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Propelled by low prices, attractive interest rates and federal incentives to lock in offers by the month's end, the number of new contracts on South Florida homes soared in April.Compared with March, pending sales of single-family homes and condominiums increased last month in both Miami-Dade and...

Homeowners could collect thousands of dollars in Cash for Caulkers rebates for renovating their homes with better insulation and energy-saving windows and doors under a new economic stimulus bill the House passed Thursday.The Home Star bill, passed 246-161, would authorize $6 billion over two yea...

The group interested in buying $190 million in debt tied to the North Miami site of the defunct Biscayne Landing project is proposing to reduce the money it would owe the city by more than $15 million.The money is tied to a series of city agreements that dictate everything from the rent on the si...

The Realtor Association of Greater Miami and the Beaches said Wednesday it's introducing a program to improve the short sale process.What it didn't introduce is a whole lot of details. ShortSaleSolutions will reduce the time for processing short sales and help the market recover, according to the...

It's a wonder what low prices and federal tax credits can do for home sales.Roughly 22,000 single-family homes are under contract and waiting to close in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, according to CondoVultures.com.That's the highest total in at least 18 months and a 138 percent in...

For more information go to our website www.BuyMiami.net Driven by drop-dead prices on foreclosures and short sales and a looming deadline for federal tax credits, home and condo sales in South Florida shot up in March, brightening the outlook that this year may herald a real estate recovery. At t...

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO OUR WEBSITESales of previously owned U.S. homes jumped 6.8 percent in March, a national group said Thursday.Real estate agents have been counting on a spring surge brought on by an expanded and extended federal tax credit for buyers. The March sales pace reached a seaso...

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO OUR WEBSITEIs the housing market on the verge of recovering? Is it recovering already? If you're not sure whether you believe the economists and pundits who think they can see the future, here are some tools that will help you make up your own mind.Pending Home SalesAcc...

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO OUR WEBSITE MIAMI - Though it overlooks the Atlantic Ocean and offers high-end amenities like a wine vault and a cigar humidor, the Caribbean condominium complex in Miami Beach seemed by last summer to be just another casualty of the glutted South Florida housing market...

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO OUR WEBSITEHousing construction posted a better-than-expected performance in March, rising to the highest level in 16 months.The gain was due solely to multifamily homes, which account for less than 20 percent of the market.The Commerce Department report Friday said con...