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Artificial intelligence cracking down on party houses

Nov 7, 2023 – Jason Schaffer
October 17, 2023
By Louise Bolger

Get insurance if you can

Even though our area has so far been spared a major hurricane hit this year, the threat is always there, as is the threat of losing your insurance. What happens if you can’t get homeowners insurance…
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October 10, 2023
By Monica Simpson

Making lemonade out of a lemon real estate market

Sometimes it looks like the national real estate market and the high-interest mortgage rates are nothing but lemons. But one startup company has found a way to turn the lemons into lemonade. Assumab…
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October 3, 2023
By Louise Bolger

Homes are shrinking, but not on AMI

Well, here we go with another everything old is new again story. This time it’s about the size of the average American home. The homes most of us, certainly my generation, grew up in were small rela…
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September 26, 2023
By Louise Bolger

Market in the eye of the beholder

To some people, our national real estate market is downright awful, but to others, it may be the best of real estate times. It’s all in the eye of the beholder. Don’t believe everything you read and…
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September 19, 2023
By Leslie Lake
County changes historical property oversight

County changes historical property oversight

CORTEZ – A proposal to shift the oversight of historical properties from the Manatee County Clerk’s Office to the Sports and Leisure Division was contested by those in the historical community at a S…
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September 19, 2023
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Property owners with equity may tend to overpay

Feeling pretty flush, are you? Most of us who have owned property for several years are pretty happy with the equity we have accumulated. But if you are selling and purchasing another property, be ca…
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September 11, 2023
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Some homeowners ‘going bare’

Florida homeowner’s insurance is one of our favorite cocktail party conversations here on the coast. People who don’t live on the coast think we’re nuts to risk all just for great views and beach acc…
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September 4, 2023
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

New homes a no-brainer for some

Sometimes choosing something that you thought was totally out of your range becomes the obvious choice. In a tight real estate market with little inventory, for some buyers, new construction is the b…
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September 1, 2023
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Higher rates here to stay

On Aug. 17, mortgage interest rates spiked to 7.09%, the highest in years per Freddie Mac. A lot of this has to do with the 10-year treasury yield, which hit its highest level since 2008 on the same…
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September 1, 2023
By Jason Schaffer
Tourism numbers stay strong on Anna Maria Island

Tourism numbers stay strong on Anna Maria Island

ANNA MARIA – Research Data Services’ (RDS) Ann Wittine presented an optimistic state of tourism update to the Manatee County Tourist Development Council (TDC) on Aug. 21 at The Center of Anna Maria I…
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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

The Off-Stage Ladies of the Island Players, April luncheon meeting