Port Charlotte FL Properties
The Port Charlotte area offers a wide range of property types, locations and values in a local area around Charlotte Harbor in Charlotte County, South West Florida. Check out our hotsheet for Port Charlotte area homes for sale. Contact us for assistance.
Charlotte Harbor, including Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda is located halfway between Tampa and Naples on the Southwest Florida Gulf of Mexico coast, and can be reached via Interstate 75, with the nearest airports being Charlotte County, Sarasota-Bradenton, Fort Myers and Tampa.
The area been featured on SAIL magazine’s list of the “10 Greatest Places to Sail in the U.S,” ranked by Golf Digest as the “Third Best Place to Live and Play Golf in America,” and rated by MONEY magazine as one of the “Best Places to Live in the South.” Golfers can choose from more than 16 magnificent golf courses, ranging from executive to championship level, each with scenic vistas and spectacular landscapes.
Port Charlotte, the area’s geographical center, is home to the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Charlotte County Historical Center, a waterfront museum featuring changing glimpses into the area’s past.
The city of Punta Gorda is a historic town that lies along beautiful Charlotte Harbor. Streets lined with huge royal palms, beautifully restored period homes with wide verandas, brick lanes, street lamps and benches leave an almost tangible old-Florida atmosphere. Nearly everything is waterfront here from hotels and shopping to parks and fine dining.
Beaches, art and history museums, a variety of restaurants, fishing, golf, shopping, spas, sailing, snorkeling and kayaking – they’re all at your command in the Charlotte Harbor area.
The beaches of Charlotte Harbor & nearby Gulf Islands line miles of the Gulf coast. Easily accessible yet quiet and remote enough to attract abundant birds, dolphins, sea turtles and other wildlife, they are a local treasure. There are no big crowds here, just plenty of white sand lapped by gentle waves from the Gulf of Mexico and decorated with colorful shells
Charlotte Harbor & the Gulf Islands is quietly emerging as one of the world’s top sport fishing destinations. Charlotte Harbor, Florida’s second-largest open water estuary, is formed by the blending of saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico with freshwater from the Peace and Myakka rivers. This supports an important ecological breeding ground for numerous fish such as tarpon, snook, redfish, barracuda, cobia and grouper.
With more than 70 parks, preserves and recreational areas, Charlotte Harbor & the Gulf Islands encourages inland exploration, as well as waterfront strolling. Nature enthusiasts will want to hike and bike along park paths for possible encounters with birds of almost every feather, turtles and other local wildlife. Several area environmental centers offer guided tours and educational programs. Athletes can practice their favorite sports at numerous public recreational facilities.
Charlotte Harbor, Florida’s second-largest open water estuary is filled with peaceful coves and bays, providing endless opportunities to tackle a tarpon, captain a kayak or commandeer a canoe. This tranquil coastal community boasts more than 830 miles of shoreline including river passages, mangrove-edged aquatic preserve and sandy beaches. Ranked as one of SAIL Magazine’s top-ten places to sail in the U.S., Charlotte Harbor is a challenge to sailors worldwide. Paddlers revel in the hundreds of miles of Blueway trails that start with the Peace and Myakka rivers and extend out to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Charlotte Harbor area has golfing communities such as Riverwood and Port Charlotte Country Club, boating and waterfront communities such as Punta Gorda Isles, Edgewater, and Harbor Heights, retirement (55+) communities, mobile home parks, in deed restricted or non deed restricted communities, with single family homes, maintenance free villas, duplexes, condominiums, mobile homes, or town homes. Home prices range from under $40,000 to multi million dollar harbor frontage homes. Vacant land lot prices for home building start at around $10,000 for a 80’ x 125’ standard lot.
Currently, it is a great time to buy Port Charlotte Properties. Home prices peaked in the late summer of 2005, and price reductions over the past three years now present buyers with a tremendous buying opportunity. In October 2008, 277 (September 2007 - 176) homes were sold in Port Charlotte, North Port & Punta Gorda. In October 2008, the highest priced home that sold was $575,000 and the lowest priced home that sold was $20,000, with the average selling price being $133,000 (October 2007 $206,000). Check out our hotsheet for Port Charlotte area homes for sale.
There are excellent real estate deals to be made in Port Charlotte & Punta Gorda currently, but you need local market experts like McCall GMAC Real Estate and its experienced and knowledgeable sales associates to assist you in your search for that dream home. For true and knowledgeable service in the Port Charlotte Properties market call Broker/Owner Ron Forwell toll free on 800-260-1960 or if calling from outside the US call +1 941-473-2160. contact us
