{"id":82,"date":"2026-10-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:00:00","slug":"florida-sellers-face-an-equity-squeeze-take-a-look-%f0%9f%91%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/08\/florida-sellers-face-an-equity-squeeze-take-a-look-%f0%9f%91%80\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Sellers Face an Equity Squeeze | Take a look! \ud83d\udc40"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/katrina-shimer\/florida-home-equity-28f8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Having grown up in Naples and guided clients through countless sales here in Southwest Florida, I see firsthand how net proceeds\u2014not just market value\u2014shape a seller\u2019s real choices. Consider this: a Florida home valued at around $500K with a $350K mortgage might look like it has $150K in equity at first glance. But once you factor in a price cut, buyer negotiations, repair credits, commission, and closing costs, that number drops\u2014sometimes to about $72K after the mortgage is paid. If there\u2019s deferred maintenance, say $50K in repairs, sellers may walk away with closer to $22K.<\/p>\n<p>This gap between &quot;what it\u2019s worth&quot; and &quot;what you keep&quot; often leaves owners weighing a higher-net traditional sale against a discounted cash offer, or exploring less common strategies suited for smaller profits. As a second-generation Realtor and local expert, I always encourage clients to focus on that final, bottom-line figure\u2014what\u2019s left after price adjustments, repairs, costs, concessions, and mortgages are settled. It\u2019s the number that truly matters when you\u2019re planning your next chapter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having grown up in Naples and guided clients through countless sales here in Southwest Florida, I see firsthand how net proceeds\u2014not just market value\u2014shape a seller\u2019s real choices. Consider this: a Florida home valued at around $500K with a $350K mortgage might look like it has $150K in equity at first glance. But once you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the239group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}