Simon Conway's Orlando Real Estate Blog

Those of you who follow my blog regularly (and if you don't then really - you should subscribe right now!), will know that for two years now I have been the host of The Home Team Radio Show every Sunday here in Orlando on 540 WFLA.Well after careful consideration and an approach from another radi...

Yes indeed my friends, the man that liked to call himself "Osama Bin London" - real name Mohammed Hamid - has been found guilty of a string of serious terror charges and sentancing will follow shortly.The trial was watched closely in Britain because he was the "mastermind" behind the messed up su...

The fastest recorded change in temperature EVER - up or down - is now showing that the earth is cooling. In fact it has cooled so fast that it is enough to wipe out the last 100 years of Global Warming.And this is not me speaking people so listen up.Various news outlets are reporting that all fou...

My neice sends me things. I have blogged about them before. SOmetimes we don't know the truth of those things but then today she sent me the following. It is true. It is perhaps one of the most incredible stories I have ever read.August 1942. Piotrkow, Poland. The sky was gloomy that morning as w...

We have another packed show for our listeners this week on The Home Team Radio Show which airs every Sunday at 12 Noon Eastern on 540WFLA in Central Florida and nationwide at http://www.540wfla.com/This week we will be starting with FEMA's $billion redrawing of the nation's flood zones. It's reac...

The problem is not the resets. Many home owners are defaulting on subprime loans even at the low introductory rates offered and perhaps shows us two things - well actually one thing. Greed!Lenders clearly dropped their stringent requirements at the height of the boom. They were issuing what I hav...

FEMA is in the middle of re-drawing the flood zone map for Central Florida. First up was Seminole County with Orange (2009), Polk (2010), Lake and Brevard (2011) all still to come. If you find your home has suddenly been moved to a flood zone, you can appeal the decision. A number of homes origin...

According to the South Sentinel Sun, State insurance officials outlined why they want to bar Allstate Insurance Co. and its affiliates from selling policies in Florida in a written complaint to the company. Allstate's recent actions demonstrate "a continuing attempt to improperly subvert, manipul...

It is perhaps my favorite pastime - reading up on dumb criminals! The latest one is real estate related and this kind of thing just makes me smile.It would appear that a man in Athens, GA, walked into a Regions bank branch yesterday wearing a black ski mask and carrying a hand gun (pausing for th...

This could be my favorite environmental story ever! Two neighbors are going at it - in California of course - and the question they need resolving is quite frankly, who is more environmentally friendly!You see a man has now asked prosecutors to file charges against his neighbors because their tow...