Florida

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.

The son of a Lake Worth, Fla., man arrested this month in an alleged rent-fraud scam is wanted for acting as an accomplice in the crime, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.

Bank of America allows foreclosed houses in black and Hispanic neighborhoods to fall into disrepair even as it studiously maintains bank-owned homes in white areas, housing activists allege.

The good news for Miami homeowners: If you're thinking of selling your house, you're set to make a nice profit over your purchase price.

Unemployment lows and increased home equity paved the way for the lowest mortgage delinquency rates seen in 11 years, according to CoreLogic.

The number of Tampa Bay homeowners underwater on their mortgages has plunged by more than two-thirds since 2015.

Once again there were too many buyers and too few available homes in Tampa Bay and a few other parts of Florida in April.

There are almost 7 million coastal homes facing more than $1.6 trillion in potential storm-surge reconstruction expenses this year, representing a 6.6% cost increase from last year's hurricane season.

In another sign that Palm Beach County finally has shaken off its long economic hangover, home prices hit another post-crash high in April.

Metro Orlando's drop in foreclosures continues, with 8% fewer filings in April than a month earlier and 35% fewer than a year earlier.

Rising mortgage rates, higher real estate prices and a scarcity of listings have some Orlando homebuyers rethinking their search for a new house.