Barefoot Mardi Gras 2020 – Fat Friday Party

January 24, 2020 By

The Barefoot Mardi Gras season will be featuring a pre-event party that will serve as fundraiser for our two chosen charities: The Island Foundation of Schools & Big Brothers Big Sisters.

ATTENTION SILENT AUCTION DONORS NEEDED: 🤩

âś…Request Letter for Donor’s – http://bit.ly/FFReqDon
âś…Fat Friday Donation Form – http://bit.ly/FFDon

The Fat Friday Party is Friday, February 7th at 6:30pm at Mikel Mays Beachside Bar & Grill . It will feature music, food and a silent auction with all proceeds benefiting our two deserving charities. If you are able to please donate to this fun event and great causes, please complete the attached form and give it to the PIBA ambassador listed on the attached donation form. Or your Donations may be delivered directly to Coastline Properties Real Estate on the island. We can also arrange for a pickup, upon request.

Contacts: Meagan Thomas Furey & KimandRyan Pendergraft
Co-Chairs & Ambassadors for the BFMG Fat Friday Party
Meagan (720) 308-6577 – Kim (361) 446-3635

Filed Under: Barefoot Mardi Gras, Holiday Parties, North Padre Island, padre island events, Restaurants

Padre Island Housing Report Dec 2019

January 16, 2020 By

As of the end of December, there were a number of waterfront homes on Padre Island, For Sale. The pricing ranged from $293,000 to $4,500,000.

There are many dry lot homes on Padre Island, For Sale.
The pricing ranges from $200,000 to $950,000.

Days on the market for sale has decreased to an average of 103 days on the market. 42.9% of all the sales in December were priced between $200,000 – $299,999. Closed Sales were up 2.9% in the month of December. People are eager to get the New Decade started.

2020 Will be a fabulous year for buyers, sellers and investors. Interest rates are supposed to remain low. A few new loan programs are coming out. Lots of new devlepment projects are happening on Padre Island including the New Park Rd. 22 which has gone through its final approval at City Council and construction should begin sometime after spring break.

Cheri Sperling is owner of Coastline Properties with a dedicated team of agents specializing in residential listings, sales and property management in the Padre Island real estate market. Coastline’s team are the most knowledgeable real estate office on Padre Island. No pressure style, patience, and intimate understanding of the local market. They go to work for you!


Padre Island December 2019 Data (Click Pic below for PDF)


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Filed Under: buying a home, Corpus Christ Real Estate Data, New Homes Padre Island, Park Road 22 Proposed Bridge, selling a home

Happy New Year’s 2020 – Resolution Time!

January 4, 2020 By

Top 6 New Year’s resolutions that can help you feel better in 2020:

2018-newMore shut-eye

Many of us certainly don’t get near the recommended 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night. Sleep deprivation over the long term can raise risks for health problems including obesity, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and depression. Here’s how to get a better night’s sleep: Get on a regular sleep schedule and your body will adjust, turn off all electronics & screens leaving them out of the bedroom, reading a non-digital book or listening to soothing music or whitenoise will increase your chances of gaining more deep sleep each night. Go to bed and wake up around the same time each day.

10,000 steps

Walking 10,000 steps a day, or about 5 miles, is a low-impact way to improve your health. Here are tips to get you moving: Use a free app such as Pacer and Stepz to help you keep track of steps. Take the stairs, not the elevator. Park in the back of the lot when you’re going to the supermarket. To keep it interesting, find new places to walk each week and take photos along the way.

Journaling

Journaling has several benefits for your overall health, and particularly your emotional health. It’s relaxing and helps you better understand your thoughts. Sometimes it feels like our minds are going a mile a minute, especially during periods of high stress. Putting those thoughts and emotions down on paper makes them more manageable.

Your personal journal is a permanent record of your thoughts and the events in your life. When you keep a journal, you can look back on important life events to read about how you felt at the time. You may be able to learn from these past experiences, but it’s also just nice to have a record of your past. Our memories become less clear and vivid as they fade farther into the past. Recording our lives helps us better remember them.

