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Florida’s Existing Home, Condo Sales Up in November 2009

Florida’s existing home sales rose in November, marking 15 months that sales activity has increased in the year-to-year comparison, according to the latest housing data released by Florida Realtors®.

Existing home sales rose 61 percent last month with a total of 14,026 homes sold statewide compared to 8,694 homes sold in November 2008, according to [...]

Florida home and condo sales rise for 8th month in a row

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

Existing home sales in Florida rose in April by 18 percent over a year ago and were up slightly from March.

Condo sales in Florida were up 21% in April from a year ago and up over 6% from March.

This increased activity is, at least in part, a result [...]

Florida: Sometimes the best deal is the one you didn’t make…But, is now the time to buy? Final post in the series

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

This is my final post of a series about Florida real estate and the second part of my interview with Bob Radigan with VIP Realty Groupin the Sanibel/Captiva area.

For part one of this series click here, part two click here and part three click here.

Following is the continuation of [...]

Florida: Sometimes the best deal is the one you didn’t make…But, is now the time to buy? Part 3 of a series

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

This is my third post of a series about Florida real estate and the second part of my interview with Bob Radigan with VIP Realty Group in the Sanibel/Captiva area.

For part one of this series click here, for part two click here.

Following is the continuation of my [...]

Florida: Sometimes the best deal is the one you didn’t make…But, is now the time to buy? Part 2 of a series

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

In my post yesterday I was talking about Florida and whether or not now is the time to consider buying there now.  To answer this question I turned to  Bob Radigan with VIP Realty Group. 

Following is part one of my  E-View TM  with Bob:

 Q- Bob, please share with [...]

Florida: Sometimes the best deal is the one you didn’t make…But, is now the time to buy?

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

I met the wonderful woman that was to be my wife in 1998 in St. Louis.  Prior to moving back to St. Louis she had spent the prior decade living on the gulf coast of Florida and loved it but came back to St. Louis to be closer to [...]

Foreclosures decrease 10% in January

By: Dennis Norman

According to a report this week by Realty Trac(R) there were 274,399 US properties in some stage of foreclosure during the month of January.  This represents a 10% decrease from December but is still an 18% increase over a year ago.  Do the math and it works out to a sobering 1 [...]

State Farm pulls out of Florida

By: Dennis Norman

State Farm Insurance Company (State Farm Florida), the state’s largest private property insurer, announced earlier this week filed plans to discontinue its Florida property insurance lines.

This is not good for Florida residents nor all the people around the country that own vacation homes, rentals, time-shares or have other real estate investments [...]