The value of all residential permits issued in 2018 totaled $138 million -- the highest in over a decade. The total...

Feb 18, 2019 | Community Planning, Development / Community Planning, Growth
The value of all residential permits issued in 2018 totaled $138 million -- the highest in over a decade. The total...
Feb 18, 2019 | Community Planning, Development / Community Planning, Growth
MLS records indicate that six hundred thirty-eight (638) single family homes were sold in Estero in 2018. Even though...
Aug 9, 2018 | Community Planning, Development / Community Planning, Growth
Based on MLS records, one hundred-fifteen (115) single family homes were sold in May and June 2018. Although this is...
Jul 27, 2017
During June 2017, permits for nineteen (19) residential units were issued in Estero, including thirteen (13) single family homes and six (6) duplex units. Three single family permits and all 6 duplex unit permits were issued to Tidewater, the 55+ gated community at...
Jun 29, 2017
Estero’s commercial permits in May, 2017 totaled $4,074,762, including $2 million for the renovation of the old Sports Authority location in Coconut Point Mall. So far this year, over $4.7 million has been invested in renovations within the Mall. This year’s total...
May 2, 2017
The Village of Estero had about 22,403 residences at the end of 2016. Here’s a look at the history and demographics of housing in Estero. Prologue In 1997, the Estero Fire District conducted a survey of all structures in Estero and found about 4,600 housing units of...
Jul 27, 2017
Estero’s commercial permits in June, 2017 totaled $1,038,563, without any large permit being issued. However, so far this year, over $6 million has been invested in renovations within Estero’s two largest malls, Coconut Point and Miromar. And, Lee Health’s $82...
Jun 29, 2017
During May 2017, permits for fifty-five (55) residential units were issued in Estero, including seventeen (17) single family homes, two (2) duplex homes and thirty-six (36) condominium units. The condominium permits were the first construction permits issued to Genova...
May 2, 2017
During the first quarter of 2017, permits for two hundred seventy-three (273) residential units were issued in Estero, including thirty-one (31) single family homes, twelve (12) duplexes and two hundred-thirty (230) apartments. The apartments included two hundred-six...
Jul 27, 2017
For June, 2017, the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) reported seventy-six (76) single family home sales in Estero, up 15% from June, 2016. Despite meager sales in April, for the second quarter sales increased 2% from 2016, and first half 2017 sales are up 8% from last...
Jun 27, 2017
For May, 2017, the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) reported sixty-five (65) single family home sales in Estero, up 38% from May, 2016. After bouncing back from lower sales in April, May year-to-date sales increased 5% from 2016. Sales figures for 2017 and for each...
Aug 3, 2016
In 2012 Richard Hunt, the ECCL’s real estate market research consultant, found that Estero had a shortage of both rental and senior housing. During the housing boom of the early 2000’s Estero rental-only housing was converted to condominiums. Almost immediately after...