Should You List Your House This Fall or Wait Until After the Holidays?

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A fall listing in Florida usually beats waiting until January, as long as your home is ready now and priced for today’s market. Most people hold off because they assume nobody tours homes between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, but waiting rarely saves you what you think it will. Here’s where the market stands. Florida Realtors’ … Read more

Who Lives in the Home While It’s on the Market During a Florida Divorce?

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In most Florida divorces, both spouses can keep living in the marital home until it closes or a court says otherwise. Unless there’s an order or a signed agreement, neither person gets to lock the other out because a sale is coming, and no one has to move out just because the house is on … Read more

Is a Florida 55+ Community the Right Retirement Move?

Palm-lined street representing a Florida 55+ community

You’ve picked up the brochure, maybe walked a model home, and somewhere between the clubhouse and the golf cart parking a quiet question showed up: is a Florida 55+ community really the right move for me, or does it just look good on the tour? It’s a fair thing to wonder, and most people ask … Read more

What Is Stone Crab Season, and Where Do Locals Eat It?

Stone crab claws on ice during stone crab season

Around the middle of October, a certain question starts going around Florida: is it stone crab season yet? If you’re new to the Gulf Coast, or you’re visiting while you decide whether to move here, you may have never heard of it. Stone crab season opens on October 15 every year, and for the next … Read more