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April 1, 2009 Miami-Dade County will begin enforcing its Foreclosure Ordinance. This ordinance that was enacted on December 12, 2008 may be the downfall of the real estate market recovery in Miami-Dade County. More importantly, it puts homeowners who buy these foreclosed properties at risk. To ma...
03/27/2009
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Back in May I wrote a blog asking the question, did Miami's real estate market hit bottom? A month later the experts are beginning to say that South Florida's real estate market may be bottoming out. However bottoming out has many meanings for many people. To us in the real estate business the ma...
06/18/2008
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The real estate market in Greater Miami, may have already bottomed out in December '07. As we look at single family properties, we see that inventories continued to climb slowly but pended sales appear to have hit bottom in December. Consequently closed transactions reached their lowest point in ...
05/21/2008
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As we celebrate Earth Day today, I am taking inventory of the things our family has done in the process of reducing our impact upon this earth. Let me say that I've made it my passion to reduce our family's energy consumption because I have a son in the military and I prefer to have him home prot...
04/22/2008
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These days is difficult to look in any direction without seeing green. However all this green may be insulating people to the cause and taking us away from the original purpose of this movement. There are many reasons why people are going green and a great many of them seem to be to get some more...
04/22/2008
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I hear many national experts giving their opinion about the real estate market and I find their opinion to be as accurate as someone on the space shuttle trying to pick a red, sweet juicy apple from space. With today's technology he may be able to see the trees - he may even see the apples. But o...
04/18/2008
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The foreclosure crisis is now affecting renters, too. South Florida is continuing to grow, albeit slower than before, but still at a good pace in relation to the rest of the country. With consumer confidence at an all time low and fears of the real estate market, many of these new South Floridian...
04/18/2008
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This week in our sales meeting some agents complained about having problems with appraisals coming in low, even after they based their asking price on a recent CMA; priced the property agressively and the buyers still reduced the sale price further. That was when we were alerted to the fact that...
03/07/2008