Fort Myers Beach Real Estate News

Sunday Dec 20 | via News Press 

Besieged by a 13.9 percent unemployment rate and myriad foreclosures, Lee County residents are declaring bankruptcy in record numbers.

Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy, Lee County, FL, Foreclosures, Fort Myers, FL, Cape Coral, FL

Sunday Dec 20 | via News Press 

The intermittent traffic along Andrea Lane is an indicator of the soft economy's toll on the light-industrial, storage, warehouse and office buildings lining the south Fort Myers roadway.

Related Topix: Fort Myers, FL, Real Estate, Lee County, FL, Auto Dealers

Saturday Dec 19 | via Naples Daily News Online 

Rita M. Oben has joined the company as a sales associate. Oben has been a licensed Realtor since 1991 and spent 15 years with a large rental division on Fort Myers Beach where she was the managing broker.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Fort Myers Beach, FL, Florida, Cape Coral, FL, Naples, FL

Thursday Dec 17 | via News Press 

Long after the homebuilding industry had crashed and burned, commercial developers in Lee County kept slamming out offices, warehouses and stores - lease rates and vacancy rates remained high.

Related Topix: Lee County, FL, Fort Myers, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

Wednesday Dec 16 | via News Press 

The Lee County Board of County Commissioners has appointed Cape Coral City Councilman Chris Chulakes-Leetz to the Tourist Development Council.

Related Topix: Illinois, Psychology, Science, Housing, HIV/AIDS, Health

7 hrs ago | via Miami Herald 

Under the Obama program to reduce foreclosures, fewer than 35,000 South Floridians have had their mortgages modified, less than 5 percent of those who qualify for help.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Florida, Foreclosures, Florida Government

16 hrs ago | via News Press 

The Downtown Diva is all about being sparkly, festive, and bubbly - but as Queen Elizabeth II once said during her Christmas address to England in 1992, I shall not look back on this year with undiluted pleasure.

Related Topix: Elizabeth Ii, Life, Holidays, Christmas, Foreclosures, New Year's Day/Eve, Florida

Thursday | via PalmBeachDailyNews 

State Senator Jeff Atwater is greeted by Fruma Klorfein, who is a long-time friend of his family, Monday at the Flagler Museum.

Related Topix: Florida, Palm Beach, FL, Foreclosures, Housing, Prison

Monday Dec 21 | via Orlando Business Journal 

Florida experienced a lot of doom and gloom in 2009. Its unemployment rate topped 11 percent this fall - the highest it's been since 1975, due to the Great Recession, the collapse of the construction industry and a sharp downturn in tourism.

Related Topix: Florida, Foreclosures, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Orlando, FL

Wednesday | via HeraldTribune.com 

Published: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 7:48 p.m. Home sales may have risen 63 percent in November, but condo sales rose twice as fast.

Related Topix: Florida, Housing, Sarasota, FL, Bradenton, FL, North Port, FL

3 min ago | via Brighouse Today 

Putting VAT back up in January could stall a recovery from recession, an economic forecaster has warned.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

37 min ago | via Scotsman.com News - Scottish news direct from Scotland 

"LORD make me chaste, but not yet" was the cry of St Augustine. It will be the battle cry of millions in the coming days as they take advantage of the reduced rate of VAT before it returns to 17.5 per cent in January.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Opinion

39 min ago | via The Herald 

Adam Phillips, the new chairman of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, has backed plans to bring banks under FSA supervision.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

1 hr ago | via Ocala Business Journal 

Published: Friday, December 25, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 8:37 p.m. Hugh Dailey, president and chief executive officer of Community Bank and Trust of Florida, this month was appointed to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Jacksonville branch.

Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Financial Markets, Ocala, FL, Marion County, FL, Home, Mortgage

1 hr ago | via Free Republic 

A group of state and federal judges presiding over foreclosures are wiping away borrowers' mortgage debt, invalidating foreclosure sales and even barring some foreclosures outright.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Ohio