Getting Away From It All in the Florida Keys
August 15, 2020
Emergency Alert: Key West Bars Closed! Last call at only midnight in Key West? Now that is a disaster. It’s downright scary and even un-Conch Republican. But what a year 2020 has been and what a summer we have had down here in America’s Caribbean Paradise. It seemed like the Keys were finally shaking off […]
Shake Off the Pandemic Stress With a Key West Summer Highlight
July 15, 2020
Limited Hours But Unlimited Fun in Tropical Paradise It has been a crazy summer but fortunately, with less than 2,000 total COVID-19 cases and fewer than 20 fatalities, Monroe County has so far been relatively lucky through the pandemic in comparison to many other regions. The Florida Keys were able to get back open for […]
Key West Reopens!
June 15, 2020
The Florida Keys are Once Again Welcoming Visitors On March 27, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the shut-down of the entire Florida Keys chain to visitor traffic by road. Only people who lived, owned property, or worked in the Keys were allowed through the checkpoints at mile marker 112 and on Card Sound road. At […]
Shedding Light on Key West Real Estate & COVID-19
April 15, 2020
COVID-19 Hits the Florida Keys Hard It’s nearly impossible to overstate the impact that the coronavirus and COVID-19 disease have had on the Florida Keys and Key West economies. The Keys island chain is literally closed to visitors and the beating heart of Key West is all but silent. Coming so soon in the wake […]
April 2020: Bascom Grooms Real Estate Celebrates Their 21st Anniversary
March 15, 2020
Serving Key West Home Buyers & Sellers for 21 Great Years! Bascom Grooms and the team at Bascom Grooms Real Estate are proud to announce that April 2020 marks 21 years of serving the needs of home buyers and sellers in unique Key West – America’s only Caribbean island paradise. Bascom has been working in […]
Watch Bascom on House Hunters
January 15, 2020
Bascom Grooms Featured in New HGTV House Hunters Episode Watch Bascom at work in a new episode of the HGTV show House Hunters that is scheduled to air January 29, 2020 at 10:30pm EST/9:30 CT. In the show, Bascom helps a Key West family fulfill their dream of home ownership. The episode showcases homes both […]
A Conch Christmas in Key West
December 15, 2019
Celebrate the Season Island Style! There is certainly no snow on the ground for Christmas in Key West, but you definitely know it’s that most wonderful time of the year. Visitors and locals alike enjoy participating in the unique Conch-style festivities that mark the holiday season in the Southernmost City. It is impossible to miss […]
Key West Lighted Boat Parade
November 15, 2019
The 29th Annual Key West Lighted Boat Parade Nothing says Christmas in the Islands like partying down on the waterfront in shorts and Hawaiian shirt as holiday-lit boats of every shape and size cruise the harbor in a nautical noel celebration. The 29th Annual Schooner Wharf Bar Lighted Boat Parade weighs anchor at 8 p.m. […]
Halloween Fantasies in Key West
October 15, 2019
Experience the Key West Fantasy Fest! Besides being one of America’s most haunted cities, Key West is renowned as a free-spirited, party-loving town. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that Halloween on the island has been stretched into a ten-day celebration of a scale that easily rivals the New Orleans Mardi Gras. Sport, spectacle, […]
Bird Watching in Key West
September 15, 2019
Community Event: Fall Migration Mania The Lower Florida Keys have long been recognized as an area rich in both migratory and resident bird life. Native Americans, seafarers, and early explorers in the Keys often harvested birds, eggs, and plumage for use as food and trade items. Famed 19th century naturalist and painter John James Audubon […]
