Pelican Bay Real Estate

Pelican Bay Waterfront Closed Sales

2009-12-01T08:09:00.000-08:00

Pelican Bay November 2009, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 352
Active with Contract 16
Pending 14
Closed 4
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Waterfront Closed Sales

2009-11-01T08:12:00.000-08:00

Pelican Bay October 2009, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 345
Active with Contract 13
Pending 13
Closed 6
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Naples Waterfront Real Estate - Closed Sales

2009-10-23T08:58:00.000-07:00

Pelican Bay September 2009, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 339
Active with Contract 19
Pending 8
Closed 6
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Waterfront Real Estate - Closed Sale Report

2009-07-02T06:33:00.000-07:00

Pelican Bay June 2009, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 335
Pending 33
Closed 8
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Waterfront Real Estate - Closed Sale Report

2009-06-02T06:32:00.000-07:00

Pelican Bay May 2009, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Pending 33
Closed 10
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Waterfront Real Estate - Closed Sale Report

2009-05-02T06:31:00.000-07:00

Pelican Bay April 2009, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Pending 33
Closed 8
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Waterfront Real Estate - Closed Sale Report

2009-04-02T08:52:00.000-07:00

Pelican Bay March 2009, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 431
Pending 49
Closed 7
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Waterfront Real Estate - Closed Sale Report

2009-03-04T06:31:00.000-08:00

Pelican Bay February 2009, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 416
Pending 35
Closed 2
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Home trends point to ‘manageable’ spaces

2009-02-28T08:06:00.000-08:00

With 77 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964, it is no wonder that builders and developers look to this generation of baby boomers as trend-setters in the housing market. So when Hanley Wood, a leading edge business media and information firm, and DYG research firm, surveyed home-owning baby boomers to find out what they want in their homes, builders were eager to apply the information.

The Hanley Wood survey, published in part in Big Builder Magazine, indicated that 58 percent of those surveyed wanted to move to a smaller home. More than a third wanted to remodel or move in order to have a single-story home. Instead of a single, large home in one location, 44 percent of those surveyed indicated that they would prefer a second home and split the square footage between two houses, prompting many national builders to reintroduce the vacation home — a smaller, lower-priced home. The detached, single-family home was the preferred housing type for 72 percent of those surveyed.
Source: naplesnews.com

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Waterfront Real Estate - Closed Sale Info

2009-02-06T09:19:00.000-08:00

Pelican Bay January 2009, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 418
Pending 18
Closed 3
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Existing-Home Sales Show Surprising Gain

2009-01-24T06:23:00.000-08:00

Existing-home sales rose unexpectedly while inventory declined, led by a surge of sales in the West, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

Existing-home sales – including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – jumped 6.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.74 million units in December. The number compares to a downwardly revised pace of 4.45 million units in November, but 3.5 percent below the 4.91 million-unit pace in December 2007.

For all of 2008, there were about 4.9 million existing-home sales -- 13.1 percent below the 5.65 million transactions recorded in 2007. This is the lowest volume since 1997 when there were 4,371,000 sales.

Total housing inventory at the end of December fell 11.7 percent to 3.68 million existing homes available for sale, which represents a 9.3-month supply at the current sales pace, down from a 11.2-month supply in November.

“We’ve added 25 million people to our population over the past decade and housing affordability conditions are the best we’ve seen since 1973, but household formation is much lower than expected,” he said. “Consequently, there is a pent-up demand which could be unleashed with the right stimulus, including a non-repayable home buyer tax credit. The Obama administration and Congress need to move fast to stimulate a spring sales upturn which will help to stabilize home prices and set the foundation for a sustainable economic recovery.” -Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist

Source: Realtor.org

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Waterfront Real Estate - Closed Sale Info

2009-01-02T05:27:00.000-08:00

Pelican Bay December 2008, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 161
Pending 2
Closed 4
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pending Home Sales Holding In Stable Range

2008-12-28T07:03:00.000-08:00

Pending home sales eased against a deteriorating economic backdrop but remain in a stable range, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

The Pending Home Sales Index,¹ a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in October, slipped 0.7 percent to 88.9 from an upwardly revised reading of 89.5 in September, and is 1.0 percent below October 2007 when it was 89.8.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said a review of the past year is instructive. “Despite the turmoil in the economy, the overall level of pending home sales has been remarkably stable over the past year, holding in a generally narrow range,” he said. “We did see a spike in August when mortgage conditions temporarily improved, which underscores two things – there is a pent-up demand, and access to safe, affordable mortgages will bring more buyers into the market.”

