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Florida real estate sales flatline, and according to Rupert Murdoch’s Daily Mail, it’s “because DeSantis”.

Florida's pandemic-era housing boom comes to an end as home prices flatline - while real estate agents claim Ron DeSantis' culture wars push has driven clients away

  • During the height of the pandemic, Florida became one of the most sought after destinations for home seekers across America

  • But the housing boom now appears to be waning, with home values in the Sunshine State flatlining for the first time since 2011

  • One [emphasis added] Tampa real estate agent warned that the decline could be being fueled by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' public war on woke

The housing boom that sent Florida's real estate market into a frenzy has finally started to wane, following a pandemic-era spike that saw millions of Americans flock to the Sunshine State.

The last three years saw single-family home prices in Florida climb by almost 50 percent, as blue-state residents raced to land a property down south. 

But now, for the first time since 2011, home values have flattened, and fewer home seekers are opting for Florida due to a noticeable decline in affordability.

'The fact that Florida is getting more expensive is making it less attractive to homebuyers,' said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin Corp chief economist, to Bloomberg. 

So, as I read it, the demand for houses in Florida is so high that — surprise! — prices have gone up, a complete refutation, according to the Daily Mail, of the outdated economic rule that when demand exceeds supply, prices go up. Quelle surprise!

But here’s the best news for Floridians, and a development that should give hope to all Red State citizens who’ve feared they were being buried under a flood of wokesters who intended to replicate the politics of the states and cities they fled from in the first place:

One Tampa real estate agent claimed while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' anti-Covid lockdown policies were once attractive, his recently-launched run for the White House and public push against woke politics could be driving clients away. 

… [W]hile locals accepted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' push to insert the state into national culture wars debates when prices were down, the 2024 hopeful's platform has been noted as a reason behind the recent decline. 

Vanessa Charles, a real estate agent in Tampa, told Bloomberg she saw a spike in business during the pandemic, but hostile politics are seeing this dwindle. 

'People are looking at Florida differently now,' she said. 'A lot of families who moved here called and said 'We have to leave''. 

Oh please, oh please!

Personally, Florida holds no attraction to me: horrible hurricanes, heat, and humidity, and a flat, featureless landscape punctuated only by strip malls, and retirement villages ruled by iron-fisted, dictatorial homeowners associations, but if you could promise me that I’d never meet a tofu-eater from the northern states or California, I might consider it as a place to die in, although not for.