Standard market reports give you numbers. This page explains what those numbers actually measure, and what they miss.
Standard MLS reporting counts every listing equally. It treats an eight-month-old listing the same as a new one. Relists re-enter as fresh entries, and asking prices are taken at face value regardless of where buyers are actually transacting. Worthington’s Southwest Florida Market Methodology corrects for all three: adjusting raw counts, tracking relist behavior, and isolating the inventory that represents genuine competition.
Key Takeaways (TL;DR)
- Standard MLS data counts every listing equally. Worthington’s Southwest Florida Market Methodology adjusts for stale inventory and relists to isolate the supply that represents genuine competition.
- In any given month, a meaningful share of active listings have already failed to sell once. The Re-list Rate tracks that behavioral pattern and what it predicts about seller outcomes.
- Competitive Inventory applies a fixed screen to the total active count, so sellers can see how much of it is fresh or recently repriced.
- The Ask-Bid Gap measures how much more sellers are asking per square foot than buyers have paid over the last 120 days.
- This page explains the methodology behind every metric in the monthly updates on Worthington’s Southwest Florida city pages. For plain-language explanations of each concept, see the Housing Market Explainer Library section below.
How to Use This Page
This page gives you a working vocabulary for evaluating what you read, in Worthington’s reports and anywhere else you encounter housing data. You do not need to read this page end to end. The concepts build on each other, and the most important ones appear on our city pages with enough context to make sense as you read. This page is here when you want to go deeper on any specific concept.
If you have questions about how any of this applies to your specific situation, our team is here to walk through it with you.
Why Raw MLS Numbers Require Interpretation
The Florida Gulf Coast MLS records every listing, every contract, and every closing. That data is accurate. The challenge is that standard reporting treats all of it equally, and not all of it deserves equal weight.
A home listed for the eighth month at the same price as when it first appeared is counted as active inventory, the same as a home that listed last week. A home relisted after expiring resets its days-on-market counter and re-enters the count as if it were brand new. In a month dominated by luxury closings, the median runs higher than one led by entry-level sales, even when underlying values held flat.
These are features of how MLS systems record activity, and they require active interpretation. Worthington’s analytical framework is designed to account for them, so the numbers we report reflect what is actually happening rather than what happens to be in the database on any given day.
The concepts below are the building blocks of that framework, organized in two tiers. The first tier covers the standard metrics every market report publishes. The second tier covers Worthington’s proprietary framework, the adjustments and additions that correct for the limitations of standard reporting.
Tier One: Standard Market Metrics
These are the metrics every MLS-based market report produces. Understanding what they measure and where their limitations are is the foundation for everything in Tier Two.
Our figures cover the whole residential market, with every home type counted together: single-family homes, condos, townhomes and villas. We pull preliminary figures on the 1st of each month and final figures as of the 10th, for every city and community.
Active Listings
Active listings (homes for sale) is the number of properties in active status at the end of the month. It includes every price tier, every home type, and every days-on-market figure. A home listed last week and a home listed eight months ago at the same price both count equally.
That equal treatment is the primary limitation. Active listings as a raw count tells you how much is listed, but not how much of what is listed represents genuine competition for a well-priced seller. Worthington’s Competitive Inventory calculation in Tier Two addresses that gap directly.
New Listings
New listings is the count of properties that entered the MLS as active listings during the reporting period. It includes first-attempt listings and relists returning after a prior listing failed.
The most important distinction new listing volume does not make on its own is between those two populations. A high new listing count driven primarily by fresh inventory signals seller confidence. The same count driven primarily by returning relists signals accumulating seller frustration and pricing resistance. Worthington tracks both patterns separately.
Pending Sales
In our monthly figures, pending sales is the count of contracts accepted during the month. That is different from the number of homes under contract at any one moment, which also includes contracts signed in earlier months that have not closed yet. Contracts signed are a leading indicator of future closings because they capture buyer decisions made this month rather than 30 to 60 days ago.
Pending activity is where a turning market typically shows up first. Closed sales lag by one to two months, which means pending data gives you a forward view that closed sales cannot. Worthington reads pending data alongside the Pending-to-Active and Pending-to-Closed Ratios to assess the strength of the pipeline.
Closed Sales
Closed sales is the count of transactions that reached a final recorded closing during the reporting period. It is the most commonly cited measure of market activity and the basis for most price and volume trend analysis.
