By I.M. STACKEL Naples News
With an economy that is moving the right direction, there are going to be some celebratory brunches.
Naples Area Board of Realtors released its numbers Friday, and the statistics have many smiling: overall home sales increased by 67 percent in July, compared with the same period one year ago.
Comparing July 2009 to the [...]

By KAYDEE TUFF, JEFF WEINER Naples News
In the always-fiery tax debate, who’d have thought local fire and rescue districts would be the latest to fan the flames?
On Wednesday night, with a 2-1 vote, Golden Gate fire commissioners gave the nod to a resolution to support Collier County’s effort to establish a discretionary sales surtax. North Naples fire [...]

The market Continued to gain momentum in the second quarter, posting a 27% increase in closed units over second quarter 2008.

CLOSINGS & INVENTORY
Closed sales reached their highest quarterly level since 2005, with a 48% increase over first quarter 2009, and a 27% increase over second quarter 2008.  The increase over first quarter is the highest [...]

Nabor Naples Area News
Report Shows 15-Month Inventory Trend Line Continuing To Decrease
NAPLES, Fla.-July 17, 2009- Naples area market activity continued to improve in June, closing out the second quarter of 2009 with encouraging signs for a good summer of housing sales, according to a report released by the Naples Area Board of REALTORS® (NABOR), which [...]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS • AUGUST 4, 2009
Pending U.S. home sales rose in June for the fifth straight month, another encouraging sign of life for the embattled U.S. housing market, the National Association of Realtors reported today.
For June, the Realtors group said its pending home sales index rose 3.6 percent to 94.6, from an upwardly revised [...]

COLLIER COUNTY – Some good news from the local housing market. The Naples Area Board of Realtors (NABOR) says there’s been a steady increase in the number of homes sold and they expect that trend to continue.
Last year, the average home in the naples area took nearly 200 days to sell. Now, now homes are [...]

While the national housing bust has devastated property values, it has also created some outstanding bargain opportunities for would-be home buyers–if you know where to look.
During the first half of the decade, easy credit and speculative fervor sent home prices in certain states–Florida,California,Nevada–scorching to phenomenal heights. But nearly three years into a real estate crash [...]

Naples area home resales climbed upward yet again in June, according to a report released Friday by the Naples Area Board of Realtors.
Overall pending sales in the greater Naples area, which includes the Naples beach area, North Naples, central Naples, Immokalee and Ave Maria, increased 69 percent in the 12 months ending June 2009 compared [...]

Situated on 1,050 acres on the west side of U.S. 41 E. and immediately adjacent to the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, the neighborhoods of Treviso Bay offer an idyllic ambiance and elegant residences.
Treviso Bay’s entry bridge and towering gated security center give way to landscaped parkways and fountains and streetscapes that incorporate the [...]

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 [...]