1. HOME PRICES: Continue to drop. How much?
The median home in Collier County listed for $725,000 in January, slightly down from the previous month’s $729,725, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.
Compared to January 2025, the median home list price decreased 8.4% from $791,750.
Collier County’s median home was 1,813 square feet, listed at $416 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is down 6.4% from January 2025.
Listings in Collier County moved slowly, at a median 84 days listed compared to the January national median of 78 days on the market. – USA TODAY Network-Florida
2. MEASLES NUMBERS RISING: 10 more reported, 93 total in one county
Collier County added 10 more measles cases to the list, bringing this year’s total of reported cases to 124, according to the latest numbers from the Florida Department of Health.
Most of the 93 reported cases in Collier are victims between the ages of 15 to 24, according to FDOH data. An outbreak has been sweeping through the campus of Ave Maria University, a small Catholic school with roughly 1,400 students, since late January.
However, Collier also added two new cases in children four years of age or younger, and one each in the age brackets 55 to 59 and 60 to 64. – C.A. Bridges/USA TODAY Network-Florida
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This article originally appeared on Marco Eagle: 3 To Know: Home prices drop; Measles numbers up; more
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