South Florida Leads Nation In Cash Home Sales
It's been said that 'cash is king' when making purchases and nowhere in the country is that more true than South Florida when it comes to buying a home.
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It's been said that 'cash is king' when making purchases and nowhere in the country is that more true than South Florida when it comes to buying a home.
Real estate website operator Zillow is buying rival Trulia in a $3.5 billion deal that would make the biggest player in the online real estate market.
A developer who "flipped" houses throughout Florida has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for what prosecutors say was a mortgage fraud scheme.
The latest residential data shows key indicators in housing are mixed. The market is said to be recovering, but not yet recovered.
Several Florida metro areas led the pack when it came to short sales of homes in April. Orlando, Lakeland, Tampa, and Palm Bay had the highest rates of short sales in the nation, according to the research firm RealtyTrac.
When it comes to buying a house or condo in Florida, cash is king. Almost two-thirds of Florida housing sales in the first quarter of this year were done in cash, according to the study by the research firm, RealtyTrac.
Spring 2014 housing indicators tell us that procrastination is not the way forward for buyers.
Nearly a third of all homeowners in Florida are seriously underwater. According to a new report released by RealtyTrac 31 percent of homes in Florida were underwater in the first quarter.
Donald Trump was on the hot seat in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom over his decision to pull his name from a condo project on Fort Lauderdale Beach.
Due to frigid conditions in much of the nation, February's real estate wrap-up required boots and a shovel, as well as deeper pockets.
If you want to buy property in the state of Florida, there's one thing that you need to get it done: cold, hard cash.
While South Florida has seen a boom in foreign investors helping to prop up the real estate market, the state of Florida still led the nation in foreclosures completed in August, according to CBS4 news partner the Miami Herald.
Singer Enrique Iglesias just sold his Miami home for $6.7 million dollars.
Brandt Elliot found his dream home the day it went on the market, and he knew he had to move fast.
Home prices continued to jump in value in May, according to the latest numbers from the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.
For anyone who has ever driven past their dream house and wondered if it would ever go on sale, wonder no longer.
On the same day news broke that Alex Rodriguez was selling his Miami Beach home, actor Christian Slater is making news by purchasing a multi-million dollar home in Coconut Grove.
He's not been on the baseball field this year, but New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez is still pocketing plenty of cash. But it's not the Yankees giving A-Rod his latest payday, but rather a home buyer in South Florida.
Forbes Magazine has released its annual list of the nation's richest people and two South Florida sports owners made the top 100 Richest Americans.
The mansion where the Kardashian sisters filmed "Kourtney and Kim Take Miami" is on the market.
Florida's foreclosure crisis refuses to ease up, according to new data.
Planning to sell your home? You may want to wait until 2016 before listing it.
Downtown Miami is enjoying a renaissance of sorts in the real estate market as condo sales boom after completely crashing in 2009. Now, cash is required and getting your hands on a stylish condo is getting tougher.
The state will get an $8.6 million share of a national settlement with a loan processing company over improper mortgage foreclosure practices, included "robo-signing".
A 23-year-old man who recently moved into a $2.5 million mansion using an obscure real estate law is in good company: a $4.6 million oceanfront mansion is among other foreclosed properties to risk being taken over by squatters.
