2018 Real Estate Year in Review – Inventories and Absorption Rates

Unlike 15 years ago, Palm Coast and Flagler County are not out in front of the national real estate market. They are following at a nice steady pace, and that’s a good thing.

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January 15, 2019 - Survey: Renters Want to Buy – Many Just Can’t Afford It

January 8, 2019 - Floridians’ Confidence Rises Despite Government Shutdown

December 29, 2018 - Breaking News: FEMA Reverses Flood Policy Decision

December 20, 2018 - Census Bureau: Florida Tops for Net Domestic Migration

Palm Coast, Flagler Co. - The First End-to-end Look at the Great Housing Recession - Bubble, Crash, Recovery

January 18, 2017 – Flagler County (including Palm Coast) in Northeast Florida has been called the poster child of the Great Recession. Its housing market suffered for more than ten years. Properties dropped nearly 60% in value. For three years, 2009, 2010 and 2011, more than half of homes sold were either short sales or foreclosures. Palm Coast was featured in a front-page story in the Sunday edition of the Washington Post in June, 2011. That chapter is now over. 2016 marks the year in which the Flagler County housing market emerged from the cycle’s doldrums to regain a sense of normalcy. Now, the first end-to-end look at the cycle that lasted more than a decade; the Bubble, the Crash and the Recovery. read full story

Flagler-Palm Coast YTD Real Estate Report

October 23, 2017 - The Flagler-Palm Coast real estate market is unquestionably healthy. Like most coastal markets, ours encompasses a broad range of prices. Sales of a relatively few high-priced homes skew statistics and distort the overall picture. read full story

PODCAST: Toby's January 19th broadcast of REAL ESTATE MATTERS - Topic: Wide ranging

Mortgage rates steady: 30-year at 4.45% for second week

ATTOM: Foreclosure activity falls to 13-year low

Apartment Rents Expected to Rise Faster Than Inflation in 2019

Veros predicts home price growth will weaken in 2019

Millennials Could Be Foregoing Equity Wealth

Buying and selling a home will become more difficult in 2019

Freddie Mac reveals “biggest unknown” for housing in 2019

Homeownership Has Become So Expensive That...

Mortgage Loan Limits to Rise in 2019 to Keep Pace With Home Prices

TAX REFORM AND THE 55+ MARKET FOR NEW HOMES

Homeownership for older Millennials quickly becoming a thing