In another sign of the rapid change taking place in the Sunset Harbour neighborhood, Mark’s Cleaners has sold its property and is telling customers they will be relocated by Jan. 1
South Florida's mortgage fraud risk index spiked 10 percent during the first part of the year, shooting the region to second place nationally for potential housing scams.
Banner Supply Co., the Miami-based firm that supplied the vast majority of Chinese drywall in Florida, has agreed to pay $54 million to settle claims.
Sales of homes in some stage of foreclosure declined across South Florida during the first quarter, a result of the recent "robo signer" controversy and perhaps a changing sentiment among buyers, observers say.
A Homestead mortgage broker arrested after being profiled in a Miami Herald investigative series was sentenced Friday for her role in defrauding two lenders.
Scores of Palm Beach County homes were sold to investors at foreclosure auction this month for as little as $200 following the collapse of the David J. Stern law firm and the ensuing confusion while thousands of its cases are reassigned.
Your property management company may be making money off your condo association's insurance policy.
This deadbeat took on Wall Street, and Wall Street was cowed.
When Jason Grodensky bought his modest Fort Lauderdale home last December, he paid cash. But seven months later, he was surprised to learn that Bank of America had foreclosed on the house, even though Grodensky did not have a mortgage.
Foreclosure evictions and homeowner lockouts have been halted by Ally Financial Inc.'s GMAC Mortgage in 23 states including Florida as the nation's fifth-largest home loan servicer addresses legal challenges to its foreclosure procedures.
Two years after fissures in the residential housing market gave way to a national collapse of home prices and sales, experts warn that the the commercial real estate market is next shoe to drop, bringing more woes to the battered economy. Thousands of commercial mortgages valued at hundreds of billions of dollars are approaching their renewal dates, and by some estimates, two out of every three no longer will meet the original loan conditions and won't be able to be refinanced.
Quarries have never exactly been a green endeavor. But a newly opened manufacturer of quartz and marble countertops is hoping to change that.
Tangelia Sands watched Ario Lundy build affordable houses in her Liberty City neighborhood for several years, admiring them from afar. Next month, she and her four children finally will move into one of those homes.
More than 80 years ago, Miami was on the cutting edge of solar technology, using it to heat water. ''There was a company in Miami that was the biggest solar water heating company in the United States in the 1920s and '30s,'' said solar expert Jim Dunlop.
Can home photovoltaic systems meet all the electrical needs of your house? Probably not. The biggest limiting factor, aside from cost, is the area of roof available for the panels.
An influx of Hispanics is changing the face of the retiree paradise in Pembroke Pines.
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