Local Real Estate Agent Jorge Barrera has prepared a detailed sales report from the last year covering single family homes, residential lots and condos, villas and townhouses. The statistics are through February 25th 2025.
About these numbers Barrera said, “As the market navigates these challenges, it is vital for both buyers and sellers to stay informed about local trends, assess their financial situations, and work with experienced real estate professionals who can provide valuable insights and strategies.”
Overall, while the current conditions present obstacles, they also offer unique opportunities for those willing to adapt to the evolving landscape of Fort Myers Beach real estate.
Residential Single Family homes:
– Active listings: 189
– Pending under Contract: 9
– Sales (last 6 months): 35
– Sales (last 12 months): 72
Approximately 31.5 months of inventory
Residential Vacant Lots:Â
– Active Listings: 144
– Pending under contract: 0
– Sales (Last 6 Months): 17
– Sales (Last 12 Months): 37
Approximately 47 months of inventory
Condominiums/Villas/
– Active Listings: 316
– Under Contract: 12
– Sales (Last 6 Months): 59
– Sales (Last 12 Months): 166
Approximately 23 months of inventory
Contact Jorge Barrera by phone at 239-791-9893.
FMB is cursed. It was filled with evil
People before the devastation of Hurricane Ian. God had enough of the evil deeds of these partying cracker losers. Less than a month after I threatened to call in the Health Dept because of the roaches at the Leaky Tiki, God blew it and most of that evil beach away. Let evil scum like Fred Wright 33 degree mason and honorary Lee County Sheriff’s deputy, mob boss hit man rot there for all I care. They’re just a bunch of drunk hillbilly Trump lovers with flip flops who poison candy bars to give to people’s kids.
Unfortunately, when a hillbilly scumbag loser has his home destroyed in an RV park by tornadoes, he just puts up another one. Then he wonders why the tornadoes keeping coming through, and it just goes to show you: Stupid, ignorant, evil people never learn. And they probably ALL voted for Trump and Marceno.
The entire state is cursed. But THIS County, and particularly THIS beach is cursed by God. Read your Revelation and know—life there is only gonna get worse. And the tanking real estate market has less to do with disasters as it has to do with deifying real estate fraudsters and enticing organized criminals to live there.
The businesses on the island, restaurants, hotels, etc. Will not survive the out of season months unless we get this island rebuilt as quickly as possible. We have become stagnant.
Nobody wants 18 stories
Nobody wants food trucks on the ground
Nobody wants bars
Nobody wants music
Our island cannot and will not sustain itself without a steady flow of visitors.
Our island cannot sustain itself on residence alone. Our island is not the place to live if you’re looking for peace and quiet and tranquility. We are an island of hotels, motels, and many rental units. We are an island to come. Have fun to eat out at restaurants to listen to live music. Our businesses cannot sustain their selves for six months out of the year as it stands right now. I stop at houses all the time open houses. There are some beautiful properties that are priced very fairly. Many of them are new construction or freshly repaired that were constructed just prior to Ian. They are for sale because they are not getting the rental activity that they need. Anybody who’s moved or lived on this island who is here for peace and quiet and tranquility has picked the wrong spot. Many of us, love the activity the people, the activities. We are dying slowly and it’s already begun. These figures speak for themselves. Don’t ask me or listen to me. Just look at the figures. Peace and quiet is Bonita Beach not Fort Myers Beach.
Unless someone has an attachment / history with FMB – it makes absolutely no sense to purchase or invest in FMB. The history of our incompetence from local Govt/ Town Council coupled with all the ridiculous overbearing regulations and an island that will be a construction site for another decade as these ridiculous out of character Island altering massive developments continue to change everything about FMB makes FMB an extremely unattractive place to invest .
Reality is what it is –
Imho, we need to make dramatic changes to attract small businesses and homeowners – stop thinking that some gigantic development will fix / save FMB – it won’t , will only further our problems .
We need to stand for something – what is vision for our future ? Is it realistic ? Is it cohesive ?
Being a better version of what FMB was is what we should be focused on and how to accomplish that – the initial comprehensive plan should be enforced or abandon and another one drawn up (real bad idea) .
FMB needs to approach this monumental task in a realistic way – like eating an elaphant- one bite at a time . There are no silver bullets .
People would flock to FMB if they knew we were sticking to the Comp plan , standing up for residents and making it guest / user friendly .
Making it a welcoming , affordable island – reducing the size of Govt and the amount of regulations is a must .
How many times does it have to be said we do stick to the comp plan?
Ugh! Smh!
I’d be interested in seeing the deviation between asking and selling along with the length of time on the market. In other words, how long to you wait for every $100,000 overpriced you are.
You cannot measure a market like FMB strictly on months of supply. Ian created a significant disruption to the market. Bringing a lot of properties to the market that wouldn’t have normally been on the market. I’d be interested in seeing a comparison of sales and contracts this year compared to a normal (pre-Ian) year. Not to mention that real estate is often soft in presidential election years.
Our island is in transition and recovery, what’s coming out of this is going to be a beautiful and vibrant community. Stronger and better than it was before. If you look you can already see the beginnings. Beautiful vibrant colorful homes popping up. Small businesses opening.
Recovery takes time but it’s going to be awesome!
Exactly how much time?
It doesn’t have to take so much time? Anybody on here or listening if you’re approaching 70 years old right now you will be 80 before this island is vibrant again. What is the median age on this island?? I’m pretty sure it’s close to 70 and not 50.
It would be interesting to know asking price vs actual sales price. Great information, well not so great for sales. Thank you!
Yikes… that’s bad bad.
Any insights on rentals? Vacation and annual
That’s depressing