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Buyer Say No to Wire Fraud: Call Before You Send   According to the FBI, real estate wire fraud is one of the nation’s fastest-growing and financially damaging internet-enabled crimes, with claimed losses in 2022 exceeding $2.7 billion. The average wire fraud for consumer recovery cases last year was $106,557, reports the American Land Title Association (ALTA) and the totals may be even higher as […]
Buyer Encroachments and Easements: What You Need to Know Whenever a home is about to change ownership, a thorough title search will include a property survey to determine the property lines, including the presence of any encroachments or easements. While both terms refer to the use of the property by someone other than the owner, they are different in meaning and scope. Encroachments are unpermitted […]
Buyer Babcock Ranch | Solar Power, Sustainable, New Construction Schedule a Tour  50% of Babcock Ranch’s footprint is set aside for green spaces, and we’ve intentionally developed our town to include stewardship, sustainability, preservation, and restoration as key design features. More than 90% of Babcock Ranch is built upon already impacted pasture, farm, and rock-mined land, and developments are surrounded by areas that will […]
Buyer Cash Rules   Since October 2022, the share of buyers purchasing their home without a mortgage has been more than one-quarter of the market and includes buyers who purchased primary homes, investors, and vacation buyers. These all-cash home buyers are happily avoiding the higher mortgage interest rates, which touched 7% in the Fall of 2022 before trending […]
Buyer Law Will Impact Some Foreign-Buyer Purchases   Image Source: Mediaonela/ Getty Images Two Florida Realtors® lawyers – Vice President of Law and Policy and General Counsel Juana Watkins, and Deputy General Counsel Marcia Tabak – hosted a webinar on July 29 to give members an overview of upcoming changes when a bill passed by the Florida Legislature and signed by Gov. […]
Buyer Florida Hometown Heroes Housing Program Good news! Florida Housing will receive $100 million in additional Hometown Heroes funding beginning July 1st. Please check back for updates to the program as we get closer to the July 1, 2023, effective date. The Florida Hometown Heroes Housing Program makes homeownership affordable for eligible frontline community workers such as law enforcement officers, firefighters, […]
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