Hot Fun in the Summertime
June 29, 2024
The summer off-season is now the full-on season in Key West, with a packed and always-expanding lineup of summer fun and festivity beginning in June and ramping into high gear on the 4th of July with fireworks and special events up and down the length of the Keys.
Hurricane Season Arrives in the Keys
May 31, 2024
Hurricanes are a part of life along the Gulf and Southern Atlantic coastlines, and certainly in Florida and the Florida Keys. Miami and Key West are considered America’s most hurricane-prone cities, but people find that the attractions of life in tropical paradise are worth weathering a few storms.
Bascom Grooms Real Estate Marks 25 Years of Success
April 26, 2024
For Bascom Grooms and his team at Bascom Grooms Real Estate, April 2024 marks 25 years of dedication to embracing small-town business values and delivering personalized customer service to every client who walks through their doors looking for help with buying or selling Key West and Lower Keys real estate.
State House Addresses Florida Vacation Rentals
March 29, 2024
The Florida House of Representatives has approved a bill that will impact the Florida vacation rental industry by handing more regulatory power over to the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Critics say the bill preempts local regulatory capabilities and infringes property owners’ rights.
Key West Pulls the Crowds
February 23, 2024
Booming visitor numbers show that a Key West vacation features on more and more wish lists all the time. In 2023, Florida Keys visitors stayed an average of 5.3 days, and from an estimated 4,451,967 overnight visitors to the Keys, Key West pulled in 46.47%. Not bad for a tiny island!
Key West Real Estate — 2023 in Review
January 26, 2024
The good times roll on as Bascom Grooms Real Estate welcomed in 2024 with a New Year Kick Off and Awards Dinner. The team got together over refreshments and a delicious meal to talk story, celebrate the great year just past, share the excitement of a busy year ahead, and highlight our colleagues’ 2023 accomplishments.
Lighting Up Land and Sea in Key West
December 15, 2023
The holiday season always rushes by, and it seems like the Thanksgiving leftovers are barely finished off before winter is here. But while the weather up north is frightful, the Key West climate’s delightful, and since we will never have any snow, put on your shorts and watch our Christmas lights glow.
Another Southernmost Holiday Season
November 15, 2023
Balmy tropical breezes and uncrowded streets mark the entry of November, and with the departure of our bike-riding Halloween zombies, as the Fantasy Fest confetti is beginning to settle, Key West swings into holiday mode and the run-up to a Thanksgiving leap into a packed island holiday calendar.
Party Time in Paradise
October 15, 2023
Time flies when you’re having fun—cliché but so apropos when living on Key West time, and now here we are spooling up for the traditional lift off of another hectic holiday season with the legendary Key West Fantasy Fest 2023 edition: Uniforms and Unicorns: 200 Years of Sailing into Fantasy.
It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere
September 15, 2023
On the first day of this month, grief broke over Key West like one of our passing thunder squalls when word came that iconic 1970’s-vintage local and beloved tropical tunesmith Jimmy Buffet had set course on his last long reach over the horizon. Key Westers will never forget the man and his music.
