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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Citizens Property Insurance announced on Friday that Florida state insurance regulators have approved its request to cut the maximum policy coverage limit to $1 million from $2 million for residential properties in wind-eligible areas throughout the state. The change will become effective February, 1st for new policies and May, 1st for renewals.
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.
After our last post reviewing some of the
What stories impacted Florida real estate the most in 2011? Our guess is it depends on your perspective; were you a buyer or a seller? Did you lose your job or find a new one, were you looking for a rental or did you need a place to locate your existing or new business? All these scenarios were impacted one way or another in 2011. So, let’s take a look back at just what occurred and see if any will continue into 2012.





