Disney World-area Reunion Resort struggles with unoccupied properties amid mortgage meltdown [Central Florida] In 2001, The Ginn Cos. broke ground on what was billed as Central Florida’s grandest vacation and golf resort: Reunion, with three signature golf courses, million-dollar mansions, half-million-dollar condos, a water park, a luxury condo hotel and more, all set in 2,300 …
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Real Estate in Cape Coral, Fla., Is Far From a Recovery
Real Estate in Cape Coral, Fla., Is Far From a Recovery Fellow adventurers, refugees from winter and armchair archaeologists, we are here on this shiny green tour bus to embark on a safari of sorts. We’ll be exploring the local habitat, as upended and reconfigured by an epochal real estate fiasco. Our guide, Marc Joseph, …
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Florida Supreme Court orders mediators to be first step in foreclosure cases
Florida Supreme Court orders mediators to be first step in foreclosure cases Florida’s troubled homeowners and their lenders will increasingly meet at the bargaining table under a state supreme court order issued today that aims to reduce a foreclosure overload. The administrative order written by Chief Judge Peggy Quince creates a statewide program that requires …
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Half-built homes can be bargains – but with strings attached
Half-built homes can be bargains – but with strings attached First came foreclosure sales, then short sales. Now Central Florida is seeing more half-finished homes for sale: bare-stud, bare-yard houses abandoned by their builders and left to languish on the market. Purchasing a partially built home is nothing new; during the housing boom, many new-home …
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Real estate broker loses license in flipping cases
Real estate broker loses license in flipping cases Investigators described him as an elusive businessman who sometimes evoked religion to win over clients that he later scammed through unethical real estate and property management ploys. The state revoked James M. Graham’s real estate broker license as part of a consent decree that saw him admit …
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Homestead couple’s Chinese drywall case heads to court
Homestead couple’s Chinese drywall case heads to court After months of legal wrangling, it appears one of the first lawsuits filed over faulty Chinese drywall is headed to trial in federal court. Melissa and Jason Harrell of Homestead filed a lawsuit against South Kendall Construction, Palm Holdings, Keys Gate Realty and Banner Supply in March. …
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