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.
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:
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…)
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…)
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…)
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!
Read these recent articles:
Naples Housing Market August Review
Mortgage rates back to 3% – again
Yes Virginia, it is Still a Sellers’ Market
Andrew Oliver
REALTOR®| Market Analyst | DomainRealty.com
Naples, Bonita Springs and Fort Myers
Andrew.Oliver@DomainRealtySales.com
m. 617.834.8205
www.AndrewOliverRealtor.com
www.OliverReportsFL.com
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Market Analyst | Team Harborside | teamharborside.com
Sagan Harborside Sotheby’s International Realty
One Essex Street | Marblehead, MA 01945
www.OliverReportsMA.com
Andrew.Oliver@SothebysRealty.com
Sotheby’s International Realty® is a registered trademark licensed to Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC. Each Office Is Independently Owned and Operated
This infographic from Keeping Current Matters highlights the strength of the current market:
Historically, median closed prices of homes sold in Southwest Florida during summer months tend to be lower than median closed prices of homes sold during high-season months (January through April), but that trend did not occur this year.
According to the August NABOR report, the median closed price reported in August for the Naples area was $75,000 higher than the median closed price reported
in January 2021. 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 – in August supply was less than one month.
If selers can expect multiple offers, that also suggests that buyers need to be able to move fast and know how to make a competitive offer. If you are ready to make a move, please contact me.
For the latest market report read Naples Housing Market August Review
Andrew Oliver
REALTOR®| Market Analyst | DomainRealty.com
Naples, Bonita Springs and Fort Myers
Andrew.Oliver@DomainRealtySales.com
m. 617.834.8205
www.AndrewOliverRealtor.com
www.OliverReportsFL.com
_____________
Market Analyst | Team Harborside | teamharborside.com
Sagan Harborside Sotheby’s International Realty
One Essex Street | Marblehead, MA 01945
www.OliverReportsMA.com
Andrew.Oliver@SothebysRealty.com
Sotheby’s International Realty® is a registered trademark licensed to Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC. Each Office Is Independently Owned and Operated
East Naples includes the areas to the East of Collier Blvd. See map below for details.
In the first 8 months of 2021 the median price of the Single Family homes sold in East Naples increased 29% to $465,000 on a 22% increase in sales, while the median Condo price increased 22% to $340,000 on a 63% increase in sales.
Single Family
A rolling 12-month calculation represents the current month and the 11 months prior in a single data point
South Naples includes the area bounded by 41, Davis Blvd and Collier Blvd. See map below.
In the first 8 months of 2021 the median price of the Single Family homes sold in South Naples increased 25% to $520,000 on a 66% increase in sales, while the median price of the Condos sold increased 13% to $249,000 on a 78% increase in sales.
Single Family
A rolling 12-month calculation represents the current month and the 11 months prior in a single data point
Central Naples covers the area bounded by David Blvd, Goodlette-Franke, Pine Ridge and Collier Blvd.
In the first 8 months of 2021 the median price of the Single Family homes sold increased 29% to $465,250 on a 41% increase in sales, while the median Condo price increased 16% to $220,000 on more than doubled sales.
Single Family
The median price of Single Family homes in the Naples area* sold in the 8 months to August 2021 increased 32% to $585,000, while sales increased 40% to 5,394.
The median price of Condos sold in the 8 months to August 2021 increased 18% to $324,000, while sales jumped 77% to 6,265.
Keep reading for charts and more details: (more…)
Naples Beach covers the area mostly to the East of 41 from Port Royal to Pelican Bay ( see map below). As such it includes the most expensive real estate in the Naples area, as demonstrated by the charts below.
For the first 8 months of 2021 the median price of Single Family Homes sold in Naples Beach increased 43% to $2.13 million on a 46% increase in sales. The median Condo price increased 13% to $775,000 on a 94% increase in sales.
Single Family
North Naples includes the area from Pine Ridge Road to the Lee County boundary just short of Bonita Beach Road (see map below).
In the first 8 months of 2021 the median price Single Family homes sold in North Naples increased 32% to $736,500 on a 46% increase in sales, while the median Condo price increased 16% to $320,000 on a 56% increase in sales.
Single Family
Changes are coming to the flood insurance policy sector taking effect October 1st on new policies and April 1, 2022 on any outstanding renewal policies. I will write further as more details are revealed but these are the highlights from the FEMA Risk Rating 2.0 announcement:
1. Flood zones and Elevation Certificates will no longer be a rating factor (Flood zones will still be present for mortgage purposes)
2. Elevation Certificates will no longer be needed to determine rate
3. No more preferred rate tables for X,B,C Flood zones
4. Flood Vents (2 openings on 2 walls on lowest level) will no longer provide significant savings
5. Machinery on ground floor will impact rate (ex:a/c, water heater, washer/dryers)
6. Grandfathering: Policyholders will still be able to transfer their discount to a new owner by assigning their flood insurance policy when their property changes ownership
7. FEMA will continue to offer premium discounts for pre-FIRM subsidized and newly mapped properties (ex: Zone X remapped to A Zone, rate from X can be grandfathered as long as there is no coverage interruption)
8. Replacement Cost Value will impact the rate (Historically, lower valued homes were paying more than they should and those that had higher value homes were paying less than they should)
FEMA “predicts the average rate increase will be about 10%.”
Click here to be directed to the flood insurance page on my website.
Naples August Housing Market Review
Bonita/Estero August Market Summary
Prediction: Lots of International Buyers Over the Next Year
Andrew Oliver
REALTOR®| Market Analyst | DomainRealty.com
Naples, Bonita Springs and Fort Myers
Andrew.Oliver@DomainRealtySales.com
m. 617.834.8205
www.AndrewOliverRealtor.com
www.OliverReportsFL.com
_____________
Market Analyst | Team Harborside | teamharborside.com
Sagan Harborside Sotheby’s International Realty
One Essex Street | Marblehead, MA 01945
www.OliverReportsMA.com
Andrew.Oliver@SothebysRealty.com
Sotheby’s International Realty® is a registered trademark licensed to Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC. Each Office Is Independently Owned and Operated