The key limitation is timing. Closed sales reflect buyer decisions made 30 to 60 days earlier. When buyer demand shifts, that shift shows up in pending activity first. Closed sales can remain high for another month or two after demand has already pulled back, creating a false impression of continued strength. Reading closed sales without current pending data gives an incomplete picture of where the market actually is.
Months of Supply
Months of supply is the number of homes for sale at the end of the month divided by the average monthly pending sales (contracts signed) over the past 12 months. It estimates how long current inventory would last at the recent pace of contracts if no new listings came on the market. This is how InfoSparks, the Florida Gulf Coast MLS reporting tool we use, calculates it.
Worthington reports months of supply twice on every city page: once using total active inventory and once using Competitive Inventory. The overall figure provides a standard reference point comparable to other markets and prior periods. The Competitive Inventory figure applies the fixed screen described in Tier Two and divides by the same average monthly pending sales over the past 12 months, so the two figures can be compared directly.
Reading the thresholds in context: The traditional framework most real estate professionals use breaks months of supply into three tiers:
| Months of Supply | Market Condition |
|---|---|
| 0 to 4 months | Seller’s market |
| 4 to 6 months | Balanced market |
| 6+ months | Buyer’s market |
The 4 to 6 month range exists because balance is a zone, not a fixed number. Below 4 months, sellers typically hold more leverage. The 4 to 6 month range is where neither side holds a structural advantage. Above 6 months, conditions tilt toward buyers. That framework reflects national historical averages and varies by market and season.
Months of supply requires seasonal context everywhere it is applied, because sales pace is seasonal in most markets. Southwest Florida adds a specific wrinkle: peak buying season here runs from roughly January through April, the inverse of most U.S. markets where spring and summer drive the highest buyer activity. Worthington interprets months-of-supply figures against the time of year, the specific market, and the price tier, rather than applying a single threshold as a universal read.
Sale-to-List Price Ratio
The sale-to-list ratio is the ratio of the final closed sale price to the listing price at the time of contract, expressed as a percentage. Worthington’s reports use the most recent list price at the time of contract as the denominator, meaning a home reduced twice before going under contract shows a ratio against its final list price rather than its original ask.
A ratio above 100% means buyers paid above the asking price at time of contract, a signal of competitive bidding. A ratio below 100% means buyers negotiated discounts. The direction of the ratio over consecutive periods is more informative than any single reading. A ratio declining from 98% to 95.5% over six months shows the market has moved three points in the buyer’s direction, regardless of where prices sit overall.
Price Reductions
Price reductions describes how many active listings have reduced their asking price at least once, and how soon after listing. It shows how seller expectations line up with the market. Worthington does not currently report this figure, because our MLS exports do not carry each home’s original list price.
The same idea sets the 3% threshold in the Competitive Inventory screen in Tier Two: a relist has to come back at least 3% lower to count as a real repricing.
Median Price and Price Per Square Foot
Median sale price is the midpoint of all closed transactions in a given period. Price per square foot divides the sale price by the home’s square footage, adjusting for size so that comparisons across different homes and different months are more reliable.
Median price and price per square foot answer different questions, and both questions matter. Median price tells you what transactions are landing at in dollar terms. Price per square foot tells you how efficiently buyers are paying for space, independent of whether larger or smaller homes dominated sales that month.
When median price rises but price per square foot holds flat, it usually means larger homes are selling in greater proportion that month. Rising price per square foot alongside a flat median typically means smaller homes are selling at higher efficiency. Both metrics moving in the same direction produces the cleanest, most reliable signal. Worthington reports both figures on every city page and community page.
Pending-to-Active Ratio
The Pending-to-Active Ratio is the number of homes under contract on the day we pull the data divided by the number of active listings that day, expressed as a percentage. It is a real-time absorption signal.
A rising ratio means buyer demand is outpacing available inventory, which typically precedes tighter conditions and faster sales timelines. A falling ratio means listings are building faster than contracts are forming. As a rough guide, a Pending-to-Active Ratio above about 35%, alongside a low Competitive Inventory reading, points to tight conditions even when raw transaction volume is lower than in larger cities nearby. The level varies by market and season.
Pending-to-Closed Ratio
The Pending-to-Closed Ratio compares the current month’s pending contracts to the same month’s closed sales, functioning as a forward-looking pipeline indicator.
