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Including stories from Longboat Key, Bradenton, Treasure Island, St. Petersburg and Sarasota.

For the past three years, buying a home on Florida’s Gulf Coast has come with a hidden cost that shows up long after the purchase contract is signed: insurance. Carriers pulled out of the state in large numbers, leaving many coastal homeowners with limited options and sharply higher premiums. What experts working in these markets ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
16 Jun 2026

Eighteen months after a direct hurricane hit ended a four-decade streak without a major hurricane, Anna Maria Island’s real estate market is showing clear signs of stabilization. Prices remain well below their post-pandemic peak, rental bookings are climbing back toward pre-storm levels, and a growing number of investors are quietly moving back in. For those ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
30 Jul 2026

In much of coastal Florida, rising insurance costs and storm damage have slowed buyer activity and left damaged properties sitting unrepaired. In Sarasota County, something different is happening: nearly half of all transactions are cash, according to Tom Cail, Co-Founder of the Cail Grande Group at RE/MAX Alliance Group in Sarasota, who has worked the market ...

Heather Hook
18 Sep 2026

A pending ballot measure could meaningfully lower property tax obligations for Florida homeowners, strengthening the state’s financial appeal for out-of-state buyers already considering a move. A Tax Story Worth Sharing Florida’s reputation as a low-tax destination rests on one well-known fact: the state has no income tax. That advantage has fueled migration for years, particularly ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
23 Jun 2026

Sarasota looks straightforward from a distance: warm weather, beaches, a real downtown, prices that still undercut Tampa and St. Pete. For buyers relocating from out of state, the value case seems obvious. What agents on the ground keep finding, though, is that the costs most likely to derail those purchases never appear in the listing ...

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Janine Rodrigues
22 Oct 2026

Reliable broadband is now reaching the rural areas around Ocala, and that shift is opening one of Florida’s most affordable and spacious housing markets to remote workers. The change is beginning to reshape which buyers seriously consider rural acreage and horse farm properties. A New Possibility for Remote Workers Remote workers relocating to Central Florida ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
22 Oct 2026

Buyers considering waterfront property anywhere in Florida tend to treat insurance as a dealbreaker before they have priced it. Along the Gulf Coast’s barrier islands, agents say the difference between an alarming quote and a manageable one often comes down to something surprisingly simple: whether the buyer contacts a national carrier or a local insurer ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
21 Oct 2026

Buyers assume a barrier island in hurricane-prone Southwest Florida must be one of the most expensive places to insure a home. On at least one island near Placida, Florida, the opposite may be closer to the truth – and the reason comes down to elevation and flood zone classification, not marketing. Robin Madden, owner of ...

Heather Hook
21 Oct 2026

The pandemic-era self-storage construction boom created a distinctive opportunity in secondary and tertiary markets: a fresh supply of newer facilities whose performance depends closely on how well their scale aligns with the local population. According to Tom de Jong, Executive Vice President at Colliers, a pattern he has encountered repeatedly involves 100,000 square feet of ...

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Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

The gap between Houston’s residential market and its coastal neighbor shows what happens when short-term rental speculation meets a correction. Harris County, Texas, currently has roughly six months of housing inventory – enough to classify it as a balanced-to-soft market where sellers need to price carefully and present homes in strong condition. But the sharper ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

The U.S. rental market built aggressively during the pandemic era, particularly in Sunbelt cities like Nashville, Austin, and Dallas. Now much of that new inventory, especially high-end apartments, is sitting partially empty, competing for renters whose budgets have tightened considerably since construction began. The disconnect is straightforward: developers built expensive Class A apartments in markets ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
09 Sep 2026

In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...

Steve Marcinuk
09 Sep 2026

For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...

Steve Marcinuk
28 Jul 2026

The company has already published over 5,000 articles in collaboration with over 1,800 market experts across all 50 states, powered by a tech-forward approach to research and reporting. MIAMI, FL – July 28, 2026: KeyCrew Media, the expert-sourced real estate news network, today unveiled KeyCrew Local, a network of local real estate news sites and ...

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