Posts with tag Florida

The BP oil spill may be receding from national headlines, but Realtors in and around the Gulf region are still in the thick of it. A survey released Tuesday by analytics firm Clear Capital reveals that nearly one-in-four respondents is reporting continued negative impact on the local real estate market. Of those impacted... Continue Reading »

The largest landholder in the Florida Panhandle is suffering huge losses due to the BP oil spill. And it's looking for someone to pay. The St. Joe Company, a real estate developer in Florida that owns 577,000 acres of land near the Gulf Coast, filed a suit against Halliburton Co. on Aug. 4, asking for more than $1 billion... Continue Reading »

In vacation home meccas such as California, Florida and Las Vegas -- where foreclosure numbers soared during the housing meltdown -- real estate agents have been employing a new sales tactic: foreclosure bus tours. Next stop? Cincinnati. According to The Cincinnati Enquirer, the trend -- in which Realtors organize... Continue Reading »

Rapper Fat Joe is selling his Plantation, Fla., home for $1,999,000, which could be considered a deal when compared to neighboring houses for sale, and by how much he dropped the price about eight months ago. His house at 1203 NW 121st Ave. was priced at $2,399,000 in October 2009, but in December 2009 the price dropped... Continue Reading »

Key West may conjure up images of many things, but affordable housing isn't one of them. Now, for the first time in decades, middle-class homebuyers can consider living in the community that erstwhile resident Ernest Hemingway once called "the best place I've ever been anytime, anywhere." Five years ago, the island was... Continue Reading »

Living in Coral Gables, Fla. can be expensive, with homes near the water running $20 million or more. But this prime area with its thriving downtown away from the beach shouldn't be reserved for the mega-rich. Just head inland a bit to find a great Coral Gables home for less than $1 million. It's a great city to live in,... Continue Reading »

Many remorseful Americans are finding their property values have plummeted, their neighborhoods have gone to the dogs, and their neighbors have defaulted right out of their houses. So whose fault is it anyway? Jonathon and Brandy Miller, of Boynton Beach, Fla., think they have an answer. The couple sued the builder of... Continue Reading »

I don't necessarily want to live in a treehouse, but I'd like to get close to the feeling of it. The house for sale at 9737 SW 98th St. in Miami, Fla. does just that on an acre of property with soaring oaks throughout. The 3,396-square-foot home has enough trees around it to support a few more hammocks beside the one... Continue Reading »

A Tampa, Florida man hasn't made a mortgage payment since 2003, and although the foreclosure police are standing at his door, he hasn't budged. How has Jeffrey DeMauro staved off the auction block? He declared bankruptcy a whopping eleven times in seven years, reported the St. Petersburg Times. De Mauro is not alone.... Continue Reading »

When the housing market finally improves in this country, is a lot more poo in the streets all we really have to look forward to? That particular reward came along with a booming housing market in downtown Tampa, Florida. Buyers have snatched up condos and rental units in recent months, after prices were pummeled by the... Continue Reading »

Many struggling homeowners have to make tough choices about which bills to pay. If you live in a community with a homeowners association or own an apartment in a building with a condo association in Florida, you'd better pay those monthly fees -- or you could lose your house. Florida law puts a homeowners association on... Continue Reading »

One of the great things about vacationing at a luxury resort is all of the amenities: the pool, rec room, beach, fine dining, and personal service. Moving into this $18 million house at 3575 Stewart Ave. in Miami, Fla., would be like living permanently at a luxury resort, minus the personal service. That is unless you hire... Continue Reading »

I want to live in this $1 million penthouse in Miami and live like Don Johnson's character in "Miami Vice." I want to wear a white suit in this white building at 720 NE 62nd St., which looks like a place Detective James "Sonny" Crockett would call home. If he could afford a $1 million penthouse condo, although less... Continue Reading »

The swanky and historic Coral Gables, Fla. neighborhood has kept the classic Mediterranean Revival architecture alive by maintaining homes and landscaping in pristine condition, staying true to the very style that made these grand homes some of the most sought after in Miami-Dade County. Serving as an example of this is... Continue Reading »

A 30-story hurricane-damaged condo in West Palm Beach, Fla. came tumbling down on Sunday in a Valentines Day implosion that made spectators' hearts go 'boom.' The scheduled implosion took only 15 seconds to crash the concrete and steel building into a 40-foot pile of rubble that will take about three months to clean up.... Continue Reading »