Drew DixonMarch 13, 2024
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Clever Real Estate research shows 4 Florida cities ranked in the top 20 for metro areas that saw the biggest jump in typical home prices since 2000.
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Drew DixonMarch 13, 2024
Associated PressMarch 19, 2020
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Peter SchorschMarch 27, 2017
9min648
As solar energy expands as Florida’s next big growth industry, with it comes a host of unforeseen consequences. While promises of reduced energy costs for consumers and the lure of “no credit needed,” county-approved loans are indeed attractive, easy financing and lower energy costs could be masking other, potentially devastating, economic problems. A letter last […]
Jim RosicaSeptember 28, 2016
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A proposed class-action suit says Florida has been illegally collecting real estate “doc stamp” taxes on homes bought from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Richard A. Castorri filed suit last week in Leon County Circuit civil court against the Department of Revenue (DOR), court dockets show. He bought a house in Leon County from […]
Ryan RayFebruary 24, 2016
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Sen. Dwight Bullard this week joined a multistate call by chairmen of black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian caucuses from across the nation in urging President Barack Obama to reform federal public-private mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make home ownership more accessible to minorities. “With African-American homeownership rates declining to their lowest in decades, and with a […]
Guest AuthorDecember 4, 20146min184
Even with a new Congress elected and talk of major reforms in the coming year, there remain administrative solutions that could fix some of the nation’s problems, especially in the area of housing policy. Housing policy, which impacts nearly every American, has been tossed back and forth but, unsurprisingly, has been held up due to […]