Report Says Florida Ranks 2nd In Natural Disaster Risk
A new report says Florida ranks second only to California in the number of homes at risk for a natural disaster.
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A new report says Florida ranks second only to California in the number of homes at risk for a natural disaster.
Three Florida metro areas had among the biggest increases in home prices year over year.
Orlando has topped the list metro areas with affordable housing near good elementary schools.
The latest data on home prices is a mixed bag for Florida.
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.
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.
There's good news and bad news for the state when it comes to foreclosures. The bad news: in April Florida led the nation with the highest number of foreclosures.
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.
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.
Florida has the nation's second-highest rate of residential properties that were deeply underwater last month according to a new report.
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.
The real estate market is heating up these days as distressed properties that were foreclosed on or abandoned in recent years are making their way back to the market. But home buyers need to beware when considering a "flipped" home.
Sales of foreclosured properties skyrocketed in the third quarter of 2012, new data reveals.
Foreclosures have crippled the South Florida home market since the Great Recession hit and while the rest of the nation has started to show improvement, Florida continues to struggle to recover from the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression.
The foreclosure crisis crippled South Florida and created a backlog in the court system; and even though the overall economy is improving, the housing market remains in limbo.
While some realtors may be proclaiming the real estate market in South Florida is on the rebound; new numbers from RealtyTrac show the foreclosure crisis is stalled and may not clear out in South Florida for two more years.
A new report on foreclosures in the state may have you thinking we've turned the corner on our troubled real estate market, but 'all that glitters is not gold'.
The Sunshine State continues to be among the worst states in the nation when it comes to foreclosures.
