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Canadian Buyers Active In Fort Myers Real Estate

Canadian buyers are very active in the real estate market here in Southwest Florida. At this time, approximately 7% of our website traffic originates in Canada and over 10% of our transaction in the last year have been with Canadian buyers.

Canadians Eying Fort Myers Real Estate

With the Loonie at parity with the US Dollar and across the board price reductions, many Canadians are now considering an investment in Southwest Florida real estate.  The Canadian Press reports that the currency equality is very enticing but shouldn’t be the key driver in your decision to buy real estate in Florida.  Some of [...]

Foreigners Attracted to Southwest Florida Real Estate

NBC-2 reports that 25% of all homes sold in Collier County are to foreigners. Attracting new buyers with exchange-rate goosed dollars to the market is truly the best way for us to pull this housing market up and out of the downturn. Over the past year, the top foreign countries for visitors to [...]

Canadians Invading Southwest Florida

Over the past couple of weeks, calls from the Canadian area codes of 289; 416; 418; 450; 514; 519; 613; 647; 705; 807; 819 and 905 have increased dramatically on our phone lines. In fact, more than 1/2 of the international inquires that we receive are from Canadians.

With lows of -5°F predicted for this [...]

Canadians buying in Southwest Florida

With a strong Loonie and a desire to escape bone chilling winter weather, Canadians represent an ever growing demographic here in Southwest Florida.

This growing presence is playing out in cyberspace, as analytics for our heavily visited sister site Greater Fort Myers Real Estate show that over half of our international traffic is from Canada. [...]