April 19, 2024
Housing/Construction
Designing The Future
Ask architect Jorge H. Garcia to define his firm and he says, "We're all about the future."
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Published on 7/1/2006
An Unwise Growth Subsidy?
Most attention to Citizens Property Insurance focuses on the insurance coverage it provides to home and condo owners who can't get insurance in the private market.
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Published on 7/1/2006
Blight Fight
On the banks of the St. Johns River east of downtown, Jacksonville's Arlington neighborhood is a first-ring suburb that once included a mixture of both solid middle-class and wealthier residents.
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Published on 7/1/2006
Overextended
One of every 133 Jacksonville households was foreclosed on during the first quarter of 2006, ranking it seventh nationally in the number of households per foreclosure.
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Published on 7/1/2006
Disaster Planning
After eight hurricanes in 2004 and 2005, hurricane season is a constant threat for Florida business owners.
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Published on 6/1/2006
Builders Challenge
The Florida Home Builders Association is leading a challenge to the city of Tallahassee's mandatory inclusionary zoning ordinance requiring builders to set aside 10% of homes in large developments for affordable housing.
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Published on 6/1/2006
Million-Dollar Homes
In metropolitan Orlando -- which includes Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake counties -- sales of existing single-family homes worth $1 million or more have risen 270% since 2003.
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Published on 6/1/2006
Cresting
County planners and others monitoring growth in Crestview, the 18,500-population county seat of Okaloosa County, are coming up with some startling numbers.
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Published on 5/1/2006
Shifting Winds
Florida's hot residential real estate market is changing gears -- simmering down in some areas, changing focus in others. Real estate professionals identify several major trends
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Published on 5/1/2006
Lakefront Luxury
Rock Equities has started construction on Baldwin Harbor, a lakefront luxury residential development of two eight-story complexes in Baldwin Park near downtown Orlando.
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Published on 3/1/2006
Too Expensive
Naples ranked as the most overvalued of all housing markets in the nation.
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Published on 3/1/2006
Affordable Housing Challenge
Responses to the issue of affordable workforce housing range from community land trusts to individual efforts and regulatory relief.
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Published on 2/1/2006
Hot Markets
Single-family home prices marked double-digit increases in the 12 months ended in September in six active markets in northwest Florida.
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Published on 1/1/2006
Tackling Affordability
As soaring prices are putting the dream of homeownership beyond the reach of a growing segment, the Miami-Dade County Commission is considering an ordinance to begin tackling the problem.
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Published on 1/1/2006
High Cost of Housing
Housing costs are rising far faster than income, creating an alarming affordability crisis in America.
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Published on 1/1/2006
Family Values
Andrew Zuckerman, 48, president , Zuckerman Homes, Coral Springs.
Published on 1/1/2006
Creative Alternatives
Average home prices in the Florida Keys are up nearly 40% this year to about $750,000. That's not good news for the hospitality industry here, which employs thousands of service workers at minimum wage or slightly above.
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Published on 12/1/2005
Meeting the Housing Shortage
In 2003, three businessmen incorporated the Escambia County Community Land Trust to develop housing to help relieve a shortage of affordable homes for the county's low- and moderate-income residents.
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Published on 12/1/2005
Discovering the Northwest
South Florida builders, and companies that cater to them, are migrating north.
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Published on 10/1/2005
Gentrification Fears
With Miami-Dade home prices jumping 26% in the past year, change is coming fast and furious in the county's historically poor neighborhoods, where speculators and developers are snapping up the area's last bargain real estate.
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Published on 9/1/2005
Which Costs More?
To get some perspective on Florida home prices, we've compared properties for sale in Florida to similar homes in similar cities elsewhere in the country. Care to guess which ones are more expensive?
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Published on 9/1/2005
'Bargains' at $1 Million a Unit?
A dozen years ago, buying south Florida oceanfront land for redevelopment cost roughly $10,000 to $15,000 per future condominium unit, says developer Jean Francois Roy.
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Published on 9/1/2005
'Velocity of Growth'
Developers are scooping up land -- by the thousands of acres -- in 1,200-population Freeport.
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Published on 9/1/2005
Big Mac Attack
Coral Gables is taking aim at "McMansions," the giant new homes that have been sprouting up -- a bit too conspicuously -- on small lots.
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Published on 8/1/2005
Resurgence
Just two years ago, it was as impossible to catch a movie in downtown Orlando as it was for a downtown worker in St. Petersburg to go grocery shopping on her lunch break. Today, in those cities and others across Florida the downtown has infrastructure of
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Published on 8/1/2005
