Denying a mortgage to a woman because she is on or plans to be on maternity leave is against the law, but some lenders are accused of doing just that.

A beautiful, oceanfront penthouse in the Oceana Bal Harbour complex has closed for $20.5 million, marking the highest-priced sale for a condo unit in Bal Harbour since 2014.

Monaco Yacht Club & Residences has announced that Belinda Andretti has joined their sales team.

The shortage of housing in America is more “dire” than previously expected, and the NAR’s new report puts pressure on lawmakers to provide additional public funding and policy incentives to fix this massive underbuilding gap.

Existing-home sales declined nationwide for the fourth month in a row in May, as the median price for existing homes hit another record high, the National Association of Realtors said. 

May showed the momentum keeps building in the South Florida housing market with rising prices and shorter times from listing to contract.

Mortgage applications for new-home purchases fell 9% on a monthly basis and 5.9% on a year-over-year basis in May, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported, citing its Builder Application Survey.

A small single-family house stands in the middle of a huge construction project in Coral Gables. The $600 million commercial development is the largest in the city’s history.

Market competition has eased up recently, but seven in 10 buyers still face bidding wars, according to a new report from Redfin.

As the South Florida economy rebounds, the real estate market squeezes out local residents with out-of-town buyers and an ‘on fire’ luxury segment.

Only six of the country’s top-50 largest markets saw inventory fall from April and new inventory has trended up since mid-March.

The typical increase in home sales as summer approaches failed to materialize nationwide last month, with average sales dropping 0.2% from April to May, but month-over-month sales in Miami dipped even further, declining 14.7%, according to the RE/MAX May National Housing Report.

The Jills Zeder Group of Coldwell Banker Realty earned the No. 1 ranking on the 2021 REAL Trends, The Thousand list, for large teams in the US.

Single-family housing starts were up 4.2% from April and 49.8% from May 2020, at 1,098,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Florida is the 14th-best state to live in the country, according to WalletHub’s 2021 Best States to Live In list. 

Although pending home sales are up 29% from last year, they are starting to slow down, dropping 9.7% from their peak four weeks ago.