Miami Herald - South Florida home prices rose in March 2015 │ May 26, 2015 Home prices in South Florida rose for the 38th consecutive month in March, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, a closely watched barometer of the housing market. Resale values for single-family homes in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties were up 8.7 percent in March 2015 compared to March 2014. Click to Read More

Herald Tribune - Small Real Estate Investors Taking Over in Southwest Florida │ May 25, 2015 Bijan Gorji knows how to think like the biggest minds in real estate. The California transplant is not quite investing billions of dollars in property portfolios across America, but having spent two decades securitizing loans, Gorji sees the same thing as Wall Street: The rental market is scorching. Click to Read More

Gulfshore Life - Realty Check: What Your Money Will Buy for $7.6 million. │ May 1, 2015 When it came to the waterside home at 274 little Harbour Lane, Royal Shell Real Estate agent Gary L. Jaarda says the couple who purchased it were immediately smitten. “They came to the open house, saw it, fell in love with it and bought it on the spot,” he says. Jaarda sold the estate to the couple for the original asking price of $7.6 million just one month after it had hit the market in November. Built in 1997, the house rests on a lot and a half and exceeds the size of most other 5,000-square-foot hom...

By Jeff Jaarda, for BayWatch News This article appeared in the March 2015 issue of BayWatch News It’s nice to reflect on how far things have come in the real estate market the last few years. It’s been well documented in this space that inventory has been scarce. As of this writing there are 78 resale properties for sale in Bonita Bay, while at this same point in 2014 there were 140 properties for sale, in 2013 there were 211 for sale, and in 2012 there were 208 for sale. The average sales price in Bonita Bay is up 38% from two years ago while the median sales price is up 16% from two y...

Naples Herald - Study: Naples Residents Among Happiest in U.S.. │ February 28, 2015 University of British Columbia (UBC), recently surveyed residents from U.S. metropolitan areas about their satisfaction and ranked Naples, FL as the fourth-happiest city in the U.S. No other city in Florida made it on the top 10 list of happiest places to live. Author Dan Buettner conducted a longevity study on the oldest U.S citizens to create a model for living longer, being active and living happier, healthier lives. Click to Read More

Naples Daily News - Home Values Jump 25% │February 20, 2015 NAPLES, Fla. - Naples area home prices soared 25 percent year-over-year in January, beating last January’s eye-popping increase of 20 percent. Overall median closed home prices in the Naples metropolitan statistical area, excluding Marco Island, hit $322,000 in January, up year-over-year from $258,000 in January 2014 and $215,000 in January 2013,... Click to Read More  

Naples Daily News - Naples-Marco Island Expected to Lead State in Economic Growth in 2015 │ January 6, 2015 NAPLES, Fla. - The Naples-Marco Island metro area is expected to lead the state in terms of gross metropolitan product growth in 2015, according to a report released Tuesday by Florida TaxWatch. Naples-Marco Island should see 4.7 percent GMP growth over the next year, according to the report, which cites research by IHS Global Insight. Click to Read More