I took my boat to the Bahamas for 2 weeks, starting the last week in June. We went as far as Great Guana Cay in the Abacos, Via the Lucayan Waterway in Grand Bahama. We had planned to loop down to the Berry Islands through Chub Cay and shoot straight west back to the Keys. Due to the rainy weather we decided to backtrack our way back and skipped Hopetown in the lower Abacos, and the Berry's. We also ended up spending more time riding around in a golf cart than we had planned, instead of being on our boat over the reefs! We did notice that there is a lot more real estate inventory for sale than there has been in the past in the Bahamas, and the homes there are taking a lot longer to sell as they are here. But what was encouraging to us as Realtors is the prices are holding high. There are some good buys to be had, but the prime properties are asking top dollar, and location is the engine that drives the higher prices.

So I am finally caught up at work and lets check out how the sales stats ended up for Real Estate in the upper Florida Keys, for the month of June.

It appears that the summer doldrums are setting in, with Junes numbers being down from May. There were 44 pending's in June and 40 sold properties with a sales volume of $29,563,450.