South Naples Fall Market Report
South Naples includes the area bounded by 41, David Blvd and Collier Blvd. Sales and the Single Family median price eased a little from Q2 to Q3, reflecting the seasonal slowdown in the summer months.
Pelican Bay Fall Market Report
Pelican Bay is one of the Naples’ largest exclusive enclaves, situated on more than three square miles and bordered by pristine white-sand beaches. The sharp sales decline from Q2 to Q3 reflects the absence of high- end buyers in the summer months.
Imperial Golf Estates Fall Market Report
The Greater Imperial communities in Naples have 13 residential communities and a 36- hole Golf Club (membership separate from residential ownership) within its boundaries.
The market saw consistent growth through the first three quarters of 2021 in all categories, while sales saw a seasonal slowdown in the summer months
Central Naples Fall Market Report
Central Naples covers the area bounded by David Blvd, Goodlette-Franke, Pine Ridge and Collier Blvd. The market saw consistent growth through the first three quarters of 2021 in all categories, while sales saw a seasonal slowdown in the summer months.
Bay Forest Fall Market Report
Located on 150 acres of spectacular natural beauty bordering the back waters of the Gulf, the 17 communities of Bay Forest provide a quiet and peaceful setting.
Condo sales jumped sharply in the first 9 months of 2021, while the median price rose more modestly. (The small very number of sales in Q3 may have exaggerated the price movement, but 7 of the 8 sales were over $300,000).
Sterling Oaks Fall Market Report
Sterling Oaks is Southwest Florida’s premier tennis community. Located in North Naples, the community consists of 432 Single Family Homes and 304 Condos/Coach Homes in North Naples, Florida. Prices appreciated throughout the year (the Q3 Condo number is exaggerated by the very small number of sales.)
Audubon Fall Market Report
Audubon Country Club has 410 homes spread over 755 acres and is surrounded by four of the top beaches:
– Bonita Beach, 2.8 miles away; Barefoot Beach, 2.9 miles away; Wiggins Pass State Park, 3.3 miles away; Vanderbilt Beach, 4.5 miles away
The market showed consistent growth from quarter to quarter.
Naples Market Report by Location and Property Type
The market statistics produced by Realtor Boards provide a lot of useful information, but group together what to me are wholly different categories – e.g. Single Family and Manufactured.
Here then is what I hope will be a more useful and informative analysis, which shows the breakdown using the categories that make sense to me. I also include definitions of the different property types after the charts.
Single Family and Villas
Villas have HOAs, Single Family homes do not. And the price point tends to be different. Ergo, they should be analysed separately:
Naples September Market Overview
The median price in the overall Naples market through the first 9 months of 2021 increased 33% to $625,000 for Single Families (SF) and 18% to $329,595 for Condos.
The tables below show the breakdown of sales and median prices by area of Naples (see map below). Price increases for SF ranged from 30% in Central Naples to 40% in Naples Beach; and for Condos from 14% in South Naples to 21% in East Naples.
Sales also increased dramatically: up 30% for SFs and 68% for Condos.
Please contact me to discuss the current market and see how I can help you in your search. (more…)
Rising Prices Push Home Equity to Highest Level in 10 Years
Homes with a mortgage gained an average of $51,500 in equity in the second quarter, an increase of 29.3% from the April-June quarter last year, according to real estate information company CoreLogic. That’s the highest quarterly average gain in home equity since the second quarter of 2010, the firm said.
That works out to nearly $3 trillion in equity gained by U.S. homeowners with a mortgage, which is about 63% of all homes, CoreLogic said. Average homeowner equity jumped nearly 20% in the first quarter from a year earlier.
In its most recent quarterly housing forecast, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac envisions home prices growing 5.3% next year, down from a projected 12.1% increase in 2021. (more…)
Mortgage rates back to 3% – again
The 30-year Fixed Rate Mortgage ticked back up to 3% this week. I re-read Are Mortgage Rates headed Up or Down? which I published in June and I still think it summarises the situation quite well. Hence I have included the link rather than repeating the arguments.
The proximate cause for the increase in mortgage rates this week was the increase in the yield on the US Treasury 10-year Note. The increase started last week (after the Freddie Mac weekly survey, which is collected from Monday-Wednesday) when the Federal Reserve (Fed) confirmed that, if current trends continue, it will start to reduce its purchases of both Treasuries and Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) soon and aim to end purchases by the middle of 2022.
At the same time, we saw a rate increase in Norway – the first in Europe- following earlier increases in Brazil and South Korea. And while the Fed continues to state that it will not consider actual rate increases (I am not sure why they refer to it as “lift off”- sounds like rocket-speed increases which it will not be) until after the end of the bond purchases, investors noticed a shift in the number of members forecasting a rate increase in 2022 rather than 2023.
And inflation continues to run hot. The Fed thinks this is transitory, but many others fear that it will be sustained forcing the Fed to raise rates sooner than it currently anticipates.
The Numbers (more…)
Foreign Buyers May Return in November
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will ease foreign travel restrictions into the U.S. beginning in November, when his administration will require all foreign nationals flying into the country to be fully vaccinated. Fully vaccinated passengers will not be required to quarantine.
In my recent market reports I wrote: “As buyers from more foreign countries are allowed to visit the US again, those buyers – who were largely absent last year – may well add further demand to an already extremely tight market.
As for the future what remains true is that “as it’s now possible to work from anywhere in the world, why not live and work in paradise?”
Traffic is starting to pick up in Southwest Florida as we see the first of the winter arrivals. If you are interested in buying please contact me to beat the rush!
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Mortgage rates back to 3% – again
Yes Virginia, it is Still a Sellers’ Market
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