Flossing

So many New Year’s resolutions are centered on diet and exercise but we fail to remember dental health. Flossing is an important tool in preventing gum disease and decay. But only four out of 10 people floss at least once a day, and 30 percent say they never floss. Develop a morning and evening flossing routine, and watch your dental health soar!

Limit Screen Time

Many of us are guilty of letting phones run our lives. Make a decision to turn off or put your phone into “do not disturb mode” an hour before bed this year and completely remove it from the bedroom altogether. Read or listen to quiet music to allow your brain to turn off and promote relaxation. Remove the TV set from the bedroom as well, it is incredibly destructive to REM sleep especially for those that leave it on all night. Get a white noise machine instead if you need to have filler noise.

Clean eating

Many vow to eat healthier and lose weight every year. We have a habit of setting the bar too high with unrealistic goals and ultimately give up. One way to improve our diets is to eat “clean.” Shift your diet to focusing on whole foods such as vegetables, fruits and whole grains and healthy proteins and fats. Clean eating also means avoiding processed foods, refined sugar, preservatives and artificial additives.  One of the best strategies for cleaner eating is trying to stick with eating a rainbow each day in the fruits & veggies category paying attention to their colors.

Filed Under: corpus christi, Holiday Parties, North Padre Island, Padre Island Business Association, spring break

DON’T FA LA LA LA FRET

December 23, 2019 By

Cooking and cleaning and hosting, oh my! Broken wine glass shards as far as the living room? Kitchen sink spitting up last month’s pot pie leftovers? Aunty Shissa sprained ankle on the kids’ long-lost Lego piece? Get through the final holiday season without a hitch, and make it seem flawless.

Before Guests Arrive:

Clear your entryway! The people will come, and they come with THINGS. Lots of things. Purses, shoes, presents, tupperware, scarves, jackets, cats in doggy bags…give these things a place. Whatever you have going on in your foyer, de-clutter it. Then add extra hooks.

Add a few extra lights. YOU know where the hallways begin and end, where the steps are and how steep. But your guests do not, and it gets dark early now! Add motion detecting night lights inside and outside so no one goes home with a broken hip.

Zhuzh up your powder room. With the eggnog and spiced wine flowing, your guests will find their way here…often. Aside from the kitchen, it may be the next busiest room. Make sure it’s fully-stocked with toilet paper, hand soap, clean hand towels, tissues, and…air neutralizer…plunger. A scented candle provides nice ambience.

Create extra seating. Especially around bars, coffee spots, and kitchen islands. The masses congregate here. No one should have to call “seat backs”!

Cook a few appetizers in advance. This keeps your guests happy and you with less to do/more time to chat and concentrate on the main dishes. Keep wine and glasses out for guests to serve themselves!

Prep a guest room. Just in case you get the tipsy friend who simply shouldn’t drive, get a bedroom ready in advance. Clean bedding, a ceiling fan, and matching footed PJs are all they need!

Garbage cans. Double or triple line them. It’ll make clean-up so easy during and after the party!

Troubleshooting 101:

Dish disaster. First, use as many “oven to table” dishes as possible to avoid doubling up on what needs to be washed. Next, set up a soaking station for those inevitable hard-to-wash dishes. Quick tip: use a trashcan as your soaking spot, and stick it under your sink. That way it can hold a lot but is also out of the way.

Oven issues. How to avoid the possibility of your oven “gone fishin’” on the most critical day of the year? Set the SELF-CLEAN to AFTER the holidays. That way you’re less likely to blow a fuse or a thermostat. Don’t Turducken this up.

NUTS. Any type of food allergy. A simple heads up with a small sign that says what has nuts, dairy, etc. in it could mean a much-appreciated trip saved to the ER.

Fires. First and foremost, do not overload outlets. You and your guests don’t want to be left in the dark, or worse, in the midst of a house fire. And for those outdoor hanging icicles and blow up Santas, stick to exterior specified extension cords.

Plastic. It’s not so tacky anymore. Super wine glasses and lovely dishware come in plastic or even disposable! No more shattered glass or paranoia over grandma’s fine china.

