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Miami, FL - Total cumulative pending home sales - including single-family homes and condominiums - in Miami-Dade County increased 26 percent in November compared to a year earlier, from 8,288 to 10,495, and increased 2.3 percent, up from 10,264, compared to the previous month according to the MIA...

New Yorkers who regularly visit Miami often talk about how hard it is to get any work done there - how the city's lazy, beautiful people just bounce around to beaches, restaurants, hotel lounges, nightclubs, house parties and boat parties.But the reality is more complicated. There's no other Amer...

At a time international investors are drawn to Miami's real estate bargains, the government's EB-5 visa program is an attractive vehicle for them to invest here in exchange for US residency.Exclusive Visas, an EB-5 consulting firm based in Weston, is advising developers of several projects that w...

Commercial real estate markets are stabilizing nationwide and will modestly improve in 2011, according to the latest National Association of Realtors economic outlook released Monday.The outlook cited a recent commercial real estate index by The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, which re...

MIAMI - - When Efrain Hernandez couldn't seal a deal before the first-time home buyer tax credit expired this year, he lost faith that he would ever own a house in this real estate climate.But the enforced wait got him more than the $8,000 federal tax credit.Hernandez negotiated a contract on a f...

Miami, FL -- The median sales price of single-family homes in October in the Miami Metropolitan Statistical Area increased 12 percent to $199,100 from a year earlier, according to the MIAMI Association of REALTORS and the Southeast Florida Multiple Listing Service (SEFMLS). Miami was one of only ...

There's a large number of homes, either already repossessed by lenders or very seriously delinquent, that are poised to be added to the already glutted regular supply of homes on the market. This "shadow inventory" jumped 10% during the past year, to an eight-month supply at the current rate of h...

Q: My family wants to buy a house in Miami. They are looking for a foreclosed property around $60,000, and will pay all cash. Do you think the time is right to buy now? If not, when would be the best time to buy? --Mehmet, FloridaA: First, I'd like to ask you and your family to rethink a core ele...

South Florida home prices continued to drop in the third quarter, spurring an increase in condominium sales, even as single-family sales slumped, a report released Thursday by the Florida Association of Realtors found. In Miami-Dade County, condo sales jumped to 2,527 in the third quarter, up 43 ...

South Florida homes continued to shed value, sellers were still slashing prices and distressed sales were still dominating the market in the third quarter of the year-- all signs that the real estate recovery has a long way to go.A report released Wednesday by real estate firm Zillow found that 4...