Florida Realtors News

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Starting July 1, renters may get the option to pay a monthly fee instead of a security deposit. However, fee money cannot be used to cover any damage costs.

Faced with the cost of property insurance, taxes and utilities, more children inheriting parents’ homes are deciding it’s best to sell rather than move in.

Help Florida Realtors recognize the impact homeownership has on people’s lives and local communities. Spread the word and celebrate the month.

Mark T. Pease with Florida Housing is hosting four webinars to help Realtors understand recent changes to a program that helps community-support workers buy a home.

Home inspectors’ automated valuation models (AVMs) need quality-control to keep historic discrimination out, the agencies say. They’re currently accepting comments.

Florida’s HOA and condo laws are very similar, but they also have important differences. A previous article covered the similarities. This month we focus on the differences.

Some high-income sellers test agents to see if they’re worthy. In one of two “strangest request” stories, a Houston agent agreed to undergo acupuncture.

HB 881 expands the My Safe Florida Home program to most areas and increases minimum home values. SB 7052 boosts consumer protections and insurer accountability. HB 799 changes Citizens' price increase “glide path” mainly for non-homesteaded properties.

Dear Shannon: A listing broker got paid more than a cooperating broker and didn’t disclose that they would get paid different amounts. Doesn’t the Code of Ethics say that variable rates of commission must be disclosed?