Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight

South Florida’s top retail leases reveal what still worked in a year of cooling markets with lower rents and higher vacancies.  Grocery stores and fitness centers were some of the tri-county region’s biggest tenants this year, according to analysis by The Real Deal. The biggest leases were overwhelm

Rents in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro are easing as 2025 comes to a close, offering renters some relief after several years of rapid increases. The Realtor.com® November 2025 Rental Report shows that asking rents in the region are now lower than they were a year ago, placing Tampa Bay f

In a wholesale mortgage market dominated by giants, Arizona-based lender The Loan Store (TLS) has found a way to grow quickly by hiring a team of “samurai” account executives and underwriters from across the industry and picking up loans that others would deny. In the first nine months of 2025, the

Real estate technology company reAlpha Tech Corp. has closed a deal to acquire lender InstaMortgage Inc. for $8.5 million in a cash-and-stock transaction. The move will add direct lending capabilities and expand multi-licensing structure to reAlpha’s existing mortgage brokerage operations, the compa

Hospitality mogul and food and beverage entrepreneur James Brennan closed on a bayfront development site in Morningside, where he and a partner plan a luxury condo project, The Real Deal has learned.  Brennan teamed up with Six Senses Ibiza co-developer John Jacobson to build The Mornings, a 17-unit

At a time when lack of affordability is a major issue for prospective homebuyers, eliminating minimum credit score requirements in GSE automated underwriting may sound like a great idea to expand credit access. However, there’s a reason the GSEs had such requirements in place for decades. They acted

The high-stakes takeover battle for Warner Bros. Discovery has reached new heights, with Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison now agreeing to personally guarantee $40.4 billion in Paramount Skydance’s latest bid to stop Warner Bros. Discovery from selling its studio and streaming assets to Netflix. The b

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Tuesday issued a final rule setting housing goals for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for 2026 through 2028, lowering benchmarks from 2025-2027 levels. The Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 requires the FHFA to establish se

Set on just over a half-acre of land in the heart of one of Long Island’s most coveted villages is a masterpiece of a home that architecture buffs will immediately recognize as something that could have been built by the modernist godfather himself.  While not his work, the four-bedroom estate at 7

"Owning Manhattan" stars Jordan March and Ryan Serhant are attempting to "work" through their very real off-screen drama as their once-unbreakable partnership teeters on the edge of a potential "nine-figure lawsuit". March, a 16-year real-estate veteran, has been Serhant's right hand man since he op

For Realty ONE Group founder and CEO Kuba Jewgieniew, 2025 was a special year, as it marked the 20th anniversary of his founding of the firm. “It is still a family business, supporting other family businesses and entrepreneurs with our agents and team leaders, and we really are one big family,” Jewg

Recent buyers of newly built homes who try to quickly resell their properties may struggle to break even on what they paid, raising a warning for buyers who aren't planning to remain in their homes long term. Nationally, 6.9% of all homes constructed since 2023 are worth at least 5% less than their

A landmark Palm Beach megamansion built in 1928 and designed by architect Addison Mizner has hit the market for a staggering $175 million after being completely reimagined. The 15-bedroom estate, known as Casa del Ensuenos, is nestled in the Estate Section, minutes away from President Donald Trump's

"Home Alone" is a seminal Christmas classic that airs on millions of screens across the world every festive season, more than three decades after the movie premiered. Some obsess over the chaotic storyline in which a young boy, Kevin McCallister—played by Macaulay Culkin—is abandoned home alone by h

A credit report shows a score and a list of tradelines. It does not show what to do next. When qualification hinges on small swings in a score, borrowers need coaching that translates data into actions. That is where modern loan officers add the most value: not by interpreting a score in isolation,

Most house hunters spend years saving for what they think will be the biggest cost of buying a home: the down payment. But it’s far from the last check they’ll write during the homebuying process. The real budget busters are the things you don’t see coming, like fees due at closing or prepaid costs

Set against the sweeping backdrop of Southern California’s Central Coast, a rare and extraordinary estate has reentered the market after a $5 million price cut. The 10-acre Mediterranean-inspired ranch at 338 Toro Canyon Road is now being offered for $18.5 million. The home was first listed for sale

Focus and Group Fox scored a $250 million construction loan for their planned multifamily tower Brickell Starlite.  Affinius Capital provided the financing for the project slated for the site of the former Starlite Motel at 128 Southwest Seventh Street in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood.  The 39-story

Nadim Ashi’s Fort Partners sold a penthouse in Seaway at the Surf Club for $54.9 million. It was part of a pair of deals tied to billionaire Pablo Legorreta and his wife, Alumdena Legorreta. Records show Legoretta’s business entities bought PH-10A and PH-10B at 9149 Collins Avenue in Surfside for $5

Andreina Monserratte, a self-styled real estate trainer who built a following by pitching herself as a compliance and ethics guru to brokers and agents in Miami-Dade County, allegedly stole nearly $90,000 from a home inspection company that hired her less than two years ago. Miami-Dade Sheriff’s dep