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Market data, mortgage rate movement, housing policy, and property news from across the country and here at home in Collier and Lee counties. Anything that affects what a home in Naples, Bonita Springs, or Estero is worth, and what it costs to own one, is worth understanding before it shows up in your closing statement or your tax bill.
13 Million Americans Are Struggling To Keep Their Homes Cool—but the Fix Can Cost Over $2K

For millions of households, having an air conditioner doesn’t necessarily mean staying cool. Over 13 million U.S. households said their homes became uncomfortably hot for at least 24 hours in 2023, according to an analysis released on Wednesday from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Amon
Read MoreWaterfront teardown in North Palm Beach sells for $28M

The late businessman and philanthropist Dana Hamel’s North Palm Beach waterfront home sold for $27.5 million this week. The 6,800-square-foot home at 11800 Turtle Beach Road went on the market in April asking for $35 million. Hamel paid $2.5 million for the property in 1991 and lived there until his
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Former Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill has taken his sprawling Florida mansion off the market—just months after he listed the home for $7.7 million. The free agent, who was released by the Dolphins in March, first put the opulent nine-bedroom, 9.5-bathroom Southwest Ranches manse on the market on Ma
Read More As Kortas and Casa make peace, AIME is back in the mix

NEXA says it will cover AIME memberships for about 4,100 loan officers as Casa seeks a role as membership director
Read MoreBuilders face a tougher math problem as completed inventory rises

With apologies to Jim Morrison and the Doors, the time to hesitate is through
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The former Beverly Hills home of late actress Diane Keaton has come under offer, nearly a year after it was put on the market for $25 million. The expansive dwelling was first listed in October 2025, less than two weeks after the "Something's Gotta Give" star died from bacterial pneumonia at the age
Read More Fake testimony alleged in Coral Gables development fight

Coral Gables police are investigating allegations of fraudulent testimony linked to a controversial mixed-use development in the city. Attorney David Winker accused some people who spoke in favor of Chicago-based Fifield Companies’ Crystal Residences project at a recent city commission meeting of p
Read MoreGinnie Mae wants issuers to focus on fixing loan-level data quality

Joe Gormley says standardized submissions could cut reconciliation work and support friction-free servicing transfers
Read MoreTwo small towns gain $880M in taxable value as Palm Beach County luxury spreads to suburbs

Two tiny towns gained the most overall property value in Palm Beach County this year thanks to major developments in their boundaries. The taxable value in the 9,000-person town of Lake Park, near North Palm Beach, is expected to jump 38.7 percent compared to last year, largely due to the value of n
Read MoreNWMLS launches AI home search on NWMLS.com with Broker Public Portal

New Cribio-powered experience offers natural-language search and real-time Washington listings with direct broker attribution.
Read MorePalm Beach County doubling down on data center pause

Palm Beach County moved forward with its potential moratorium on hyperscale data centers as it debates how to regulate the booming industry, bringing the county a step closer to a full-year ban on the proposals. County commissioners on Thursday voted unanimously to pursue a proposed pause on large-s
Read MoreEarly state tax data prompts NYC to pare pied-a-terre tax pool

Filings say DOF will contact about 12,000 owners, and 1,210 are cleared after early 2025 state income tax records arrived
Read MoreForeclosure filings rise 10% annually in July, ATTOM says

ATTOM counted 39,906 filings, up 1% from June, while REOs increased 23% from July 2025
Read MoreSidelined Homebuyers Say Mortgage Rates Need To Hit This ‘Magic Number’ Before They’ll Buy

More than half of potential homebuyers are holding off on making an offer in hopes that mortgage rates will drop to 5%, according to a surprising new survey. The survey from Neighbors Bank, a mortgage lender focused on first-time homebuyers, found that 72% of potential homebuyers have either delayed
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The jurors serving in Lindsay Clancy's highly-publicized trial have started their deliberations after an intense five-week courtroom showdown, during which they heard testimony from dozens of witnesses—and even visited the Massachusetts house where the former nurse is accused of murdering her childr
Read More Stellar MLS’s new CEO wants to put the industry in fast-forward

Fairley took the helm at Stellar MLS in March, succeeding Merri Jo Cowen
Read MoreWhat Happened to ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski’s Infamous Cabin and Property

Netflix on Thursday released a trailer for its upcoming film "Unabomber" following the life of domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski and offering a look inside a detailed re-creation of the one-room Montana cabin where he plotted his decades-long mail bombing campaign. Starring Jacob Tremblay as Kaczyns
Read MoreRetirees Get 265% of What They Paid Into Social Security—but Will Young Americans?

Workers born in the 1960s are on track to receive Social Security benefits worth more than 2.6 times the taxes they personally paid into the program, according to a new analysis. The findings, from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), arrive as Social Security’s retirem
Read More“Transformational”: What we know about Ken Griffin’s rumored $700M+ purchase of Mana Wynwood

Ask a developer, broker or property owner in Wynwood about the big deal underway in the neighborhood, and you’ll get a different version of the same answer. “It’s already done” or, “It’s closing later this year,” they’ll say. Or, “Worst kept secret in Miami.” The deal? It’s developer and investor
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“Mean Girls” star Amanda Seyfried has listed her longtime Los Angeles home for $3.2 million, 15 years after she purchased the property for nearly half the price it is now on the market for. The 40-year-old actress, who now resides primarily on a beautiful farm property in upstate New York, which she
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