Florida Realtors News

Of those helped, 63K followed Hurricane Ian and 4K Nicole. It comes to $5.2B in grants, disaster loans and flood insurance after Ian and $19.8M after Nicole.

Foreclosures still don’t have a notable impact on the market, yet Attom’s latest report found Fla. saw a lot of initial filings – but few actually repossessed.

In Fla., though, rents outpaced the national average. Jacksonville saw the highest year-to-year change with a 7.5% increase, and a low of 3.5% in Miami and Tampa.

When buyers needed a bidding edge, new companies offered to operate as a cash-offer middleman. But now some are stuck with hundreds of homes.

Unlike boomers, millennials pay less attention to marketing materials they hold in their hands, like postcards or newspapers. Digital advertising is a better way to go.

U.S. home prices rose 4% compared to the last quarter of 2022, hitting $378K. But only 18% of metro markets saw double-digit growth in 4Q. In 3Q, it was 46%.

Problems – sometimes weird and always unexpected – can arise between a listing and closing. Four NAR members describe theirs and how they responded.

HUD says steps it took to protect homeowners with an FHA loan during the pandemic helped up to 274K Floridians and up to 2M Americans avoid foreclosure.

Work still needs done, but anyone standing in downtown Fort Myers would be hard pressed to see damage from one of the U.S.’s most destructive hurricanes.

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