Florida

Attracted by a growing housing demand caused by the burgeoning senior citizen population in South Florida, a Houston-based developer is staking out Fort Lauderdale and Coral Gables as locations for multiple elder communities in the region.

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.

In the worst-case scenario, $1.8 trillion in reconstruction costs could result from coastal storms in 2019, even as hurricane experts predict a near-normal year for this season, according to CoreLogic.

South Florida's spiraling home prices may be on the verge of calming down a bit.

Tampa Bay home sellers take note — the steady price gains of the past few years might be coming to an end.

The moves are part of a plan CEO Rajinder Singh discussed in a conversation with American Banker.

Metro Orlando home sales and prices dropped again in April, constrained by a small supply of properties, according to the Orlando Regional Realtor Association.

The potential for longer homeowner recovery times from hurricanes could hurt mortgage companies that need to advance funds to investors from missed payments.

Hurricane Michael killed seven people and caused more than $6 billion in damage in Florida in October, a toll compounded by warmer, higher seas and wetter air, the signs of climate change scientists have long warned about.

A new study shows that Miami's affordable housing crisis is so dire, the city needs at least 50,000 units just to meet the existing need.

Mortgage rates are low, the job market is on fire and, in a mysterious disconnect, Palm Beach County, Fla., home sales lagged again in March.