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Eleven homes sold in the Old Town Key West area in February, the first month of double digit sales since June 2022. Fifteen homes have sold in January and February 2023. In 2022 ... read more >
Posted: Mar 01, 2023
Flipping was the rage in the early 2000's as easy money and a lust for fast profits turned Key West real estate into a modern day tulip. October 2005 and Hurricane Wilma swam... read more >
Posted: Feb 05, 2023
Four homes sold in the Old Town Key West area, fewest ever. The 5-year (2018 - 2022) average of homes sold in January is twelve. Each of the four homes sold had at least three be... read more >
Posted: Feb 02, 2023
Ahhh Florida. Sandy beaches, blue skies, Cape Canaveral. Grapefruit League baseball. Thoroughbred horses and winter strawberries. International Miami. Down home Pensacola. ... read more >
Posted: Jan 20, 2023
Sunset Key is a luxurious 27-acre island community and resort in Key West, FL. Formally known as Tank Island, Sunset Key is located about 500 yards off the west coas... read more >
Posted: Jan 15, 2023
Postponed indefinitely but still breathing. On January 4, 2023, at the regularly scheduled Commissioners meeting, the City’s attempt to negatively massage the monthly vacat... read more >
Posted: Jan 06, 2023
There are six neighborhoods in Old Town Key West; The Meadows, Old Town - North, Truman Annex, Bahama Village, Casa Marina and Old Town - South. Here is a map. Despit... read more >
Posted: Jan 02, 2023
Year 2022 was a tale of two very different halves. 1st Half sales were 21% above the 5-year (2017 - 2021) average with each month's sales in double digits, rising average sal... read more >
Posted: Jan 02, 2023
Three single family homes sold in the Old Town area of Key West in November, the fewest number of sales since September 2017 and the 5th month in a row of below average, single d... read more >
Posted: Dec 05, 2022
The College of the Florida Keys (CFK) in Key West, Florida is rapidly becoming the epicenter of choice and enhancement for high school education, post-secondary education and edu... read more >
Posted: Nov 16, 2022
Six single family homes sold in the Old Town Key West area in October bringing the number of YTD sales to 135. October was the fourth month in a row of below average sales. The 1... read more >
Posted: Nov 02, 2022
In 1992, Florida voters approved Amendment 10 to the Florida Constitution (effective in 1995) known as Save Our Homes (SOH). SOH limits increases in the assessed value of a homes... read more >
Posted: Oct 09, 2022
Nineteen single family homes sold in the 3rd Qtr 2022, the lowest for any Quarter since 4th Qtr 2016. Regardless, YTD home sales remain 4% above the 5-year average (2017-20... read more >
Posted: Oct 03, 2022
Guardian Angel. Shepherd. God is my co-pilot. In Key West there is such a Protector. She is Sister Mary Louis Gabriel. At the The Basilica of St. Mary Star of the Sea... read more >
Posted: Sep 13, 2022
Six single family homes sold in the Old Town Key West area in August, bringing the YTD total of sales to 124, or 8% above the 5-year (2017 - 2021) January to August average of 11... read more >
Posted: Sep 03, 2022
The FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Risk Rating 2.0 flood insurance program went into effect for new policies in October 2021 and for renewals from existing policy h... read more >
Posted: Aug 24, 2022
Eight single family homes sold in the Old Town area in July, bringing the YTD total of sales to 118 which is up 12% over the 5-year (2017-2021) average of Jan-July sales of 105.&... read more >
Posted: Aug 03, 2022
You won the Lotto. Or, you're quiting your job, selling all your stuff and moving to the Florida Keys. Or, island property you vaguely remember visiting with your Grandfather... read more >
Posted: Jul 20, 2022
Fifteen single family homes sold in the Old Town Key West area in June bringing the 1st Half total to 110 sales, the second highest number of 1st Half sales ever and 21% above th... read more >
Posted: Jul 04, 2022
There are six neighborhoods in Old Town Key West; The Meadows, Old Town - North, Truman Annex, Bahama Village, Casa Marina and Old Town - South. Here is a map. Despit... read more >
Posted: Jul 03, 2022
If singers can insure their voice and dancers their legs, airlines their aircraft and land-based solar farms their acres of solar panels, why not insure the reef along the Florid... read more >
Posted: Jun 14, 2022
There were 13 single family homes sold in Old Town Key West in May. Thirteen is five less than the 5-year (2017-2021) average of 18 and brings the Jan-May total of sales to 95.&n... read more >
Posted: Jun 02, 2022
The Key West lighthouse dates to 1825 and was one of four lighthouses constructed along the treacherous Florida Keys. The Great Havana Hurricane of 1846 totally destroyed the ori... read more >
Posted: May 13, 2022
Twenty-nine single family homes sold in the Old Town area in April, tops for the year, bringing the YTD total to 82 homes sold. Eighty-two sales is 105% above the 5-year (2017-20... read more >
Posted: May 04, 2022
Is the added expense of converting your chlorine pool to a saltwater pool worth it? According to Pool & Spa News, since 2016, seven out of ten new pools in the US have been s... read more >
Posted: Apr 06, 2022