Worthington uses the Pending-to-Closed Ratio as a forward-looking check on whether headline closed-sales figures are understating or overstating actual market momentum.
This ratio is most useful when read alongside contract cancellation trends. Southwest Florida’s insurance environment has elevated fall-through rates in recent years, particularly for older homes and properties in higher flood-risk areas. A rising Pending-to-Closed Ratio signals a growing pipeline, but the conversion of that pipeline depends on contracts reaching the closing table.
For example, if 120 homes went under contract in a given month and only 80 closed, the ratio is 1.5. That gap typically means closings will run higher in the following one to two months, assuming contracts hold. As a rough guide, a ratio above about 1.5 suggests a pipeline that may show up in closings over the next month or two, if contracts hold. The level varies by market and season, so read it as a direction rather than a fixed rule.
Showings Per Listing and Shows to Pending
Showings per listing is the average number of showings on active listings during the month. Shows to Pending is the number of showings scheduled per listing that went into pending status during the month.
Both metrics capture buyer behavior before it shows up in contract or closing data. Showings per listing rising year over year means buyers are more actively engaging with available inventory. Fewer shows to pending means homes are going under contract after fewer visits than in prior periods. That can be an early sign that momentum is shifting.
FGCMLS makes these metrics available, but most brokerages never report them. Worthington tracks them because they show buyer activity before it reaches contracts and closings. There is no standalone explainer page for showings data. The full context for this metric appears on our city pages, where it is applied.
Tier Two: Worthington’s Proprietary Framework
These are the concepts Worthington adds on top of standard MLS reporting. Each one addresses a specific limitation of the standard metrics in Tier One.
Competitive Inventory
Formal definition: Competitive Inventory is the active listing count after a fixed screen removes Stale Inventory and stubborn relists. What remains is our estimate of the listings a well-priced new listing is most likely to compete with.
What it is: Competitive Inventory counts active listings that have been on the market fewer than 180 days on their current listing. A relisted home counts only if it came back at least 3% below its prior asking price. Listings at 180 days or more are left out, whatever their price history, and so are relisted homes that came back less than 3% lower.
Competitive Inventory months: Competitive Inventory divided by the average monthly pending sales over the past 12 months. This is the same math as published months of supply.
Why it matters: Overall months of supply counts every active listing the same way. The screen separates fresh and recently repriced listings from those that have sat six months or more or came back without a real price change. It is an estimate, not a measure of what buyers are considering: a screened-out home can still attract a buyer or compete with a particular listing.
The gap between the two figures shows how much of the active count is older or unchanged listings.
In a listing appointment, the Competitive Inventory figure gives a seller a narrower view of the competition than the raw MLS count. A community showing 12 active listings may have 5 that pass the screen. That difference is often a good place to start the pricing conversation.
We apply the same filtering rules in every city, every month. The figure may be tighter in some markets and wider in others, but the methodology is consistent.
For a full explanation of how Competitive Inventory works and what it means for buyers and sellers, see What Is Competitive Inventory? How Worthington Screens Active Listings
Stale Inventory
Stale Inventory is a subcomponent of the Competitive Inventory calculation. It refers to active listings that have been on the market 180 or more days on their current listing, whatever their price history.
Listings at 180 days or more are often priced above where buyers are transacting, though not always. Counting them in months of supply can overstate the competition a market-ready seller faces, and counting them in days-on-market figures can make the market look slower than it is for homes priced to current conditions. Separating them out is one of the first steps in calculating Competitive Inventory.
Re-list Rate
Formal definition: The Re-list Rate is the percentage of current active listings that previously expired, terminated, or were withdrawn from the market within the past 12 months and subsequently returned.
What it is: Re-list Rate is Worthington’s primary behavioral indicator, the metric that reveals how sellers are responding to market conditions rather than just what those conditions are. The 12-month lookback window is a deliberate analytical choice. A property that expired 14 months ago and returned is treated as a first-attempt listing. Seller circumstances and market conditions change enough over that time horizon that the prior attempt is no longer meaningfully predictive. That choice is applied consistently across all cities and communities.
Why it matters: A high re-list rate tells us that a meaningful share of sellers entered the market at a price buyers rejected, spent time and money without a result, and came back to try again.
