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What you have to Know about Buying Real Estate in the Middle to Lower Florida Keys!
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Welcome to my Website and the incredible Florida
Keys. With
its globally renowned seashores enclosed by aqua blue waters, 80
degree winters, and magnificent but informal lifestyle, the Keys
offer an unequalled lifestyle experience. Hopefully you'll spend
some time to search many of the most sought after waterside and luxury
homes situated in this sub tropical destination.
For more than 28 years,I have been supplying extraordinary
service to my Prospective Buyers and Sellers. I
function as the market's top producer, with a marketplace knowledge
that's unequaled all through the Keys.
Whichever type of property,
you are searching for, I am very happy to support you during your
search for your ideal Florida Keys home using the greatest attention,
expertise and discretion. Whether or not to Purchase or sell I
will give you specialized, knowledgeable,
careful, and price saving real estate property advice.
Now that you are seriously considering owning
a home in Paradise–You
need to know that my responsibility is to make sure that all
the Details—no matter how Big or Small are taken care of.
This includes giving you, ALL the information you need to know about
the Total home buying process from start to finish for homes in the
Keys. From Marathon down to and including Key
West Real Estate I
am here to serve you.
Florida Keys Real Estate Market Comparison: 1st Qtr 2013 vs. 2012
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A few Examples of what to look at before buying
a home here:
• Because of environmental concerns, there are Insurance issues
to consider and how they can affect getting future building
permits.
• If you are buying Waterfront property, depending on how large your
boat is or will be, then the boating draft is a main issue as well
as access to open water—bridges etc.
• If you’re buying a Condo, then you’ll need to know which ones have
done upgrades to maintain their value.
• If you’re buying a waterfront home there are some VERY important
things you'll have to know.
• If you’re considering using your home as a rental—You’ll want to
know the requirements-laws-rental periods and more
These are a few of the property buying situations you’ll need to
know.
My Mission Statement:
My objective is to educate you about the Keys
market so that you
will make informed decisions when choosing your home. By listening
to your needs and providing the highest level of professional customer
service, your real estate needs will be successfully met.
We have a wonderful lifestyle here. Relax and enjoy golf and tennis,
going to the gym, boating and fishing with your family and friends,
dining at our local restaurants and the sense of community.
If you love blue skies, ocean breezes, crystal
clear water and breathtaking sunsets, you will never want to leave the fabulous
It's the perfect time to buy! Contact
me Now to find the right home
for you!
Area Information:
Geographically, the Middle Keys stretch from the southern tip of Islamorada at the high-rise Channel 5 bridge – which has, in both directions, perhaps the most beautiful and stunning views in the Keys – to Marathon’s improbable, spectacular Seven Mile Bridge connecting Marathon to the Lower Keys. Most of us have seen this famous 7 mile bridge in movies (True Lies) or television commercials. It neatly divides the Atlantic Ocean on the East from the Gulf of Mexico to the West, a mere thread of concrete across the 75-100 square miles of azure and green seas and “flats” and islands that your eyes encompass simultaneously.
As a practical matter, the Middle Keys basically refer to the “large” incorporated town and bustling commercial center of Marathon and the nearby expensive housing areas of Hawks Key (Duck Key), Key Colony Beach, and Long Key. The other islands in the Marathon region are Boot Key, Knight Key, Hog Key, Vaca Key, Stirrup Key, Crawl and Little Crawl Key, East and West Sister’s Island, Deer Key and Fat Deer Key, Long Pine Key and Grassy Key. Marathon’s metro area sits between mile markers 48 and 55 and has a non-tourist residential population of more than 13,000 (it feels bigger than that), with a median age of 44.
Marathon is centrally located 80 miles south of mainland Florida
and more or less just 50 from Key Largo and 48 from Key West. Marathon
is served by bus lines to Key West and the Mainland, and by the sleek
Marathon airport offering connections to Miami and Ft Lauderdale
and from there to anywhere in the world.
Choosing A Great Real Estate Agent
Choosing a great real estate agent to work with is not usually explained beyond something that can help in your house hunt. Use the tips below to understand how and why you should carefully choose the real estate agent with whom you work to purchase your home.
Begin by considering which company to use to help you house hunt because companies and their agents tend to get different kinds of listings. For instance, when you look at house listings of specific agents, you'll find that they tend to settle on specific geographic areas as well as specific types of homes in terms of price. One way you can determine which realtor to use is to do a general search of the area you're interested in buying a home in and jotting down names of companies and agents whose names pop up on homes for sale in that area.
Employment
The primary industries here are:
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services
Retail trade
Educational,health and social services
Construction
The Marathon area is definitely a destination point and has hundreds
of small and medium size business to support it. It is fairly self-contained,
too. It’s not necessary to go anywhere else, because everything you
really need is right there, including shopping and services, police
and fire, healthcare facilities including a modern full service hospital,
all the usual municipal functions, and outdoor recreational activities
like boating, fishing, and diving.
If you want to work in the Keys in the construction trades or certain kinds of services or consulting, Marathon can be a good location, because it is centrally located – jobs and commissions from Key Largo to Key West are pretty easily reached on a within-day commuting basis.
This sense of Marathon as a sort of “hub” for the whole middle section of the Keys, including the edges of the Upper Keys and Lower Keys, goes back a long ways. In the early 20th century Henry Flagler built a large work camp and supply base at Marathon while constructing his “railroad that went to sea”.
Recreation
The Marathon area is primarily an outdoor community; there’s no reason to relocate here, in my opinion, if you don’t love the water, either for play or for work, whether on weekdays or weekends, since you can’t get away from it even if you wanted to, and if you work you’re going to drive across a lot of it whether headed up or down the Keys.
And Marathon thrives on its central Keys, watery environment. Marathon has excelent swimming beaches (not common in the Keys), and good diving and snorkeling, from novice to experts, at all water depths. Some divers think that some of the best parts of the coral reef along the Keys are right here. The Sombrero Key Lighthouse area is an example.
Fishing can be either oceanside or Backcountry (gulfside), with your own boat, on party boats, or with a personal guide. There’s plenty of flats fishing, as in the rest of the Keys, but oceanside offshore fishing (excelent) prevails, since there’s not quite the same extensive range of backcountry options as elsewhere in the Keys, given there’s fewer islands and the area isn’t quite as wild as having Everglades National Park for your backdoor neighbor (like Key Largo).
Boating in general is a little different here. Most boating is fairly open water or along the Overseas Highway and Keys chain; there aren’t as many protected areas (think multiple islands for kayaking or canoeing) as there are in either the Upper Keys or the Lower Keys or Key West. And waters seem to have more of a chop more of the time here, too. On both sides the water gets deeper faster.
But if you want to be on a canal with a big boat tied up at your back door, this is a good part of the Keys to be in: lots of deep canals, and easy Ocean access. (Most of the deep canals and good big boating access is on the south, or Oceanside, part of the islands.) It’s also one of the few spots in the Keys where you can easily get a big boat or a sailboat back and forth from Bay to Ocean.
In addition to these water-based sporting activities, there’s 9-hole Par 3 golf at Key Colony Beach, plenty of tennis, some nightlife particularly at the resort hotels, and a variety of restaurants where you can eat outside under the sun or indoors in air-conditioned comfort. There’s also Islamorada and Big Pine just short drives away for variety.
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