Fort Lauderdale based home builder, Levitt Corp announced plans to lay off up to 200 of its 573 employees. (more…)

Federal regulators are in negotiations with the nation’s sixth-largest home builder to try to “preserve the assets of Norlarco members” in Florida. (more…)

The St. Joe Co., the state’s biggest private landowner and one of the most notable North Florida mortgage presences, has completed a $30 million acquisition. (more…)

The seizure that gripped European financial markets of late can be partly traced to an unlikely place. Like a proverbial butterfly that flaps its wings and sets off a tidal wave on the other side of the world, Sarasota, Florida is at the center of a bust that sent waves through global markets. (more…)

A Florida real estate broker in Lake Mary, near Orlando, is adding a new part of the globe to its worldwide search for investors: Japan. (more…)

It’s bad enough that the tanking Florida housing market is leading to a slump in real estate advertising at newspapers, as a series of grim earnings reports showed last week. (more…)

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…)

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…)

Know the worst year in Florida real estate since President Ford’s days? (more…)

A developer is considering a sale of unsold units at three South Florida real estate projects, in a proposed deal that shows how builders are grappling with the ongoing slowdown in the housing market. (more…)