Florida Real Estate Articles

Year End Comparison of Miami real estate and Florida's Existing Home and Condo Sales In November.
Florida Association of Realtors® (FAR) reports that Florida's existing home sales has risen for the third month in a row as of November. A total of 4% increase in activities in the year-to-year comparison.

The new school opened in Sunny Isles Beach. It is conveniently location directly across from Trump Royale Sunny Isles and Trump Palace Sunny Isles. It is the first public school to be opened in Sunny Isles Beach and has certainly met with rave reviews.

Changes are afoot that will make Florida real estate market stronger than ever.
There are some strong signs that Florida is finally coming out of the financial storm.

Blod Bath In Sunny Isles And Miami Beach
Are you tired of headlines such as “Blod bath in Sunny Isles and Miami Beach for luxury oceanfront condos” and “The prices are going lower and lower in Miami” and “Too much supply no demand” and “Buying condos for 30 to 50 cents on the dollar”?

Miami Real Estate Condos Buy Back
Miami Condo developer Jorge Perez said South Florida real estate is undervalued and he's setting up a $1 billion fund to start buying properties...

South Beach Investing
For over a century Miami Beach has been one of America’s premier beach resort destinations...

Miami Property Tax Reform
Over the last few days you may have read media accounts regarding an agreement with regards to how we will cut property taxes...

Miami Luxury Condo Investment
In downtown, great chunks of Old Miami are fast disappearing in a cloud of dust. In its place, the New Miami...

UF study: The price is right, so buy now
Hopeful homebuyers in Florida should act now: The price is right as the state’s single-family residential housing market bottoms out...

30-year mortgage falls to new low
Rates on 30-year mortgages fell to the lowest level since mid-December as investors scrambled to the safety of bonds following last week’s stock market turmoil...

Boomers: aging and buying
Everyone seems to be talking about baby boomers - and for good reason. The oldest of the nation's 78 million boomers turned 60 in 2006...

Miami Real Estate Growth
The housing boom came under increasing pressure in 2005. With interest rates rising, builders in many states responded to slower sales and larger inventories by scaling back on production...

This storm too shall pass
For the past several years, real estate has kept the economy running strong while other sectors struggled to regain momentum after the tech bust...

There's profit in buying distressed and undervalued properties, study says
A study released this month proves statistically what many real estate investors have known for a long time: People who invest in distressed or undervalued real estate and "flip" the property routinely beat the market, reaping gains far in excess of the appreciation rate of the overall market...

Bubble, Shmubble
Sam Zell, the nation's biggest landlord, has a message for real estate worrywarts: Relax...

Investment for tomorrow
As our legendary home sales boom eases - existing-home sales are expected to dip 2.4 percent this year...

Boom times once again
The city is coming into its own, luring a younger set and foreign investors to invest in Miami real estate...

Home Sales Keep Rocking
Talk of a real estate bubble might continue to percolate through the national media, but a recent report by five housing industry economists shows these theories to be mostly hot air...

Condos: HOT, HOT, HOT
The big news in real estate this year is condominiums, particularly in the upper tier...

Behind the Luxury Condo Market Boom
The factors driving the hottest luxury real estate markets in memory have lined up to create a force that is no longer a by-product of our economy, but an economic driver on its own...

The Bubble That Didn't Burst
South Florida has consistently ranked among the top markets in the nation for appreciating real estate values...

Miami condo king joins Forbes list of 400 richest Americans
Jorge Perez, the king of condominium building in South Florida, has been named for the first time to the "400 Richest Americans" list, released by Forbes magazine Thursday...

Greenspan's conundrum
Analysts are wringing their hands over Alan Greenspan's conundrum: long-term interest rates failing to go up as the Federal Reserve raises short-term rates. Historically, a narrowing gap between long-term and short-term rates has pointed to...

Foreign investors are snatching up homes across South Florida
Lured by strong currencies and a booming real estate market, foreign investors are snatching up homes across South Florida...