Posts Tagged ‘homes’

Building your dream home – your main home or your vacation home – is not a fast process. We bought our lot 5 years ago and have spent countless hours designing, re-designing, detailing, changing drawings again and again to get to the stage where we are ready to start. Add to that countless hours getting quotes, discussing with builders and suppliers – and this is just getting ready to start – it is not a task for the faint-hearted.

But now we’ve chosen our builders – George Barrett of New Smyrna Beach Construction Company – the silt fence is up (this protects the river from the build) and the fill is coming in.

Follow us through the excitement and heart-ache of this new build – and if our ideas are tempting you – come and see us at the office. We can help you find your dream lot (either a green-field site or with something to demolish already on it) and share our experience and contacts with you.

People keep asking us if the market has reached the bottom yet – and the honest answer is ‘we don’t know’. Certainly many of the sales are still those of properties where the owners can no longer manage the mortgage and the property taxes – so it is difficult to see the trend of those moving out of choice.

Whilst there are properties that are at risk of foreclosure, this will keep prices from rising. However, there is only a finite amount of ocean front space – so ocean front property will hold its value in the long term.

The internet has now given owners the freedom to find renters for their properties and this has encouraged people to look at buying rather than renting themselves. If the rent can cover some of the costs (or even make a profit overall), then buying a retirement home now while there is plenty of choice can make a lot of sense.

It wasn’t long ago, that trying to buy an ocean front property was a question of just rushing into the next one that came on the market because they were so scarce. Who is to say when that type of market will return?

The August issue of the Silver Dolphin Beachside Condo Guide © is now available for you to download. Use this link to view or download our Florida Beachside Condo Guide in pdf.

What makes a Florida dream home? It is not just price – there can be extremely expensive homes that are someone else’s dream but not yours.

Your Florida dream home might be a huge modern estate on the beach – or it might be a cosy little country retreat; it might be a brand new home or something older – perhaps a Florida beach house that you can fix up. Your prime need might be a property near a good school. It might be your family home or your second home or an investment property for Florida vacation rentals. Everyone’s needs and desires are different.

What we Realtors need to remember is that one person’s Florida dream house may be another’s monstrosity. We will listen to what you want and try to really understand your needs – we don’t want to show you huge numbers of properties that are not what you are looking for – but it is our job to sometimes try to suggest something you haven’t thought about. It is easy to have a fixed idea of what you want – only to find that there’s something better that you had not even considered.

Remember that we can show you anything that is for sale and listed on the Multiple Listing Service – we are not restricted to our own listings. If there is a Florida property that you are particularly interested in that isn’t on the market, we can even try to contact the owners to see if they might consider selling.

This Florida property is a magnificent architect designed work of art – currently listed at $3,900,000

Or what about this amazing property – built for entertaining with an amazing roof terrace giving river and ocean views – recently totally remodeled and asking $1,790,000 – now reduced to $1,495,000.

What about this pretty custom home, built by New Smyrna Beach Construction? Listed at $784,900

With prices starting at under $100,000 to over $3million – we can help you find your dream home in New Smyrna Beach, FL

Find news about real estate for sale or rent in the New Smyrna Beach area of Florida from Silver Dolphin Properties. This blog presents snippets of ideas about renting, buying and staying in beautiful New Smyrna Beach from the perspectives of Neville – owner/broker, Liz – dealing with rentals from the UK, Noelle – Realtor, and Paula – our admin lady at weekends.

Real estate topics and tags for New Smyrna Beach and nearby communities in Florida will include advice, attractions, communities, Florida, homes, investment, listings, news, realtor, rental, sales, and schools.

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