Southwest Florida Real Estate News and Market Insight

Music sensation Kesha has finally sold her sprawling Los Angeles mansion, two years after she first made a move to offload the ultramodern "architectural gem." The 39-year-old "Die Young" songstress first listed her modern home back in March 2024 for $5.95 million, only four years after she snapped

Construction activity on new single-family homes fell nationwide in April, the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Thursday. Single-family housing starts in April were a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 930,000 last month, down 9% from March, the Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urb

Everyone knows where Miami is, but Tampa is a harder sell, Related Group’s president and CEO said in a CNBC interview this week. With some international investors, “we say, ‘Oh, would you want to go to Tampa?’ And they’re like, ‘Well, where’s Tampa on a map?’” Jon Paul Pérez told Diana Olick on the

🏆 Residential: Surfside had the priciest residential transaction in South Florida, with the sale of a newly built condo at Fort Partners’ 9149 Collins Avenue, the Seaway at the Surf Club, for $11.9 million. The buyer was Bishop Surf Club LLC. The unit measures about 2,800 square feet, pricing the d

Despite economic uncertainty and the ongoing conflict between the U.S. and Iran, the spring housing market continues to gain surprising traction, buoyed by a surge in fresh listings and contract signings. Economists at Realtor.com® analyzed housing data from the first four months of 2026 to gauge th

“Shahs of Sunset” star Reza Farahan is forgoing his flashy ways to forge his own real estate empire in California’s San Fernando Valley, where he has taken up residence in a rustic dwelling he describes as an "old lady house" so he can earn a lucrative income by renting out his much more luxurious a

Actor and director Daisy Chaplin sold her waterfront North Bay Road home in Miami Beach for $31.5 million, years after she bought out her brother’s interest in the home. The property at 6000 North Bay Road belonged to her late father, Broadway director and producer Harold Prince. Douglas Elliman’s D

A proposal for a five-story high-end jewelry store project that’s exposed downtown Fort Lauderdale’s growing pains sailed past approval. Fort Lauderdale commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a rezoning and site plan for Weston Jewelers’ planned Arquitectonica-designed glass and wood panel bu

International burglary rings are using increasingly sophisticated tactics to target homes in Los Angeles, including hidden cameras, social media surveillance, and Wi-Fi jamming devices designed to disable doorbell cameras, authorities have warned. In recent months, a surge in residential break-ins a

Reality TV star Amanda Batula shed some light on at least one of the pain points in her relationship with estranged husband Kyle Cooke, revealing in Bravo's new "Summer House" spinoff show, "In the City," that Cooke kept a "spreadsheet" of all the money she owes him—including $117,000 in back rent.

Many longtime homeowners have watched their humble family abode transform into an unexpected gold mine—only to find that wealth comes with a catch: a bill from the IRS. Last year, Realtor.com® exposed how the capital gains tax has morphed into a hidden home equity tax—hitting everyday homeowners as

A newly constructed waterfront megamansion and wellness retreat on a "rare" 1-acre trophy lot in Boca Raton has sold for the staggering price of $75 million, becoming the priciest residential property to ever trade hands in the Florida community—having secured a buyer within hours of hitting the mar

New-construction homes may be hiding a massive, unadvertised money-saver: a built-in discount on home insurance, according to new data. The average annual premium for a newly built home sat a staggering 35% lower than that for a 20-year-old home in 2025—handing buyers $1,002 in annual savings right

The late, legendary Bob Toll once laid bare the fact that he was personally incapable of installing a curtain rod in a living room, let alone knowing the first thing about building a home from the ground up. What Bob did intuit was that the second-floor walls of a typical 1960s two-story home could

For many real estate brokers, the dream of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered efficiency has crashed against a hard reality; agents are reluctant to use tools that force them to change habits. Tyler Morton — broker-owner of REMAX Victory + Affiliates in Beavercreek, Ohio — learned this lesson the

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a detailed deregulation roadmap aimed at state and local governments that, it argues, could lower per-unit costs and shorten cycle times for homebuilders. HUD’s new “State and Local Best Practices for Home Construction

Airbnb on Wednesday added new services and independent hotels to its platform in its latest expansion move in the travel industry.

Airbnb on Wednesday added new services and independent hotels to its platform in its latest expansion move in the travel industry.

Mortgage lenders are getting creative to combat the housing affordability crisis fueled by rising interest rates, rolling out novel products and blending existing options to keep borrowers in the market. Bayview Asset Management — which closed its acquisition of Guild Mortgage in November — rolled o

Concerns about inflation increased last month among members of the Federal Reserve's rate-setting board, as Jerome Powell presided over his final meeting as Fed chair. Inflation worries dominated discussion during the April 28-29 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, newly released minutes s