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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="http://blog.swfrealestate.com" target="_self">SWF Real Estate » Southwest Florida Foreclosures</a><br /><span class="rss-item">Blog for Real Estate in Southwest Florida</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://blog.swfrealestate.com/2009/01/27/home-sales-rise/" title="Lee County and Southwest Florida Homes Sales Increase By 146 Percent...." target="_self">SW FLORIDA HOME SALES ON THE RISE IN LEE COUNTY</a><br />');
document.write('<p><strong>2008 </strong>ended the year with home sales raising dramatically with a 146 percent increase over December 2007.</p> <p>In Lee County Realtors  assisted in selling 1064 homes over 432 in December of 2007. However, and good news for buyers is that the median sales price fell 50% during the same period from $215,200.00 to $106,900.00.</p> <p>Lee country real estate  for 2008 showed sale of  8217 existing properties which is a year over year gain of 43 percent.</p> <p>This does not take into account new home sales or foreclosures sold at auction.</p> <p>While there are large inventories in certain price ranges some of the higher end properties are holding there pricing better than lower price <a title=\"Southwest Florida Real Estate\" href=\"http://www.swfhomes.com\" target=\"_self\">SW Florida real estate</a>.</p> <p>For those of you that want to enjoy the warm South West  Florida sunshine then now may be a good time buy especially with the low interest rates. What if we have more inflation then interest rates will go up. What that mean is you could pay tens of thousands of dollars more over a 30 year loan with just a few points difference.</p> <p>Lets say you bought a condo or a house today for $300,000.00 and after you bought it the value went down by 10% or $30.000.00 and your loan was 5.5%.  You are down 30k for now but over time more than likely will recover that if the property value increases.  However lets say on a 300k loan  your rate was was  7.5%  for 30 years. On the 7.5% loan you would be paying about  $144,000.00 more for the same property over 30 years. <em>Rates make a major difference so don&#8217;t try and time the bottom as it may not make financial sense. </em></p> <p>For more information on Southwest Florida real estate contact one of our experienced agents at Lee Collier Realty toll free at 888-999-3208 or local at 239-992-7737.</p> ');
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