Newsroom Archive

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — At a gym in Panama City Beach, a broker watched Charles Sower chat up strangers between sets and made a bold pitch: “You’d be good at real estate.” Sower laughed it off, but the seed was planted. After retiring from a 20-year Coast Guard career, he took a year off, learned he didn’t want to live on retirement alone, and decided to try the thing everyone said he’d be good at. Nine years later, the joke’s on him.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) has selected Form Simplicity, one of the real estate industry’s most trusted and widely used transaction management solutions owned by Florida Realtors®, to provide members with an easier, more streamlined and accurate way to complete rental forms.

ORLANDO, Fla. — As the spring season began, Florida’s housing market reported more closed sales, increased pending sales and a rise in pending inventory in March and the first quarter of 2026, compared to a year ago, according to Florida Realtors®’ latest housing data.

MIAMI — Nineteen years into a career at Miami Children’s Hospital, Sandra Fernandez looked around her department and did the math. She loved the work but felt limited in her career advancement. Over lunch, she told her manager how stuck she felt. The reply changed everything: “Let’s take a real estate class together.”

DESTIN, Fla. — Tula Tucker still remembers the desk where it began. She answered phones at a small-town brokerage while her son finished high school. The owner’s daughter left for Chicago to sell real estate, and the owner did something unexpected: He sent Tucker and the other front-desk pro to real estate school. “I’d always wanted to be a Realtor,” she says. “I’m a people person.” The nudge became a career that’s spanned decades and markets – from single-family neighborhoods to resort-area second homes.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Realtors has launched the first Spanish-language digital edition of its flagship Florida Realtor magazine, starting with the April issue and now available online.