Darden Group REAL Broker LLC

Name: Darden Group REAL Broker LLC
Address: Laguna Beach, FL, 32413, US
Telephone: +12054261113

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Real Estate Team Serving the Emerald Coast of Florida and Alabama.

09/10/2026

14 floors up over St. Andrews Bay. 3 bed, 3 bath, 1,916 sq ft, 685 sq ft of balcony. $579,000.

Just listed at Marina Landing, Panama City Beach. Send this to the boater in your life.

📍 6422 W Hwy 98 #1406 · Listed by Gene Darden · The Darden Group · Real Broker LLC · 205-426-1113 · Equal Housing Opportunity

09/10/2026

JUST LISTED in Pelham — and this one is for the buyer who has been losing.

449 Cambrian Ridge Trail. $235,000. Three bedrooms, two full baths.

If you have been shopping Shelby County under $250,000, you already know the drill: everything is either dated inside or has no yard worth the name. This one broke the pattern.

Inside, the work is already done. Quartz counters in the kitchen and on every bathroom vanity. A stainless gas range. New flooring through the main level. A walk-in pantry that also hides the laundry.

The main floor is all living space — a 22-foot living room with a wood-burning fireplace, a dining area under an arched window, and a sunroom with windows on two walls that catches light all afternoon.

Upstairs, the primary has a walk-in closet and its own bath with a double vanity, a garden tub, and a separate shower.

Out back, a privacy-fenced yard with a patio, backing straight up to woods.

Listed by Stephanie Wright on our team.

Know somebody renting in Pelham who could own for close to the same money? Tag them — this is exactly that house.

📍 449 Cambrian Ridge Trail, Pelham, AL 35124
$235,000 · 3 bed · 2 bath · ACTIVE · MLS 21464139
Photos + floor plans: https://gene-darden.github.io/investor-calculator/449-cambrian/
Tour it: call or text 205-426-1113

The Darden Group | Real Broker LLC | Equal Housing Opportunity

09/10/2026

$579,000. Penthouse unit. Eleven-foot ceilings. A marina downstairs.

Unit 1406 at Marina Landing, Panama City Beach, freshly updated top to bottom: cream walls, white cabinets, new backsplash, a beachy blue island on black countertops, new chandelier, shiplap fireplace with a custom floating cedar mantel, new carpet. 3 bed, 3 bath, 1,916 sq ft, 685 sq ft of covered balcony over St. Andrews Bay. Plantation shutters and a soaking tub with a bay view in the master. Bay-front pool and hot tub, fitness center, covered parking, on-site management. No short-term rentals, so it stays quiet.

Every photo, full size: https://gene-darden.github.io/investor-calculator/6422-w-hwy-98-1406/

Know a boater who's done fighting Hwy 98 traffic to get to the pass? Tag them.

📍 6422 W Hwy 98 #1406, Panama City Beach, FL 32407 · JUST LISTED · $579,000 · Listed by Gene Darden · The Darden Group · Real Broker LLC · 205-426-1113 · Equal Housing Opportunity

09/10/2026

Three full baths. Not two and a half. Three.

That is rare in 1,610 square feet, and it is the reason this one is going to move fast.

115 Indian Woman Road just hit the market in Santa Rosa Beach, renovated and ready to live in: new luxury vinyl plank through the whole house, white cabinets over a beachy-blue island, black granite, travertine in the baths, a garden tub and double vanity in the primary, and a fireplace anchoring the living room.

Then there is the back of the house. A screened porch that runs nearly the full width, ceiling fans overhead, looking out over a fenced, shaded, pine-treed backyard.

Know somebody trying to land a move-in-ready 3 bedroom in Santa Rosa Beach under $450K? Send them this post. That is exactly who this house is for.

📍 115 Indian Woman Road, Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459
💵 $439,900 · 3 bed · 3 bath · 1,610 sf
📞 Private tour: 205-426-1113
Gene Darden · The Darden Group · Real Broker LLC

09/09/2026

Three different buyers walked this house in the eight days after the price came down. Sunday, the door is open to everybody.

6,274 square feet on 3.49 acres in Helena. Three finished levels. A private theatre, a wet bar with a wine wall, and a pool yard that backs up to trees.

It was listed at $1,150,000. On August 31 it became $999,000. The market answered inside of hours — two showings that same afternoon.

Sunday you don't need an appointment, and you don't need an agent to get you in. Just come.

Know somebody who has been hunting acreage in Shelby County and keeps getting beat out on the land? Send them this one — they can walk it Sunday.

📍 OPEN HOUSE — Sunday, September 13 · 1–3 PM
2127 Highway 93, Helena, AL 35080
$999,000 · ACTIVE · MLS 21459396
Photos + details: https://gene-darden.github.io/investor-calculator/2127/
Private tour any other day: call or text 205-426-1113

Gene Darden | The Darden Group | Real Broker LLC
Equal Housing Opportunity

09/09/2026

$89,900 gets you a lot in the 35242. That sentence has not been true here in a long time.

2082 Narrows Point Cove is a buildable homesite at the end of a cul-de-sac in Birmingham 35242, Shelby County, and it is ACTIVE at $89,900.

