There are two great houses on one of the best little lanes in Old Town Key West, Peacon Lane. Peacon Lane is only one block long and is situated between Elizabeth Street to the west and William to the east. It is a one way lane entered from Eaton Street and exits onto Caroline Street. The exit p
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05/30/2009
The neighbors across the street are very quiet. And you can rest assured the view from the front door of 708 Passover Lane will never change. Never Ever! 708 Passover Lane is located just across from the Key West Cemetery at one of the highest points in Old Town Key West. The house sits to the r
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05/23/2009
Forethought: "n. A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care." If you keep track of sales activity in Key West you may have noticed a flurry of activity in the past few weeks at the Key West Golf Club community. During the past couple of years there hav
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05/22/2009
One of the agents in my office has been working like a dog to sell a so-so property in a so-so location in Key West. The property is a short sale. The buyer and seller agreed to the price and my fellow agent has been shepherding the short sale through the Bank of America short sale service cente
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05/21/2009
I've complained before that the Key West Association of Realtors mls database does not automatically show bank owned properties. Some Realtors believe that lender-owners do not want to disclose to the public that a bank owns a piece of property. I guess that is possible, but having worked in the
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05/20/2009
I've noticed several "For Sale By Owner" signs in the area near the gym I go to. One caught my eye the other day and I decided to share two photos with you. See above. My purpose is not to try to find a buyer for this property or to dissuade anyone from looking at it. I will tell you this much:
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05/19/2009
While searching for pics to help convey the sense of loss we feel when we realize we missed a great opportunity, I cam across a sad blog posting from a would-be buyer in The Hudson Valley. She said in part "THIS is the one that got away. This is the heartbreaker, the one I can’t stop thinking ab
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05/18/2009
We are getting to a difficult point in real estate pricing in Key West. Many of the bargain properties are gone (not all). Many of the properties that remain are either located in bad locations (you decide what that means) or the properties seem over-price (we all know what that means). I am for
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05/14/2009
This foreclosure stuff is starting to get personal. Eight months ago a fellow Realtor got to help select my new neighbor by placing the house at 1119 Von Phister Street in the Casa Marina Area of Key West on the market. It is owned by a local Key West bank. You see I live right next door. The ne
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05/11/2009
If you are old enough to remember Rowan & Martin's "Laugh In", you'll surely remember Arte Johnson's German Soldier character as he peered through bushes and chortled "Verry interesting!". I don't know that I am chortling, but I do think I just found some very interesting sales statistics for Ke
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05/10/2009
