Though new homes have seen, on average, very impressive sales increases since 2010, the specific gains have told a different story. We’ll start with the good news – after its worst years since record-keeping began in the ’60s, the

Housing affordability has fallen nationwide in the last year; what of here in Miami? Housing affordability in the Miami housing market fell 20.1 percent in 2013, according to newly released data by the National Association of Realtors. From 2012 to 2013,

Miami’s housing inventory continued to improve with the New Year. Miami’s housing inventory has continued its steps in the right direction in 2014, according to the latest State of the Market report from Movoto. Per the report, Miami’s housing

House flipping in South Florida increased only 8 percent in 2013 from 2012, after a 94 percent increase from 2011 to 2012. After house flipping increased dramatically from 2012 to 2013, the act of buying a home and quickly

Miami’s housing market continued to grow in confidence in January. Asking prices in the Miami housing market increased 14.3 percent year-over-year in January, according to the latest Price Monitor from real estate website Trulia. Even better, Miami’s 6.1 percent quarterly increase

Florida’s housing market showed some definite positivity in 2013, according to CoreLogic. Home prices in the Florida marketplace rose 9.9 percent in 2013, according to the latest CoreLogic Home Price Index. Prices were flat from October to December, but even

Last year proved a very positive one for residential new construction, according to the final Census Bureau numbers. Residential construction spending finished out 2013 at a very fine $352.6 billion, according to the final number crunching by the U.S.

Has Miami’s housing market picked up any steam in the last year, or is it moving sideways? We’ve been reporting with marked regularity on how the nation’s housing market has slowed down, but is that trend consistent here in

Housing inventory is something we follow pretty closely, and realtor.com’s latest numbers suggest quite a bit about the current housing market. Oh housing inventory, how we love you. One of the major narratives of the housing recovery, it seems

Miami put up some of the strongest residential construction numbers in the U.S. in December Residential construction in the Miami area totaled $339 million in December, according to the latest number crunching over at McGraw Hill Construction. Not only

Florida’s foreclosure inventory continues to improve, according to the latest research by CoreLogic. Florida’s foreclosure marketplace continued on the path to recovery at the end of 2013, according to CoreLogic’s latest National Foreclosure Report. In Dec. 2013, 6.7 percent of the

Last year closed out on a sour note for pending home sales, according to NAR’s final tally. Dec. 2013 was a rough month for pending home sales, with the Pending Home Sales Index dropping 8.7 percent from November to

Daniel de la Vega, president of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty, has been named to the Dean Leadership Advisory Board at Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Architecture + The Arts. The College of Architecture + The Arts, a nationally-renowned model for arts and

Existing-home sales enjoyed a very healthy 2013, though it’s unlikely the market will repeat that performance in 2014. The housing market capped off a successful year in existing-home sales in December, with sales rising 1.0 percent from November to

Jim Weichert, president and founder of Weichert, Realtors, has announced that his son, James Weichert Jr., will be joining him as co-president of Weichert, Realtors. In his new role, Weichert Jr. will be responsible for growing the business of

The Census Bureau’s latest report on new home sales was a bit weak, but that does not mean that the sky is falling. We’ll get the bad news out of the way first: the sales of newly built single-family