Bidding wars are breaking out again over short sales and foreclosures in South Florida, as real estate heats up. (Foreclosures are also known as “bank owned” or “REOs.”) Our home sales are up 30% over last year; our prices, fortunately, haven’t yet begun to rise.

The Attorney General of Florida McCollum unveils a website to help Florida homeowners to avoid mortgage fraud and related scams.

First, let's start from the economy in the Miami Beach of Florida. The economy isn't really that bad. At the height of the boom, many people thought the party could never end, a term economists call "irrational exuberance." Today, however, many people have "irrational pessimism," or a fear that things will continue to get worse. Those people were wrong before, and they're wrong now.

Florida home for sale includes wife or soul as Devan Trabosh sells house and her love in Palm Beach.

A great article in Builder highlights Jack McCabe’s research report which calculates that the Florida condo market has a whopping 5 years worth of inventory with cranes still hovering over new developments.

South Florida real estate market is inundated with foreclosures as the housing market is way down in South Florida.

Florida Housing's Homeownership Pool (HOP) Program will hold a public meeting (rule chapter) on Friday, January 25, 2008, in Tampa.

The real estate situation in Florida is still very bleak as the numbers from the Florida Association of Realtors release show that the housing market is in Florida despite some reports of strengthening sales in South are still very weak.

A committee of the Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Commission on Thursday gave first approval to a plan (CP 0002) that would mandate taxation of goods and services to buy down school property taxes, despite strong opposition from business groups concerned the measure would jeopardize Florida’s ability to compete for new business and industry.

Small home improvement efforts can go long way. As the real estate value of properties in Miami Beach area are rising slowly the touristic area homes of Miami Beach and South Beach in Florida can benefit from small home improvements and increase resale value of houses.

Everybody knows that Florida, California, Nevada, and Arizona are the states that are suffering the most with the real estate, housing crash and the mortgage meltdown. But it sometimes takes The New York Times to report about it for people to really get an idea of the magnitude of this problem.

The U.S. dollar, at 26 year low, means it is now a great time to buy real estate property where it can be purchased in dollars, however customers should be wary of all the hype being pushed in Florida about it being a great time to buy. All though it might seem a good idea because of the exchange rate the reality is that prices are dropping and you could end up with a property worth less than you paid for it, losing all the gains you might make when the dollar swings back to normal