The “Great Outdoors Initiative” encourages Floridians to explore nature. State park admissions, plus hunting and fishing licenses are discounted until Jan. 13.

An accessory dwelling unit (ADU) gives homebuyers a chance to charge rent that offsets their mortgage costs – or helps kids or parents who need housing.

Ameris Bank will settle with the Justice Dept. for $9M because it allegedly didn’t underwrite many mortgages in largely Black and Latino Jacksonville communities.

The Mortgage Bankers Assoc. predicts a decline from 2021’s $816B to $442B this year as interest rates keep rising and supply/demand’s future remains murky.

Census Bureau: Fla. and Arizona welcomed more relocating Californians last year as Texas numbers dropped. In 2021, 37K moved to Fla.; in 2022, it grew to 50K.

Fed Chair Powell says the economy needs to cool as inflation remains stubbornly high – but another interest rate hike may not be needed. It might just take time.

On wedding website The Knot, 20% of couples ask for home down payment money – an amount that has risen 55% over the past five years.

Years of soaring prices and a limited inventory of for-sale homes has stressed buyers for years, but today’s market remains a profit goldmine for most sellers.

One day this won’t be true as artificial intelligence (AI) improves, but most computer-generated content currently has some traits that say, “Hey, I’m from AI.”

Median home prices rose 2.8% year-to-year under NAR’s seasonally adjusted formula, and the inventory of unsold existing homes climbed 2.7% month-to-month.

Historic rental increases couldn’t continue forever. The addition of more units and drop in new residents has weakened demand and dinged rental prices.

The increase breaks a pattern of declines, says Florida Realtors Chief Economist O’Connor, as prices rose 1.3%. For 3Q 2023, though, sales were down 3.2%.

On Oct. 24 at 1 p.m., FREC will focus on foreign buyer “Affidavits of Buyers of Property” and broker-held escrow deposits. The public is invited, virtually or in-person.

The march toward 8% mortgages continued this week, with the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage averaging 7.63%, up from last week’s 7.57%. A year ago, it was 6.23%.

If you can tell what’s trending by looking at the words becoming more common in listings, expect demand for brutalism, sensory pathways and cold plunge pools.

Frustrated with the lack of existing-home inventory, more buyers turned to new construction in Sept. despite mortgage rates that topped 7%.

Some negative headlines suggest the commercial RE industry is in financial trouble – but for the most part, it’s not, and brokers should get that message out there.

It goes beyond Fed moves on interest rates, as other inflation-fighting changes also have an impact. Once those changes lessen, rates could begin to fall.

Do buyers have a right to know that a listing comes with a ghost? In Fla., probably not – but states’ laws vary on what ghost-adverse buyers deserve to know.

An oversight tool that connects all tech formats has not yet been perfected. And while some agents live off technology, others largely ignore it.