by Naples News Now
Naples, Florida has been named the safest place to live in Florida, according to a recent study conducted by SimpleShowing, a real estate technology company. SimpleShowing analyzed data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program and ranked the cities based on their crime rates.
Naples emerged as the clear winner, with a crime rate of just 1.91 per 1,000 people. Weston and Satellite Beach took the second and third spots, respectively, with crime rates of 4.13 and 4.15 per 1,000 people.
The study looked at several factors, including property crime, violent crime, and total crime, to determine the overall safety of each city. Naples scored well in all categories, with a property crime rate of just 13.67 per 1,000 people and a violent crime rate of 0.94 per 1,000 people.
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by Naples News Now
Being the best place to call home in the whole country, Naples deserves the honor.
Naples, Florida, has been declared the best place to live in the United States, making a life in SW Florida a dream come true.
Collier County’s Naples is a beautiful seaside city. This place has white sand beaches, a tropical environment, and a high standard of living. This gem of the Gulf Coast has risen to the top of various “best places to live” rankings.
Mostly, Naples enjoys a warm and sunny atmosphere all year. On average, there are 264 clear days a year, making it perfect for sports like golf, fishing, and boating.
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…to ‘improve views and visual connections to golf’
Laura Layden | Naples Daily News
The Naples Beach Club development continues to evolve.
The developers are seeking city approval for another set of design changes.
The latest revisions involve a roughly 10.2-acre parcel within the nearly 125-acre redevelopment site.
The biggest adjustment: Replacing an existing hotel clubhouse and conference center, rather than remodeling it.
The center, part of the former Naples Beach Hotel, was built more than 20 years ago. It sits on the east side of Gulf Shore Boulevard North, near South Golf Drive.
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Seller Confidence Returns to Greet Seasonal Demand
“The good news is that the new listings coming onto the market are evenly split between single family and condos,” said Mike Hughes, Vice President and General Manager for Downing-Frye Realty, Inc. “Inventory in both these areas have doubled since last January so buyers looking to purchase in either sector this year will have many more options.”
Closed sales in January decreased 33.8 percent to 555 homes from 839 homes in January 2022. But the spike in new listings is a promising turn of events as they pushed inventory in January up 122.7 percent to 2,699 properties from 1,212 properties in January 2022. Broker analysts reviewing the report are optimistic and say it potentially could result in a better-than-expected winter home buying season.
“Inventory between December and January grew nearly 10 percent,” said NABOR® President Nick Bobzien, a broker associate at Downing-Frye Realty. “With the number of showings nearly doubling in January 2023 compared to December 2022, buyers were excited to see new listings come on the market and took advantage of the opportunity as seen by the huge increase in pending sales over the same period.”
After seven months of equable activity, pending sales rebounded as the new year began. In fact, pending sales in January were remarkably higher than pending sales not only in December (682), but also compared to January 2019 (660) and January 2020 (892). Though compared to last January’s phenomenal sales activity, pending sales this January decreased 20.5 percent to 1,092 pending sales from 1,373 pending sales in January 2022.
Pent-up demand was evident in January. While showings decreased 20 percent compared to January 2022, they nearly doubled compared to December’s reported showings. Of course, another factor contributing to increased contracts (pending sales) during January were the 1,092 price decreases reported for the month, which brought the overall percent of current list price value down to 95.8 percent, a 4.2 percent decrease from 100 percent in January 2022.
The NABOR® January 2023 Market Report provides comparisons of single-family home and condominium sales (via the Southwest Florida MLS), price ranges, and geographic segmentation and includes an overall market summary. NABOR® sales statistics are presented in chart format, including these overall (single-family and condominium) findings for 2023:
According to the report, the only home type that experienced a rise in closed sales during January compared to last year were condominiums in the $500,000 to $1 million price category, which increased 4.2 percent. Interestingly, the median closed price of single-family homes decreased 2.7 percent between December and January, but the median closed price for condominiums increased 6 percent. Not surprising, due to high demand for properties in the $300,000 and below price category, condominiums in this price category had the highest reported median closed price increase (16.1 percent) and were the only price category that reported a decrease in inventory (13.1 percent) in January.
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Diana Biederman | Naples Daily News
My first impression of Fifth Avenue South when moving here? A high-low hodge-podge of restaurants and retailers.
Case in point: Marilyn’s and Kay’s who don’t compete for shoppers. Butterfly necklaces for $10,000 at Provident or the $14 version at Best of Everything across the way.
Two years later, Sails across from Subway.
You get the gist.
Posting my thoughts on TripAdvisor earned a rebuttal from the biz district’s former boss though a dozen of the site’s users clicked thumbs up.
But times have changed; two hurricanes and a global pandemic later, Fifth Avenue is upping its exclusivity factor.
Subway is gone. The chain’s replacement since late December?
Casa Neri, a sister restaurant to next door’s Molto Trattoria, home to my favorite Caesar salad, and La Pescheria on the next block. All three are co-owned by the brother-sister duo Andrea and Francesca Neri, who I interviewed and photographed Jan. 3.
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