Some context on why our team is spending a post on a piece of dirt. Every conversation we have had with a builder this year has ended in the same place: they can find buyers, they can find crews, they cannot find lots. Shelby County keeps absorbing new households faster than it entitles new ground, and that gap is the single biggest reason new-construction pricing in this corridor has stayed where it is.

A cul-de-sac lot under $90,000 in a 35242 zip is not a fluke. It is a window.

This one works for a builder holding a floor plan and waiting on dirt, or for a family that has been quietly outbid on finished houses and is ready to stop competing and start building instead. Those are two very different buyers and this lot serves both.

Know a builder, a custom-home client, or a family who has given up on winning a bidding war in 35242? Forward this to them. A lot is the one part of this market you can still buy without a line behind you.

📍 2082 Narrows Point Cove, Birmingham, AL 35242
💰 $89,900
🏷️ ACTIVE · MLS 21461933 · Shelby County · homesite
📞 Builders + buyers: 205-426-1113

If you are an agent who wants to run listing systems like this with a team behind you, my door is open.

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09/09/2026

The price on this one moved on September 2nd, and the post we ran here on the 31st still had the old number on it. Let me fix that first.

1230 Calvert Road in Cullman is $350,000. We published $365,000 on August 31st. That was the correct price when the post was written. It is not the price now, and fifteen thousand dollars is too much to let a scheduling gap decide for somebody.

So here is the house at its real number.

Tree-lined drive up to a covered front porch. Gas fireplace in the living room. Updated bath. Open back lawn. Sixty-nine days in Cullman County, and the house itself has not changed — only the number in front of it has.

Fifteen thousand dollars is not a rounding error at this price point. On a thirty-year note it is real money every month, and it is often the exact distance between a buyer who liked it and a buyer who wrote on it.

Know a family looking hard at Cullman who walked through this one in July and passed on price? Send it back to them today. That is a different conversation than the one they had two months ago.

📍 1230 Calvert Road, Cullman, AL 35057
💰 $350,000 — improved from $365,000
🏷️ ACTIVE · MLS 21457448 · Cullman County
🤝 Listed by Traci McDanal
📞 Private tour: 205-426-1113

Real Broker LLC | Powered by PLACE · Equal Housing Opportunity

09/08/2026

First look is Thursday. Want it before the MLS does?

Marina Landing, unit 1406. A penthouse unit with eleven-foot ceilings, freshly updated: cream walls, white cabinets, new backsplash, beachy blue island, new chandelier, shiplap fireplace with a custom floating cedar mantel, new carpet. Three bedrooms, three baths, 1,916 square feet, a 685-square-foot covered balcony wrapped around St. Andrews Bay. Plantation shutters and a soaking tub with a bay view in the master. Marina access downstairs, bay-front pool and hot tub, covered parking, on-site management, and no short-term rentals, so it stays quiet. Minutes from the beach and St. Andrews State Park.

Every photo, full size: https://gene-darden.github.io/investor-calculator/6422-w-hwy-98-1406/
Price releases Thursday morning.

Know somebody trying to get onto the bay without the beach-side price tag? Share this with them.

📍 6422 W Hwy 98 #1406, Panama City Beach, FL 32407 · COMING SOON · Listed by Gene Darden · The Darden Group · Real Broker LLC · 205-426-1113 · Equal Housing Opportunity

09/07/2026

One rate. Five different markets. All of them within an hour of my desk.

The thirty-year fixed was 6.89% Friday. Same number in Vestavia, same number in Alabaster, same number everywhere. That is the figure everybody reads about.

Here is the one almost nobody reads about: months of inventory supply. How long it would take to sell every home currently listed, at the current pace. Under roughly four months the seller still sets the terms. Over six, the buyer does.

35226, Hoover and Vestavia Hills — 2.7 months, selling in 56 days.
35244, Riverchase — 2.8 months, 61 days.
Alabaster — 3.7 months, 64 days.
Shelby County — 3.8 months, 75 days.
Birmingham metro — 5.0 months, 75 days.

That is a two-and-a-half month spread between the tightest zip and the metro average, at an identical interest rate. A buyer writing in 35226 is in a completely different negotiation than a buyer writing across the county line, and the rate sheet has nothing to do with it.

The August jobs report landed at 162,000 against a 56,000 forecast, nearly triple the estimate, and the thirty-year moved one one-hundredth of a point. The national headline did almost nothing. The zip code did everything.

So when somebody tells you the market is hot, or slow, the fair question back is: which one?

Inventory and days on market: AreaPro Weekly REMO, 08/31/2026. Rates and jobs: Mortgage News Daily, 09/04/2026.

What zip are you actually shopping? Tell me and I will pull its supply number for you.

Run your own equity math: https://gene-darden.github.io/investor-calculator/equity/

09/06/2026

Why you hear the road: the pass to the Gulf is right around that corner.

Boaters, this is the number that matters. Marina Landing sits on St. Andrews Bay with the marina under the building and the pass minutes away. Penthouse-floor 3 bed, 3 bath, 685 sq ft of wraparound balcony. Coming Soon, live 9/10. Full 360 tour: https://youtu.be/viFuquIrUKc

Know a boater who checks the pass before the weather? Tag them.

📍 Panama City Beach, FL · Coming Soon · Listed by Gene Darden · The Darden Group · Real Broker LLC · 205-426-1113 · Equal Housing Opportunity

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