Party Is Over:

Doggy bag. Purchase little doggy bags for your friends and family to leave with leftovers. They get a tasty treat the next day, and your fridge isn’t left overloaded.

Clean your kitchen first. That is important. Get dishes going, trash out, and spills up. But your guest bath or linens can wait. Categorize by what needs to happen right away vs. in a day.

Double check electronics. Make certain the stove is off, you’ve unplugged the fondue machine, and your after-dinner coffee maker isn’t still heating up water.

Get the kids to help: You don’t have to do it alone! Crank up the Carols and make it fun!

Your guests will love how effortless your festivities were, and how comfortable they felt. Happy merry holidays, Island.

Filed Under: Charities, Holiday Parties, padre island events, realtors

Padre Island Housing Report Nov 2019

December 12, 2019 By

As of the end of November, there were 80 waterfront homes on Padre Island, For Sale. The pricing ranged from $298,000 to $4,500,000.

There are 73 day lot homes on Padre Island, For Sale.
The pricing ranges from $200,000 to $950,000.

Days on the market for sale has risen to an average of 141 days on the market. 35.5% of all the sales in November were priced between $200,000 – $299,999. No closings over $500,000 in the entire month of November. Sales were down 25.6% in the month of November. I believe people are thinking holidays.

We are looking forward to a much better 2020. Interest rates are supposed to remain low. A few new loan programs are coming out. Lots of new things happening on Padre Island. Happy Holidays!!

Cheri Sperling is owner of Coastline Properties with a dedicated team of agents specializing in residential listings, sales and property management in the Padre Island real estate market. Coastline’s team are the most knowledgeable real estate office on Padre Island. No pressure style, patience, and intimate understanding of the local market. They go to work for you!


Padre Island November 2019 Data (Click Pic below for PDF)


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Filed Under: buying a home, Corpus Christ Real Estate Data, New Homes Padre Island, North Padre Island, realtors, selling a home

Padre Island Housing Report October 2019

November 9, 2019 By

After a disappointing September, October median list pricing has gone up a bit. Thanks to climbing earnings, expanding jobs and low mortgage rates, according to the latest National Association of REALTORS report sales throughout the US have gone up however Padre Island’s closed sales went down 12.7%.

Historically low interest rates, continuing job expansion, higher weekly earnings and low mortgage rates are undoubtedly going to cause higher sales.
It is nice to see home list prices starting to rise again. Let’s hope these conditions continue to remain favorable for real estate investment on Padre Island.

Cheri Sperling is owner of Coastline Properties with a dedicated team of agents specializing in residential listings, sales and property management in the Padre Island real estate market. Coastline’s team are the most knowledgeable real estate office on Padre Island. No pressure style, patience, and intimate understanding of the local market. They go to work for you!


Padre Island October 2019 Data (Click Pic below for PDF)


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Filed Under: buying a home, Corpus Christ Real Estate Data, Mortgages, New Homes Padre Island, North Padre Island, Real Time MLS, realtors

Padre Island Housing Report September 2019

October 25, 2019 By

The Corpus Christi Association of REALTORS (CCAR) September market report for Padre Island shows the Median Price at $299,990 which is UP from September 2018 ($289,700)

The inventory levels are up a bit. Dry lot homes continue their dominance in active listings over the water front homes. Our closed sales were up in September which is typical because sales in July/August would be closing in September. The Island grocery store is in construction at this time. Waves Resort has stepped up their game and doing extremely well with their presentations, look and services.

Cheri Sperling is owner of Coastline Properties with a dedicated team of agents specializing in residential listings, sales and property management in the Padre Island real estate market. Coastline’s team are the most knowledgeable real estate office on Padre Island. No pressure style, patience, and intimate understanding of the local market. They go to work for you!


