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Local legal experts have expressed concern that a new law empowering property owners against unwanted occupants could blowback on protected transient tenants.
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The taxable value of property in Palm Beach County is growing grew by 10% last year — the third straight year of double-digit gains. Here are the latest trends, portending tax rates set by cities and countywide agencies.
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Remote work is lonely but has small positive effects. Workers don't have to return to the office full-time to boost performance, according to a new FIU analysis of dozens of studies. Now, South Florida's real estate must adjust.
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For decades, the seller of a house would pay the commission of the buyer’s agent, which has usually been 5-6%. This month, the National Association of Realtors reached a settlement which could cut that rate in the next few years.
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Thousands work in the commercial real estate industry. Thousands more help construct new buildings. And your savings account may be part of a bank loan to a commercial property. Why are experts optimistic about South Florida's market?
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Federal lawsuits are challenging the way real estate agents are paid commissions. No place has more at stake than Florida.
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Starting on New Year’s Day, shell companies and LLCs that do business in the US will have to fully disclose who is behind them and who actually owns the assets.
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If residents of countries including Cuba, Venezuela and China don’t register certain properties by the Jan. 31 deadline, they could be hit with $1,000 per day in property liens — or potentially have their property seized by the state. The controversial law, SB 264, has been celebrated by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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In the friend-of-the-court brief, the civil-rights and legal groups likened Florida's new law to efforts dating back more than a century to restrict Asians from owning land.
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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.
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Following WLRN’s reporting on the Guardianship Program’s sale of its wards' properties to Express Homes — owned by Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez' husband Carlos Morales — officials launched an investigation. Now we have found Gallego Homes, owned by Méndez' mother Margarita, also made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling homes purchased from the nonprofit.
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WLRN's investigative team joins host Carlos Frías to discuss their latest report, which looks into a government-funded nonprofit that was put in place to help care for people who can’t take care of themselves. And sometimes sell their homes to cover the cost of their care. Reporters Joshua Ceballos and Danny Rivero found blurred lines in the program.Plus, we’ll hear a radio documentary about how developers and cities clash over how to restore the hundreds of Art Deco buildings on Miami Beach.