That Does it.

China is trying to crack down on internet Bloggers according to what the Government thinks is lawful and moral......

I am going to Boycott their control freak export machine.....

They can kiss my HTML>>>>

The Hotel

Have you guys seen the prices on the new HOTEL RUKIDDINME?

Very SPORTY.......

Greed springs eternal...

St. Joe mail blitz

I have been getting at least one marketing piece a week from St. Joe in my box for many weeks in a row now.
St. Joe is making a big push with ad dollars.
They are the BIG FISH even if they have been A FISH OUT OF WATER lately.
As goes JOE goes, so goes the rest.......

NEW REAL ESTATE LAW

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

IT'S THE LAW

Last week, Gov. Jeb Bush signed SB 1948 into law,
requiring sellers ofcoastal property located seaward
of the coastal construction control line (CCCL) to make
additional disclosures effective this Saturday, July 1.
The disclosure, which must be given before the contract for
sale and purchase is executed, informs buyers of the
possibility of coastal erosion and that certain federal,
state or local environmental laws may regulate the coastal
property. You may view the disclosure language at
http://www.flsenate.gov. Search for billSB 1948.

IS YOUR CONDO HOA COVERED?

Ordinance or Law Coverage

2005 Domestic AD spending

The Double Digit Advertising spending percentage gainers over 2004 are:

1. Local Magazines - 25.2%
2. Sunday Magazines - 13.7%
3. Internet - 13.3%
4. Cable TV Network - 11.0%

Real Estate , ranking number 2 as a sector posted an AD spending incease of 27.6% bested only by AD spending in the Gas and Oil sector.


Source: ADWEEK

It can't happen soon enough....

PROPERTY TAX REFORM

Legislators concede that they did little this
 past session to help
Floridians keep up with rising property taxes,
 but they promised
to study the issue and revisit it next year.
 Now, Gov. Jeb Bush is
getting involved, and says he'll form
his own study committee.

Good information here mate

Good Real estate Info

hurricane blog

Hurricane Blog

Thank You Mr. President

Protecting Property Rights

Click on the above link for the Presidents full comments.

the fear mongers are on the street

The Choice Is Yours… PROFIT or PERISH From The Coming Real Estate Bloodbath That Will Paralyze 72 Million Homeowners In 2006 US Foreclosures UP 45% in Last 12 Months… US Foreclosures UP 27% in Last 30 DAYS… US Foreclosures ROSE Every Quarter in 2005… Southern California… Marion County… San Jose DRASTICALLY SLASHING ASKING PRICES… Massachusetts Foreclosures SHOOT UP 34%- Pricier Counties UP 40% According to Providence Journal… Even The RED HOT Arizona Market is COOLING… Average “Days-On -Market” Swells 51% Over Previous Year According to Jim Faherty, Arizona Republic Newspaper… "Here’s How You Can Pick Gold From The Streets…While Everyone Else Runs Like Chickens Without Heads!"

The Sky is not falling

But some of these sales prices need to come DOWN people.
If you really don't want to sell your property then PLEASE take it off the market and help your neighbor to get a sale.

And if you want to move it........ Then give them a DEAL.
That's whats selling right now.


And if you can live with plain greed instead of obscene greed then all will be well.

the top real estate blogs

Top Real Estate Blogs

Check it out. It could give you some ideas on how to do your real estate blog.
Oh come on, you know you want to........

Sellers are coming round

We are seeing the next phase of a cycle where many sellers who have moved very slowly to adjust their prices to market conditions after the slowdown now starting to offer buyers better discounts to move properties.

This helps bring out the move up buyers and bargain hunters we need to fire this market back up to a respectable pace.

If we don't you are going to start seeing more of your favorite realtors waiting tables at local area
Cafe's.

Happy Fathers Day

Happy fathers Day from the Women on the Front
Lines.

Market VIBE

U.S. housing boom is biggest since 1890

Increase in home prices may have been psychological, economist says

By Amy Hoak, MarketWatch

Last Update: 3:47 PM ET Jun 16, 2006

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- The recent housing boom is the biggest the United States has ever seen, but its underlying reasons may have been psychological, economist Robert J. Shiller said on Friday. New data also suggest the market might be at the end of a cycle, he added.

