Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight
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.
South Florida’s top deals: Full House creator sells Miami Beach lot for $11M

🏆 Commercial: Coral Springs had the top commercial sale to hit records, with the trade of an office building spanning 346,000 square feet at 3975 Northwest 120th Avenue, a vacant lot at 11900 Northwest 41st Street and a 510,000-square-foot building at 4000 Coral Ridge Drive for $36.5 million. The s
Read MoreAmerica’s Oldest Homes Are Found in These 3 Cities: The Double Burden Facing Today’s Homebuyers

Homeowners living in some of America's oldest homes are facing a double burden as the housing stock continues to age. From 2000 to 2024, the median age of U.S. homes has risen steadily, climbing from 30 years at the start of the century to 43 years. But in some locations, homes are much older. Buffa
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"The View" host Joy Behar is enlisting a unique new tactic to try to sell her longtime Hamptons home—by jacking up her latest asking price by more than $1 million, despite the property having been on the market for more than a year. Behar, 83, has been trying to find a buyer for the historic Sag Har
Read More California Could Be the Safety Net That Unlocks Factory-Built Housing

California could serve as a financial backstop to factory-built housing projects under a new proposal in the state Assembly. Under AB 2166, a new California Housing Finance Agency would offer state-backed credit backstops to surety companies. These companies would then be able to issue payment and p
Read MoreManufactured housing is the homeownership solve we keep ignoring

“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said on 3.24.2026 that from January
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Renters and landlords who find themselves at odds with each other over issues with maintenance, repairs, and rental increases have several options when it comes to mediation. Most would agree that legal intervention should be a last resort, but according to a new survey by Avail, independent landlo
Read More Inside India newsletter: The worst might not be over for Indian equities

Indian equities plunged as the Iran war triggered a record wave of foreign investor sell‑offs. Experts warn the downturn may not be over yet.
Read MoreWhere Eliminating Property Taxes Still Has Momentum—and Where It’s Stalling

The simmering frustration of 2024 and 2025 has boiled over into a full-scale property tax revolt in 2026, with no fewer than 13 states actively weighing proposals to eliminate property taxes in some form. But as legislative sessions wear on across the country, the movement is breaking in different d
Read MoreBoca Raton couple pleads guilty in $50M real estate investment fraud

A Boca Raton couple who scammed investors out of more than $50 million have pleaded guilty to charges related to real estate investment fraud. Jean Joseph, who has one previous criminal conviction from a separate 2019 case, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. His plea came a mon
Read MoreWhy HousingWire’s new Mortgage Rankings matter for originators

The HousingWire Mortgage Rankings launched this week to give the housing industry a standardized, transaction-based view of origination activity across the country. The rankings are powered by InGenius data and they’re built on recorded mortgage transactions, not submissions or self-reported numbers
Read MoreGen Z Is America’s Most Mobile Generation—Here’s Where They’re Heading

America's interstate migration hit a 10-year low in 2024, but Gen Z defied this trend to become the nation's most mobile generation, overtaking millennials for the first time on record. According to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Yardi Systems company StorageCafé, 2.2 million Gen
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: ‘The O.C.’ Star Tate Donovan Lists His ‘Extraordinary’ Austin Abode for $1.7 Million

Hollywood actor Tate Donovan is parting ways with the beautiful Texas property he has owned for the last decade, listing the picturesque dwelling for just a hair under $1.7 million, Realtor.com® can reveal. Property records show that the 62-year-old former "Friends" star and his wife, Corry Scheuerm
Read MoreHousing market demand is holding, but pricing gaps are breaking deals

Housing demand is still holding up on a year over year basis, even as mortgage rates sit at 6.64%, a level that has historically marked a key dividing line for demand. That is the backdrop Logan Mohtashami laid out in this week’s Housing Market Tracker, where he wrote that “we are at a key inflectio
Read MoreSingle Women Outnumber Single Men When It Comes to Homeownership

When Karla Cobreiro bought her home in 2022, she didn't think she would be contributing to a growing demographic. Over 20 million single women own homes, significantly outnumbering the roughly 14 million single men who do, according to new research from the National Association of Realtors®. "I live
Read MoreHousing supply summit highlights the cost of complexity

I love Jerusalem Demsas’ “Housing Breaks People’s Brains” article in The Atlantic from November 2022. For me, it’s a trailhead for understanding why efforts and solutions aimed at the housing access and attainability crisis for so many Americans often short-circuit and fizzle before they can fix any
Read MoreTahiti Beach estate sells for $32M in record for gated Coral Gables community

Lauren Sturges sold her waterfront Tahiti Beach mansion for $32 million, marking a price record for the gated Coral Gables neighborhood. Records show Sturges, the widow of businessman Charles M. Fernandez, sold the house at 12 Tahiti Beach Island Road to a trust named for the address. Dora Puig wit
Read MoreRepublican Congressional Leaders Announce Plan To End the Partial Shutdown

Republican leaders in Congress say they have reached a deal to end the partial government shutdown and fully fund the Department of Homeland Security. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune issued a joint statement on Wednesday saying they would use two parallel tracks to f
Read MoreTrump is paying TSA agents — but where is the money coming from?

President Donald Trump has said he is drawing from unspent funds in last year's tax and spending bill to pay TSA agents.
Read MoreNew Jersey Zombie Mall Built on a Landfill Will Be Demolished To Make Way for Hundreds of Apartments

A once-bustling New Jersey strip mall, which has seen its decline in recent years, will soon be razed to make way for multifamily housing. The former Raritan Mall had at least 15 storefronts, but mainly lost foot traffic once Stop & Shop, a chain grocery store and anchor tenant, closed in 2016—choos
Read MoreUWM tried for its first acquisition, then its stock fell and the math stopped working

When UWM Holdings Corp. lost its bid last week to acquire Two Harbors Investment Corp. (TWO), upstaged by an offer from rival CrossCountry Intermediate HoldCo, analysts were not entirely surprised. “It was such a wild turn of events,” said Eric Hagen, an analyst at BTIG. “But we were not surprised t
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