Learn about Marco Island
Marco Island is a great place to call home. It is the biggest of Florida’s renowned Ten Thousand Islands chain that stretches from Everglades City in the north to Flamingo to the south, the 6800 acre island has an impressive collection of historically significant places to keep home owners enamored with the quaint community for a lifetime.
Part of the Wilderness Waterway, Marco Island’s varied plant life, animal life, and geography alone is astounding. There are gigantic mounds of sand, pine forests, fields and pristine sandy beaches, and a swamp of salt-water-friendly mangrove trees. Burrowing owls inhabit the island–wildlife enthusiasts report that the island is the only island in the Ten Thousand Islands chain of islands to be home to these unique owls.
The city provides a full range of services for residents, with an excellent school system and infrastructure. One can find many activities on Marco Island, including bike riding, kayaking, water skiing, sport fishing, and much more. There are even archaeological findings that are thousands of years old from Native American tribes, such as the Calusa Indian burial mound and the famous “Marco Cat” found at the Frank Cushing Archaeological Site.
The island was home to nearly 15,000 residents in the 2000 census, but new census data to be released on December 21, 2010 is expected to show some growth in that number. The boom in real estate in the new millennium led to growth from the Naples metropolitan area, with many exclusive homes commissioned during that period. With the housing price pullback that followed, bargain hunters have found exclusive Marco Island real estate parcels that are priced very attractively. In fact, Marco Island foreclosures and bank owned properties are some of the best priced listings on the market.
Marco Island homes at the time of this writing range from about $70,000 for a 460 s.f. condo to $10.5 million for a 11,000+ s.f. estate. There are numerous waterfront properties on the island, many with private docks for easy access to the peaceful Gulf waters.
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