Padre Island September 2019 Data (Click Pic below for PDF)


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Filed Under: buying a home, Corpus Christ Real Estate Data, North Padre Island, Real Time MLS, realtors, selling a home Tagged With: ,

31st TASTE OF THE ISLAND 2019

October 4, 2019 By

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>> GET YOUR TASTE OF THE ISLAND TICKETS HERE >>

Come to eat. Come to see and be seen. Combine the two and you’ll be seen stuffing your face. But it’s completely acceptable when you’re not alone! Over 1000 attendees are expected to be doing the same thing at the 31st annual Taste of the Island, where some of our best restaurant’s fare is being featured at the event on October 23rd, beginning at 6 pm, at the Waves Resort on Padre Island.

Don’t get out much? Now is your excuse to take a tasty tour of many of the restaurants perhaps you’ve always wanted to try but haven’t had the chance to! Aside from roughly 20 restaurants, there will also be cash bars open and live musical entertainment.

The party lasts until 9pm, as you’ll run into your friends, co-workers, friends of friends, and all the new friends you’ll make! And, if you stick around until the end, there are goodies to win! A silent auction throughout the evening will have roughly 40 items to bid on. So don’t forget to put your business card into the drawing. Win wine, gift certificates, island trinkets, and lots of other prizes that local businesses have been generous enough to donate will be given out to the lucky winners!

Meagan Furey, President for the PIBA, who is spearheading the volunteer committee, explains that “We expect more people than ever before to come, which means we need more volunteers than ever to help out! It’s going to be an incredible event that just gets bigger and more popular each year.”

As an attendee of the event last year, Tara Gallaspy, Coastline Properties Real Estate Agent, says “It was one of my favorite events of the year. The music was upbeat and fun, there was plenty of seating, and I ran into lots of friends. It’s the perfect venue and a great evening on the beach. Overall, a night to remember!”

Get your tickets a head of time! They are $35.00 a piece, and then it’s up to you to eat your money’s worth! Leaving hungry would simply be disgraceful.

Get Tickets Here >>

Filed Under: corpus christi business, Local Food, North Padre Island, Padre Island Business Association, Restaurants

Padre Island Housing Report August 2019

September 24, 2019 By

Total housing sales through the MLS corrected upward in July after declines the previous two months. Despite the monthly jump, the sales pace shows signs of slowing. The Median List price is now $285,000.

Continued concerns about global economic growth and trade uncertainty pulled interest rates down for the ninth consecutive month. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporations 30-year fixed-rate dropped below 3.8%. Refinance mortgage applications, which are more sensitive to interest rate fluctuations, have doubled since year end.

Days on the Market: July was approx 94 days. August approx 139 days.
Median List Price: July was $282,450 August approx $285,000
Closed Sales: July up 7.7% August down 18.3%

Coastline Properties has been on the Island since 1995. We strive to set the standard in our industry and inspire others by raising the bar on providing exception real estate knowledge and savvy!
Come Coast Awhile……right here!


Padre Island August 2019 Data (Click Pic below for PDF)


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Filed Under: BeachWalk Development, buying a home, Corpus Christ Real Estate Data, New Homes Padre Island, North Padre Island, Real Time MLS, realtors, selling a home, Upper Padre Island

North Padre Island Housing Report – July 2019

August 21, 2019 By

Recently an agent described the current real estate market as, squirrely. As the market has softened, buyers are more finicky and more selective, and right now many sellers have unrealistic expectations of their home’s worth. The bottom line is, homes MUST be priced right.

The condominium and townhomes sales have dipped and inventory continues to increase. The homes sales have risen on Padre Island, somewhat, and the housing inventory continues in rising. Buyers have access to more properties not just here but statewide. However, working with a local Texas REALTOR in the market one is considering will ensure a Buyer or Seller the most accurate information and guidance to buying or selling a property. That professional will know the geographic area and can guide a buyer or a seller with much local information .

Coastline Properties has been on the Island since 1995. We strive to set the standard in our industry and inspire others by raising the bar on providing exception real estate knowledge and savvy!
Come Coast Awhile……right here!


Padre Island July 2019 Data (Click Pic below for PDF)


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Filed Under: Corpus Christ Real Estate Data, New Homes Padre Island, North Padre Island, property taxes, realtors, selling a home
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