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Digging into home prices and how long it takes to sell

Last week we discussed how our real estate market reached its new equilibrium in April of this year based on the number of closed sales and the increase in the number of active listings in our single-family home market over the past year. As we pointed out, the beginning and end of the recent ...

Mulch: Humble but important

Mulch, that bottom layer of your garden. Humble, unassuming. Yet it can do so much for your landscape. Visually, it adds a dark edge between the green grass and the plant bed, making a nice outline to your landscape. More importantly for me, if you keep it at least 2 inches thick, it limits ...

Cape’s April housing market establishing a new equilibrium

Based on the preliminary sales results for single-family homes in Cape Coral during the month of April, we seem to finally be settling into our new market equilibrium after adjusting to last year's sharp interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve and the devastating impact from Hurricane ...

Buyer’s proposal crosses the line into fraud

Mr. Feichthaler: I listed my home for sale asking $400,000, and I received a full-price offer. The buyer wants to allocate $200,000 to the home purchase, and $200,000 to “personal property.” Although I take care of my personal items, the value of my 10-year-old furniture is, well, worth ...

Taking stock: New trees, new beginnings (Part 2)

Last November, I wrote about the devastating loss of trees in my home garden due to Hurricane Ian. The loss of my productive Carrie mango tree was particularly saddening. However, given the many overwhelming losses in our community, trees and other landscape damage was initially the least of ...

Love magnolias?

Love big Southern magnolias but don’t have the space? A lot of us in Cape Coral have only quarter-acre lots so the dwarf magnolia “Little Gem” is everything we are looking for but smaller! This “Little Gem” tree offers big looks and gorgeous style with beautiful pure white ...