Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight

Less than a year after influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul made headlines by purchasing a sprawling Georgia ranch for a record-setting $39 million, another Peach State property is poised to steal that impressive title. Spring Creek Plantation, a 5,519-acre property in southwest Georgia's famed quail b

Foreclosures have continued apace, with Florida leading the nation in May, according to a new report. Nationwide, foreclosure filings dropped 5% last month from April but surged 14% from a year ago, according to the May 2026 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released by property data provider ATTOM. Fl

D.R. Horton purchased a development site in Homestead for $16.9 million, as homebuilders continue to seek developable land in south Miami-Dade. The Arlington, Texas-based homebuilder acquired 97 lots across two parcels, Aspen Estates East and Aspen Estates West, from M Aspen Homestead LLC, records s

With America's 250th anniversary just weeks away, eyes are turning to the last remaining legacy properties built by the country's founding fathers more than two centuries ago. One newly listed North Carolina estate is vying for a place among those historical dwellings, despite being built just 103 y

HGTV star Christina Haack has put her sprawling Tennessee farmhouse on the rental market for $20,000 a month, just hours after the elegant dwelling was relisted for sale with an asking price of $5.3 million. Just one day after Realtor.com® exclusively revealed that the 42-year-old TV personality's F

Permits, building codes, inspections, and regulations are tacking on huge costs to build new single-family homes, which are inevitably passed along to homebuyers. And the burden is only growing, according to the National Association of Home Builders. A new NAHB study found regulatory costs have jump

Renting rather than owning a home has benefits and drawbacks, but one upside that is universally affirmed is that renting affords you flexibility. A 30-year-mortgage sounds scary, while a one-year lease means you can pack up and go elsewhere—including to a place with lower monthly costs, if you need

When Pete Axthelm wrote in 1970 that “basketball belongs to the cities,” he was writing about the Knicks, New York, and the asphalt playgrounds that had helped make the sport inseparable from urban life. More than 50 years later, as the New York Knicks face off against the San Antonio Spurs on Wedne

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton's children have found themselves a new home in the form of a luxurious custom "doggy mansion" that the family has set up for their pets on the grounds of their $63 million Beverly Hills home. Hilton, 45, who shares son Phoenix Barron, 3, and daughter London Marilyn, 2, wit

For many older millennials—now in their 40s—it’s time to play catch-up. According to a report by Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, the median retirement savings for this group sits at $73,000. That's $427,000 less than the $500,000 target most 40-somethings believe they'll need and nowhere

Meghan Markle has shared a heartwarming glimpse into her family's idyllic plans for the summer season in a new Instagram post that reveals insight into how she and husband Prince Harry are embracing the warmer weather at home with their children, Archie and Lilibet. The 44-year-old mother of two sha

The World Cup kicks off Thursday in Mexico City, and fans are paying hefty prices to be a part of the action. FIFA estimates that between 5 million and 6 million fans will attend the six-week tournament, which takes place in 16 cities across North America. Among the 11 U.S. host cities, in five of t

Photo courtesy of Watersports Car Watersports Jet Car Was that a Rolls-Royce Dawn convertible you saw blasting down the Intracoastal? And was that a new Chevy Corvette right behind it? You would be right. That’s because the latest craze in head-spinning watercraft is the Jet Car phenomenon. The conc

NCH Rooney Heart Institute Performs Florida’s First M3 Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Groundbreaking procedure expands treatment options for patients with severe mitral valve disease who are not candidates for traditional surgery The NCH Rooney Heart Institute has successfully performed Flor

The Home Collection will begin a liquidation sale on June 11, offering 50 percent-off all merchandise through July 8. Photo courtesy of STARability Foundation As STARability Foundation continues preparations for its future campus and expanded programming, the organization will close its Home Collect

Olympic skier Eileen Gu's lavish family home in San Francisco is reportedly at the center of a bitter neighborhood dispute that stretches back more than 10 years and has seen multiple complaints filed against the gold medalist's family over everything from sewage problems to unsightly garbage piles.

Millions of homeowners up and down the East Coast are bracing for a brutal heat wave this week.  Over 100 million people are in the path of what promises to be an intense early-summer scorcher, according to the Weather Channel, with the high temps already moving in for parts of the country.  For hom

The most expensive part of a cheaper home might be the car you need to live there. Housing and transportation accounted for 50% of household spending in 2024, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Housing ate up 33% of that budget, while

Airline CEOs met in Rio de Janeiro at IATA, the International Air Transport Association's annual meeting.

For decades, financial systems operated on a quiet assumption: most information entering the system was fundamentally real. Documents might arrive incomplete. Borrowers might omit details. Fraud existed at the margins. But lending infrastructure was built around a world where verification happened s