This Market still has some fire

We are proud to annouce that we made a sale







AAAAAAH, that feels gooood....

Condo Blogging

Let's read about the Florida Condo markets future at

Condo Blogging

We are already better off than last season

Remember Arlene ? nasty tropical storm she was too.

And I think that was on June 11.


So that's almost mid June in a few days.... The Sand and Seaoats are still looking good at Seaside
as of today.

I need a witness

...To the power of my MOJO ya'll.

BIRDS ROCK

If you love birds check out Kevin's ( my 12 year old Son's) New web blog about birds at:
BIRDS ROCK

The Mojo

I got my Mojo fired up and workin to keep them big bad storms away from our piece of paradise.

So I need you all to stare out into the gulf with me and say...

Lordy Lordy have mercy on me and this great place and take that big bad storm out into the deep water far from me....

The market moves.....

Just in the last few days we have seen and heard of offers being made on property.
The market or a part of it is starting to see that there are some good deals to be made for those with ready cash or credit.

Just what we agents need to keep hope alive.....

Wall Street doubts St. Joe

Using phrases such as " redneck riveria" and "swampland" and claiming that things are oversold,
overbuilt and overhyped wall street say St. Joe stock has fallen on hard times.

At least some admit that Old Joe has the staying power to make it through and that the new Aiport in Panama City is an important step on the path forward.

And we keep hearing the rumors of a major theme park coming to our area......

Toast of the Coast

Do you just adore a Penthouse view???

4,000 + square feet

Approx $4.3 Million Clams

ooooooeeeeeeeeoooooo

A devilish Mortgage rate

Weather or not....

Better than 2005 according to this source...

Posted By:

JeffMasters at 2:49 AM GMT on June 04, 2006

For the next week, I'll be posting excerpts from an interview I did with the Northwest Florida Daily News of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, that was published on Sunday, May 28. The questions were posed to me by Del Stone Jr., Deputy Managing Editor and self-admitted weather nut. I'll be back to live blogging on June 14.

Q. Is The Weather Underground your full-time job?

A. The Weather Underground is my full-time job, but I do a few guest lectures for the University of Michigan introductory meteorology classes.

Q. The $64,000 question, at least for people along the Emerald Coast here in Northwest Florida, is: What can we expect of the hurricane season in 2006? Specifically, do you have any feel for the number of named storms in 2006? I assume some of these storms reach the intensity of 2005's notorious Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Do you have a feel for how many?

A. The active hurricane period that began in 1995 should continue this year, since there is no strong El Nino event present, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are .5 - 1.5 degrees C above normal across the tropical Atlantic, and the other four indicators we look at to predict seasonal hurricane activity are all positive. However, SSTs are nearly 1 degree cooler than last year's record levels, so I am not expecting another 2005. That was a once-in-a-lifetime year. My worst-case scenario calls for another year like 2004, with 15 to 20 named storms, and two to four major hurricanes hitting the U.S. My best-case scenario is still for an active year with 15 or so named storms, but with most of the storms recurving harmlessly out to sea. This happened in 1995, when the Bermuda High set up shop further east than usual, allowing the storms to recurve before hitting the coast. There will probably be at least three Category 4 or 5 hurricanes this year, and I expect one of these will make it into the top ten list for most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record. I don't look for anything like 2005, when three of the six most intense hurricanes on record occurred.

Crazy

No, I'm not talking about he Patsy Cline song but about the favorite word used by area realtors to describe this market.

When property is selling faster than ***** on a troop train all we can say is "it's Crazy" this market is "crazy".

And when this market is more dead than uncle Jed we say "it's crazy " this market is "crazy".

And that is how we all stay sane.

