Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight

The House passed a bill on Friday aimed at rolling back regulation of energy efficiency standards for manufactured housing, which advocates say will reduce housing costs. The Affordable Housing Over Mandating Efficiency Standards (HOMES) Act (HR 5184) removed the Department of Energy's ability to re

Skyrocketing health care costs are threatening early retirement dreams for millions of Americans. Enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies expired at the end of 2025 — leaving 24 million people facing a sharp rise in health insurance costs unless Congress acts. Middle-income Americans ages 50 to

QXO today announced an additional funding round to support its next acquisition(s), as the firm aims to disrupt and consolidate the highly fragmented $800 billion building products industry.  The company’s $1.2 billion investment made public last week now totals $3 billion, with an additional $1.8 b

Palm Beach County isn't struggling when it comes to luxury real estate sales. The Florida hot spot is outperforming much of the country when it comes to the high-end market and its trophy homes—some commanding prices above $200 million. "The pandemic plus 'The Trump effect' has driven up prices over

Vanderbilt University is moving forward with its plans for a graduate campus in West Palm Beach, more than a year after scoring its first approvals for the project.  The Nashville-based university is preparing to break ground on the $520 million campus, which will offer graduate programs in business

Former "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Yolanda Hadid has taken her sprawling $10.88 million Pennsylvania farm off the market, just three months after she listed the "sanctuary" for sale. Hadid, 62, announced in September that she was preparing to part ways with the picturesque New Hope abode

REMAX Fine Properties and REMAX Professionals have merged to form the largest REMAX brokerage in Arizona. Combined operations will work under the REMAX Fine Properties name and maintain nine offices across the state. The brokerage now includes roughly 350 affiliated real estate professionals, accord

Justin Demola announced via social media on Monday that he’s joining consumer credit reporting agency Equifax as its senior vice president of mortgage and housing. Demola, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s resident Certified Mortgage Banker instructor, shared the career move on LinkedIn. He also se

As the housing market moves into 2026, competition remains intense in many parts of the country — especially in smaller metros where inventory is critically low. New findings from HW Data based on supply, pricing and buyer activity show that demand for single-family homes continues to far outpace av

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani suffered defeat in his first skirmish with multifamily property owners as part of a strategic war to remake the city’s rent-stabilized housing.​ On Friday, Summit Properties USA became the winning bidder for more than 5,000 rent-regulated units owned by bankrupt Pi

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is hoping to shake off a copyright lawsuit involving photos of an estate belonging to Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift’s fiancé. The trade association filed a motion to dismiss the copyright lawsuit on Friday.  Originally filed in U.S. District Court in Missouri

Imagine showing up at the polls this November excited to vote for property tax relief, only to find a ballot stuffed with more than half a dozen tax cut proposals, each promising savings in a different way. One would wipe out certain nonschool taxes on homesteads. Another would slow how fast your as

Florida’s real estate brokerage scene has a new face. Earlier this month, John Motowidlak, the founder and CEO of national mortgage firm Mpire Financial, announced the launch of a new brokerage firm MVRK Real Estate. Headquartered in Orlando, Fla., as of Monday, Motowidlak said the firm had 10 agent

CC Homes, led by developers Armando Codina and Jim Carr, cashed out of their Sunrise development site planned for 900 homes for $164.5 million, a big gain in value from its price three years ago.  New York-based DW Partners, a land bank for homebuilding titan Lennar, bought the 160-acre former golf

A new docuseries is set to uncover the horrifying "underbelly" of the luxurious California ranch where disgraced "doctor" and "pH Miracle" diet author Robert O. Young lured his patients with promises of miraculous cancer cures and treatments. Young, 73, a descendant of Brigham Young who was raised i

Property taxes are on the rise, and with them is also the number of homeowners who are falling behind on payments. Property taxes have risen 27% from 2019 to 2025 and in August 2025, Cotality released their latest Property Tax Delinquency Report. They found that delinquencies ticked up to 5.1% in 20

Following Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s disclosure on Sunday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued grand jury subpoenas to the central bank, the investigation has triggered political backlash on Capitol Hill. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said

The first full week of 2026 marked a resurgence in luxury home purchases in Manhattan after a festive-season slowdown, led by the city's top residential sale at the world's skinniest skyscraper. Overall, the first full week of the new year in the Big Apple saw 20 residential contracts at $4 million

Miami Beach dermatologist Arthur Weissmann found a buyer for his waterfront Allison Island home last week.  The pending deal marks the most expensive of 23 contracts signed in Miami-Dade County between Jan. 5 and Jan. 11, according to the latest Eklund-Gomes report. It tracks listings of homes and c

"Tell Me Lies" star Grace Van Patten has shot to superstardom while taking center stage in the hit Hulu series—but far from being a newcomer to the starry heights of fame, the actress spent much of her childhood being prepped for such a moment. Van Patten, 29, who stars as Lucy Albright in the popul