8940 Colonnades Ct E. #723, Bonita Springs, FL 34135

Awesome 2 bedroom / 2 bath now available at San Mirage in Bonita Springs, FL

$159,900!




This amazing price reflects owner motivation - this is THE lowest priced 2/2 in San Mirage that is not a short sale! Why go through the hassle of a short sale when you don't have to?

• 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, over 1000 square feet
  
• Lanai


• Assigned parking


• 2nd floor


• Great rental history


• Low quaterly HOA fees
  
• Fully gated

San Mirage is a gorgeous, gated community off of Tamiami Trail in Bonita Springs. San Mirage offers resort like living for a reasonable price. Amenities are galore and location cannot be beat. Minutes to world famous Barefoot Beach and only three miles from Bonita's newest mega mall, Coconut Point Mall.

Don't miss out on a chance to own a piece of Bonita for less!

Visit my web site for lots more information!

Rebecca Dean - Amerivest Realty - 239 776 0090

People DO NOT Buy Homes from Advertisements!!!

Attention Sellers! This is for you!

People do NOT buy homes from advertsing. I have said it. Everyone wants to know what I am going to do to market their home. It is a fair question. Fair, but perhaps, irrelevant. I can advertise in the best read newspaper, I can have a fancy open house with yummy food, I can have a BIG sturdy sign with a 800 #, professional e-tours, too. We can do it all, BUT your home is NOT going to sell if it is not priced right.Price is the single most important part of selling your home in today's market.If your home is priced below that of the others in your community it will sell with NO advertising. That is true. Once into the MLS at a great price....Poof, gone! Why? Don't forget what the MLS is - the MLS is a huge pool of listings where each listing is marketed to OTHER REALTORS. We Realtors submit our listings to the MLS and are essentially advertising to other Realtors to show our listings. The biggest factor in getting your home shown? PRICE.If the price is out of line there is no amount of advertising that will get your home sold.

Have a home to sell in Bonita Springs or Naples? Contact me. I will price your home to sell and then advertise!


Picture taken @ Hickory Pass in Bonita last week...

Short Sales

Thinking about a short sale or foreclosure in Southwest Florida? You may want to think again.

I have gotten my share of e-mails/calls wanting a "great" deal. Who can blame the buyer? Everybody wants a great deal, right? And, of course you have heard the news...Florida is falling apart at the seams. Sellers are going bankrupt, foreclosure is rampant, and God forbid if we have another hurricane! With all the bad press it is no wonder these "got any short sales or foreclosures?" calls are coming in steadily.

So, what is the problem?

For one, buyer's need to cool their jets a bit and do their research. I received an e-mail last week from an out of town gentlemen. He was interested in some villas in a upscale private golf community in Naples. Minutes to the sparkling Gulf. The villas are listed (and selling for) around $1.2M. His e-mail directed me to let him know if someone "needed to sell" for HALF OF THE LISTING PRICE. He cited the "doomed" economy in coming up with his price - this is what he thought they were worth. I very gently (and kindly) told him that if they are going pending at these prices I seriously doubted they would ever depreciate by half. I sent him an e-mail with some condos that were in his price range. I have not heard back from him. I am not saddened by this. Buyers need to be realistic. Yes, there are deals. No, most sellers are not going to even come close to accepting half of their asking price. Not all sellers are "losing everything". We all still expect a fair amount of logic,reason, and humanity in buying and selling real estate.

Secondly, there are many, many good deals out there that are NOT short sales or foreclosures. These "deals" come complete without what I call the "short sale hassle". The short sale hassle is the waiting and not knowing that your offer has been accepted or even looked at by the bank, the additional paperwork, the added fees (yes, there are added fees usually), and the fact that while your offer is in, the bank is holding out for a higher offer.

What about foreclosures? Foreclosures are usually in bad physical shape. Not always, but usually. By the time you spend your time and money on making the home livable, you've spent just as much as you would have on a home that is non foreclosure/short sale without the hassle.

So, what is a buyer to do? Find a Realtor who knows the market and can find you a non short sale/foreclosure for the same amount of money. They are out there. They are common. There are sellers with lots of equity that can afford to reduce their price to be competitive with the short sales. These are the homes you want to offer on.

Contact me today for a complete list of "great deals" in Naples or Bonita.

239 776 0090

Bonita Bay, Bonita Springs FL

Bonita Bay Market Update

Maybe it is the golf incentives, maybe it is the reduced prices, OR maybe it is the fact that Bonita Bay is a stable, well established community with tons of amenities and 5 championship golf courses...either way, sales have picked up! It is truly a wonderful time to buy in Bonita Bay! If you are interested in a Bonita Springs home - Look no further than Bonita Bay. And remember, Bonita Bay is not going to be on sale forever. Don't wait. E-mail me today for a complete list of available homes in your price range. Homes from the $200,000s to over $5M.

219 active listings ranging from $198,000 to over $5M.

4 active w/ a contract ranging from $299,000 to $1.39M .

35 pending sales! Ranging in price from $279,000 to over $ 3.8 M.

Please contact me to find out more about this wonderful Southwest FL community.

**All information deemed accurate but not guaranteed. All information gathered from Sunshine MLS on April 28, 2008.**

Interest Rates as Low as 5%???

