The end of year 2011 Village Walk real estate market statistics for both home and condominium sales are listed below. Built by DiVosta Homes, Village Walk is an amenity rich community featuring single family, patio, and townhomes. DiVosta designed Village Walk so that most of the homes will have lake views and planned an all-inclusive lifestyle arrangement. The Town Center is the hub of living at Village Walk. The clubhouse offers fitness, with aerobics, weight lifting, and cardiovascular training, a library where you can access wireless, games and a sewing room. Their ballroom plays host to the social activities at the community. Village Walk employs a full time activities director and the community is a truly active lifestyle. If you like playing games outside, there is a lap and resort style pool and patio pool deck – all you need is your towel, bocce ball, eight lighted tennis courts, and a basketball court for the especially active!

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The Lee Building Industry Association 2012 Parade of Homes will offer the public the opportunity to view 41 decorated model homes throughout Lee and Collier counties.

The 26th annual event will be held the first three weekends of February. The models will be open on Thursdays through Saturdays from 10AM to 5PM and on Sundays from Noon till 5PM. Admission is free.

Some examples of the communities participating in the event include Bella Terra and Belle Lago in Estero, Paseo and The Plantation in Fort Myers and Palmira and Verona Walk in Bonita Springs and Naples.

For more information and maps, you can visit bia.net.

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The end of year 2011 Heritage Bay real estate market statistics for both home and condominium sales are listed below. Located in Naples, it is widely recognized as one of the most premier bundled golf club communities in the area.

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The crush of foreclosures in the Southwest Florida real estate market has seriously started to subside as we head into 2012. It seems Lenders only filed 5,419 foreclosure lawsuits in Lee County in 2011, a decrease of 48.3% from the 10,447 in 2010 and 75.1% below the peak of 21,768 filings in 2009. For Collier County, Lenders filed 2,842 foreclosure lawsuits, a decrease of 36.2% from the 4,452 in 2010 and 72.5% below the peak of 8,421 filings in 2009. All in all, it’s not too bad when you consider we’ve had well over 100,000 foreclosures in the two county areas since January, 2006.

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As we head into the 2011 season here in Southwest Florida, we just thought we would give you one more look at the most recent home and condo sales data. Basically, it still shows that through October, prices are rising and the inventory continues to fall. The story is true for all price ranges and locations.

The bottom line is you need to be prepared for having less choice when it comes to purchasing a home or condo this season. And, in all likelihood, you’re going to pay a little more for it this year too.

Cape Coral and Ft. Myers Real Estate Sales Data

• Total Sales YTD of 16,400 Homes and Condos vs 17,165 in 2010.

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