Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Miami Commercial Real Estate | Lincoln Road Miami

Top 10 commercial building sales in South Florida in 2014
Condo buyers waiting for Villas By the Sea - Sun Sentinel

Buyers camped out for Villas By The Sea condos. Prices for the 51 units range from the $500,000s to more than $1 million.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Friday, November 28, 2014

Case-Shiller: Miami home prices up 10.3 percent in September | The Miami Herald

The metro Miami area, which includes Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, logged the biggest annual gain of any of the 20 metro markets tracked by the closely-monitored index.


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article4138972.html#storylink=cpy

Thursday, November 27, 2014

EB-5 | Barack Obama | Citizenship and Immigration Services | Tibor Hollo

President Barack Obama’s recent executive actions designed to overhaul the immigration system could help boost the rate of real estate development in Miami, some experts say.

Friday, November 21, 2014

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Fla.’s housing market: Rising sales, prices in Oct. 2014

"Everything appears to be moving in the right direction, against a background of moderate and sustainable price changes," said Florida Realtors Chief Economist Dr. John Tuccillo
Record number of tourists keep flocking to Florida | Local News - WESH Home

Last year nearly 95 million people visited Florida

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Peter Zalewski | Condo Vultures

Some developers reduce preconstruction deposits as competition intensifies

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Veterans Have Better Mortgage Performance

Mortgage Performance of Veteran Loans Mortgages backed by the Veterans Affairs have generally performed better than other mortgage products, even though VA loans require no down payment.
Knight Frank | Research Details

Miami is No. 7 worldwide with luxury home prices up 12.2% year-to-year, according to Knight Frank analysis. Worldwide, luxury prices rose an average 4%.

U.S., China agree to visa deal extension

U.S., China agree to visa deal extension China and the United States will offer visas, valid for up to 10 years, to each other's citizens.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Home sales: Cash buyers out in force - Sun Sentinel

In the South Florida metro area cash sales declined from last year, still, 59.1 percent of home sales didn't require a mortgage, the highest percentage in the nation,
REALTORS® Reported Distressed Sales at 10 Percent of Market in September 2014

With rising home values and fewer foreclosures, the share of distressed sales to existing home sales continued to decline, according to data from the September 2014 REALTORS
Fla.’s housing market continues steady course in 3Q 2014

Florida's housing market reported higher median prices and gains in inventory during the third quarter of 2014.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Pace of U.S. home price growth slows in Sept. Last statistic shows a 5.6% price appreciation from a year ago

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Cash is King for U.S. Home Sales in 2014! - - Cribsuite

South Florida remained number 1 in the U.S. for cash sales.

Friday, October 24, 2014

SkyRise Miami | Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado

Tensions sky-high over SkyRise funding

Thursday, October 23, 2014

This country’s citizens are told to keep buying homes in Florida | Real Time

The annual Canadian Snowbird Outlook report from the BMO Bank of Montreal is still hyping Florida purchases for weather-weary residents, but warns that home prices are on the rise in the Sunshine State as well as other popular spots such as Arizona. Canadians are the largest foreign buyers in Florida and more than 500,000 currently own real estate here.
Condo Vultures | South Florida Housing Inventory South Florida’s pending sales are declining

Friday, October 3, 2014

South Florida foreclosures keep declining

Condo Vultures | Foreclosures

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Condo boom spreads to Fort Lauderdale

Peter Zalewski | Condo Vultures Turning Point: Condo boom spreads to Fort Lauderdale -

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Peter Zalewski | Condo Vultures Condo construction financing spigot opens in South Florida -

Again, lenders seem to be joining the party a little late. EB

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Realtors Association Of The Palm Beaches | Cash Sales More sales involve financing, all cash sales are declining.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

July Data Shows the Healthiest End to Spring Home Buying Season in Three Years | RISMedia The U.S. real estate market continues moving towards a healthy balance.

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Peter Zalewski | Condo Vultures 10,150 South Florida condos already ‘sold’ during this boom

Monday, July 28, 2014

Condos: Developers eye Broward County - Sun Sentinel

The number of units completed, under construction or planned has nearly doubled over the past year.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

U.S. files lawsuits against foreclosure relief firms

They offered little relief, but cost plenty

Monday, July 21, 2014

Bonaventure golf course developed into homes - Sun Sentinel about half of the golf course to be allocated to the construction

Friday, July 18, 2014

Deed-restricted housing growing in other states They've been popular in Florida, and now in other states, 65 million Americans now live in property governed by homeowner's associations.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Condo Vultures | South Florida Housing Inventory

South Florida’s active listings increase.
EPIC Hotel | Downtown Miami Argentine investor buys 1.25 acre downtown lot for $125 million ($217/sq. ft.)

