Featured Key Largo Canal Front Home just $1,200,000
This spacious Key Largo home features a huge dock with 104' of deep water canal frontage on a turning basin. It is a lot of house for the money. Check out all the features and see additional pictures of this 2,214 square foot four bedroom, three bath beauty by entering MLS ID# 548197 in the box at the right of this page.
(This listing is presented with permission of Coldwell Banker Schmitt Real Estate.)
About Key Largo
Key Largo is the northernmost island of the Florida Keys. It is just minutes by car from mainland Florida and has long been promoted as the “Dive Capital of the World”. Key Largo is home to John Pennekamp Coral Reef Park, the first underwater park in the United States. Also favorite Key Largo snorkel and scuba sights include Christ of the Abyss underwater statue, the sunken 510 foot USS Spiegel Grove which has been promoted as the largest artificial reef in the world and the National Marine Sanctuary. Over 55 varieties of coral and more than 500 species of fish are found in the waters off Key Largo.
Key Largo is also for Nature Lovers
If you are a nature lover Key Largo is an ecological smorgasbord of flora and fauna. The Hammock State Botanical Site and Key Largo Bird Sanctuary provide opportunities to study and enjoy what is natural to Key Largo. Also, located in the mostly unsettled and protected land in the upper part of Key Largo is The Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge. 6,800 acres of hardwood hammocks provide protected breeding grounds for the endangered America crocodile.
Hollywood Frequents Key Largo Often
Hollywood contributed to the mystique of this island community in 1948 when it filmed parts of the classic motion picture “Key Largo” staring acting legends Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G. Robinson. Other films using Key Largo as a back drop include “PT 109”, “License to Kill” and “Private Resort.”
2009 Key Largo Real Estate Market
Approximately 17% of all residential Florida Keys real estate was sold in Key Largo in 2009. The average price of a sold Key Largo home delined 17% to $448,000 and sparked activity among value motivated Buyers who were interested in obtaining a Caribbean style vacation home in the continental US.
There were 233 Key Largo residential sales recorded in the local MLS in 2009. This was a 15% increase while other parts of the Keys increased 31%. While the average sale price of a Key Largo home decreased 17%, Keys wide sale prices declined 23%.
(Note that unless otherwise stated, Florida Keys market statistics referenced by this web site are calculated from the Florida Keys MLS data and reflect only activity recorded by this service. Activity north of mile marker 107, including the community of Ocean Reef, is for the most part not repesented in this MLS and is not included in these statistics.)
Glenn R Hoover
