Every now and then, I find a straight talking Realtor (Let’s be kind here folks- it’s not necessarily an oxymoron) who describes the world of real estate I live in, instead of properties listed "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
One of these Realtors is Tom Doyle, a Realtor from Naples, FL, who recently wrote an insightful article in his Naples Real Estate Market Report. For virtually the entire article, you could do a "global search and replace" - replacing Phoenix for Naples. Some of the statistics are not the same, but the market sounds remarkably similar. Here’s how he describes the current Naples’ market:
