Naples area home resales climbed upward yet again in June, according to a report released Friday by the Naples Area Board of Realtors.
Overall pending sales in the greater Naples area, which includes the Naples beach area, North Naples, central Naples, Immokalee and Ave Maria, increased 69 percent in the 12 months ending June 2009 compared [...]

The National Association of Home Builders says its housing market index climbed in July to the highest level in nearly a year, as low interest rates and other incentives helped builders woo homebuyers.
The Washington-based trade association said Thursday the index rose two points to 17, its highest reading since it was 17 in September.
Bob Knight, [...]

Along with the hundreds of sun worshipers who pack the beaches in Bonita Springs on any given day, there are others who agreed that the town’s sandy spots are tops, or at the very least, No. 7.
Health magazine recently ranked Bonita Springs as the seventh healthiest beach in the nation. A combination of sugar sand [...]

Lennar Homes has identified about 400 homes with Chinese drywall that were delivered in Florida, mainly in its 2006 and 2007 fiscal years, the company announced this afternoon in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

That represents 2.1 percent of the homes delivered in Florida and 0.5 percent nationally by the Miami-based builder.
The defective [...]

July 15: The Fed adopts a plan to curb shady mortgage practices. Lax lending standards during the heady days of the housing boom ended up burning the riskiest “sub-prime” borrowers—people with tarnished credit or low incomes—because they got loans they couldn’t afford or didn’t understand.
July 30: President Bush signs into law the Housing and Economic [...]

Situated on 1,050 acres on the west side of U.S. 41 E. and immediately adjacent to the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, the neighborhoods of Treviso Bay offer an idyllic ambiance and elegant residences.
Treviso Bay’s entry bridge and towering gated security center give way to landscaped parkways and fountains and streetscapes that incorporate the [...]

Florida homeowners who suffered property damage from drywall imported from China are eligible to receive thousands of dollars on their tax return, according to an announcement by the Internal Revenue Service.
Faulty drywall, reportedly imported from a German-owned manufacturing company in China, was found in homes throughout Florida and in 20 other states.
Officials stated that homes [...]

Foreclosure stripping is a crime, and it has a victim. It’s you.
Neighborhoods are losing more than just neighbors. Homeowners in foreclosure are ripping out bathtubs, wiring, countertops, sinks, windows, garage doors and even the palm trees from the front yard and selling them for cash.
As a result, property values are falling and the tax collections [...]

Save Our Homes has survived.
The constitutional provision voters approved in 1992 that caps assessed value increased on homesteaded homes at 3 percent has been upheld by the Florida 1st District Court of Appeal.
The cap was challenged by a trio of Alabama residents with second homes in the Florida Panhandle. They claim the cap discriminates against [...]

BONITA SPRINGS — WCI Communities is offering consumers a chance to test out a lifestyle before buying a condo, villa or single-family estate home at one of its six Florida-based golf and country club residential, resort properties.
WCI created a travel Web site called “WCI Travela,” where visitors can book a stay at WCI’s communities in [...]