Wreck Ashore: The Salvage Trade That Built Key West
Two words emptied this island faster than anything else in the nineteenth century. A lookout spotted a sail canted wrong on the horizon, the cry went up, and Key West stopped — shops shut, churc...
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A Local’s Key West: Callie Harris Shares Her Island Favorites
Meet the Team: Discover the restaurants, rituals, hidden gems, and island experiences a 20-year Key West resident loves most.
Ask most people what they love about Key West and you'll hear about Duval Street and the sunsets. Ask someone w...
The House That Saved Old Town: Inside Audubon House and Tropical Gardens
The House That Saved Old Town: Inside Audubon House and Tropical Gardens
Most people walk past it. The white picket fence, the deep porch, the hand-painted sign swinging from a wrought-iron bracket at the corner of Whitehead and Greene —...
A Few of Our Favorite Things
Key West, according to the people who get to call it home
We spend our days showing people this island. But long before any of us handed over a set of keys, we were falling in love with Key West the same way everyone does — one sunset,...
Did You Know There’s an Animal Sanctuary… Underneath a Jail?
Meet the Team: Lauren Hodges on the Key West most visitors never find
One of the things I love most about Key West is that, for all its glamour, it's still a place where families put down roots — and there's always another hidden corne...
Key West Real Estate Is Different
Buying or selling a home in Key West is about more than the property. It is about understanding the island, the neighborhood and the details that can make one home very different from another.
Whether you are buying your first Key West home,...
The Hurricane Grotto: Key West’s 100-Year-Old Promise of Protection
A quiet corner of Truman Avenue holds one of the island's most enduring traditions — and a story that still shapes how locals think about hurricane season. By Allison Findlay, Realtor® | Brenda Donnelly Real Estate
Drive past the Basi...
Second Chances Beneath the Jail
Inside the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Animal Farm — the only sanctuary of its kind in America, tucked under a working detention center on Stock Island.
There is a place on Stock Island where an emu named Kramer greets the mor...
Meet The Howerton Group: A Local’s Guide to the Florida Keys, by Boat and by Bike
Some people know the Florida Keys from the highway. The Howerton Group knows them from the water — from the seat of a bike at dawn, from the bow of a boat at golden hour, from a sandbar so quiet you can hear the tide. For this family-led ...
The Quiet Value Behind Transient Licensed Homes in Key West
What buyers from outside the island often don’t understand — and what it costs them
One of the most expensive assumptions a buyer can make in Key West is thinking that any house can become a vacation rental. It Can't.
The city sto...