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"Ask an islander!"

Wendy Humphrey and Sally Davies are experienced Realtors who work as a team to offer the efficient services you need to sell your Sanibel or Captiva home or condo quickly.  We have lived and worked on the island for the last twenty years and know it sometimes takes an islander to get things done rapidly.

We realize that when you sell your Sanibel or Captiva home or condo you want it to be given top priority. When we set up our business we were told there was a need for more personal services. Preferring not to become a large corporation, we focus on marketing a limited number of properties and then devote all our resources to selling them.

 What can we offer the motivated seller? Here are just some of the advantages of using our services: 

  • We are a small team working within a larger company. Your property will not be lost among hundreds of others. We will devote ourselves to getting your property sold….. fast.
  • We are backed by a larger company with an island office location offering maximum opportunity for the sale of your property.
  • The Sanibel Property Team has its own internationally marketed website http://www.SanibelProperty.com that showcases your home. We had more than 2500 well-qualified visitors to the website in the first six months alone resulting in multiple sales.
  • We have a full-time, on staff marketing manager working to market your property to potential buyers and a full time real estate coordinator working to expedite your listing, marketing, and closing needs.
  • We offer complementary virtual tours of all our listed properties. A proven sales marketing tool for today's high-tech world.

 

In addition to our online exposure, we market your property through:

   

   • Advertisements in local media

   • Mailings to our extensive client list in the U.S. and overseas

   • Quarterly newsletter to customers

   • Posting your property in the MLS (Multiple Listing Service)

      accessible to all realtors on the island

     • The Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce.

With these tools the maximum number of qualified buyers will see your house and our efficient small-team service will get you the fastest sale at the highest price possible.

 Please call or e-mail us if you want to sell your property. We will be happy to provide you a no-obligation opinion of the market value of your property. You can reach us at (239) 851-2301 or (239) 691-3319 or toll free at 1 (888) 936-3962. Alternatively you can e-mail us at realestate@SanibelProperty.com

We look forward to hearing from you.

Average island prices drop but sales pick up pointing to good season

The average price of property sold on Sanibel between January 1st and September 30th has dropped 19% so far this year making a 25 percent decrease on average prices of sold property on Sanibel over two years.

The most expensive properties showed the biggest drop with a 27 percent drop in beachfront property prices and a 23 percent drop in bay front property. The only property type that gained was inland property which increased 13 percent in the first three quarters of this year.

Captiva fared no better with property prices overall dropping 30 percent over the year and 26 percent over two years. All categories dropped with near beach properties dropping as much as 55 percent.

Take a longer view and the picture is better. Captiva does better than Sanibel. Over five years, the average price of Captiva property has gained 57 percent. (But bear in mind that Captiva was still recovering from Hurricane Charlie five years ago and prices were depressed.) Average prices on Sanibel dropped just  9 percent over five years.

 

Take a still longer view and all categories fared, if not brilliantly, at least adequately.  Sanibel prices have increased 50 percent in the last ten years  and Captiva prices have gone up 42 percent with Captiva beachfront and Captiva near beach homes starring with 86 percent and 94 percent increases respectively. For a spreadsheet of island prices over ten years and more, e-mail Wendy at Wendy@SanibelProperty.com

And now for even better news……  Following a dismal start, a lackluster spring and a mediocre summer, sales have already started picking up for the fall with 17 homes and 14 condos either pending or contingent. This is highly unusual: October is generally our slowest month.