A different way to buy and sell

The Zillow way

HOME PRICES

Average U.S. home prices rose 12.5 percent
from the first quarter of 2005
to the first quarter of 2006,
the federal government reported yesterday.
Three Florida MSAs ranked in the top five
for price growth:
No. 2, Naples-Marco Island, at 37.7 percent
No. 4, Cape Coral-Fort Myers, at 36.9 percent
No. 5, Lakeland, at 36.5 percent.

Inland Heights Better than the Beach????

This recent email I received shows how MISFORTUNE on our Coast is used to move the product(real estate) on the other side of the pond (C-Bay) in Freeport.


They cover all of the hot buttons:
1. destruction of property by Hurricanes
2. Skyrocketing coastal insurance rates
3. Annual evacuations (stated like a fact)
4. Beachfront living = Risk
5. Inland living = Peace of Mind

Chamber Promotes Inland Development - Freeport, Fla. -- May 25, 2006

Billboards offering large swaths of land to the highest bidder have replaced the soybean farms, boiled peanut stands and mobile home parks that once dotted this Panhandle town.

Just 15 miles north of major beach developments in popular tourist spots such as Destin, Freeport is a boomtown largely because of a clever marketing campaign aimed at real estate investors who want to live near beaches without the fear of having their waterfront properties destroyed in a hurricane.

Developers like Larry Davis envision upscale, village-style neighborhoods in the style of nearby Seaside, a well-known, beachfront enclave of pastel Victorian beach homes. But others fear the development trend will lure wealthy retirees away from the beach and entice them to gobble up this last bastion of affordable living in the region.

''I don't know what's happened, it seems like a shark feeding frenzy with big developers coming in and everyone having to have a piece of it. They have jacked the prices right through the roof,'' said Freeport Mayor Mickey Marse.

''Don't get me wrong, I'm glad for the local people who have sat on their property for all these years and are getting some money out of it now. But on the other hand, I wonder if we are pricing our young people right out of here,'' Marse said.

Freeport has a lot to offer those looking to live near world-class beaches without the hassles of skyrocketing insurance rates for beach-front properties or annual evacuations during hurricane seasons, said Davis, sales manager and real-estate broker for Owl's Head, a Freeport development with up to 2,400 lots priced between $80,000 and $285,000. Beachfront lots often start at $1 million.

Davis' half brother Robert Davis developed Seaside 25 years ago.

Walton County's chamber of commerce has embraced the idea of heading inland to develop homes, announcing Wednesday the formation of ''The Coastal Inland Heights,'' the official name of the inland region of the county. The name will be used to market the region to potential developers and investors and will draw on the success of the ''The Beaches of South Walton,'' which markets the county's beaches, said Dawn Moliterno, president of the Walton County Chamber.

Owl's Head, which hosted Wednesday's reception first coined the ''Coastal Inland Heights'' term in its marketing materials.

Davis said Owl's Head will offer the quality of development found at Seaside and other beachfront communities without the risks of beachfront living.

''What we've really discovered after Katrina is that this is about peace of mind,'' he said.

The idea appeals to retiree of Billy Geffon of New York who recently purchased two lots at Owl's Head. At $160,000, lots inland are a steal, compared to the $1 million price of beachfront lots, he said.

And Geffon said living in a nice home 15 miles away from the beach is worth the drive for two-thirds of the cost.

''This is going to be a prime, prime location for baby boomers in the next 10 years because you are near the beach and you are in Florida,'' he said.

The lure of inland developments to investors like Geffon worries Kathy Lowhown, who works to find affordable housing for the 22,000 employees of nearby Eglin Air Force Base. With another 12,000 airmen expected to come to the base under base realignment plans, finding affordable housing is expected to become even more of a struggle.

''It's a huge concern for us,'' she said. ''Even with housing allowance increases it's difficult for our employees.''

For 23 years Copeland's Gun Shop has done business on Highway 331, the main thoroughfare from Freeport to the beaches. Owner Daniel Copeland has watched the town boom around him.

Freeport used to be so quiet that he would have time to eat lunch in the middle of the street without a car passing, he said.

But Copeland said the best thing people can do now is adapt.

''More people, more business and more money. You don't need to say anything else,'' he said

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