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Condo living getting more complicated

Jun 21, 2022 – Louise Bolger
May 23, 2022
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Insurance and affordability

It’s the week to report the April sales statistics for Manatee County; it’s also the week where the Florida Legislature may be going into a special session to address the out-of-control property insu…
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May 16, 2022
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Are you noticing the mortgage interest rates?

My April 20 column was titled “The end of an era,” the era being one of ultra-low mortgage interest rates. In that column I reported that the current average mortgage interest rate was 4.72%, a rate…
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May 8, 2022
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Condo takeovers

Condo termination. Those are fighting words to condo owners who are living in prime waterfront locations in Florida. However, it’s going on right now in Southeast Florida, all because of the collapse…
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April 30, 2022
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Is it worth the walk?

Many years ago, my husband and I were in Athens, Greece, and on our way down from touring the sights at the top of Acropolis Hill, someone stopped us and asked, “Was it worth the walk?” After my init…
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April 24, 2022
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Does anyone know what’s going on?

I recently spent a weekend with some good friends, all of whom were either involved in real estate sales or still are. Naturally, there was a lot of conversation about soaring home values both here i…
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April 18, 2022
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

The end of an era

It’s so sad when eras end. We had the end of the hard-wired phone and even though you can still have one, no one will admit it. We had the end of the standard-shift car. The end of the manual typewri…
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April 10, 2022
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Addictive real estate

Of all the things we can become addicted to in our difficult world, real estate is probably one of the safer vices. Or is it? Wanting to see how other people live has been around forever. Certainl…
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April 3, 2022
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Florida insurance reform – not

At the end of March, the Florida Legislature ended its session with an April Fools’ to every homeowner in the state. The legislators could not come to an agreement on passing insurance reform in t…
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March 27, 2022
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

What do Las Vegas and real estate have in common?

Who knew that even people who don’t like Las Vegas or gambling in general would be faced with the prospect of making some really heavy bets just to buy a home? Nevertheless, that is the world we’re l…
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March 20, 2022
By Louise Bolger
Castles in the Sand

Legislators toss condo rules out

For a while there I thought we would have one more headache to worry about in addition to insurance rates and hurricanes. On March 11, Florida legislators failed to reach an agreement on a bill to im…
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