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By Dennis Norman, on August 9th, 2010
Dennis Norman
A report just issued by Zillow shows that home values in the United States continued to decline in the second quarter of 2010, with the Zillow Home Value Index falling 3.2 percent year-over-year and 0.6 percent from the first quarter to $182,500. The national rate of decline decelerated from the [...]
By Dennis Norman, on August 2nd, 2010
Dennis Norman
Report looks at impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill on Florida Coastal home values
According to a report released this morning by CoreLogic the impact of the BP DeepWater Horizon oil spill on home values in the coastal area’s along the Gulf coast is expected to range from $648 million [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 16th, 2010
Dennis Norman
Worst Street In America for Mortgage Fraud is In Orlando (actually they have 5 of the top 10 streets)
According to the 2010 Mortgage Fraud Trends Report released by CoreLogic this week, fraud risk in the mortgage industry has declined by 25 percent since it peaked in the third quarter of 2007. Even [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 8th, 2010
Dennis Norman
I may be getting desperate to find something good to write about with regard to the Housing Market, but nonetheless I found some good news today! According to a report titled “Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate” that was released recently by the National Association of REALTORS®, investment in residential real estate [...]
By Dennis Norman, on June 21st, 2010
Dennis Norman
Last week both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced relief for homeowners with a mortgage insured by either agency (which accounts for over 90 percent of the home loans in the U.S.) that either have drywall problems (the Chinese drywall issue) or are in the Gulf coast area and are affected by the [...]
By admin, on May 15th, 2010
Defendants Include a Mortgage Broker and Loan Processor
This week the FBI announced the unsealing of a superseding indictment charging defendants Anson Joachin a/k/a A.J. Alexandre, 39, of Parkland, Florida, John Fisher, 35, of Jupiter, Florida, Tracey Balli, 35, of Pembroke Pines, Florida, and Delano McLennon, 33, of North Lauderdale, Florida, for [...]
By Dennis Norman, on May 13th, 2010
Dennis Norman
Sales of existing single-family homes in Florida rose 24 percent in first quarter 2010 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the latest housing statistics from Florida Realtors®. A total of 38,846 existing homes sold statewide in 1Q 2010; during the same period the year before, [...]
By Dennis Norman, on April 23rd, 2010
Dennis Norman
Florida’s existing home sales rose in March, which means that sales activity has increased in the year-to-year comparison for 19 months, according to the latest housing data released by Florida Realtors®.
Existing home sales increased 24 percent last month with a total of 16,294 homes sold statewide compared to 13,090 homes sold in March [...]
By admin, on April 15th, 2010
Allegedly Concealed More Than $45 Million in Offshore and Domestic Nominee Bank Accounts
Mauricio Cohen Assor and his son, Leon Cohen-Levy, each with residences in Miami Beach, Fla., have been charged in a criminal complaint with conspiring to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [...]
By Dennis Norman, on March 8th, 2010
Dennis Norman
According to a report issued today by Zip Realty, sellers in Florida are slashing prices by more than 10 percent
South Florida has deals on homes! According to Zip Realty, sellers in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale have reduced their list price by an average of nearly 15 percent, or $36,000 in February 2010. [...]
By Dennis Norman, on March 1st, 2010
The Justice Department today announced that landlord James Stevens, his company Fountain View Apartments Inc., and his former rental manager, Mildred Chastain, have agreed to pay $415,000 in monetary damages and civil penalties to settle a Fair Housing Act lawsuit alleging that they discriminated against African Americans and families with children at Fountain [...]
By Dennis Norman, on March 1st, 2010
Dennis Norman
The sunshine state’s real estate market is heating up according to the latest report from the Florida REALTORS(R). Existing home sales rose in January, marking 17 months that sales activity has increased in the year-to-year comparions.
Existing home sales in Florida increased 24 percent in January with a total of 10,465 homes sold statewide [...]
By Dennis Norman, on January 28th, 2010
Dennis Norman
Top 20 Cities Are From California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona; Utah, Illinois, Oregon, Idaho Cities Indicate Foreclosure Problem Is Spreading.
Today RealtyTrac® released its year-end 2009 Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report which shows that cities in four Sun Belt states accounted for all top 20 foreclosure rates in 2009 among metro areas with a population [...]
By Dennis Norman, on January 26th, 2010
Dennis Norman
Zip Realty’s “Home Hunter” Report for 4th quarter 2009 shows some housing markets heating up.
While some of the “hottest” real estate markets in the country — those where homes are selling most above their list prices — continue to be distressed areas dominated by heavily discounted prices, a report issued by ZipRealty [...]
By Dennis Norman, on August 11th, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Today SmartZip, Inc. released it’s first release of the SmartZip Top 10 Markets™, a list of top-rated cities most likely to yield above-average investment returns over the next ten years. The markets are hand-picked by SmartZip’s analysts in conjunction with local market experts.
Presently SmartZip, which just launched its public Beta site in [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 24th, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Existing home sales in Florida rose in June, the 10th consecutive month that sales activity showed gains in the year to year comparison for both existing home as well as existing condominium markets. And, for the second month in a row, the statewide median sales prices for existing homes was higher.
According to [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 14th, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Having done my share of new developments and being put through the “wringer” by city councils and boards of aldermen, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that the governor of Florida had signed into law SB 360, titled Growth Management.
According to the Governor’s press release, the following are the benefits [...]
By Dennis Norman, on July 9th, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Monday I did the first post and yesterday the second post of my E-View with Frank Gregoire, a Florida appraiser and author of Appraiser Active.
Frank is often quoted as a source for nationally syndicated real estate columnists and appears as a
Francois (Frank) K. Gregoire, IFA RAA
speaker on appraisal and mortgage related [...]
By Dennis Norman, on June 23rd, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Florida is definitely a state that has felt the impact of the declining real estate market. It has been one of of the top four states in number of foreclosures, biggest declines in values and a few other statistics a state would just as soon not be associated with.
The tides may [...]
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