Florida

The Jacksonville, Fla., housing picture continued its trend of mixed results in July.

Bucking a national trend, the Tampa Bay area saw an increase in new foreclosure filings in the first half of the year.

Robert Shapiro, the former chief executive officer of Woodbridge Group of Companies, pleaded guilty to running a $1.3 billion fraud that caused more than 7,000 investors to lose money, according to prosecutors.

Fed up with the high taxes and regulation back home in New York, retired officer Thomas Maloney and his wife, real estate agent Theresa Hart, are looking to offload a home in Long Island — quickly.

Palm Beach County, Fla., home prices retreated in June after jumping to a post-crash high in May.

Southwest Florida apparently escaped the free fall in foreign investment in residential real estate that hit much of the country. And the Sunshine State remains the most appealing to those property buyers, besting California and Texas.

Housing sales slumped in the Jacksonville area last month, according to a new report from the Northeast Florida Association of Realtors.

On sunny days, the Grand Venezia at Baywatch condominiums in Clearwater, Fla., offer a view of Old Tampa Bay that calms the mind.

For months, Palm Beach County's tepid housing market seemed unaffected by the combination of a booming job market and rock-bottom mortgage rates.

For the first time since 2012, home prices are falling in metro Orlando, new data and real estate experts say.