Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight

“Buy the worst house in the best neighborhood” has long been treated as a golden rule of real estate. The thinking is that you get access to a desirable location at a lower price. Then, as the neighborhood’s more expensive homes appreciate, yours may rise in value, too. But the cheapest house on the

A St. Louis organization is working to revitalize lower- to moderate-income neighborhoods through art—but with a radical twist. ​Traditionally, artists move into underinvested neighborhoods, add cultural value, and are subsequently priced out when market-rate developers swoop in. The Art Place Initi

Billionaire Richard Kurtz’s The Kamson Corporation and Joel Gluck of Scopus Property Management dropped $90.5 million for a 400-unit residential complex in West Palm Beach that was converted from condos to apartments last year.  The investors acquired Ponte Verde at Palm Beach Lakes with an $81 mill

Your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper just picked up a modern estate in Cooper City.  Young Thug, whose legal name is Jeffery Lamar Williams II, paid $5 million for a seven-bedroom, seven-and-a-half-bathroom home south of Stirling Road and east of Northwest 101st Avenue, The Real Deal has learned. 

Privé Group, led by Javier Rabinovich, is staking an office bet in an area where few others have in recent years.  Miami-based Privé proposes a 75-foot tall building in an unincorporated area between North Miami and Miami Shores, while most office developers as of recent have homed in on Bay Harbor

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin now controls a full city block in Miami’s desirable Brickell financial district following a unanimous vote by the City of Miami Commission to approve the sale of a historic site to the Citadel CEO. The nearly $3 million transaction centers on the land benea

Some real estate agents count their days in closings. Neyshia Go counts hers in phone calls—sometimes as many as 140 in a single day. In the latest Realtor.com® video series, which follows a day in the life of top luxury agents, Go gets candid about what it's like to work at the top end of the indus

Coldwell Banker Warburg is folding into Compass. Both Compass and the Coldwell Banker brand are owned by Compass International Holdings.  The former New York-based Coldwell Banker franchise will now operate as Warburg at Compass, according to a Compass spokesperson.   “We’re excited that Warburg’s a

Aprea Development and JSB Capital Group landed a $202 million construction financing package for The Avenue, a luxury mixed-use development in downtown Naples.  Bayview Commercial Mortgage Finance provided the package, which includes a $93 million traditional construction loan and $109 million of C-

Recently, the foreclosure data showed a 21% year-over-year gain, and the floodgates of doom porn were flung wide open, with people marketing an impending home-price crash because they say so many Americans are struggling and it’s about to get worse. The hucksters of America are back at it again, and

For generations, real estate has been the primary vehicle for building intergenerational wealth in America. But for older adults and Black homeowners, that vehicle has also made them a target, says Scott Kohanowski, general counsel at the Center for NYC Neighborhoods. New York City recently establis

A congressional subcommittee is probing brokerage giant Compass' private listings partnership with the Midwest Real Estate Data multiple listing service to determine if it is anticompetitive. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust sent letters

Berkshire Hathaway has completed its acquisition of Taylor Morrison Home Corp. in a cash deal that values the Arizona-based homebuilder at about $6.8 billion in equity and $8.5 billion in enterprise value, the companies announced on Friday. The companies announced the proposed acquisition in late Ma

If you do not build it, they cannot come. If you cannot permit it, you cannot build it, and they cannot come. NVR Q2 2026 results offer a sharp counterpoint to the strategic shifts now underway across public homebuilding. Lennar has boldly reset its enterprise around a more asset-light on-demand lan

A proposed trophy estate in Fort Lauderdale hit the market for $80 million, making it the city’s priciest residential listing, according to the listing agents. The property includes a 1.2-acre waterfront site at 1000 Riviera Isle Drive, asking $30 million, along with plans for The Manor at Banyan Po

In Naples, FL, the South Naples Citrus Grove—selling fresh-squeezed juice, orange-swirled soft serve, and just about anything else you can make from citrus fruit—has operated on Sable Palm Road for decades. Nearby, black bears and Florida panthers amble through protected state forest. For those who

Equity Union Real Estate has expanded into Nevada, marking the independent brokerage’s first market outside California as it continues its national growth strategy. The company recently was named the fastest-growing brokerage, by five year transaction side percentage, in the country on the 2026 Real

Waste Management dropped $379.4 million for a large tract in Medley that it plans to use as a landfill site.  The purchase comes as Miami-Dade County has been searching for its own trash facility after its incinerator was destroyed in a 2023 fire, a search that’s turned into a quagmire due to the co

New home sales posted a modest increase in June but were down from a year earlier, while prices also fell year over year, further suggesting that the 2026 spring selling season fell short of expectations.  According to newly released U.S. Census Bureau data, single-family new home sales ticked up 1.

A Walnut Creek, CA, rental has been taken off the market after it received serious backlash for demanding an extra $200 monthly fee from any renter who works from home. The Bay Area rental immediately baffled renters throughout the area when they noticed the unusual fee in addition to the $3,250 mon