U.S. Accountability Office reams regulators and consultants for botched...
Private consultants and federal regulators are in hot water for creating red tape that delayed relief to homeowners in foreclosure, according to a new Government Accountability Office report seen by...
View ArticleToday’s priciest listing
Today’s priciest listing is a seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom single-family home in Miami asking $5.25 million. The 9,452-square-foot home, at 7350 Southwest 47th Court, offers an outdoor summer kitchen...
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Top stories on The Real Deal yesterday: 1. Dream Hotel owner busted with drugs at airport 2. Chris Bosh pays $12.5M on North Bay Road 3. MMG, Global buy Biscayne Plaza shopping center [more]
View ArticleRent gains slow in Miami and Fort Lauderdale
Rents on single-family homes in the greater Miami area rose 2.8 percent in March year-over-year, according to data from real estate website Trulia.com. That increase was tiny when compared to the...
View ArticleCFPB database catalogues grievances against biggest U.S. mortgage lenders
Got a beef with your mortgage company or loan servicer? Lots of people do, and thousands of them have been turning to a Federal complaint hotline for action — or at least a quick response from the...
View ArticleBraman approved for zoning exemption to build 100KSF showroom and garage
Miami’s land use board has approved car dealership honcho Norman Braman’s plan to construct a seven-story, almost 100,000-square-foot showroom and garage at his Braman Motors site on Biscayne...
View ArticleEdition condo sells for $6M
A 2,000-square-foot two-bedroom condominium at the Residences at the Miami Beach Edition has sold for $6 million, or $3,000 per square foot, The Real Deal has learned. “It’s a sexy, little bachelor...
View ArticleEight of the 20 best markets for investors to nab single-family rentals are...
Eight of the country’s 20 best markets for investors to purchase single-family rental homes are in Florida, according to a new analysis by RealtyTrac. Analyzing median price and average rental rates in...
View ArticleSydell’s Miami Beach hostel gets sunny reviews
Freehand Miami, a recently-opened hostel in Miami Beach developed by the Sydell Group, has attracted the kind of buzz normally reserved for swanky hotels, the Miami Herald reported. Sydell — which...
View ArticleBroward County makes another push to develop hotel, upgrade convention center
After three failed attempts spanning over two decades, Broward County is refocusing its efforts to upgrade its convention center and build an adjacent 750-room hotel, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel...
View ArticleToday’s priciest listing
Today’s priciest new listing is a five-bedroom, six-bathroom single-family home in Golden Beach asking $14.72 million. The 9,116-square-foot home is located at 154 South Island Drive and features a...
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Top stories yesterday on The Real Deal: 1. Dream Hotel owner busted with drugs at airport 2. Edition condo sells for $6M 3. Eight of the 20 best markets for investors to nab single-family rentals are...
View ArticleDeal expected today for Dolphins’ stadium, after all-night meeting
A deal for the renovation of Sun Life Stadium is likely today, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez told the Miami Herald. The contentious issue, wherein the Dolphins’ owners and the city must decide how...
View ArticlePalm Beach County sees jump in shadow inventory
Palm Beach County is now seeing a whopping increase in shadow inventory, which is complicating the local real estate market, the Palm Beach Post reported. Shadow inventory, defined as homes going...
View ArticleMiami market strengthens with drop in distressed sales: StreetEasy
The Miami real estate market is gaining steam, according to the inaugural Miami Residential Market Report issued today by StreetEasy. Based on sales closed during the first quarter of this year, the...
View ArticlePort Orange subdivision residents threatened with fines for failure to remove...
It’s a war over lawn statues in Port Orange, WESH reported. The homeowners association in the Ashton Lakes subdivision is now threatening residents with fines if they don’t remove visible decorative...
View ArticleBiscayne Boulevard towers planned by Chateau Group would alter Miami skyline
The Chateau Group, the developers behind Chateau Beach in Sunny Isles and Chateau Ocean in Surfside, has submitted plans to build a 709-foot-tall tower at 700 Biscayne Boulevard, according to Curbed....
View ArticleNearly 20 percent of mortgage fraud in Q4 took place in Florida
Florida had the most mortgage fraud activity of any state in the country during the fourth quarter of 2012, according to Dallas-based website Mortgagedaily.com, the South Florida Business Journal...
View ArticleRelated formalizes partnership with Boston-based Beal Companies
Related Companies is formalizing a decade-long partnership with Boston-based Beal Companies by creating Related Beal, the developers announced today. “We have long believed in the Boston market and see...
View ArticleToday’s priciest listing
Today’s priciest new listing is a six-bedroom, four-bathroom single-family home on Biscayne Bay asking $4.74 million. The two-story 3,077-square-foot home is located at 831 North Venetian Drive and...
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