The Parade of Homes will go on. But not this fall. Originally planned for later this month, the scattered-site parade has been rescheduled for March in hopes of drawing more interest from local builders, who have been slow to sign up as they struggle through one of the worst housing slumps in decades.......
President Bush and foreign financial officials displayed joint resolve Saturday to combat the unfolding financial crisis, hoping to calm investors whose panic has spread despite bold and accelerating government action.......
While halfway through viewing properties with buyers a few weeks ago, the buyers asked to cancel the remainder of the showings that were booked on the schedule. They actually had a plausible reason. The remaining homes were only one-story residences and they had just realized that they needed more room to spread out.......
A leading economist said Southwest Florida’s housing market continues to sit on the bottom and Congress had no choice but to step in with $700 billion to prop up the nation’s financial institutions. Hank Fishkind, speaking in Fort Myers on Wednesday for the 21st Annual Regional Economic Outlook Conference, said it’s true the rapidly passed legislat......
September’s snapshot of home sales in the Fort Myers area is a picture of climbing sales yet growing inventory. Single-family homes sales in September climbed 4 percent to 756 from August’s 729. That’s about three times the number of sales for the same period last year of 275 homes, according to the Realtor Association of Greater Fort Myers and the......