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Louise Bolger

Louise Bolger

August 17, 2017
Louise Bolger is The Sun’s Real Estate columnist.
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June 16, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Challenges of selling condos

Florida is condo heaven. If you’re interested in condo living, Florida offers condos in all price ranges, in all locations and with a variety of amenities and floor plans. The condo selling challenge…
June 9, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Are you tired of homeownership?

Everyone who has owned prop­erty – whether it’s a condo or a single-family home or investment property – has had those days when you have no idea why you’re doing this. Isn’t renting easier, less str…
June 2, 2025
By Louise Bolger

New take on hurricanes

I love to write. I didn’t come to writing from anything I learned in “J” school, where I never went, but rather in the school of hard knocks, working in business in New York City. Funny thing about w…
May 28, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Insurance rates going down?

There’s a lot of reasons not to want to think about insurance. It’s expensive, confusing and boring. However, according to those in the know, Florida insurance rates may be starting to tick down or a…
May 20, 2025
By Louise Bolger

All real estate is local, especially now

My favorite real estate expression is “all real estate is local,” which I have used in this space many times. But what exactly does that mean? Essentially it means that real estate markets are signi…
May 11, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Florida condo owners getting a break

It hasn’t been pretty for condo owners in the Sunshine State since the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in 2021. After this tragedy, laws were passed requiring “milestone inspections” of older…
May 6, 2025
By Louise Bolger

The end of another era

I live in Cortez and was never a fan of the Seafood Shack restaurant, although it did come in handy on occasion. Well now, if you didn’t already know, the “shack” has been demolished. It sustained a…
April 22, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Tariffs: The great unknown

No one likes uncertainty, not stock investors and certainly not homebuyers. Nevertheless, here we are, six months after devastating storms and facing another, what appears to be active hurricane seas…
April 14, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Condo ownership challenging

If you like the condo lifestyle and you live in Florida, you’ve landed in the right place. But even what seems to be the right place can have challenges, especially in the environment we’re currently…
April 7, 2025
By Louise Bolger

The new real estate reality

It’s been six months since Hurricane Milton invaded us and every day we still feel the effects of the storm. Most of us are either continually rebuilding, cleaning up or juggling finances to get our…
April 1, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Buyers, sellers, hurricanes – and remorse

Remorse is the feeling of regret, second thoughts or disappointment in a decision recently made. When it comes to buying and selling real estate, it’s difficult not to have some level of remorse abou…
March 25, 2025
By Louise Bolger

It’s the buyers turn

Balance of power is something we usually talk about as it relates to international positioning between powerful nations. Now the phrase is lending itself to the real estate market and the buyers are…
March 25, 2025
By Louise Bolger

It’s the buyers turn

Balance of power is something we usually talk about as it relates to international positioning between powerful nations. Now the phrase is lending itself to the real estate market and the buyers are…
March 19, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Tax relief on the beach

It’s tax time again and tax time is never fun, but this year could be particularly not fun. In view of the 2024 storms, this tax filing season could be quite a bit different in addition to the normal…
March 11, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Time for a kitchen redo

I don’t know about you, but I’m just now getting my condo back in pre-Milton shape. It took five months and there are still a few jobs to finish up, not to mention the dust that has settled in the cr…

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