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		<title>New owners DiTommaso, Warren complete 250 Royal Palm Way renovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the office building at 250 Royal Palm Way came on the market in a 2010 foreclosure sale, Anthony DiTommaso and Rusty Warren, co-CEOs of Ivy Equities, saw an opportunity they couldn’t pass up. The Greenwich, Conn.-based executives, whose firm Ivy Realty, is headquartered in Montvale, N.J., entered a market they had set their sights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Builder moves on to a new enterprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercedes Homes LLC, for nearly 30 years one of Brevard County’s most prominent home builders, is ending operations two years after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. An outside executive management team brought in by the consortium of leading creditors from the bankruptcy case recently took over operations of the Suntree-headquartered company and announced its intentions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inheritance poses investment possibilities and puzzles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When his father died last summer, editor and tax preparer Danny Marcus found himself faced with an unexpected problem: figuring out what to do with his inheritance. Marcus, 60, was both thrilled and overwhelmed by the possibilities. Should he pay off the mortgage? Buy a condo in Florida? Save more for his retirement? And if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much does it really cost to rebuild your home?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some homeowners have had to beef up the amount of property insurance they buy to cover what they say are inflated cost estimates to rebuild their homes. It&#8217;s a double whammy for homeowners because for many, rebuilding costs didn&#8217;t go down when the economic downturn lowered construction costs over the past few years. Take John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Dakotans buy up homes in Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flush with cash from an oil boom and plentiful jobs, North Dakotans are snapping up homes 1,500 miles away in balmy Arizona, where prices have plunged since the real estate bubble burst. &#8220;It boils down to the weather and taking advantage of the market,&#8221; says real estate agent Rocky Parra of HomeSmart Realty in Gilbert, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family &amp; Fortune</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Donald Soffer first visited a patch of swampy wetlands just south of the border between Dade and Broward counties, his original intent was simply to build a shopping mall. But after seeing the land, the idea came to him for an upscale community created around an expansive golf course and country club, a vision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Townhomes in Orlando: Whisper Lakes townhomes in Orlando renovated</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a five-minute walk from the Ritz-Carlton hotel in south Orange County is a town-home community that has seen its share of hard times. Not that long ago, Whisper Lakes was collecting only about two-thirds of the association dues its owners were supposed to pay to keep the place running. Town homes that had sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law exempts forgiven foreclosure debt from income on tax return</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, we were talked into getting what I believe was a predatory loan &#8211; a negatively amortizing mortgage for 100 percent of the purchase price of our home. The loan broker assured us we could refinance the following year to a more traditional mortgage. We paid the minimum monthly payment required, which didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condos selling, but prices continue to fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Condominiums, like homes, are selling at a healthy pace in Southwest Florida, but the median sales price continues to give ground &#8212; the result of more realistic sellers and a greater mix of units at the low end of the market and distressed properties. Sales during November rose 7 percent in Sarasota-Bradenton and 19 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida justice shuts down foreclosure mediation program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady shut down the state&#8217;s 2-year-old foreclosure mediation program Monday, after low success rates and criticism from both lenders and borrowers deemed the program unsustainable. The court system, which has faced a torrent of foreclosure cases in the past several years, has seen its budgets cut and staff reduced. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Property Buyers Boost Role in Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unexpected increase in Chinese property buyers is moving Singapore&#8217;s real-estate market, in the latest sign of the effects of Chinese money elsewhere in Asia. For years, Indonesians and Malaysians were the dominant foreign property buyers in Singapore, a rich Southeast Asian city-state that is widely regarded as one of the safest places in Asia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Really Want to Be a Landlord?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeannette Boccini thought she had found a great renter, someone who would take extra good care of her townhouse. Then the nightmare began. The tenant repeatedly harassed the neighbors, complained that the wood chips in the community playground were toxic, and informed Ms. Boccini on Christmas morning that someone was playing Christmas carols too loudly. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netscape Founder Jim Clark Makes a Mint on Miami Beach Condo Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Netscape founder Jim Clark just scored big in real restate. He sold last week his penthouse in Miami Beach for what is believed to be a record for a condo south of Manhattan: $21.5 million! While the sale has yet to show up in public records, SouthBeachCondoBlog.com reports the deal for the 5,803-square-foot, 40th-floor penthouse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain Buyer Grabs Lender-Owned Condo for Half Price</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lender-owned beachfront property in Jupiter just sold to a foreign investor for $9.75 million, or $812,500 per unit. 3000 Ocean Dr., a 12-unit condo, was completed in 2010 at a cost of $18 million.CBRE marketed the property for sale on behalf of the lender, West Suburban Bank, after it foreclosed on the property in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte County builder&#8217;s odd road to success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being able to click with people — all kinds of people — can mean success for a homebuilder. From childhood, Christin Cupp has known all kinds. Her mother, she says, was a &#34;bar floozy.&#34; Her father, a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness. &#8220;During the week, I grew up in a bar,&#8221; she said. &#8220;On the weekends, I would [...]]]></description>
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