Phone books that were delivered but never opened rot away next to empty driveways and overgrown lawns, telltale signs of a once-booming Southwest Florida housing market now at the center of the U.S. housing storm. (more…)

Officials have reduced estimates of general revenue collections by a combined $1.5 billion for fiscal 2006-08 - a result of the downturn in the Florida housing market. (more…)

Four developers have pitched projects for 3,660 houses along Burnt Store Road since January, raising the likelihood that this area will be one of the first to develop when the Southwest Florida housing market recovers. (more…)

When fewer people apply for Florida mortgages, the fallout isn’t hard to find. Although this is one you might not have seen coming. (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…)

Regarding Saturday’s front-page story in the Naples Daily News, a reader and local resident warns that the media is opting for sensationalism over reporting and perhaps making the Southwest Florida housing market worse as a result. (more…)

Meritage Homes Corporation, a leading U.S. homebuilder based in the Florida housing market, recently reported preliminary sales, closings and backlog for the second quarter. (more…)

Thousands of new homes in the works for land east of I-75 in Southwest Florida are providing ample opportunities not only for home builders, but for those who build schools, hospitals, churches and fire stations required to support the area. (more…)

This just in: A surge in home foreclosures is putting a major damper on an already sluggish Southwest Florida housing market. (more…)

With an income of $24,000, Halima Portillo had all but given up the dream of homeownership in the pricey Southwest Florida housing market. (more…)