Now that the housing market is not doing so well, it is a good time to buy a house because prices are lower. In fact, if you place "Real Estate Vero Beach FL" as a search term in your favorite Web Search Engine, you'd be amazed at the outcome. There is plenty of availability, and the price is right! That's especially true for people from other States, where the sale price of their house will probably exceed the cost of real estate in/around Vero Beach or Sebastian.

Vero Beach and Sebastian, are located in Indian River County on the Treasure Coast, which consists of Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin Counties (red area on map). The pink county is the inland Okeechobee County, which is sometimes considered a part of the Treasure Coast. The name "Treasure Coast" is derived from a number of ships of Spanish galleons (especially those of the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet) that wrecked off the coast during the 17th and 18th centuries. Artifacts from these ships have still been recovered today, both by amateur and professional treasure-hunters.

Residents of Indian River County enjoy state-of-the-art medical care. Two full-service hospitals serve the area. Indian River Memorial Hospital is conveniently located in the central part of the county in Vero Beach. Sebastian River Medical Center is located in Sebastian. To our north in Melbourne is Holmes Regional Trauma Center, an affiliate of the University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville.

Indian River County's population (2006) was 130,000. Vero Beach est. 39,000 (incl. Vero Beach South) . Sebastian, is estimated around 20,000 people.

It's a great place to be to spend your retirement, too! We have a great Spring Baseball Stadium. Although the Dodgers are moving out West, we trust a new Team will fill Holman Stadium in 2009!