Immobilien Florida – Florida Real Estate
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Immobilien Florida – SW Florida Real Estate
Lee County visitors, bed tax collections up in March |
March is to Southwest Florida tourism what December is to retailing. And March was very good to the region’s pivotal tourism and hospitality trades, as Lee County’s Tourist Development Council heard Friday at its monthly meeting in downtown Fort Myers. Among the brightest spots: • Preliminary bed tax collections in Lee County for the month topped $5.9 million for a 13.7 percent year-over-year gain. Lee County charges a 5 percent bed tax to renters of short-term lodgings. • Collier County also scored a record bed tax haul of more than $2.7 million. Collier County’s bed tax is 4 percent. “The largest month in history,” crowed Tamara Pigott, executive director for Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau. Her enthusiasm was echoed at the Island Inn on Sanibel. “March was great for us,” said Chris Davison, vice president of operations. “Our average daily rate was up by $40 year over year — a record for us. Occupancy was 96.7 percent. You can’t get much better than that.” Both Pigott and Davison credited pent-up consumer demand for an especially prosperous March. |
Immobilien Florida – Florida Real Estate
Phoenix tops list of 10 turnaround markets
It’s sunny and international in Realtor.com’s “Top Turnaround Towns” for the first quarter of 2012. Seven of the top 10 metros on the list are found in Florida. Seven also made the cut in a recent Inman News analysis of public records that identified the top 10 U.S. hot spots for global buyers. more
Immobilien Florida – Florida Realtors
Top 10 markets for rising ‘Zestimates’
U.S. home values were up 0.5 percent from February to March but, at $146,200, the national median home value was still down 0.5 percent quarter to quarter and 3.1 percent from a year ago, according to estimates generated by real estate information portal Zillow. more
Immobilien Naples Florida – Naples Florida Realtors
Top 10 markets for rising list prices Naples # 10