Conditions remain uneven around the country, but some areas that are showing healthy gains in pending home sales from a year ago include many Florida and California markets, Providence, R.I.; Lansing, Mich.; Oklahoma City; and Las Vegas. ²

Yun expects growth in the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) to contract through the first half of 2009, then stabilize and expand in latter part of the year – lifted by a home sales recovery. “Given the critical role of housing in an economic recovery, we’re confident sufficient stimulus will be offered to bring more buyers to the market,” he said.
Looking at middle-ground assumptions, existing-home sales are forecast to total 4.96 million this year, and then increase to 5.19 million in 2009 and 5.55 million in 2010.

New-home sales for 2008 should total 486,000 this year, decline to 393,000 in 2009 and then grow to 446,000 in 2010. Housing starts, including multifamily units, are projected at 934,000 units in 2008 and 731,000 next year before rising to 772,000 in 2010.
Source: realtor.org

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Waterfront Real Estate - Closed Sale Info

2008-12-01T07:01:00.000-08:00

Pelican Bay November 2008, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 358
Pending 12
Closed 2
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Florida Association of Realtors report indicates home sales up in third quarter

2008-11-25T05:42:00.000-08:00

According to the latest housing statistics from the Florida Association of Realtors, sales of existing single-family homes in Florida rose 5 percent in third quarter 2008 compared to the same period last year. A total of 33,203 existing homes sold statewide in the third quarter this year; during the same period last year, 31,558 existing homes sold statewide.
FAR reports the statewide existinghome median sales price was $185,400 in the third quarter; a year ago, it was $233,200 for a decrease of 20 percent. In 2003, the third-quarter statewide median sales price was $163,700, which reflects an increase of about 13.3 percent over the five-year period. The median is a typical market price where half the homes sold for more, half for less.
To gain insight into Florida's real estate industry trends, the University of Florida's Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies conducts a quarterly survey of industry executives, market research economists, real estate scholars and other experts. Based on the third quarter 2008 survey, the investment outlook for various types of properties remains steady.
"People who have responded to our surveys have not lost their faith in Florida as a place to be and a place to invest," Wayne Archer, director of the center, said. "We have 40 pages of comments… and although the dominant theme is the disruption of financing, perhaps the second theme, as one person put it, is people being on the sidelines with full pads and helmets just waiting to jump back in."
Source: Florida Weekly

Search Pelican Bay Waterfront Real Estate for Sale

Pelican Bay Real Estate - Closed Sale Info

2008-11-04T06:36:00.003-08:00

Pelican Bay October 2008, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 331
Pending 15
Closed 7
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Sales of existing homes across U.S. up in September

2008-10-25T06:36:00.000-07:00

Sales of existing homes rose by the largest amount in more than five years in September, a real estate trade group said Friday. The data is a possible glimmer of hope that the housing slump could be starting to bottom out.

The National Association of Realtors said Friday that sales of existing homes rose by 5.5 percent in September compared to August, the best showing since a 5.6 percent increase in July 2003, during the five-year housing boom.

Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the Realtors, said a sales turnaround first seen in California was beginning to broaden to other regions of the country including Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri and Rhode Island.

The rise in September sales pushed activity to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.18 million units last month. Sales were up 9.6 percent on a year-over-year basis before adjusting for seasonal changes.

By region of the country, sales soared by 16.8 percent in the West and rose a more moderate 4.4 percent in the Midwest and 2.2 percent in the South. The only region of the country which saw a decline was the Northeast, where sales fell by 1.1 percent.
Source: naplesnews.com

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Waterfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Waterfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Waterfront Real Estate - Closed Sale Info

2008-10-06T06:42:00.000-07:00

Pelican Bay September 2008, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 115
Pending 7
Closed 7
Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Waterfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Waterfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Finding Housing Market's Basement

2008-09-21T08:30:00.000-07:00

We may be starting to see the first rays of sunshine on a possible end to the housing crisis, reports CNBC's Diana Olick. Richard Dekaser, of National City, and Patrick Newport, of Global Insight, discuss.

