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The 5-2 vote followed a day’s worth of presentations by county staff and GL Homes, and passionate remarks from proponents and critics, many of whom argued more development could have costly environmental impacts on the region.

The Palm Beach County Commission is expected on Wednesday to take up a controversial luxury development proposal from GL Homes that has drawn intense criticism from many environmental experts and residents.

Homeowners in Briny Breezes, a small ocean-front mobile home community in Palm Beach County that sits on the Intracoastal Waterway, are said to be looking for a deal closer to $1 billion.

State insurance regulators signed off on a plan that will lead to policyholders throughout Florida paying extra on their bills because of property-insurer insolvencies.

The new law, dubbed the Live Local Act, marks a historic investment in affordable housing through a series of tax breaks, incentives for development and a record $811 million in funding.

Senate Bill 1586 would override much of the relationship between Florida landlords and tenants, including the tenants bill of rights ordinances in Miami-Dade and Hillsborough counties

Florida Supreme Court justices back a Sarasota County Property Appraiser who said a a homeowner should not have received a homestead property-tax exemption for part of his house that he rented out.

Floridians are bracing for additional rate hikes as they are already paying higher monthly payments than homeowners in other states.

A Florida House panel approved a bill (HB 1417) that would lead to state law trumping local regulations governing landlords and tenants.

In Tampa and St. Petersburg, evictions are continually concentrated in the urban core, according to data analyzed between 2000 and 2016.

While the housing market has cooled, Miami and Tampa continued to top other metro areas across the country in home-price increases in December