The Bay County Association of Realtors® Annual Blood drive will be held on Thursday, June 25,2009 form 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. at the Panama City Mall. The Bay Medical Blood Drive Donor Center will be on site with their blood mobile near the Mall entrance facing Hwy. 77. Fresh grilled hot dogs and hamburgs [...]
Government Programs Worth the Effort but Check Details
June 16, 2009 — Realty Times Feature Article by PJ Wade
After hearing about the government’s billion dollar corporate bailouts, Canadian property owners may be tempted to ignore tax credit and other government-backed financial programs because, in comparison, they seem to involve trivial amounts—C$750 here, C$1350 there.
What can [...]
Foreclosure sales stalled by red tape
Bargain hunters bid on bank-owned homes, but settlement is often delayed
By Dina ElBoghdady
The Washington Post
updated 1:43 a.m. CT, Mon., April 13, 2009
Anxious to meet the bank’s demands for quick action, Andrew Garcia and his fiancee, BethAnne Hoffmann, rushed to find financing to buy a foreclosed-on house in a lovely tree-lined [...]
Courtesy of Florida Association of Realtors®
Let’s take a look at some of the opportunities and positive indicators for the future of Florida’s real estate market.
1. Great prices. Statewide, home prices have fallen about 20 percent in the past year. Florida Association of Realtors® statistics show the existing-home median sales price was $185,400 in the third [...]
Shimmering Sands Realty is a proud 2009 corporate sponsor of The 27th Annual St. George Island Regional Charity chili cook-off and auction on Saturday, March 7th .
All proceeds to benefit the St. George Island Volunteer Fire Department.
1/7/2009
It was announced December 31 that Dana Dunnigan and Helen Spohrer have concluded a transaction to fold Resort Realty into Dunnigan’s Prudential Shimmering Sands operation which is based in Panama City. (Publisher’s note: On New Years Eve, Helen Spohrer announced, in the form of a letter, that she has sold Prudential Resort Realty to Dana Dunnigan [...]
By David Adlerstein
2009-01-08 10:30:00
Helen Spohrer, owner of a St. George Island real estate company that shaped the homebuying boom of the last 20 years, has sold the franchise to a larger Panama City firm.
As of Jan. 1, Prudential Shimmering Sands Realty acquired Prudential Resort Realty, and in doing so expanded its six-county reach east from [...]
SHOULD I REFINANCE NOW?
The more I read, the more the message keeps hitting me over the head; refinance now, rates are at historic lows! Sure, it sounds good but is now really the time.
Well, the fact is you may have no choice but to refinance sooner rather than later.
Let’s say you bought a home in [...]
The Fed cut it’s discount rate from 1% to a “range” of between 0% and 0.25%. There is not much more ammunition left in the Fed’s arsenal to make further cuts and investors wonder what they can do next to shore up our credit system. If you have a prime-based HELOC, that does not have [...]
It looks like the beginning of something very big happening just north of Panama City Beach. The Knight family that owns a tract of land that covers 55,000 acres in and around the Ebro area. Susan Poplin of the Department of community Affairs stressed that this is the beginning of a long process. But the [...]
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