you.  You should also get reports on how many internet clicks there are on your listing , how many are looking at yor tour, etc....

----- Look for companies that have connectivity locally, nationally, and international.  A local large firm may be big in town, but 30 min. down the road they are a nobody.  In Florida for example, nearly 15% of the properties are owned by foriegn nationals, so having real connectivity overseas matters, yet majority of firms claim to have international , but have nothing,  Ask how many foriegn customers they have handled this year. 

NAPLES: Ted Soliday, Executive Director of the Naples Airport, says Vision Airlines will once again be flying in and out of the airport.

He says the service will begin November 1 2009 and will act as a full-time service, meaning it will fly 365 days a year.

There will be five daily flights to Miami and two to Atlanta.

Vision Airlines also flies out of Las Vegas, Louisville and Washington DC.

The commuter flights will be able to hold up to 30 passengers.

Naples Realtors say they're enjoying one of their best seasons since 2005

By LAURA LAYDEN (Contact)
Originally published 1:46 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2009
Updated 7:57 p.m., Friday, March 13, 2009

 
 
Naples-area Realtors say they’re having one of their best seasons since 2005.
They point to February resales activity as part of the evidence.
 
Closed sales were up 26 percent and pending sales – sales that have yet to close — grew nearly 70 percent to 808, up from 479 a year ago, according to a monthly report by the Naples Area Board of Realtors (NABOR).
 
The report tracks home sales in Collier County made through the SunshineMLS, or multiple listing service, excluding Marco Island.
 
“There is a lot of people out there looking,” said broker Brett Brown, NABOR’s president.
And buying.
 
“The market is definitely up from last year. There is no doubt about it. Our sales were up 124 percent in February, over February of last year,” said Bill Coffey, managing broker for Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate on Fifth Avenue South in Naples.
 
Foreclosures and short sales — sales made for less than the bank is owed to avoid foreclosure — continue to drive the market and drive the median price down.
The median price of sales made in February was $188,000, a more than 42 percent drop from $326,000 in the same month a year ago.
 
The median price is the price at which half of the homes sell for more and half for less.
In February, 393 single-family homes and condos sold in the Naples area, up from 312 a year ago. Of that total, 277 went for less than $300,000.
 
North Naples had the most sales at 113. That was followed by East Naples, with 90.
Realtors say pending sales are a better indication of buyer activity because sales usually take a few months to close. Short sales can take even longer.
 
Mike Hughes, vice president of Downing-Frye Realty in Naples, said this season is shaping up to be the best one since 2005. He’s seeing multiple offers on homes.
 
“What’s encouraging is that with a tough economy and now the stock market creeping into the picture we are still producing some pretty strong numbers,” he said.
He’s surprised by the activity.
 
“The low end continues to lead the way,” Hughes said. “There is an awful lot of value in that price range right now. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen these kinds of prices.”
Of the 808 pending sales in February, 587 are priced at under $300,000. Another 96 fall in the $300,000 to $500,000 market. At the high end, 19 are under contract for $2 million-plus.
 
Sales of higher-priced homes are lagging behind where they were a year ago. But they’re still moving.
 
In February, Coffey, with Coldwell Banker, said his company had an $11 million sale, a $9.5 million sale and sales in the $150,000s.
 
“They were all over the board, which is good,” he said. “That is the way we want it.”
He said the low interest rates _ at about 5 percent _ are helping to spur more sales.
Hughes agrees. But he feels a lot more homes could be sold if lenders weren’t “buried in paperwork,” with so many short sales and foreclosures.
“We have a lot of buyers that are waiting to hear from lenders on whether they have a contract,” Hughes said.
He expects good things over the coming months.
 
“For Downing-Frye, March, April and May are by far big months,” Hughes said.
At his company, pending sales for this year are up 15 percent over last year, he said.
“The cold winter up North has certainly helped,” Hughes said. “We have a lot of visitors down here.”
 
Last month, his office had more than 3,300 showings
The inventory of homes on the market in the Naples area continues to drop with the rise in sales. Listings dropped 7.6 percent in February to 11,427, down from 12,377 a year ago.
The Marco Island and Fort Myers markets are seeing the same trends.
 
In the Fort Myers area, single-family home resales more than doubled in February. There were 936 homes sold, up from 464 sales a year ago, according to the Realtor Association of Greater Fort Myers and the Beach Inc.
Pending sales climbed 67.5 percent in February to 1,740, up from 1,039 in the same month a year ago.
 
“We can’t predict what the economy is going to do,” Coffey said. “But it does have a big bearing on what happens in real estate. I think unless there is a major downswing in the economy, we are going to see sales being much better throughout the whole year.”

 
 

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