Douglas Elliman recently announced the addition of Sonia Toth and Keith Marks to its team as the new directors of luxury real estate. They will be based out of the Miami Beach office. Toth and Marks are proven leaders in

It’s been more than a month since the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) guidelines came into effect, and so far, the industry hasn’t devolved into total chaos. But that doesn’t mean lenders still aren’t worried. Financial services company Wolters Kluwer

Miami schools were heavily represented in Newsweek’s recently released report “America’s Top High Schools 2015,” with nine schools finding a place among the publication’s rankings. The schools were evaluated on a range of criteria, from graduation rate to the

In September, single-family home prices, including distressed sales, jumped 6.4 percent year-over-year, according to CoreLogic. For more than a year, national home prices have followed a steady, upward trajectory toward long-term stability. CoreLogic Chief Economist Sam Khater described the last 15

There’s been a lot of political posturing as of late, with partisan pundits and presidential candidates butting heads over everything from tax strategies to affordable housing, but one issue that, surprisingly, has remained largely left out of the conversation is

Fannie Mae opts to use database for those without credit score Fannie Mae will no longer require physical pay stubs and tax data to verify a borrowers’ ability to handle a loan, according to The Wall Street Journal. Instead, Fannie

Privé Developers has received the necessary permits to begin Privé at Island Estates, which will be located on an eight-acre island in Dumfoundling Bay between Sunny Isles Beach and Williams Island. Privé at Island Estates was recently ranked No. 1

As 2015 draws to a close, how has residential construction activity in Miami compared with the previous year? Residential construction spending in Miami totaled $312 million in September, according to new Dodge Data & Analytics numbers. Although that is down a remarkable

Miami was the third most-searched U.S. city for international buyers, according to realtor.com International. The countries that most frequently searched for Miami were Germany, Brazil, Mexico, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the Russian Federation, Sweden, Turkey, the United Arab

Though we’ve moved past the golden years of flipping that followed the housing market’s collapse in 2007, as the market returns to a stable posture – consistent price increases included – the practice of flipping is regaining some of its

The Federal Housing Finance Agency and Freddie Mac are ready to uphold their pledge from last year to extend lending to borrowers who do not qualify for traditional loans. Freddie even hinted that more low down-payment loan programs could possibly

For nearly a decade, the nation’s homeownership rate has been in decline. Since 2004, when homeownership peaked at 69 percent, the rate has fallen nearly 6 percentage points down to 63.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according

Housing continues to slow in 2015 Pending home sales were down 2.3 percent from August to September, according to the latest report from the National Association of Realtors. Closing out the month at 106.8, the Pending Home Sales Index

The CMC Group has hired the renowned Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini to decorate the interior of the Brickell Flatirons. Iosa Ghini founded Iosa Ghini Associati and the Bolidismo Group in 1985. Iosa Ghini has done designs for commercial, residential, public and

Single-family home starts are far below the long-term median – why? Builder confidence has posted repeated year-over-year gains in recent months, but the amount of single-family housing starts is not rising to match their confidence, according to a report by The Wall

The Miami Association of Realtors released its report on international web searchers today, and, as has been the case for 14 of the last 15 months, Brazil ranked as the top foreign nation using Miamire.com. In Aug. 2015, Miami