Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight

With more eyes on manufactured housing as a solution to the nation's deepening housing crisis, one expert says bringing more information to the field could clear the bottleneck holding the business back. The manufactured home stigma "needs to catch up" with reality, says Greyson Gibson, CEO and co-f

The 2026 Genesis GV80 3.5T Prestige is elegant and timeless. Photo courtesy of Genesis Say hello to my buddy Dan. In his spare time, he’s an accomplished potter with a kiln and proper potter’s wheel. He throws a mean flower vase. When he’s not playing with clay, or strumming his six-string, he’s Dan

Relationships are everything in real estate, but in this case, an agent claims ending romantic ties with a brokerage founder left him short of a commission share on a high-profile LVMH lease deal in downtown Miami.  Robert Festinger sued Coral Gables-based Carvalho Commercial Real Estate and its fou

Noah Bachow and partners won city approval to build 20 percent more multifamily units at 11 Andrews Avenue, a 27-story mixed-use development in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The Fort Lauderdale City Commission unanimously voted Tuesday to approve the developers’ proposals to raise the number of units fr

🏆 New Building: The largest construction permit, valued at $164.5 million, is for The Well Coconut Grove development at 2835 Tigertail Avenue in Miami. David Martin’s Terra and AB Asset Management secured the permit for a 447,969-square-foot mixed-use project that includes condominium units and ret

The landmark housing bill winding its way through Congress could change the banking system and make it easier for small banks to return to mortgage lending. The House and Senate announced a compromise for the 21st Century Road to Housing Act this week, just days before the average rate on 30-year fi

🏆 Residential: The priciest recorded home sale was in Palm Beach for a new home at 239 Wells Road for $12 million. The seller was 239 Wells Road LLC and Morning Dew LLC was the buyer. The home has five bedrooms with seven full baths and two half baths. Spanning about 5,700 square feet, the price pe

A record 25.2 million adults under 35 lived with their parents in 2025, according to new research from Realtor.com®. That's nearly 1 in 3 young adults and higher than even the pandemic-era count—but the more surprising finding is just how many of them were working. “Roughly 70% of 25- to 34-year-old

As a designer of home interiors and culinary hot spots, HGTV and Food Network star Taniya Nayak aims to make every space she touches more hospitable—including her own home just south of Boston. The 53-year-old "Rock the Block" star and founder of Taniya Nayak Design purchased and moved into the Milt

Thanks to the double whammy of high home prices and elevated interest rates, house flipping has suffered lately. But the tide might be turning, as a new report shows flipper profit margins are rising for the first time in nearly two years. The typical profit margin for a flipped home hit 25.4% in th

Kolter Multifamily kicked off construction of its Live Local Act apartment project Alton Delray after landing $91.7 million in financing, records show. The Delray Beach-based developer scored the loan from U.S. Bank for the 386-unit multifamily development planned at 2101 South Congress Avenue in De

Chip and Joanna Gaines are giving fans the chance to own a sizable chunk of reality TV history—listing three of their most recognizable renovation projects all at once, including two properties that were featured on their hit show, "Fixer Upper." The beloved home renovation experts have brought a tr

JetBlue is planning to cut some employee bases at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and tech bases at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Bass Pro Shops hooked Islamorada’s 27-acre Cheeca Lodge & Spa, adding the luxury fishing and sporting resort to its multi-billion-dollar portfolio.  The outdoor retailer, led by Johnny Morris, acquired the property at 81801 Overseas Highway in the Upper Keys from Northwood Investors for an undisclos

Washington, DC, could soon have a new mayor in Janeese Lewis George, whose "Homes for All" platform could set her on a collision course with President Donald Trump. Lewis George pulled ahead of her main competition, fellow DC council member Kenyan McDuffie, following Tuesday's Democratic primary ele

Australian actor Sam Worthington has revealed why he made the decision to move into his car in a bid to "clear his head," just as his on-screen career was beginning to take off. Worthington, 49, shot to international stardom after landing the role of Jake Sully in director James Cameron's epic "Avat

Steve Ross, the billionaire developer who is reshaping West Palm Beach, has set his sights on Boca Raton’s former IBM campus, the state’s largest single office complex, seizing on existing approvals for a mixed-use project.  Ross is nearing closing on a deal to purchase the 1.7 million-square-foot B

To celebrate America’s 250th birthday, Americans will be taking to the skies and roads in droves.  AAA projects 72.2 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home for Independence Day between Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, July 5, surpassing last year’s record of 71.8 million travelers. F

In December 2023, David Stern closed on his $1.8 million purchase of a unit at Amrit Ocean Resort, an oceanfront condo-hotel on Singer Island, a barrier island north of Palm Beach.  The following year, he found himself in the courts, suing the developer and managers of the LLCs that built the two-to

Cain and Kushner paid $43.1 million for a site in Edgewater where they’ve been planning a 364-unit luxury apartment tower.  The firms bought the 1.5-acre property at 614 and 720 Northeast 27th Street from an entity tied to a joint venture between Miami-based OKO Group and Cain.  London-based Cain, l