Sinfonia brings The Amernet String Quartet on Friday, February 15th and 16th in Rosemary Beach, Florida

Opening Soon! The Ultimate Movie Experience @The Grand Boulevard in @Miramar Beach in Sandestin. This will be the only one like this in the WHOLE STATE of FLORIDA! The popularity of the @BEACH has never been stronger. Come see the value of properties that are now offered. Inventory is getting low!

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Emerald Coast On The Rise

Emerald Coast Real Estate on the Rise Real Estate on the Emerald Coast is on the rise. According to the Emerald Coast Association of Realtors, pending sales have increased in July with 5.4 percent for single family homes and 13.1 percent for townhomes and condos. Price points are also becoming competitive with a one percent median sales price increase for Okaloosa County and a 19 percent increase for Walton county. Let's compare some numbers to last year, overall the single-family home inventory on the Emerald Coast has seen a decrease of 25.7 percent while condo and townhomes decreased30 percent. With short sale and foreclosure transactions decreasing, we see a welcome sign that our market on the Emerald Coast is getting stronger.

Home Ownership

Homeownership isn't a retirement plan, but it can help you get there fasterOnce upon a time (i.e., 2006), the real estate market got so hot that it was common to hear people chatting about buying homes left and right. It became equally common for this excess of home equity to create a false sense of financial security, resulting in many homeowners saving less than they might have otherwise. Relying on home equity for retirement requires that you sell the place at some point, cashing out and moving somewhere cheaper (and potentially less desirable). But, there are a number of other ways your home can help you five, ten, even twenty years in advance of your planned retirement. Here are six strategies for using your home to help you retire—without having to sell the place and move to Timbuktu.

Housing Bust Is Over!

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Mortgage rates fell again this week, smashing previous record lows, according to a regular weekly release from mortgage giant Freddie Mac.

The rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate loan, the most popular mortgage product, dropped to 3.62% from 3.66% last week. The rate has matched or hit a new low for 10 of the past 11 weeks, Freddie Mac said. Meanwhile, the 15-year fixed rate fell to 2.89%, down from 2.94%.

"Recent economic data releases of less consumer spending and a contraction in the manufacturing industry drove long-term Treasury bond yields lower over the week, and allowed fixed mortgage rates to hit new all-time record lows," said Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac's chief economist.

The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage is popular among homeowners who are seeking to refinance or to trade-up and minimize their total interest payments. At the current rate, a borrower financing $200,000 would pay $1,370 a month and spend a total of just under $47,000 in interest over the 15-year span of the mortgage.

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Buyers who want to minimize their monthly payments by opting for a 30-year loan would have payments of just $911 a month on a $200,000 loan. But they would pay $128,000 in interest over the life of the loan.

Multiple Offers Returning

 Record tight inventories are making it increasingly difficult for growing numbers of buyers, who are creating multiple-bid environments in markets that haven’t seen buyers battle over homes in six years.