Florida

Home prices increased nationally by 5.5% year over year from August 2017, while in the Bradenton-Sarasota-North Port, Fla., region they grew by 3.95%, CoreLogic said.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency lowered the $14 billion-asset thrift in Cleveland to “needs to improve” from "satisfactory."

During the foreclosure crisis, thousands of Floridians turned to Mark Stopa for help in saving their homes.

USAA will be eliminating 265 home sales and lending positions, but it already has offered nearly 100 of the affected workers different jobs within its mortgage unit.

Thirty states told the Council of Development Finance Agencies they issued mortgage revenue bonds in 2017 compared to only 18 that issued mortgage credit certificates.

A man from Hialeah, Fla., will face sentencing in November after pleading guilty to conspiracy in an $8 million mortgage and tax-refund scheme.

It would be impossible to pick out a single video or photograph that sums up Irma, which dropped from a hurricane to a tropical storm by the time it smacked Lake County, Fla., one year ago today.

How affordable is Tampa Bay? One test is whether someone earning the median income can afford the median priced home.

A decade after a collapse in the housing market triggered the 2008 Great Recession, South Florida still has many homeowners who owe far more money than their property is worth.

A 75-year-old Florida real estate developer was sentenced to six months in prison after admitting he lied to banks to keep money flowing so he wasn't forced to scuttle an oceanfront hotel and condominium in Vero Beach.

July's year-over-year increase in foreclosure starts for 44% of the nation's metro areas is a result of looser underwriting standards and a sign of future growth in defaults, said Attom Data Solutions.

Foreclosures on Metro Orlando homes are up 23% from July 2017, though the numbers are still well below the peak of the recession, and local sales agents say there's not much impact in the market yet.

Mirroring a national trend of rebounding home prices and rising mortgage rates, Palm Beach County, Fla., saw housing affordability fall to a 10-year low in the second quarter.

Prospective buyers of Metro Orlando homes who sat on the sidelines in June might have scored a bit of a bargain in July as prices dropped 1.3% during the month.

Since 2000, the southeastern Atlantic coast has seen a 160% increase in high tide flooding, the number of days when coastal water levels reach or exceed a half meter over the long-term average highest tides.

The priciest house for sale in the Tampa Bay, Fla., area could soon become its biggest foreclosure.

Halfway through the year, Tampa Bay's real estate market remains stuck on the same song: too many buyers for too few houses.

Mortgage foreclosure starts and active foreclosures were at their lowest level in over a decade although there was an increase in new delinquencies in June, according to Black Knight.

A 6.8% increase year-over-year pushed the midpoint sale price of a home in Central Florida to $239,180 in June, the 84th straight month of increases.

Healthier economic conditions, more effective underwriting methods and recovering hurricane-impacted states helped drive delinquency and foreclosure rates to their lowest level in over 10 years, according to CoreLogic.