By Naples Daily News staff report
Single-family home resales in Lee County increased more than 100 percent in July.
There were 1,570 sales, up from 768 in the same month a year ago, according to a report by the Florida Association of Realtors.
Of all the metro areas tracked in the report, Fort Myers-Cape Coral saw the biggest percentage [...]

Courtesy of Naples Daily News
By TARA E. McLAUGHLIN
After nearly two months of negotiating and many more months of strain, some residents of a Bonita Bay Group community are jumping for joy.
Boards of the Shadow Wood Country Club and The Commons Club at The Brooks agreed to buy from Bonita Bay Group both clubs for $8.3 million [...]

By CHARLIE WHITEHEAD Naples Daily News
Lee County commissioners Tuesday took a step back from a recommendation to put a two-year moratorium on new roadway landscaping.  They’ll have a tough call to make, however, when they have to choose between the landscaping and specific road projects.
“We have to take it in context with what else we’ve had [...]

By JENNIFER LARINO
Posted August 10, 2009 Naples News

ESTERO — Take all the good and bad from a down economy, bundle it up, put it on 500 acres in Estero and you’ve got Coconut Point shopping center in a recession.
In the past few months, the center — a Lee County hub of business and consumer activity since [...]

By TARA E. McLAUGHLIN Naples News
A commercial project that drew complaints from surrounding residents is before another Bonita Springs panel Friday.
Owners of three land parcels at Bonita Beach Road and West Brook Drive would like to rezone the approximately 1 acre to commercial planned development from agricultural.
James and Karysia Demarest’s property, referred to as the Brookside [...]

The pace of new-home starts in subdivisions in Lee County fell to 116 in the second quarter of 2009 — the slowest in more than a decade, according to statistics released today by housing data company MetroStudy.
There were 139 starts in the first quarter, the release states.
Meanwhile, the level of move-ins in subdivisions fell from [...]

How do short sales and foreclosures affect taxable values for those homes and their neighbors? What about the impact of derelict homes on neighbors? Why is the decline in values in Lee County double that of Collier? How soon will the real estate market rebound? Ken Wilkinson, the property appraiser for Lee County for the [...]

The number of single-family homes sold with the assistance of a Realtor in Lee County in June soared to a record high of 1,705 — more than twice the 719 recorded a year earlier, according to statistics released today by the Florida Association of Realtors.
June’s number was well above the 1,417 sold in May and [...]

Along with the hundreds of sun worshipers who pack the beaches in Bonita Springs on any given day, there are others who agreed that the town’s sandy spots are tops, or at the very least, No. 7.
Health magazine recently ranked Bonita Springs as the seventh healthiest beach in the nation. A combination of sugar sand [...]

Save Our Homes has survived.
The constitutional provision voters approved in 1992 that caps assessed value increased on homesteaded homes at 3 percent has been upheld by the Florida 1st District Court of Appeal.
The cap was challenged by a trio of Alabama residents with second homes in the Florida Panhandle. They claim the cap discriminates against [...]