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Businesses lose property insurance [South Florida] Business owners in Gulf Breeze may want to head for higher ground if the property insurance market for the area remains the same. Some carriers are refusing to renew commercial insurance policies or write new ones. “I had a commercial wind policy and it will not be renewed. I …
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Absentee owners investing in O.C. [Southern California] The true role of real-estate investors in the Orange County housing market is tricky to gauge. One accounting of their activity – tracking folks who buy property but send the tax bills to another address – shows that these sales continue to be strong. In 2005, market watcher …
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$1 million home sales increase sharply [Central Florida] Sales of single-family existing homes priced at more than $1 million soared 270 percent in Metro Orlando during the past three years, a new analysis shows. The growth in home prices as well as the surge in the size of homes has helped the trend, according to …
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Quiet title lawsuit can clear title of missing owner Seller’s absent boyfriend still on property title DEAR BOB: I am a real estate broker with an opportunity to obtain a listing on a beautiful house. But there is one little problem. The seller says her boyfriend moved out about 15 years ago and she hasn’t …
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The Beaufort Gazette: Building boom continues County sees spike in condos In a week, Malcolm and Susan Goodridge will start making 2,400 square feet of marshside space their own, moving into a first-floor condominium and finding ways to fill the three bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms that now sit empty and dusty from construction. Their new …
$9M sale sets Casey Key mark Buyer gets a deal: The home was originally priced at $12M Stephen King no longer lives in the most expensive home ever sold on Casey Key. On Friday, an unidentified “out-of-town buyer” went to the hip for $9 million, buying a home at 1804 Casey Key Road, squeaking past …