Florida Consumer Confidence Drops a Bit but Still High for Year

Consumer sentiment fell 2.3 points in Aug to 98.3 but with a revised figure of 100.6 in July, the Fla. consumer sentiment index topped 100 for the 3rd time this year; an event not seen since 2000

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August 31, 2018 - Rent vs. Buy: Scale Tips to ‘Rent’ – First Time Since 1999

August 21, 2018 - Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville Near Top of ‘Likely to Move’ List

August 16, 2018 - August Builder Confidence: Tight Supplies, Lots of Buyers

August 9, 2018 - Metro Home Prices Climb to New All-Time High; Rise 5.3 Percent in Second Quarter

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 September 1st broadcast of REAL ESTATE MATTERS - Guest: Charlie Faulkner - Technological advances in home construction - How to deal with the skilled labor shortage

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