As the outlook of Fort Worth’s residential real estate market continues to become clearer, some developers are re-examining their mixed-use development projects – and their high-dollar condominium facets – in an effort to correct with the market.
And for developers of West 7th project, that meant scraping the condos and replacing them with a better performing [...]
South Florida may have dodged some of the recent hurricanes, but it is still experiencing turbulence, especially in the condo market. Has it hit bottom yet? Peter Fitzgerald, COO of the The RADCO Cos., talks about what’s in the sector’s forecast.
Where does South Florida’s condominium market stand right now? Have you seen any recovery, or [...]
When large South Florida developers needed money, they often turned to Lehman Brothers.
That role ended in dramatic fashion when Lehman filed for bankruptcy protection. But Lehman still controls nearly $2 billion in large loans throughout the region, meaning the bank’s demise will play out across South Florida’s besieged real estate market.
Among the local projects Lehman [...]
NEW YORK – Sept. 15, 2008 – CNN’s Money magazine recently listed America’s best places to live, and a number of Florida cities made the grade. Three cities – Coral Springs, Miramar and Weston – are in the top 100 for best places to live; Dunedin is a terrific town on the water; Collier County [...]
The real estate business runs on jobs.
Oh sure, you need low interest rates and a ready supply of debt to do property market deals.
But for the industry to do really well, there has to be a sound economy and job growth.
Fortunately for Dallas-Fort Worth real estate developers and investors, this area leads the country in [...]
MIAMI – Sept. 10, 2008 – In Florida, scores of real estate investors are filing lawsuits against condominium developers in the hopes that a contract flaw or loophole will enable them to back out of the transaction, with experts citing double-digit drops in condo prices as the trigger. However, the courts have sided primarily with [...]
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos: Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti’s flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday.
The prime minister of Turks and Caicos, Michael Misick, said that Ike [...]
Florida’s existing-home sales held steady last month for the first time in years, as lower prices appeared to help the statewide market stabilize.
Metro Orlando accounted for more than one of every 10 resales across the state in July, according to the Florida Association of Realtors, which reported 11,498 single-family home sales on Monday — just [...]
It is advisable that inexperienced homebuyers should look to realtors to help them search for a residential real estate property in Miami. These professionals can also lend you their expertise in the market to process all the necessary requirements that comes with acquisition, ensuring that you get the best property that fits with your requirements.
Realtors [...]
Worries about the national economy and slower job growth in Dallas-Fort Worth caused a drop in office leasing in the first half of 2008.
Net leasing was down about 50 percent from the same period last year.
But so far, nobody in the office building business is panicking.
“Surprisingly, the Dallas office market has continued to sustain itself [...]