News about properties and real estate
You’ve been away from Polk County for a while, but you still own property here. You may have missed a tax payment or two, and a couple of times your check was returned saying the taxes were already paid, but for the most part you never heard from anyone that there were problems . So …
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From Englewood to Anna Maria, changing demographics over the past decade have transformed the Southwest Florida coastline, as thousands of permanent residents fled the beach for a variety of reasons and were replaced by hordes of vacationers. According to the latest figures from last year’s census, coastal communities from northern Manatee to south Sarasota County …
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Rainy days are a bane for Adrian and Beatriz Sanchez, a Miami couple embroiled in a lengthy legal battle with their condominium association over a leaky roof. When a storm hits, the couple must cut off the electricity in half of their two-bedroom loft, bring out buckets to catch the droplets, and mop up pools …
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Joshua Bahoff bought a three- bedroom luxury condominium in Naples, Florida, in December for $235,000, about one-third of the price that the seller paid near the height of the U.S. housing boom. "It was a great deal," said Bahoff, 59, a Philadelphia dentist who plans to spend one week a month every winter in the …
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Callery-Judge Grove, founded in western Palm Beach County in 1964, is being sued for more than $37 million in a foreclosure filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. The lawsuit filed Friday alleges that Callery-Judge Grove Limited Partnership, CJC Management LTD. and Managed Citrus owe Prudential Industrial Properties LLC $37 million in mortgages plus $8.7 …
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As part of a new national hunt for gift tax evaders, the Internal Revenue Service has asked a federal court for permission to order a California state tax agency to hand over its computer database of everyone who transferred real estate to relatives for little or no consideration from 2005 to 2010. If granted, the …