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2012
Downing-Frye Realty, Inc Naples Florida Makes Big Move New Offices 180 9th Street South - Tamiami Trail - U.S. 41 After more than 30 years, 33 years I believe is the exact number, Downing-Frye Realty has moved its Naples office a few miles south and just a couple of blocks from Naples famed 5th A...
07/31/2012
Real Estate Headlines - 4 - Worthy of Attention... Home values rise for first time in 5 years source: money.cnn.com This data is from Zillow where housing prices, year-over-year were reported to be up 0.2% with a nationwide median price of $149,300. The median price is the point where 50% of th...
07/29/2012
Groundbreaking Olde Cypress Naples Makes Way for Lantana The Final Neighborhood, 64 acres, 122 homes Reported today in the Naples Daily News. Land clearing has begun of 64 acres on the southern boarder of Olde Cypress just north of Immokalee Road as Stock Development readies the final Olde Cypres...
07/26/2012
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Reproduced with permission____________________________ Zillow says it's official: Market hit bottom SEATTLE – July 24, 2012 – Experts still question Zillow’s forecasts, but their latest one could convince skittish buyers to jump into the market: The company says its Zillow Home Value Index (ZHV...
07/25/2012
Collier County - Naples - Set For Future Major Residential Development Canadian Builder to invest and develop eco-friendly resort. Reported in today's Naples Daily News... Just a few miles south and east along Tamiami Trail between U.S. 41 an Naples Bay lies a large plot of land (about 2,300 acre...
07/23/2012
Real Estate Headlines - 3 - Worthy of Attention... Weekly notable real estate headlines. Money to finance is as inexpensive as ever. Cash buyers are deciding to finance because...it's so cheap, saving cash for other things/investments In addition to tougher underwriting guidelines in general, is ...
07/23/2012
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Image ALT TAGS, TITLES and SEO Building on a recent post by JayTheHomeGuy SEO Tips You Can Start Using TODAY! Good post, Jay. More about ALT TAGS... ALT TAGS provide understandable content and context for the robots. Jay articulated one way to provide context by naming a listing image file with s...
07/22/2012
HOW LONG BEFORE A LACK OF INVENTORY AFFECTS PRICES? Reads the headline from a just released Market Report from the Naples Area Board of Realtors. A very good question is posed. Everyone wants to know if the price of the same home sold last year versus this year is up or down. It's hard to track t...
07/20/2012
Text Messages, Android Devices, and Gmail (iPhone too) Anyone in business knows how important it is to document daily work activities including communication with customers, other agents, and other third party providers. When the world was all paper you quite naturally have a paper trail. Later F...
07/19/2012
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On the Way to $1 billion Sales Volume Third Best 6-month Period in 50 Years During the "normal real estate days" in the years 2000 - 2003 Downing-Frye posted an average of 1,318 real estate transactions for the first six months of each year. Let's skip over the "crazy days" and look at the last t...
07/18/2012