Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle returned home from their multiday Australian tour this weekend and were welcomed back to their $14.65 million Montecito mansion with a sweet surprise from their children, Archie and Lilibet. Meghan, 44, shared several heartfelt videos from the couple's arrival at their

Last summer, the nonprofit tied to the Provincetown Independent found itself stuck in a familiar conversation: How do you recruit the best reporters when they've been priced out of the local housing market? “Every single meeting began and ended with, ‘Well, that looks like a good opportunity, but wh

A new 3,250-acre ranch community is taking shape in the heart of Idaho's Teton Valley—often called the "quiet side of the Tetons"—offering wealthy buyers with a taste for the outdoors an opportunity to build legacy homesteads. Positioned as a less crowded alternative to the bustle of Jackson Hole, W

Brad Jacobs’ vaunted, capital treasure-trove-fueled sprint to geographic and marketshare clout, enough to disrupt the nation’s building products and materials supply infrastructure, took another big leap this weekend, with a $17 billion deal to acquire TopBuild, a giant among homebuilder-favored dis

The Miami Association of Realtors is merging with the Broward, Palm Beaches & St. Lucie Realtors into the largest local such association in the National Association of Realtors’ history.  The two organizations expect the merger will close May 11, co-CEOs Teresa King Kinney and Dionna Hall said. King

Sheinelle Jones has opened up about her bittersweet emotions while celebrating her first birthday since her husband, Uche Ojeh, died—admitting that she was unable to "stop crying" while dealing with an overwhelming flood of feelings. The "Today with Jenna & Sheinelle" co-host, who lost her husband t

While national brands dominate real estate headlines, an independent brokerage based in Pennsylvania’s chocolate capital has quietly posted one of the industry’s strongest five-year growth runs. Iron Valley Real Estate — now rebranding as IVRE — placed No. 10 nationally for five-year volume growth a

Rhode Island is touting a 150% increase in housing production over the past five years, citing “reforms and significant state investment" as key drivers of the effort to address the state's dire housing shortage. State agencies issued 3,778 permits for home construction in 2025, the highest number o

If you want to understand the DNA of the modern American homebuilding industry, you don’t start in a boardroom or on Wall Street. You start in the aftermath of World War II. The men (and they were almost entirely men at the time) who came home from that war didn’t just return with discipline and gri

With the 2025 tax season now in the rearview mirror for many Americans, it's time to look ahead to maximizing your return for 2026. With lots of new tax changes on the books as a result of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, some officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, are already passing ou

The constant worry that Social Security will run out by 2032 has many taxpayers wondering whether they'll ever see the money they've contributed from every paycheck. Social Security’s latest cost-of-living-adjustment projection for 2027 stands at 2.8%. However, when President Donald Trump released h

Tennessee-based MLS Realtracs has replaced its traditional MLS participation agreement with a new Brokerage Services Agreement that explicitly affirms brokers own their listings and the associated data, according to an April 14, 2026 company blog post by president and CEO Stuart White. In the post,

Loan officer mobility is continuing to decline even as the overall pool of active producers rebounds from recent low points. This appears to signal a shift in how originators are weighing risk, compensation and opportunity, according to a recent mortgage market intelligence report from RETR. Loan of

Toronto-based Repliers has entered into a strategic partnership with HAR.com — the multiple listing service (MLS) platform operated by the Houston Association of Realtors — to provide real-time access to MLS data and expanded analytics tools for subscribers. Under the agreement, Repliers will serve

The estate of a late Bal Harbour condo developer who built towers that include the Kenilworth and Bellini secured a buyer for his waterfront home in the same town. And developer Robert Rivani also entered into a contract to sell a Palm Island home.  The pending deal for the Bal Bay Drive home, askin

A slew of record sale prices signaled the strength of South Florida’s ultra-luxury market this season. Billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s purchase last month of an under-construction Indian Creek Island estate for $170 million set a price record for Miami-Dade County, for example.  Bu

Former reality TV star Yolanda Hadid has relisted her family's sprawling Pennsylvania farm for $10.88 million—several months after the picturesque property "fell out of escrow." Hadid, 62, took to Instagram to share the news of the relisting, while revealing how the failed sale of the Bucks County d

Actor Dylan Sprouse reportedly tackled an intruder and held him at gunpoint after the man allegedly broke into the $2 million Hollywood Hills property the "Suite Life" star shares with wife Barbara Palvin. Law enforcement officials received a call from "Victoria's Secret" model Palvin, 32, at around

In the latest roundup of South Florida real estate hiring news, Douglas Elliman has made a strategic Miami-based hire as CEO Michael Liebowitz charts a growth path for the brokerage. Liebowitz named Areeje Akhtar Oriol as his chief of staff, according to a news release.  Oriol launched her career in

American Airlines stock fell after the company dismissed talk of a potential merger with United, citing antitrust concerns and potential harm to competition.