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Homebuilder Sentiment Drops to 35 in June

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Homebuilder Sentiment Drops to 35 in June The 14th Straight Month Below 40 The construction industry’s confidence gauge just posted its worst streak since the foreclosure crisis. If you work in real estate and haven’t been paying close attention to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index lately, now is a very good time to start. The June 2026 reading just dropped to 35 — falling from 37 in May and coming in below market expectations of 36. More than the single-month number, though, is the streak behind it: this marks 14 consecutive months that builder sentiment has stayed below 40. The last time the index ran this low for this long was the 2011–2012 foreclosure crisis , when millions of homeowners were underwater and builders had essentially stopped building. We are not in a foreclosure crisis. But we are in a new construction market that is sending some very clear signals — and agents who understand those signals are going to be in a much stronger position than those who don’t. ...
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Florida Goes Statewide Buyer’s Market

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Florida Goes Statewide Buyer’s Market The Whole State Has Tilted Toward Buyers — With Real Regional Nuance For the first time in years, the Florida housing market is leaning decisively in favor of the people writing the offers. Rising inventory , longer days on market , and softening prices in several major metros have combined to hand Florida home buyers the kind of negotiating leverage that was unthinkable during the pandemic-era frenzy. The shift is genuinely statewide — but it is not uniform. Some markets have swung hard toward buyers while others remain stubbornly competitive, and understanding that difference is the single most valuable thing a buyer or seller can do right now. This guide breaks down what a buyer’s market in Florida actually means in practical terms, where the leverage is strongest, where it is weakest, and how both buyers and sellers should adjust strategy to win in these conditions. What the Statewide Data Is Telling Us The headline numbers all point the ...
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What Lives in the Cape Coral Canal System?

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What Lives in the Cape Coral Canal System? the Wildlife Beneath Your Dock Cape Coral did not earn the nickname “Waterfront Wonderland” by accident. With roughly 400 miles of canals threading through the city, it holds one of the largest manmade waterway networks on the planet, more navigable canal frontage than Venice, Italy. But ask any longtime canal-front homeowner what actually makes those canals special, and the conversation rarely stays on real estate for long. It turns to wildlife: the manatee that parks itself under the dock every January, the dolphin pod that chases bait fish past the seawall at sunset, the alligator sunning on the bank of a freshwater canal two streets over. Buying canal-front property in Cape Coral means buying into an entire ecosystem, and most buyers want to know exactly what is living in that water before they put in an offer. Here is the real answer, broken down by canal type, season, and what it actually means for your future dock. The Two Canal Net...
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Golfing on Anna Maria Island

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Golfing on Anna Maria Island: Courses On and Near the Island Anna Maria Island is a seven-mile barrier island off the Gulf Coast of Florida, just west of Bradenton in Manatee County. It is famous for sugar-white sand, low-rise old-Florida charm, and a pace of life built around the beach. What it is not famous for — and what surprises a lot of golf-minded visitors — is being a golf destination. The island is simply too narrow and too residential to hold many fairways. But here is the good news for anyone who likes to get a round in before a beach afternoon: while there is only one golf course actually on Anna Maria Island, the surrounding Bradenton and Sarasota mainland is one of the most golf-rich corners of Florida. You can reach roughly ten distinct courses within a 30-minute drive of the island, and several sit just 10 to 15 minutes from the bridges. Most of them are open to the public. This guide walks through the one course on the island, the closest and most convenient mainland ...
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Guide to Mineral and Oil Rights in the United States - Who Owns What’s Beneath Your Feet?

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Who Owns What’s Beneath Your Feet? Guide to Mineral and Oil Rights in the United States How rights are split • who controls drilling and mining • how owners get paid • a 14-state comparison Imagine waking up one morning to find survey stakes in your back pasture and a pickup truck idling at the edge of your property. A friendly stranger in a hard hat explains that his company is about to build an access road and a drilling pad on land you have paid a mortgage on for fifteen years. You ask him to leave. He politely declines — and the law is on his side. He owns something you didn’t know existed, didn’t know you’d lost, and never agreed to sell: the minerals beneath your home. This scenario plays out more often than most Americans would ever guess, and it stems from one of the strangest, most consequential, and least understood features of U.S. property law. In this country, the land under your feet isn’t a single thing you own outright. It’s a stack of separable rights — and the right t...
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Mel Fisher - Key West

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Mel Fisher Key West Legend - Today is the Day! Danny Skelly eXp Realty Florida and Colorado 239-933-1766 Today Is the Day The Legend of Mel Fisher, the Man Who Refused to Stop Believing A Story of Faith, Loss, Gold, and the Sea Down at the southern tip of Florida, where the Atlantic collides with the Gulf of Mexico in a slow, salt-heavy swirl, the old Conch houses lean into the heat like they've been doing it for a hundred years. The bougainvillea pours over the fences in colors that have no business being that bright. The roosters don't care what time it is. And if you walk far enough down Duval Street toward the waterfront, you'll find a museum tucked into a building that doesn't look like much from the outside — but inside, the walls glow golden. This is Mel Fisher's world. Or rather, this is the physical proof that Mel Fisher's world was real. Because there were years — many, many years — when people thought Mel Fisher was chasing ghosts. When bankers laug...
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Can AI Write a CMA? Testing AI Property Valuations

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Can AI Write a CMA? Testing AI Property Valuations If you've spent any time online in the last two years, you've probably typed an address into a chatbot just to see what would happen. Maybe you asked ChatGPT "what's my house worth?" Maybe you pasted in a property description and asked for a price range. And maybe — like a lot of people — you got an answer that sounded confident, specific, and almost convincing. That's the problem. AI tools are remarkably good at sounding like they know what they're talking about, even when they don't. And nowhere is that more dangerous than in real estate, where a single percentage point of error on a home's value can mean tens of thousands of dollars in a buyer's offer, a seller's listing price, or a refinance decision. This article is an experiment. We took a real property, ran it through several AI tools to see what kind of valuation and comparative market analysis (CMA) each one would produce, and then...
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