The 3rd Annual Hangout Music Fest is set for May 19-May 20 with more than 60 bands scheduled to perform.   The venue is the BEST.  Directly on the pristine white sand beaches of the Alabama Gulf Coast at the Gulf Shores Public Beach area. 

Visit the website often to get updates on the lineup and ticket sales.

The real estate market in Alabama is up over 12% compared to this time last year.  Baldwin county leads Alabama with 21% in residential sales growth compared to November 2010.

Condo sales are also up by 21% compared to last year.

As you may know, Mobile is the "home of Mardi Gras".   For a full list of parades, events and activities you can visit this page at Al.com to keep up to date.

Make Joe Cain proud and catch a whole case of Moon Pies!

The Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism Bureau just announced that it will be joining the South Eastern Conference as a Corporate Sponsor in the upcoming sports season. 

We are VERY excited about what this will mean for our area in terms of exposure to markets outside the south east as well as exposure to new potential visitors to our area.

Go SEC & Roll Tide!

Kathy Jumper featured our beautiful Orange Beach Estate property in her feature on May 16th's Mobile Press.  The property is currently featured as one of the top 25 waterfront homes in the US in Ocean Home Magazine.

For details on the property you can visit www.orangebeachestate.com

The beautiful Alabama Gulf Coast has more than sugar sand beaches and incredible fishing to draw visitors now.  Sports has become a major draw for our area.  Venues include the Gulf Shores Sportsplex with a 3,000 seat football/track stadium, softball, baseball and soccer fields as well as the Orange Beach Sportsplex with a 1,500 seat soccer field, 5 softball, 4 baseball and 3 additional soccer fields.  Foley has also joined in with 2 city soccer fields, 3 softball and 2 baseball fields as well as a children's play area.

Recent events include a 60-team high school softball tournament and the SEC Women's soccer tournament, the Alabama Hich School Athletic Associationn's track and field championships has been held in Gulf Shores for the past 5 years.

The Wharf is now privately owned, including the amphitheater, all retail properties and the marina.  These had been previously owned by various leinholders and investors.

Red Mountain Entertainment will continue to manage the booking of entertainment for the Amphitheater and new businesses are planned for several now-empty retail locations.

Experts agree that the number of single famlly homes sold in 2011 are showing a trend towards "recovery" in the Alabama real estate market.

Baldwin County was the top midsized market, up 18% from last year.

These were the first positive numbers in 5 years and also the first that did not include any transactions that involved stimulus money in the real estate market.

Some of you have been asking if our market is looking up.  Hopefully these videos will answer your questions and give you some valuable information.

Feel free to call us anytime you have questions about the real estate market along the beautiful Alabama Gulf Coast.

Thanks to Kathy Jumper for a great article featuring our Orange Beach Estate listing in the Mobile Press.  This is a truly unique property and we appreciate the extra exposure! 

If you would like further details on the property we have a link on our home page or you can visit www.orangebeachestate.com

The new Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo will be a fully GREEN facility!  The new 25 acre site at County Road 6 and Hwy 59 will feature larger all natural enclosures for the animals.  One reason this is possible is that this zoo is being built from the ground up, unlike most current zoos which started small and were added to over the years.

Animal Planet also plans to continue their "Little Zoo That Could" documenary series during the constructon and transportation of the animals from the current location to the new one.

The Saunders Yachtworks has just broken ground on the construction of a yacht basin in Gulf Shores.  When completed, this basin will be able to handle boats up to 150 feet long.  The construction work is expected to start in mid April and last for 15 months.  Saunders envisons luring yacht owners from across the Gulf to as far north as the Great Lakes.  Another phase, for which a date is presently undetermined, involves boat-related businesses, shops and a restaurant.