View the Full Video - click here
Source - cnbc.com

Search Pelican Bay Naples Luxury Beachfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Beachfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Real Estate - Closed Sale Info

2008-09-16T15:09:00.000-07:00

Pelican Bay August 2008, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 113
Pending 9
Closed 9

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Waterfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Waterfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Existing single-family home sales up 80 percent in Fort Myers/Cape Coral

2008-08-31T21:17:00.000-07:00

Sales made with the help of a Realtor in Southwest Florida rose again in July. Existing single-family home sales — or resales — grew by 80 percent to 768, from 426 a year ago, in the Fort Myers/Cape Coral market.

Condo sales rose 35 percent to 174, from 129 a year ago, according to statistics from the Florida Association of Realtors. On Marco Island, 31 single-family homes sold, up 19 percent from 26 a year ago. Condo sales rose 5 percent to 41, up from 39 in the same month last year.

[T]he Naples Area Board of Realtors in its own market report showed sales continued to rise in July. There were 361 home sales, up 31 percent from 275 a year ago.
Source: naplesnews.com

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Waterfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Waterfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Naples/Marco make AARP's list of best places to live, retire

2008-08-15T01:10:00.000-07:00

With 34 million members and the world's largest-circulation magazine, AARP has ranked Naples/Marco Island as the 10th best place to live and retire. AARP examined health and lifestyle habits of residents in cities across the United States. The nations largest nonpartisan organization for people 50 and older has come up with a list of the 10 "healthiest hometowns" for robust living and retirement.
Naples/ Marco Island joins the ranks of standouts such as San Francisco, Boulder, Colo., and Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn. At the top of the list is Ann Arbor, Mich., followed by Honolulu, Hawaii, and Madison, Wis.
The Sept./ Oct. edition of AARP's magazine is highlighting the healthiest hometowns, and where people live during the second half of their lives can make all the difference for longevity and vitality.Researchers looked at the physical characteristics of metropolitan areas also with nearly 30 health-related criteria, such as life expectancy, physicians per capita, the percentage of the population that smokes, access to health plans and affordable ones, healthy eating and exercise habits. "The area has hung on to its small-town feel: its beaches and art scene (more than 134 galleries in the Vicinity) are often voted tops in the nation," the article said. "And for link lovers, it's heaven: Naples-Marco Island has the second most golf holes per capita in the country.
In our survey, residents got high scores for regular exercise, healthy eating and not smoking, so it's no surprise that the area has one of the lowest cancer mortality rates going. "In the next two or three years, the next wave of the baby boom generation will be looking for a place to retire, and this area will be appealing to many. When people relocate or retire to the region, they came from successful careers and they continue to lead vibrant lives here, which helps with longevity.
AARP also found Naples/Marco Island ranks second among a larger group of cities for longest life expectancy of 80.97 years. Life expectancy for the United States was 77.4 years.
Source: Naplesnews.com
Search Pelican Bay Luxury Waterfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Waterfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Real Estate - July Closed Sales

2008-08-13T10:15:00.001-07:00

Pelican Bay July 2008, Closed Sale information: Homes $1,000,000 and up.
Active 114
Pending 8
Closed 10

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Waterfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Waterfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Real Estate Market Expected to Improve with New President

2008-07-24T07:19:00.000-07:00

Nearly half of all home buyers (44%) believe the housing market will improve once the new President takes office in January, 2009, according to a new survey recently released conducted by Harris Interactive® and commissioned by Move, Inc., operator of Realtor.com®.Forty-eight percent of women and 41 percent of men who plan to buy a home in the current market said they think the housing market will get better once the new President is in office.

At the same time, home buyers are still nervous about the current housing market and report the existence of barriers between them and homeownership. Despite these reservations, the survey indicates underlying demand for homeownership is healthy. While nearly half (41%) of current homeowners do plan to purchase a home again, 80% of all renters plan to purchase a home someday with 47% planning to purchase a home within the next five years. More people who plan to move will do so for space-related (26%) and life-stage change reasons (17%), such as having children (2%) or downsizing to a smaller residence (9%), not financial ones including an increase in rent (2%) or an expensive mortgage (less than 1/2%).

