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Florida Condo Meeting Rules 2026: What Buyers Should Verify Florida law now guarantees every condo owner the right to attend, watch, and speak at board meetings — and that right doesn't disappear when you're still shopping. Under Chapter 718 of the Florida Statutes, condominium boards must post meeting notices at least 48 hours in advance, open nearly every meeting to owners, and place an item on the agenda if 20% of the voting interests petition for it. For buyers, these aren't just governance footnotes. They're a due-diligence tool: a properly run association leaves a paper trail of notices, minutes, and agendas that tells you more about a building's real condition than the listing photos ever will. This guide breaks down what the transparency rules actually require, what the 48-hour notice window means for your inspection period, how the petition process can surface problems the board would rather not discuss, and the five documents you should verify before you w...

Marco Island Market Check: Has the Slide Stopped? Nationally, list prices just fell 2.5% year over year — the steepest drop since Realtor.com started tracking the number in 2017 — while pending sales climbed for a seventh straight month. That is not a market falling apart. It is a market finding its price . The question for anyone watching Marco Island is whether the same thing is happening 1,200 miles south, or whether this barrier island is still working through problems the national number doesn't capture. The short answer: partly . Single-family homes on Marco Island are behaving a lot like the national story — prices adjusting, buyers responding, deals closing. Condos are a different animal entirely, and lumping the two together will give you the wrong read on where this market actually stands. Key takeaways - National asking prices fell 2.5% year over year in June 2026, the sharpest decline since 2017, while pending sales rose 3.7% for a seventh consecutive month. - The n...

How Much Does Real Estate Really Contribute to the U.S. Economy? Real estate, housing, and mortgage lending together make up somewhere between 15% and 18% of U.S. gross domestic product in a normal year — more than manufacturing, more than agriculture, and by the government's own accounting, more than any other single industry category tracked. The National Association of Realtors puts real estate's total 2023 contribution at $4.9 trillion. Commercial real estate alone added $3.5 trillion to GDP in 2025 and supported 20.4 million jobs. Home building generates roughly three full-time jobs for every house framed. But GDP totals, staggering as they are, only tell half the story. Every single closing sets off a chain of paychecks that reaches far past the two agents shaking hands at the table. This is a full accounting of both sides: the trillion-dollar macro numbers, and the actual list of people who get paid when a house changes hands. Danny Skelly eXp Realty Colorado and Florid...

Cape Coral–Fort Myers Home Prices Are Stabilizing: What the Three-Month Trend Really Shows Cape Coral home prices were down 2.1% over the three months ending May 2026, at a median of $360,000. Fort Myers was down 2.4%, at $348,000. A year earlier, this metro was posting annual declines in the high single digits, and Zillow's index had the Cape Coral–Fort Myers metro off roughly 10% over twelve months. Down two percent is not a recovery. It is something more useful: the second derivative turned. Prices are still soft. The rate at which they are getting softer has collapsed. In a correction, that is always the first thing to change, and it changes long before the median goes positive. This piece breaks down what the three-month rolling trend actually measures, why five reputable sources publish five different Cape Coral price figures, which indicators turned first, where the softness genuinely still lives, and what a buyer or seller in Lee County should do about it before the fourt...