In a normal market, it’s good to have an experienced guide coaching you through the process of buying or selling a home. That person can advise you on important things like pricing your home correctly or the first steps to take when you’re ready to buy. However, the market we’re in today is far from normal. As a result, an expert isn’t just good to have by your side – an expert is essential.
Today’s housing market is full of extremes. Mortgage rates hovering near record-lows are driving high buyer demand. On the other hand, an absence of sellers is creating record-low housing inventory. This...
FORT MYERS, Fla.– Summer football camps are back in the ‘239’. Former Tampa Bay Bucs running back Earnest Graham’s message to his campers was simple, cherish these moments. As a Southwest Florida native and someone that made it to the top of the football pyramid, Graham can remember the impact youth football camps had on his development growing up “Oh I love it. It takes us back obviously to our youth and when we would come out for football camps and you see all the guys from the community and you get a chance just run around and just have fun plus you get to...
NAPLES, Fla.– A woman drove her car into a ditch near the Shoppes of Pebblebrooke in Naples on Friday afternoon. Witnesses said the woman was driving on the wrong side of the road. When she tried to turn around, she ended up getting stuck in the mud. The driver almost hit a pole during the incident. The witness called 911 and deputies arrived to help. Crews were able to remove the vehicle and the driver did not get hurt.
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The NBC2 First Alert Hurricane Tracking Team will be keeping a close eye on the Gulf of Mexico in the coming days where an area of low pressure could form by next week. The National Hurricane Center currently gives this area, located in the far southwestern gulf, a 30% chance of tropical development in the next 5 days but near-zero odds of development in the next two days. As of Friday evening, storms are developing in the Bay of Campeche, but without any organization to them. If you look at a wide view from the eastern Pacific across Central America and into the southern gulf, you’ll...
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A new Marriott hotel is set to open next year in downtown Fort Myers. The new hotel will have more than 100 rooms, a restaurant and rooftop bar. Mayor Kevin Anderson says it will bring in crowds of visitors and new jobs to the area. “Any time there’s talk about development, especially development that includes job creation,” he said, “that’s a good thing.” The construction is set to start this year and be completed next fall. “There’s other problems that we could think about solving here in Fort Myers,” local Alanna...
NAPLES, Fla.– This weekend, Steve Becker of Naples will embark on a daunting swim around Key West for the seventh time. But he’s not swimming for himself; he’s doing it for his former students. Steve will be raising money for the Immokalee Foundation, a non-profit that empowers students in the city where used to teach. “Education is the path out of poverty,” Steve said, echoing the mission of the foundation he will be trying to help get awareness for when he participates in The College of Florida’s Swim Around Key West. Steve will compete as part...
CAYO COSTA, Fla.– A group worried about the future of the South Cayo Costa public dock has been trying to get the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to hear their concerns. The DEP pulled a vote for the Cayo Costa State Park’s management plan from the Recreation & Parks council meeting agenda for Friday. Last year’s draft of of the plan would not have allowed commercial ferries carrying tourists to pull up to the state-owned south dock anymore but the new draft in March allowed the ferries. With no vote Friday, the ferries will also still be allowed,...
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla.– NBC2 has confirmed the Collier County Sheriff’s Economics Crime Unit is investigating past board members of the Republican Executive Committee. The Collier Sheriff’s office confirms they have received multiple complaints about past board members of the executive committee. “Over the past months we have received multiple reports from different complainants against persons associated with political organizations in Collier County. On Friday, June 4, 2021, we received information involving the Collier County Republican Executive Committee....