I recently read an article in Realtor Magazine Online(R) which stated that the Fed may lower the 30 year fixed to less than 5.5%. Click here to read the article. This week alone rates on 30-year mortgages fell for the third straight week - to 6.24 percent - dropping to the lowest level in five months (Source:Freddie Mac). What does this mean for buyers? This may be a good time to buy - With increased inventory, low interest rates, and many sellers offering great incentives now might be the perfect time to buy your Florida home. For sellers? As more buyers come into the market, properly priced properties will sell.

Interested in the Naples - Bonita Springs area? E-mail me for tons more information! Click here to search the MLS!

Buying? Selling? Contact me today!

239 776 0090

Bonita Springs, FL Market Statistics

I get these questions all the time...How many homes have sold in my city? My community? Are you interested in the Bonita Springs market? Are you wondering if now is a good time to buy OR do you have a home to sell? Just curious? E-MAIL me for lots more information, statistics, and general information on the Bonita Springs - Naples area!

Here are some statistics on resale SINGLE FAMILY HOMES Bonita Springs:

Single Family Re-Sale in Bonita Springs, FL

November 1, 2006 - October 31, 2007

Month - Number Sold - Average Price

November 2006 - 8 - $669,333

December 2006 - 29- $744,190

January 2007 - 22- $840,172

February 2007 - 23- $929,136

March 2007 - 44 - $866,706

April 2007- 41 - $756,127

May 2007 - 39- $958,094

June 2007 - 32- $826,424

July 2007- 16- $933,125

August 2007- 27 - $765,643

September 2007- 23 - $678,458

October 2007 - 26 - $650,365

Please remember that these are SINGLE FAMILY homes only - this does not include condominiums. Interested in the condo market?

E-mail me!

Rebecca Dean - Amerivest Realty - 239 776 0090

CLICK HERE to search for Bonita Springs Property!
All information compiled from SUNSHINE MLS

Information deemed accurate but not guaranteed

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Hunters Ridge - Listed to Contract in Less Than ONE week!

UPDATE on 12607 Glenn Hollow Drive - Bonita Springs, Florida

Hunters Ridge Country Club - Well maintained pool home with charter golf membership LISTED by Rebecca Dean and in contract WITHIN 7 days!

This home was listed with several other Realtors for over 1 1/2 years with NO showings or offers. How did I do it? PRICE. I price my listings correctly the first time. Over priced listings do NOT sell.

I know that it is tempting to go with the listing agent that is telling you the higher price, but please, be wary - realistic goals and prices are key for a sale in today's market.

Call me (239 776 0090) or e-mail me to discuss listing your home today.

Visit my web site to search properties and see my featured listings...

Hunters Ridge in Bonita Springs...Only $289,000! Includes golf!

Golf included for under $300,000...Minutes to Gulf Beaches!

NEW LISTING!
Hunters Ridge Country Club - 12706 Glen Hollow Drive - Bonita Springs, Florida 34135

This well maintained 2bedroom +den/ 2 bath pool home comes with a CHARTER GOLF membership! The charter golf membership is valued at $33,000 and you decide annually if you will use the golf membership or not...Please visit The Hunters Ridge Community Association home page for more information on membership fees.
Hunters Ridge is a private golf community just east of I75 in Bonita Springs, Florida. The community offers 18 holes of golf, tennis, fitness center, putting green, professional management, plenty of activities, clubhouse with restaurant, and so much more. The location could not be better - located on Bonita Beach Road, Hunters Ridge is just minutes to everything that is SW Florida...Minutes to Barefoot and Bonita Beaches, upscale dining and shopping, including the new open air mega mall, Coconut Point. Hunters Ridge is just minutes to Naples and a quick 20 minutes to Southwest Int'l Airport via I75.
ALL THIS FOR JUST $289,000!!! This is an incredible value! If you are looking for a golf course home with a pool - Look no further...This is the home for you!

Please click here to view listing information. E-mail me for more information or to schedule your personal tour of this lovely home.

If you are considering listing your property - PLEASE do yourself a favor...use a lock box!

I have been working on a listing for a few months now. The sellers called me a while back - well before their listing expired with their last agent. The listing expired just a few days ago and we are meeting this weekend. Now, this is a great listing - good price, excellent upscale gated community, yet it had been on the market over a year! Upon picking the listing apart - I found the problems. Among them, very high starting price with many reductions down to the current price, bad pictures (angles were odd, etc.), the virtual tour was not actually a virtual tour but a photo gallery, no agent web site featuring the property (that I could find), and last but not least - NO lock box! I double checked - yup, it said, NO lock box - call listing agent. Now, I thought - this is odd. Why would the previous agent not use a lock box? In my market - we have many, many vacant properties because we are a second, third and so on home market. The norm is to put on a lock box if possible. This house is vacant with little personal belongings. When I spoke to the home owners again I asked why no lock box and they said their previous agent said they should not use a lock box but really offered no explanation why! They told me they were not against one. I explained the main benefit of using one : to get the buyers and their agents into the home quickly with little hassle. At least in my market, agents are much more likely to show a home that is on a lock box as opposed to getting the key in the listing office or waiting for the listing agent to show up and let them in. There is simply way too much to pick from - the homes that get shown are easy to get into.

So, please sellers, agree to use a lock box! It is perfectly safe and I can guarantee your home will be shown more.

Questions? E-mail me!