Foreclosure lawyer probes left up to Florida Bar Palm Beach Post By Kimberly Miller The Florida Bar's investigations into foreclosure fraud by its members jumped 63 percent in the past year, but no disciplinary actions against attorneys have been levied since complaints began to mount in the fall of 2010.
Housing market continues to struggle News Chief "Right now I think prices are being driven more by foreclosures than market rate transactions," said Tim Becker, director of the Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of Florida. Becker says there's no easy fix for reducing the ...
In South Florida, Occupy movement targets housing crisis Sun-Sentinel By Mike Clary, Sun Sentinel After months of noisy protests and public-space encampments, South Florida's Occupy movement has quietly shifted its focus to "occupying" houses to support homeowners caught in the foreclosure crisis.
Volusia, Flagler coasts fare better in foreclosures Daytona Beach News-Journal Flagler County led the state in foreclosure filing ratio in December, and Deltona has been one of the hardest hit cities in Florida since the housing crisis began. But when viewed holistically, a pattern emerges in the 2011 data from national real ...