Grab a Second-Home Bargain

摘要

People selling secondhomes in sunny locations couldn't have asked for a better mar-keting pitch than the winter of 2011. With snow turning Northern roads into ice rinks and closing airports and schools, the Sunbelt would seem to be more de- sirable than ever. The only glitch is the real estate hangover from the Great Recession. But new data from Florida suggest that this maybe the year when buyers and sellers come together. "We've outperformed January 2010 by 85%," says Judy Green, chief executive officer of Premier Sotheby's International Realty in Naples. "It's almost as if someone just turned on a faucet and the people are out there. They're making deals."