Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight

Apartment hunters in New York City may soon get a warning when the home they’re scrolling looks a little too good to be true. The city is moving to require rental listings to disclose photos that have been altered using artificial intelligence or other digital tools, targeting a new version of an ol

Actor Josh Duhamel isn't ready to turn his back on Hollywood altogether—revealing that he will continue to split his time between Los Angeles, his primary residence in North Dakota, and his "prepper" cabin in Minnesota even after selling his longtime California bachelor pad. Duhamel, 53, raised sign

A company tied to restaurateur Stephen Starr paid $13 million for a waterfront home in Miami Beach.  Property records show Souheil Salloum Chamaa and Myrna Domit sold their five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom home on Pine Tree Drive to a Philadelphia LLC linked to Starr’s hospitality company. The

A new beachfront mansion in Palm Beach led Palm Beach County’s luxury market last week, landing a contract at an asking price of $88.4 million.  Buyers signed 14 contracts between July 20 and July 26, according to the weekly report by Douglas Elliman’s Eklund-Gomes team, which tracks listings in Pal

The District of Columbia could tax land and buildings separately, in a bid to encourage development as Congress tries to cut its ability to raise other taxes. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau introduced a bill last week to shift DC's property taxes to a land tax system. Under that system, the value of t

In 2024 and early 2025, homebuilders large, medium and small were smitten with the strategic notion of “land light.” In 2026, and for the near future, most everybody is more preoccupied, and rightly so, with “land right.” Many of the U.S.’s most prolific new-construction markets undergoing some form

A former HGTV Dream Home in the Florida Keys has been transformed into an astonishing waterfront compound and placed back on the market for $14.9 million—nearly double the price it was last sold for in 2021. The property, which is located in Islamorada, began as a single dwelling that was overhauled

Although she’s no stranger to the real estate industry, Ruth Reffkin, the mother of Compass International Holdings founder and CEO Robert Reffkin, has decided to start her own real estate team. Reffkin announced the launch of her eponymous Ruth Reffkin Team, which will unsurprisingly be brokered by

The landscape for real estate agent recruiting is undergoing a structural shift, with agents increasingly choosing to move within their existing brand rather than switch to a competitor, according to a new report from Recruiting Insight and Lone Wolf Technologies. The Q2 2026 Agent Migration Report,

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a spate of bills aimed to boost the state's housing supply, including a ban on large investors from buying single-family homes and reforms to zoning and building codes. The governor late last week approved several housing measures, including a new housing ta

Comedian turned HGTV host Retta has been on a very lengthy hunt for the most hideous home in the U.S., and it seems she may have a new top contender for that title after stumbling across the holy grail of heinous dwellings in a new episode of "Ugliest House in America." Each new episode in the serie

FirstTeam Real Estate has partnered with Purlin to deploy an AI-powered operating system across the brokerage, giving agents a unified platform for managing contracts, negotiations, transactions and client communications. The California-based independent brokerage will implement PurlinOS, Purlin Clo

Proprietary reverse mortgages continued to gain market share in 2025, fueled by rapid growth in originations and larger loan balances, according to a Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data. The analysis, released Monday as MBA’s Chart of the Week, com

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is urging the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to move carefully as it finalizes changes to its Duty to Serve (DTS) rule. The trade group backs the shift toward more flexible “eligible actions” while warning about potential unintended consequences for manu

BKeeperAI has officially launched its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered expense assistant designed to help real estate professionals and independent business owners manage business expenses entirely through text messages. According to the company, “solopreneurs” lose an estimated $4,000 to $10,00

JetBlue is doing away with its "Core" product and putting economy tickets under a new name.

Music legend and "You're So Vain" singer Carly Simon has revealed she has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease—while opening up about the ways in which she has been "learning to live" with her condition after "withdrawing from public view." Simon, 83, who is originally from New York City, shared

Mast Capital and Koch Real Estate Investments scooped up an oceanfront resort in the Florida Keys two years after it last sold. The Miami-based developer and Dallas-based investor acquired 22 villas and eight hotel suites at the Islands of Islamorada Resort from the Frisbie Group, according to a new

The wife of Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy has been shot at the couple's Virginia home while her husband was attending one of the team's training camps in Missouri. Police confirm that the couple's son has been taken into custody. Sources told ESPN that Mia Bieniemy, 57, was

In South Florida’s latest hiring news, Delray Beach-based Basis Industrial made two executive appointments, promoting Anthony Scavo to CEO and managing partner and appointing Nisha Patel as chief operating officer.  Scavo has served as a senior managing partner at Basis Industrial since 2021.  Scavo