Re-list Rate is also associated with outcomes. In Fort Myers, over the 120 days through October 1, 2026, homes that sold on their first listing went under contract in a median of 66 days. Homes that sold after relisting spent a median of 245 days across all their listings and sold for a median $34,000 below their first asking price. The two groups differ in price, condition and circumstances, so the gap describes outcomes rather than proving relisting caused them.
At the community level, Re-list Rate varies widely, and that variation tells a story. Two communities in the same metro can show re-list rates of 27% and 60% respectively, with sale-to-list ratios that follow in kind. Those numbers describe fundamentally different seller experiences within the same regional market.
For a full explanation of why homes get relisted and what it signals, see What Causes Homes to Be Relisted and What It Means for Buyers and Sellers.
First-Attempt Listing
Formal definition: A First-Attempt Listing is a property with no prior expired, terminated, or withdrawn listing history within the past 12 months, entering the market fresh.
Why it matters: First-attempt listings and relisted homes behave differently, and treating them as a single category obscures important signals. First-attempt listings reflect current seller expectations entering fresh. Relisted homes reflect sellers who have already received market feedback, adjusted their approach, and returned.
The performance gap is consistent across every Southwest Florida market Worthington tracks. The Re-list Rate section above includes one Fort Myers analysis illustrating that gap in detail. The two groups differ in price, condition and circumstances, so the gap describes outcomes rather than a cause.
First-attempt listings also serve as the baseline for Competitive Inventory calculations. A first-attempt listing under 180 days on market is included in the competitive count. A relist is included only if it returned at least 3% below its prior asking price. This is what makes First-Attempt Listing a necessary term alongside Re-list Rate rather than simply its inverse.
Sold on First Listing is the median number of days from listing to accepted contract for homes that closed in the last 120 days with no failed listing in the prior 12 months. Sold After Relisting is the median total days listed across all attempts for homes that closed in the last 120 days after an earlier failed listing. Days off the market are not counted.
DOM Reset
Formal definition: DOM Reset is the mechanism by which a relisted property re-enters the MLS with a days-on-market counter starting at zero, erasing the prior listing’s history from the active view.
Why it matters: When a home expires and returns to market, the MLS records a new listing. The prior listing’s days on market disappears. A home that spent 120 days on market, expired, and returned the following week shows a current DOM of 7 days. For buyers comparing options, this creates a false impression of freshness. For market reports relying on MLS-reported median DOM figures, it compresses the number downward in ways that make the market look more active than it is.
DOM Reset is the mechanical reason Re-list Rate matters analytically. Without tracking which listings are relists, standard DOM figures cannot be taken at face value. Worthington identifies returning properties by matching addresses against prior failed listings from the past 12 months, restoring the full timeline to each home’s market history.
For a full explanation of how the DOM Reset affects what buyers see and what days on market actually measures, see Why Days on Market Is the Most Underrated Real Estate Metric.
Shadow Inventory
Formal definition: Shadow Inventory is the pool of properties that could enter the active market but are not yet listed. The most common source is sellers whose listings expired or were withdrawn and who stepped back without relisting.
Why it matters: Active inventory counts what is currently listed. Shadow Inventory captures the supply that could enter the market but has not yet listed. A market where active inventory is declining but shadow inventory is building can look tighter than it actually is heading into the next season.
Shadow Inventory is the most difficult concept in this framework to quantify precisely. Worthington treats it explicitly as a qualitative and directional signal rather than a reportable figure.
The most visible component is the pool of expired and withdrawn listings that have not yet returned. These are sellers who tested the market, did not find a buyer, and stepped back without relisting. In some market cycles, that pool can represent a significant share of potential supply, which is why Worthington interprets declining active inventory with some caution. The headline count may be falling, but a portion of the supply that came off market has not permanently exited. Whether those sellers return depends on their personal timelines, their pricing expectations, and how the buying season unfolds.
For a full explanation of Shadow Inventory and why it matters in Southwest Florida specifically, see What Is Shadow Inventory and What Does It Mean for Florida Buyers and Sellers?
Ask-Bid Gap
Formal definition: The Ask-Bid Gap compares the median asking price per square foot of active listings with the median sold price per square foot of homes that closed in the last 120 days. The difference is divided by the sold figure, so a gap of 10% means sellers are asking 10% more per square foot than buyers have paid.