“These findings show that despite the difficulties home buyers face in the wake of the subprime crisis and their concerns about economic uncertainty, underlying demand appears relatively strong.” said Lorna Borenstein, president of Move, Inc.
Source: RISMedia.com

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Waterfront Homes for sale
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Waterfront Specialists
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Naples - June 2008 Pending & Closed Home Sales

2008-07-09T08:53:00.000-07:00

304 Active
11 Active with Contract
22 Pending
30 Closed

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Waterfront Homes now
Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Waterfront Specialists
LWhite@AmerivestRealty.com

Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.

Pelican Bay vote opposes Clam Pass estuary markers

2008-06-20T06:06:00.000-07:00

A Pelican Bay board voted unanimously Wednesday to oppose a Collier County plan to install navigational markers in an estuary on the neighborhood’s western edge.
The county has applied for state and federal permits to install 28 markers from outside Clam Pass to the Seagate neighborhood, citing the need to come into compliance with a 1998 permit that authorized a mangrove restoration project.
The Pelican Bay Services Division board, a semi-autonomous arm of county government, disputes that it is in violation of the permit. The board contends the signs will mar the aesthetics of the quiet estuary and create unsafe conditions by encouraging motorboats to share shallow waters frequented by kayakers and beachgoers.

Board members directed administrator John Petty to put their opposition in writing to Collier County commissioners and County Manager Jim Mudd in hopes of stopping the plan in its track.
That would be fine with other marker plan opponents beyond Pelican Bay’s borders.
Residents from Pine Ridge, East Naples and Vanderbilt Beach joined the ranks of a half-dozen opponents who spoke out at Wednesday’s meeting at a Pelican Bay community center.

Pelican Bay resident David Roellig and Conservancy of Southwest Florida environmental science co-director Kathy Worley questioned the wisdom of placing markers in the mouth of a pass with shifting sands. “You put markers out there, sooner or later they’re going to be on the beach,” Worley said. She said some sort of signs to keep boaters in the channel makes sense but navigational markers are another issue. Roellig predicted that navigational markers would encourage overdredging of the pass to keep the channel fixed in place and would lead to coastal engineering problems.

Nobody spoke in support of the marker plan, but a leading proponent sent two e-mails Wednesday to county commissioners and state and federal officials lambasting Pelican Bay’s position.

Raia cited National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publications that say Clam Pass was reported as non-navigable in 1982, is a “shoal drainage canal” and that boaters need local knowledge to traverse it. The U.S. Coast Guard and the state Department of Environmental Protection classify Clam Bay as a navigable waterway. It is legal for motorized boats to use Clam Bay as long as they travel at idle speed, according to county law.

The county plan would install 15 red triangles and 13 green squares from the Gulf of Mexico into Clam Pass, along a winding channel to Clam Bay and then south, under the boardwalk to Clam Pass park, to the Seagate neighborhood.

The DEP permit that authorizes the mangrove restoration project requires signs to be installed at five spots in Clam Bay that designate the area as idle speed/no wake and caution boaters to tilt their motors up to avoid prop dredging and damage to natural resources.

Some of the signs were put up without the required permits, and now, the signs are running up against permitting hurdles. Pelican Bay has installed signs marking a canoe trail through Clam Bay but questions have arisen about whether the trail has been properly maintained.
The navigational markers are a provision of a Clam Bay management plan that is attached to the federal permit for the mangrove project.

The plan says: “Finally, the main channel will be marked with the requirements imposed by the U.S. Coast Guard to insure that those who use the system clearly know where the channel is and the prohibitions against operating their watercraft outside the same.”
Source: Naplesnews.com

Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White Pelican Bay Luxury Specialists
View Pelican Bay Luxury Homes For Sale
Info@NaplesLuxuryEstates.com

Pelican Bay Naples - Home Sales Report

2008-06-04T07:22:00.000-07:00

Pelican Bay 12 Month Home Sales Report: Homes Over $1,000,000

123 Active
3 Active with Contract
14 Pending
107 Closed

Search Pelican Bay Luxury Waterfront Homes now

Contact Larry & Mary Catherine White, Naples Luxury Specialists
LWhite@AmerivestRealty.com

Source: SunshineMLS, Inc.