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Condo Vultures | Foreclosures South Florida foreclosures keep dropping

Monday, June 30, 2014

This sounds like 2004......

GL Homes | Delray Beach GL Homes plans lottery for Delray Beach project.

Tuscany has waiting list of more than 3,000 potential buyers

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Michael Wekerle | Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale’s Anheuser Busch Estate sells for $12.5 million

Monday, June 23, 2014

Florida Realtors May sales report finds stability

The statewide median sales price for single-family existing homes last month was $180,000, up 4.3 percent from the previous year.

Friday, June 13, 2014

Existing Home Sales by Price Tier Higher priced homes selling at a faster pace.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

EB-5 | Miami

EB-5 designation could spur foreign investment boom in Miami commercial sector.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

That'll Be Extra - WSJ Some buyers want all the bells and whistles in their home. Here's a sample of how much those fancy upgrades cost.

Monday, June 9, 2014

Ivana Trump Palm Beach | Ivana Trump Home

She sold for $18 million the Palm Beach home she bought in 1994 for $4.4 million.

Thursday, June 5, 2014

20% of U.S. counties’ home prices at all-time high

But Florida, it's all green and go, all counties are well below the peak, except for Sumter County, northwest of Orlando, where prices have already climbed to near all-time highs.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Star Trek and Star Wars Inspired Rooms in Florida Mansion | The Escapist

At $35 million, it's the most expensive residential listing ever in the city of Boca Raton
Price appreciation, short sales, foreclosures drop National statistics: The median sales price of  U.S. residential properties – including both distressed and non-distressed sales – was $172,000 in April, an increase of  11 percent from April 2013 – the biggest year-over-year increase since U.S. median prices bottomed out in March 2012.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Realtors to condo boards: Get FHA certification "Since changing its policy four years ago, the number of condo developments approved for FHA financing has plummeted by over 50 percent. As of mid-May, FHA says just 10,020 communities out of roughly 144,000 condo projects nationwide had FHA certification – about 7 percent."
Peter Zalewski | Condo Vultures

Developers pushing prices higher and higher. "Presale prices of preconstruction condo towers proposed east of I-95 in South Florida are now averaging a minimum asking price premium of about 102 percent above the price of units currently on the resale market in the coastal part of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties"



If you want to be the first to live there, it will cost you, ...a lot!! EB

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Orlando Surpasses New York As Most-Visited US City

ConXGlobal Orlando Surpasses New York As Most-Visited US City

Monday, April 14, 2014

Medium-priced home sales surge in Miami-Dade, Broward.

One Sotheby's International Realty | South Florida Housing Market

Monday, March 31, 2014

More banks lower FICO score requirements for easier mortgage qualifying.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Miami Beach $200,000 per month rental

An Unaddressed Miami Beach, FL 33140 Home for Rent - realtor.com®

4949 Pine Tree Dr,  infoAddress:Address:Miami Beach FL 33140

 
 

Monday, March 24, 2014

REALTORS® Generally Expect Prices to Increase Modestly in the Next 12 Months Florida and California realtors expect bigger gains.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Thursday, March 20, 2014

South Florida home prices keep rising, but sales growth is slowing - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com



In Miami-Dade County, the median price of an existing single-family home rose 17 percent in February from a year earlier to $227,000.


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/20/4005549/median-home-and-condo-prices-in.html#storylink=cpy
In Broward County, the median price of a single-family home jumped 12.3 percent to $255,000.


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/20/4005549/median-home-and-condo-prices-in.html#storylink=cpy

Monday, March 10, 2014

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

South Florida Foreclosures Keep Dropping Foreclosures | Condo Vultures

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Friday, February 21, 2014

Existing home prices rose by double digits in Miami-Dade and Broward - Business - MiamiHerald.com



The number of sales also increased in Miami, compared to a year earlier, but Broward experienced a small slowdown, as did much of the U.S.
Prospect of Homeownership for Millennials

With the new mortgage rules, many young people will have an important choice to make, if they take on student debt, they will have to delay buying a home.