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Including stories from Alys Beach, Panama City Beach, Panama City, Santa Rosa Beach and Niceville.

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01 Jul 2024

Blending Expertise and Warmth in Luxury Real Estate: Hilary Farnum-Fasth Shines in Northwest Florida & Nashville, Tennessee WATERSOUND BEACH, Fla., July 1, 2024 (Newswire.com) – Hilary Farnum-Fasth, a distinguished leader in the real estate industry, has been named one of HousingWire’s Top 100 Women of Influence for 2024. This prestigious recognition celebrates her exceptional contributions ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
30 Jul 2026

The luxury vacation-home market along Florida’s 30A corridor is splitting into two distinct tiers. Newer, well-built homes in desirable communities are commanding strong prices and attracting buyers quickly. Older homes that need work are sitting. The divergence is reshaping how buyers, sellers, and agents approach a stretch of coastline where every purchase is discretionary. Richard ...

The traditional real estate brokerage model is facing disruption as boutique firms gain market share through community focus and personalized service, according to K. Coralee King-Denmark, a leading agent with Beachy Beach Real Estate in Panama City Beach. “It wasn’t so important anymore to be with a big national brand like Coldwell Banker, because they’re ...

Steve Marcinuk
19 Sep 2025

The Panama City Beach real estate market is experiencing a transition from the rapid sales environment of recent years to a more measured buyer’s market, yet investment opportunities remain compelling for those who understand the fundamentals. With inventory levels up 25% and properties taking four to six months to sell rather than the previous 30-45 ...

The Cove neighborhood in Panama City is drawing renewed attention from investors and renovation-minded buyers, despite challenges that have previously discouraged mainstream interest, according to Michele Monastra, a realtor with Epique Realty Inc. In a recent interview, Monastra discussed the waterfront community’s untapped potential and the factors behind its growing appeal to those open to ...

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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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