A dispute between a Florida real estate broker and one of the nation’s largest home builders has mushroomed into a legal battle reaching all the way to Wall Street. (more…)
Jumping into the construction business these days is like diving into a swimming pool… with no water. The Florida housing market simply isn’t there. (more…)
Foreclosures in Lee County continue to soar- and realtors say the housing boom of the past few years is to blame. (more…)
A rash of Florida mortgage complaints started landing on the desks of Tampa Police fraud investigators three years ago. (more…)
Median values for existing homes in the Tampa Bay area have dropped more than 10 percent over the past year, but a new study from a California real estate consulting firm says there’s room for Florida home prices here to come down more. (more…)
You’ve found the perfect house. You’ve shopped for a Florida mortgage. You’ve chosen a lender. The rest is easy, right? Not always.
In the middle of the biggest glut of condominiums in more than 30 years, Miami developers keep on building. (more…)
The downturn in the Southwest Florida housing market and home building has caused a sharp rise in unemployment, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. (more…)
The Florida Insurance Commissioner has put homeowner’s insurance companies on notice they had better comply with new insurance laws. (more…)
Real estate auctions have become a more familiar phenomenon in the Southwest Florida housing market and the state as a whole.
But with the cooling housing market, the region’s top brokerage, Michael Saunders & Co., fired off a sharp broadside against the practice in a recent advertising section. (more…)
