Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Florida’s Live Local 4.0 isn’t law yet, but it passed the Legislature with near-unanimous margins. One Florida municipality, Hollywood, isn’t waiting for Gov. Ron DeSantis’s signature. Next month, Broward County commissioners may decide how many units Related Group can build on a city-owned beachfront site. If they do, they will also determine whether the project […]

American homeowners are sitting on $17 trillion in equity. The average mortgaged borrower holds $295,000. By any historical standard, these are people with options. And yet, when a $14,000 roof replacement or HVAC failure hits, a growing share of them won’t tap a single dollar of that equity. Borrowers who locked in rates below 4%

Of the 50 U.S. counties with the risk for distressed properties, 31 are concentrated in four states, led by Florida, an Attom Data Solutions analysis found. Processing Content Florida is the home of 12 of those counties, with the No. 1 most at risk locale in the nation being Charlotte County. California was next with