"My main motivation for moving here was the weather," said Tyler Thompson. 

According to Trulia.com, more people are flocking to our backyard -- permanently. 

"The sunshine, the beaches... it's a good... place to raise a family," said Kyle Beauvios, of Orlando.

According to the home search site, Cape Coral and Fort Myers rank number 2 out of 10 "top cities in the nation to move to in 2017".

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For this much-read report (which, by the way, is celebrating its 30th anniversary), researchers scrutinized 29 popular home improvements in 99 markets nationwide, polling contractors on how much they charge for these jobs as well as real estate agents on how much they think these features boost a home’s market price. From there, they divided each project’s upfront cost by the home’s resale value; the resulting percentage gives you a sense of how well each particular reno “investment” pays off.

But we’re in an era in which conventional wisdom is becoming an ever-sketchier concept. So why should real estate be immune from all this topsy-turviness? This year, the conventional wisdom of buying and selling may need to change.

Inventory levels at the beginning of 2017 are at multiyear lows. Sellers now face very little competition.