Realtors

The Sierra Club has become the latest organization to announce opposition to Amendment 3 on the November ballot, saying that if passed it “will effectively gut the buckets of local governments in Florida.”

South Florida boasts two of the three largest realtor associations in the country. They will merge in May into a mega agency with 93,000 brokers.

Florida Realtors have launched a major political campaign to get a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot next year. It’s designed to prevent future legislatures from raiding a state housing trust fund for other expenses.

It would have been tough to beat June’s housing numbers, a month when Miami-Dade County set an all-time record for single-family home sales.While South…