Florida

Lori Rittel is stuck in her Florida Keys home, living in the wreckage left by Hurricane Irma two years ago, unable to rebuild or repair. Now her best hope for escape is to sell the little white bungalow to the government to knock down.

The number of single-family homes sold in the Tampa Bay area during August rose 2.8% when compared with the same month last year, according to Florida Realtors.

For the first time this year, the inventory of homes for sale in Central Florida has dropped, leaving fewer homes for first-time buyers and others.

South Florida is the nation's capital of mortgage fraud, property data firm CoreLogic says.

A Pinellas County, Fla., Realtor with a controversial past faces possible revocation of his real estate license.

The industry has taken some steps to lower barriers to affordable housing, but some observers say that more can be done.

Damage from Hurricane Dorian's storm surge has the potential to affect 668,052 homes, according to CoreLogic's latest analysis. Reports estimate a worst-case total of $144.6 billion in reconstruction cost value.

The median sales price for existing single-family homes in Manatee County, Fla., hit $325,000 in July, the highest median price since the housing crisis and Great Recession more than a decade ago — and near a historic all-time high.

The median price of Palm Beach County, Fla., houses sold by Realtors last month was $355,013, up 1.4% from July 2018, but a bit below May's high point of $364,900.

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.