Why it matters: The Ask-Bid Gap compares what current listings are asking per square foot with what recent sales closed at per square foot. The two medians come from different groups of homes, so it is not a measured negotiation discount. A narrow gap means listings are entering the market close to where transactions are landing. A wide gap means sellers are asking significantly more than buyers have been willing to pay, and one of those positions will have to move before a sale occurs.
Across Southwest Florida’s major markets, Ask-Bid Gaps tend to be narrowest in smaller, more efficient communities where listing prices align closely with recent sales, and widest in higher-price-tier markets where seller expectations adjust more slowly. Gaps in the low single digits suggest strong pricing alignment. As a rough guide, gaps above 10% to 15% suggest sellers and buyers are working from different assumptions. The level varies by price tier and season.
For example, a market where active listings are priced at a median of $280 per square foot but recent closings landed at $245 per square foot carries a gap of roughly 14%. That gap suggests many sellers are pricing above recent sales. Buyers in that environment may have more room to negotiate, and well-priced listings tend to stand out.
A wide gap means asking prices and recent sale prices are far apart. How and when that narrows depends on how motivated sellers are and how much of the gap sits in stale listings.
Sales Mix Distortion
Formal definition: Sales Mix Distortion occurs when the median sale price shifts between periods not because underlying values changed, but because the types of homes that closed were weighted toward a different price tier. The result is a number that reflects composition, not value movement.
Why it matters: Median price is a useful benchmark but a fragile one in lower-volume markets. In a market where fewer homes close each month, if one month’s closings skew toward high-end transactions, the median rises. If the next month skews toward entry-level, the median falls. Neither movement necessarily reflects a change in what any individual home is worth.
This is one of the primary reasons Worthington reports price per square foot alongside median price, and why we use three-month rolling figures in lower-volume markets. In one Estero reporting period, the headline median showed a double-digit year-over-year decline that was largely an artifact of an unusually high-end prior-year sample. The three-month rolling figure told a more representative story. That kind of divergence is common in lower-volume markets, where small sample sizes make compositional swings routine.
Sales Mix Distortion is most pronounced in markets like Estero and Bonita Springs, where monthly transaction volumes are modest. Larger markets with deeper monthly closing volume smooth out these swings naturally.
Three-Month Rolling Figures and When Worthington Uses Them
What they are: Rolling figures cover a three-month window instead of a single month. For median measures, such as median sale price, price per square foot and days on market, we take the median across all sales in the three months. For example, the September figure covers July through September. Counts, such as pending sales, are three-month totals.
When Worthington applies them: Single-month medians are reliable in high-volume markets like Naples and Cape Coral, where 300-plus transactions per month produce statistically stable figures. In lower-volume markets like Estero and Bonita Springs, a single unusual transaction can move the median by 5% or more. Worthington uses three-month rolling figures in lower-volume markets to produce a pricing signal that reflects the actual trend rather than the month’s particular mix of closings.
We note when three-month rolling figures are being used and explain why, so readers can evaluate the figure in context rather than taking it at face value.
Why Smaller Communities Require Additional Context
Individual communities within Southwest Florida’s major cities add another layer of complexity. A community like Timber Creek in Fort Myers has 26 to 32 closed sales per quarter. A community like Grey Oaks in Naples may have 16. At those sample sizes, two or three high-end transactions can move the median significantly.
Worthington addresses small-sample volatility in community reporting through three practices. First, we use 120-day lookback windows for community-level data rather than single-month snapshots, which gives a more stable transaction sample. Community months of supply and Competitive Inventory months divide by the community’s own average monthly closings over those 120 days, because a 12-month pending-sales history is not available for individual communities. Second, we report ranges alongside medians so readers can see the distribution of closed prices rather than just the midpoint. Third, we flag when a community’s transaction count is low enough that the figures carry more variability than usual.
The analytical principles of this Southwest Florida Market Methodology, including Competitive Inventory, Re-list Rate, and the Ask-Bid Gap, apply at the community level as well. Low-volume communities require wider confidence intervals around any single data point. A community with eight sales in the past 120 days provides directional information, but the confidence around any single figure is limited.
How This Southwest Florida Market Methodology Evolves
The analytical approach described on this page reflects how Worthington reads the Southwest Florida housing market. Markets change, listing behavior changes, and data availability improves over time. The principles behind this framework, that raw counts can overstate supply, that re-list history reveals seller behavior, and that price per square foot corrects for sales mix distortion, are durable. Those specific thresholds and parameters adjust transparently as the market warrants.
