Posts made by author 'Frank Malone, Managing Broker - Gulf Shores'
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These Numbers Tell a Condo Story
Pete Perkins (Gulf Shores office) has been collecting condo sales data every 6 months for the past 20 years. You won't see similar statistics anywhere else because Pete only includes direct Gulf Front, 2 and 3 bedroom condo units in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach....
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What Should We Know About the Wetlands and the Beach Mouse?
In my experience, the answer to the questions above are not black and white. Unfortunately, in practice, the answers depend upon location, property size, past activity, condition of the property, future use of the property, and sometimes it seems, the whims of the Federal or Local agencies that enforce the regulations.
I'm going to ramble a little here, and I am not an expert. Over the years, I have read numerous regulations, spoken to many city planning departments, corresponded with and represented multiple developers, and have worked with many professional consultants. The more I experience, the less I know. Actually, we do need to know enough about wetlands, beach mouse, and other environmental regulations to know that we need to recommend guidance from professionals that advise on these topics for a living. We should know enough to know t...
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Apples to Apples - Condos to Condos - North Baldwin to North Baldwin (I'm a nerd.)
If you are fortunate enough to be on Terryl Reeves' CRM blasts, you are able to gather a lot of information about Baldwin County real estate statistics and Baldwin County municipality and county development approvals. Good reads for sure. Did you know that data comes directly from your Baldwin Realtor portal and it is updated frequently by BR? Of course, Terryl's blasts are meant for his Sphere of Influence, who do not have access to the BR portal like you do.
Focusing on the Baldwin Real Estate Statistics that are updated monthly by BR, they are super-summarized and provide general information about trends and comparative periods of transactions. For example, The Baldwin County's 2024 Year-over-Year Housing Report (
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The Business of Shelter
Not to get sappy here, but I have certainly been grateful the last few days for a warm home. Shelter is something we use daily and we can become complacent about. Shelter is normal for us. Taking my first steps outside early yesterday morning with a reading of 18°F woke me up to how fortunate I am to have a warm and safe home. Sometimes it takes extreme events to wake-up grateful!
Coming back into the house yesterday morning, I remembered a real estate sale we made in Foley about eight years ago. It was a brand-new starter home. On the first reasonably cold day following the sale, we received a call from the young buyers. They said they had tried to find how to turn the heat on but couldn't figure it out. Come to find out, the HVAC system that was installed only had a cooling function, no heat. I had never come across a situation like that...
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Not a State of The Union, Just A Rambling Of Numbers
There are a lot of numbers and statistics that can tell us where we are in the real estate world today. Trying to find out where we are headed is another thing. In this article, Inflation Gauge Eases, Raising Chance of Rate Cut
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