Greg Snow - Southwest Florida Real Estate Expert provides real estate services to Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Sanibel and Captiva Islands

 If one were to roll back the years to the Movie, "Rocky III", and the song "Eye of the Tiger" by the group, Survivor, www.survivormusic.com, feelings of pride, spirit, courage, and endurance float around in the brain, as in almost all American classics, the underdog prevails. Many of our local real estate practitioners, mortgage brokers, title companies, appraisers, surveyors, and even sign installers have survived the worst real estate crisis in the memory of this author.."in 69, I was twenty-one, and I called the road my own.." from Jackson Browne's 1977 song "Running on Empty", www.jacksonbrowne.com. Have we reached the bottom of the free fall in real estate values in Lee County, Florida? Did we see "hope" in the eyes of the "oysters" at the bottom, or was it a kinda "hope is a dangerous thing..." glimpse from the classic 1994 movie, "The Shawshank Redemption", www.shawshankredemption.net.

 With our local Multiple Listing Service, www.swflrealtors.com, reporting almost 10,000 closed sales of single famil residences so far in 2009, we might sell in excess of 14,000, although so far over 5800 have sold for less than $100k, and 57 sold for over 1,000,000 (it's 58 if you count the Century 21 Birchwood one for $87 million that really sold for $87,000 lol :) Will we keep surviving as we swim toward the surface while trying not to get the "bends"??? Stay tuned for updates and breaking stories....