The most current application of these ideas appears on our city and community pages, updated monthly, where the reasoning described here is shown in practice.
Glossary of Standard MLS Terms
For readers who want definitions of the standard MLS terms used throughout our city pages and Worthington’s monthly market analysis.
Active Listings: Properties in active status at the end of the month, across all price ranges, home types and days on market.
New Listings: Properties that entered the MLS as active listings during the reporting period, including relists that re-entered after a prior listing expired, terminated, or was withdrawn.
Closed Sales: Transactions that reached a final recorded closing during the reporting period.
Pending Sales: A count of the properties on which contracts were accepted during the month. Pending activity is one of the most reliable leading indicators of future closing volume.
Dollar Volume: The sum of all closed sale prices during the reporting period.
Median Days on Market (DOM): The median number of days between when a property is listed and when an offer is accepted, for homes that sold during the month. Because DOM resets when a property is relisted, this figure reflects the current listing period only unless otherwise noted.
Months of Supply: Homes for sale at the end of the month divided by the average monthly pending sales over the past 12 months.
Shows to Pending: The number of showings scheduled per listing that went into pending status during the month.
Sale-to-List Ratio: The ratio of the final closed sale price to the listing price at the time of contract. Worthington’s reports use the most recent list price at the time of contract as the denominator, meaning a home reduced twice before going under contract shows a ratio against its final list price rather than its original ask.
Price Reductions: Downward changes to the listed asking price of an active property. Worthington does not currently report a price-reduction figure.
Frequently Asked Questions About Worthington’s Southwest Florida Market Methodology
Most sources calculate months of supply using total active inventory. Worthington reports that figure and also reports Competitive Inventory, which strips stale listings and stubborn relists from the count. The Competitive Inventory figure answers a different question: how much competition does a well-priced seller actually face? Both divide by the same average monthly pending sales over the past 12 months. They measure different things, and both are accurate for their respective purposes.
Estero and Bonita Springs have lower monthly transaction volumes than Fort Myers, Cape Coral, and Naples. At lower volumes, the specific mix of homes that close in any given month can move the median significantly. Three-month rolling figures reduce that volatility and produce a price signal more representative of the actual underlying trend.
We match active listings against expired, terminated, and withdrawn listings from the prior 12 months using property address. A listing that shares an address with a prior failed listing is classified as a relist. We note that this approach captures the clear majority of relists but may not identify every case where a listing was withdrawn and relisted under a different unit or parcel designation.
Supply that is forming in the background will affect the market when it arrives. A seller preparing to list in March and a buyer writing an offer in February are making decisions that will intersect. Understanding whether shadow inventory is building or contracting helps buyers and sellers anticipate whether the supply picture is likely to tighten or expand as the season unfolds.
The principles are stable. Specific parameters, including thresholds, lookback windows, and filtering rules, adjust transparently when market conditions warrant. Any material methodological change will be noted on the city pages when it occurs.
Housing Market Explainer Library
This page is the analytical reference for the market updates on Worthington’s city and community pages. The pages below cover each concept in plain language, written for buyers, sellers, and agents.
Core Market Metrics
- What Are Active Listings and What Do They Tell You About Housing Supply?
- What Are New Listings and What Do They Reveal About Seller Behavior?
- What Are Pending Sales and What Do They Reveal About Buyer Demand?
- What Are Closed Sales and What Do They Tell You About a Housing Market?
- What Is Months of Supply in Real Estate and Why Does It Matter?
- What Is the Sale-to-List Price Ratio and What Does It Reveal About Negotiation?
- What Are Price Reductions and What Do They Reveal About Market Conditions?
Worthington’s Proprietary Framework
- Why Median Home Price and Price Per Square Foot Tell Different Stories
- What Is Competitive Inventory? How Worthington Screens Active Listings
- What Causes Homes to Be Relisted and What It Means for Buyers and Sellers
- What Is Shadow Inventory and What Does It Mean for Florida Buyers and Sellers?
- Why Days on Market Is the Most Underrated Real Estate Metric
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All data referenced on this page and in the monthly updates on Worthington’s city pages draws from the Florida Gulf Coast MLS (FGCMLS via Stellar MLS) unless otherwise noted. The analytical framework described here is applied consistently across all five major Southwest Florida markets: Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Estero, Bonita Springs, and Naples.
