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.
Luxury NYC Co-ops Are Outselling Condos for the First Time in 4 Years

For the first time since October 2022, elite New Yorker homebuyers opted for the co-op over the condominium, according to a new report. For the week ending June 21, 12 luxury co-ops priced at $4 million-plus were sold in Manhattan, versus only 10 condos, marking the first week in almost four years w
Read MoreSouth Florida’s top construction permits: Week ending June 24, 2026

🏆 New Building: The largest new building permit issued last week was for a $130 million construction project at 3070 Southwest 37th Avenue in Miami. The permit is tied to the fourth and final tower at the Link at Douglas mixed-use development near the Douglas Road Metrorail station. Job Filing Numb
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Hollywood star Josh Duhamel appears to be parting ways with his life in Los Angeles and dedicating himself to living full-time at his off-grid Minnesota cabin after listing his longtime California home for $2.99 million. Duhamel, 53, who recently welcomed his second child with wife Audra Mari, purch
Read More South Florida’s top deals: Former CIA executive director sells Palm Beach mansion for $29M

🏆 Residential: The top residential sale to hit records was in Palm Beach at 226 Via Las Brisas for $28.9 million. Alvin Krongard, former executive director of the CIA, and his wife Cheryl Krongard were the sellers, originally listing the mansion for $34.5 million. They purchased the home in 2018 fo
Read MoreSwiss firm plans Breitling tower as swelling branded condo pipeline tests Miami’s limits

A Swiss investment and private equity firm plans a Breitling condo tower in Brickell, The Real Deal has learned, adding to a packed pipeline of branded residences that’s set to test how much Miami’s market can absorb. South Florida is considered the branded capital of the Western Hemisphere and sec
Read MoreMeta’s Massive $115 Million Blue-Collar Blitz: The 4 States Bracing for a New Housing Surge

Tech giant Meta announced earlier this month that it's launching a workforce training academy offering free education and guaranteed jobs in the skilled trades—and the ripple effects could extend well beyond the construction sites. The America's Workforce Academy (AWA) will pilot this year in Louisi
Read MoreInside the 7 Levels of Luxury Real Estate

Today's luxury real estate is not defined by a single price tag but takes a variety of forms mostly dependent on location, stretching from spacious, stately estates nestled in the Deep South to ultraexclusive oceanfront compounds in California's priciest ZIP code. Inspired by a viral YouTube and Tik
Read MoreChristian Pop Singer Sarah Reeves Opens Up Texas Starter Home Where She Began Her ‘Fresh Chapter’

Singer-songwriter Sarah Reeves finds she can feed her creativity in multiple ways while under the same roof: by making music and home-cooked meals inside her new house in Texas. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom, modern-style property located just outside of Fort Worth has become the perfect place for
Read MoreThe next credit gap: When BNPL, rent and trended data collide

As mortgage underwriting absorbs Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) activity, rent payment history and trended credit data, consumers face a new challenge: understanding how everyday financial behavior is being interpreted by increasingly sophisticated scoring systems. Credit modernization is not the problem
Read MoreHome Costs Could Drop 30% With Innovative New Construction Methods, JPMorganChase Says

Modular construction, panelized building, and other techniques could shave major costs off the price of building a new home, a new study finds. Manufactured housing techniques could shave 20% to 30% off the cost of building some homes, according to a new analysis from the JPMorganChase PolicyCenter.
Read MoreDov Stark sets record with $55M Fort Lauderdale estate listing

A new $55 million Fort Lauderdale waterfront estate dubbed Ember House is lighting up Broward County’s luxury market with a record-setting asking price. The 15,000-square-foot home at 513 Middle River Drive in the Sunrise Intracoastal neighborhood was designed, developed and listed by Prestige Homes
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Chip and Joanna Gaines are ready to add yet another impressive real estate win to their awe-inspiring resume after snagging a buyer for one of the reality TV-approved renovation projects mere days after putting it on the market for $935,000. The property, which is located around 30 minutes from the
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In the latest test of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s political power, the Rent Guidelines Board will vote on Thursday on how much landlords can raise rents on the city’s more than 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. In May, the nine-member board put a 0% increase on the table, setting up Thu
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A fiendishly brilliant advertising copywriter working for Benetton during the “hanging chads” Presidential election controversy in 1992 took a circa-1973 Yogi Berraism and transformed it for a New York City billboard on the heavily trafficked northbound West Side Highway. “It ain’t Oval ‘til it’s Ov
Read More Deadly Surfside Condo Collapse Stemmed From Flaws Dating Back to 1981, Probe Finds

The deadly partial collapse of a condominium building in Surfside, FL, was rooted in severe design and construction flaws dating all the way back to 1981, a federal probe has revealed. A total of 98 people died when the Champlain Towers South condo collapsed on June 24, 2021, making the tragedy one
Read MoreFHFA pushes GSEs to embrace chattel loans in Duty to Serve proposal

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has proposed replacing its existing Duty to Serve (DTS) regulation with an outcome-based framework that would change how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac support manufactured housing, affordable housing preservation and rural housing. The proposal, released in a n
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Former reality TV star Yolanda Hadid is reportedly engaged to real estate developer Randall "Randy" Kendrick—just over a year after calling it quits with her ex-fiance, Joseph Jingoli. Sources told TMZ that Kendrick, who was born in Las Vegas and now appears to be based in Texas, popped the question
Read More The checklist real estate agents need for estate sale referrals and timing

For a decade, the housing industry has waited for a “silver tsunami,” a wave of homes released as older owners downsize or pass away. The wave has not arrived on schedule, and recent data suggests it may never break the way it was predicted. But the homes that trickle on to the market have something
Read MoreFrom recovery to real estate: Tracy Jones Team climbs to No. 1 in Ohio

Northeast Ohio real estate agent Tracy Jones is setting a top-ranked transaction pace after overcoming some of life’s most difficult circumstances. Today, her Keller Williams-affiliated real estate team ranks No. 1 in Ohio among medium teams for transaction sides on RealTrends Verified’s rankings —
Read MoreFort Myers portfolio trades for $48M in region’s biggest industrial sale this year

A four-building portfolio in Fort Myers sold for $48.4 million, the largest industrial sale in Southwest Florida this year, according to the seller’s broker. A joint venture between Ohio-based Geis Companies and Illinois-based Westminster Capital sold the newly constructed Meridian Business Campus a
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