Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight

Olympic skier Eileen Gu's lavish family home in San Francisco is reportedly at the center of a bitter neighborhood dispute that stretches back more than 10 years and has seen multiple complaints filed against the gold medalist's family over everything from sewage problems to unsightly garbage piles.

Millions of homeowners up and down the East Coast are bracing for a brutal heat wave this week. Over 100 million people are in the path of what promises to be an intense early-summer scorcher, according to the Weather Channel, with the high temps already moving in for parts of the country. For homeo

The most expensive part of a cheaper home might be the car you need to live there. Housing and transportation accounted for 50% of household spending in 2024, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Housing ate up 33% of that budget, while

Airline CEOs met in Rio de Janeiro at IATA, the International Air Transport Association's annual meeting.

For decades, financial systems operated on a quiet assumption: most information entering the system was fundamentally real. Documents might arrive incomplete. Borrowers might omit details. Fraud existed at the margins. But lending infrastructure was built around a world where verification happened s

Marketers have long used endorsements and testimonials in their ads. Even though it goes by multiple names, this is a playbook dating back centuries. You have something to sell. You borrow the trust of a known personality. You sell more product. For years, influencer marketing and user-generated con

The nation’s housing shortage is often framed as a challenge for first-time buyers and growing families. But another group is increasingly feeling the impact — older homeowners who want to downsize yet find themselves with few practical options. Across the country, many seniors remain in large famil

A condo located inside a historic New York building that was built as a tool factory in 1865 and later used as a Civil War-era munitions foundry has hit the market for $2.1 million—complete with a terrace that houses the structure's original smokestack. The Brooklyn warehouse, originally built as a

George Pino experienced an emotional breakdown during the first day of his trial on manslaughter and vessel homicide charges in connection with the 2022 boat crash that killed a 17-year-old girl. Pino sobbed and heaved shortly after his defense lawyer Howard Srebnick began his opening statement on M

Miami-Dade, FL, is invoking eminent domain to seize control of a ship fueling terminal on the ultraexclusive Fisher Island, escalating a highly contentious multimillion-dollar real estate dispute with luxury condominium developers. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a statement Fri

🏆 Residential: The priciest home sale logged in South Florida was in Surfside, where financier Todd Green parted with a condo at the Four Seasons at The Surf Club at 9111 Collins Avenue for $27.3 million. A trust purchased the condo, which Green paid $12.4 million for in 2017. The four-bedroom, fou

Class Valuation has partnered with Makena to provide appraisers with new mobile data-collection tools ahead of the mortgage industry’s transition to the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) 3.6 standards later this year. The appraisal management company announced last week that appraisers working through

Policymakers have been making the case that more supply is a better check on housing costs than rent stabilization. May apartment rental data backs up that narrative. Rents ticked up modestly last month, the fifth consecutive month of sequential growth. But May’s reading was the lowest for that mont

Like many mortgage professionals, Vipul Hapani can see the wave of industry consolidation forming on the horizon and knows it is only a matter of time before it reaches his shores. As the broker-owner of Waxhaw, North Carolina-based Vema Mortgage—the third-largest brokerage originator in the U.S. in

Rob Gronkowski may be known for his larger-than-life personality, Super Bowl rings, and party-boy reputation, but the NFL legend has revealed that when it comes to money, he has been surprisingly conservative. Today, the player-turned-Fox-Sports-analyst has an estimated net worth of $45 million, inc

New Kids on the Block star Jonathan Knight knows what it takes to be part of a nostalgic act staging a successful comeback, but ahead of hosting the reboot of “Crashers,” HGTV's classic ambush-style renovation show, the veteran performer still got some backstage jitters. The 57-year-old NKOTB member

A pair of ultra-modest, little-noticed funding opportunities from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development may signal a new strategy taking shape in Washington. The Builder’s Daily has learned that HUD recently opened applications for two new demonstration programs totaling $13 million t

Baby boomers looking to sell their long-held homes would get a temporary reprieve from taxes on their profits under a new bill to create a three-year tax holiday. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis' new "Nest Egg Protection Act," H.R. 9064, proposes raising the capital gains tax exclusion for people over 65 wh

We are excited to announce that Jonathan Miller, who has long authored the most authoritative report on the residential real estate market, is partnering with The Real Deal. Below, you’ll find his Housing Notes column, which will now run on our site several times a week. In addition, Miller’s quarte

Imagine having easy access to fresh produce right outside your home. With a community garden, that can become your reality. As long as you and your neighbors are on board, everyone can enjoy fresh fruits and veggies, better curb appeal, and stronger community ties. “Our community garden has become a