Participants of Lauren’s Kids annual Walk in My Shoes 1,500-mile trek across Florida. Photo courtesy of Lauren’s Kids This April, in honor of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month and National Child Abuse Prevention Month, Lauren’s Kids will embark on its eleventh annual Walk in My Shoes 1,500-mil

Gary Goenke’s 1955 Oldsmobile 98 Holiday won first place at last year’s Cars as Art. Photo courtesy of Marco Island Center for the Arts The Marco Island Center for the Arts will host the Thirteenth Annual Cars as Art on April 4, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The outdoor fundraiser will invite the community

Michael Benson. Photo by Nick Shirghio Most great golfers entertain a momentary hope each time they tee up on a par 3—a hole in one. For Michael Benson, that hope came to fruition twice within four months a few years back when he was 65. Such a rare feat—after playing for decades and achieving an en

"Hannah Montana" fans are being offered the chance to "live the best of both worlds" by spending the night inside the Malibu beach house where Miley Cyrus' iconic Disney character lived with her family on the hit show. The oceanfront abode, which last changed hands in 1985, when it sold for just $1.

“South Florida by the numbers” catalogs the most notable, quirky and surprising real estate statistics.  Alongside Miami’s record-breaking luxury and penthouse sales, another kind of real estate story is reshaping the city, measured not in price per square foot, but in thousands of units at a time. 

A proposed affordable housing development by New York firm Procida Companies is headed to the West Palm Beach City Commission. Commissioners are slated to vote next week on whether to give five city-owned parcels for the Procida’s proposed 151-unit multifamily development, according to planning docu

Mortgage applications dropped for the second consecutive week as rates moved higher again. Home loan applications decreased 10.5% for the week ending March 20, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 10.5% on

To see our latest updates on the Nancy Guthrie case, please click here. Savannah Guthrie broke down in tears as she opened up about the "agony" she feels over mom Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping during her first interview since the 84-year-old disappeared from her Arizona home. Savannah, 54, spoke to her

🏆 Commercial: The priciest commercial real estate deal to hit records in the tri-county region was in Miami, where an office building at 9995 Southwest 88th Street traded for $30 million. The seller was Coral Gables-based Guilford Development Group, and the buyer was an affiliate of Coral Gables-ba

Sellers are slashing prices to attract buyers, with 1 in 5 homes seeing a price reduction across nine major metros in February 2026, according to a new analysis from the Realtor.com® economic research team. These metros all had a price-cut share of 20% or more—led by Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler, AZ, where

Most mortgage companies have gotten very good at recruiting.  You can measure recruiting. You can count heads. You can show momentum on a spreadsheet and call it growth. Development is harder to quantify. It takes time, structure, and discipline, especially when the market is moving and everyone is

On the western edge of Los Angeles, in a quiet corner of Woodland Hills, sits an elegant midcentury modern home that exemplifies everything its architect, Charles Du Bois, stood for: clean, livable design with seamless indoor-outdoor flow and a storybook charm not always found in homes from that era

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have begun placing sizable orders to purchase mortgage-backed securities (MBS), an effort pushed by President Donald Trump to improve affordability in the housing market. Bloomberg News reports that the two entities are placing major purchase orders for MBS, citing unnamed

A lot goes into sprucing up a house to ready it for hosting an event, as the stars of “7 Little Johnstons” learned when planning a wedding in the backyard of the family home in Georgia. For Liz Johnston and Brice Bolden, who share daughter Leighton Bolden, 2, and just announced that they have anothe

The California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA) testified on March 20 before the California Assembly Banking & Finance Committee during an oversight hearing on California Assembly Bill 238, which focuses on the effectiveness of mortgage forbearance and the broader challenges facing homeowners aff

President Donald Trump took a tour of Elvis Presley’s Graceland on Monday while in Memphis, TN, for a roundtable discussion about efforts to address crime in the city. It marked only the second visit to the attraction by a sitting president, after George W. Bush’s 2008 appearance with the Japanese p

More than 1.45 million acres across the Western U.S. have already been ravaged by wildfires in 2026, and multiple states are now bracing for what could be one of the country's most devastating fire seasons. After one of the warmest winters on record in the U.S., experts are warning that a low snowpa

Camilo Miguel Jr.’s Mast Capital and Curated JCZM Development are launching a Banyan Tree-branded condo project in West Palm Beach. Banyan Tree Residences West Palm Beach marks the brand’s first U.S project, according to a news release. Banyan Tree is a subsidiary of the Singapore-based hospitality

Fire inspectors are coming to nearly 28,000 properties across Los Angeles County this spring—and if your brush isn't cleared when they arrive, the fees end up on your property tax bill. Los Angeles County mailed notices to 27,929 property owners in February, flagging homes and vacant lots that may h

The opening of a single condominium tower in Honolulu is having a domino effect on the housing market in Oahu, according to new research from the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO). The study looks at "housing filtering," a process where new construction triggers a chain rea