July is hot and very humid here in Ocala there’s no getting away from it. Every day it’s in the high 70’s at 6 am and very humid. By afternoon expect the lower 90’s and still really humid. We get afternoon thunderstorms 3 or 4 times a week. They don’t cool things down much.
July is hurricane season. So far this year and this sounds crazy huge dust storms are blowing out of the Sahara desert in Africa. This air born sand and dust keeps hurricanes from forming in the Atlantic and Caribbean oceans. Hopefully this will continue and we will have a uneventful season.
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The May sales report is significant since it shows sales from mid March through early and mid April after things got shut down from the Corona Virus. Real estate in Florida is considered an essential business and we never stopped selling houses sales just dropped off. Sales were down quite a bit and inventory is low too. Prices seem stable.
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June is the first month of the wet season. The wet season is when it is very humid every day and there are frequent afternoon thunderstorms. The wet season lasts until mid October. Every day is in the high 80’s to low 90’s but seldom over 95. Nights are in the mid 70’s. It’s humid 24/7.
June is also the beginning of hurricane season. Hurricanes feed off the warm ocean water and although the season starts in June it’s late August and September that is peak hurricane season.
It’s not impossible to get a hurricane in Ocala but being in the middle of the state we are about as safe a place as you will find in Florida.
The heat and humidity as a small price to pay for no winter.
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This is a series of pictures that I took walking around here in Del Webb Stone Creek. I like to take pictures as I roam around and these are just taken with my Samsung cell phone. I’m thinking I may do a series of picture posts about Stone Creek. Stay tuned for more.
Early AM rocket launch from Cape Canaveral taken from my front lawn
Sunrise taken from my back yard
Sunset taken from my back yard
Golf course picture magically stylized by my phone
Stone Creek pool stylized picture
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Sales in April were very good because contracts that closed in April were written in February or very early March. Here in Florida real estate is considered an essential business and did not shut down. Every day I look at the MLS and there are at least couple of dozen homes that go Pending. Pending sales are a better gauge of the market than closed sales. March 2020 Pending sales were 627 and April 568. That is a significant drop. I was just surprised anyone is buying anything at all in March. New listing in March were 697 and April 666. Not a big drop. Inventory is low at only 3.1 months. Low inventory is significant. This is totally different that the real estate crash in 2008. I think there will be a large rebound in sales either this summer or definitely this fall. A lot depends on when northern states open up and people up there can sell their homes.
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Ocala Florida weather report for July 2020
/in Living in Ocala, Ocala WeatherJuly is hot and very humid here in Ocala there’s no getting away from it. Every day it’s in the high 70’s at 6 am and very humid. By afternoon expect the lower 90’s and still really humid. We get afternoon thunderstorms 3 or 4 times a week. They don’t cool things down much.
July is hurricane season. So far this year and this sounds crazy huge dust storms are blowing out of the Sahara desert in Africa. This air born sand and dust keeps hurricanes from forming in the Atlantic and Caribbean oceans. Hopefully this will continue and we will have a uneventful season.
Ocala Florida Real Estate Market Report May 2020
/in Market Reports, Ocala Real Estate NewsThe May sales report is significant since it shows sales from mid March through early and mid April after things got shut down from the Corona Virus. Real estate in Florida is considered an essential business and we never stopped selling houses sales just dropped off. Sales were down quite a bit and inventory is low too. Prices seem stable.
Ocala Florida Weather Report June 2020
/in Living in Ocala, Ocala WeatherJune is the first month of the wet season. The wet season is when it is very humid every day and there are frequent afternoon thunderstorms. The wet season lasts until mid October. Every day is in the high 80’s to low 90’s but seldom over 95. Nights are in the mid 70’s. It’s humid 24/7.
June is also the beginning of hurricane season. Hurricanes feed off the warm ocean water and although the season starts in June it’s late August and September that is peak hurricane season.
It’s not impossible to get a hurricane in Ocala but being in the middle of the state we are about as safe a place as you will find in Florida.
The heat and humidity as a small price to pay for no winter.
Stone Creek picture blog
/in Living in Ocala, Ocala 55+ communities, Ocala Golf Course CommunitiesThis is a series of pictures that I took walking around here in Del Webb Stone Creek. I like to take pictures as I roam around and these are just taken with my Samsung cell phone. I’m thinking I may do a series of picture posts about Stone Creek. Stay tuned for more.
Early AM rocket launch from Cape Canaveral taken from my front lawn
Sunrise taken from my back yard
Sunset taken from my back yard
Golf course picture magically stylized by my phone
Stone Creek pool stylized picture
Ocala Real Estate Market Report April 2020
/in Market Reports, Ocala Real Estate NewsSales in April were very good because contracts that closed in April were written in February or very early March. Here in Florida real estate is considered an essential business and did not shut down. Every day I look at the MLS and there are at least couple of dozen homes that go Pending. Pending sales are a better gauge of the market than closed sales. March 2020 Pending sales were 627 and April 568. That is a significant drop. I was just surprised anyone is buying anything at all in March. New listing in March were 697 and April 666. Not a big drop. Inventory is low at only 3.1 months. Low inventory is significant. This is totally different that the real estate crash in 2008. I think there will be a large rebound in sales either this summer or definitely this fall. A lot depends on when northern states open up and people up there can sell their homes.