Home prices up, inventory down, mortgage rates iffy The Florida real estate industry is healthy, though several thorny challenges confront residential sales, one of the nation’s leading economists told a gathering of about 80 agents and brokers. Lawrence Yun, chief economist and senior vice president of the National Association of [...]

Hurricane Irma kept Florida from reaching a goal of 120 million visitors last year but didn’t stop the state from hitting a new single-year tourism high, according to numbers released Tuesday by Gov. Rick Scott. Scott announced that Florida drew an estimated 116.5 million visitors in 2017, up 3.6 percent from the previous high of 112.4 [...]

The Sarasota-Manatee area in March ranked fourth among the 100 largest U.S. metro areas for its share of cash sales, according to a report released Thursday June 23 by data provider CoreLogic.    

• Cash sales accounted for 51.6 percent of all home deals in the two counties, CoreLogic said, in line with an earlier report by analyst
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