Home sales are on the rise in Florida, but house prices are still seeing downward pressure in a state hit hard by the foreclosure crisis.
Existing-home sales rose 3% in May with 17, 288 homes sold, up from 16, 790 homes in May 2010 while existing-condo sales climbed 17% with 8,338 units sold statewide, up from 7,104 units the year before, according to Florida Realtors.
Median sales prices on existing single-family homes declined 5% to $135, 500 from $142, 900.
The Professional Builder 2011 Housing Giants report is out. We decided to take a peak to see if any Atlanta home builders are amongst the nation’s 225 largest builders, and here is what we found.
Of Atlanta’s hometown builder operations, John Wieland Homes is ranked highest at number 42. Other Atlanta building companies who made this year’s cut include Marietta based Traton Homes, as well as Sharp Residential, Peachtree Residential Properties and Piedmont Residential. A BIG
Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) announced today that the South Texas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (STCADA) received federal funding from a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant in the amount of $893,614. In addition to the HUD grant, Webb County District Attorney Chilo Alaniz and Sheriff Martin Cuellar both contributed $48,667 each and Mr. Javier Santos, on behalf of the Fernando A. Salinas Trust, contributed $50,691 bringing the total amount of funding for the project to $1,041,639.
The funds will support the “Next Step Project” which aims to provide permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless as they transition into self-sufficiency.
“Twenty housing units will be built through the Next Step Project to support the homeless in the Laredo and Webb County area, many of whom are struggling with issues such as mental illness, substance abuse and domestic violence,” Congressman Cuellar said. “The aw
Sabal Palm, the land at the center of public corruption charges against three city officials, is under new management and closer to evolving from a defunct golf course into a community of single-family homes and townhouses.
The land was owned by father-and-son developers Bruce and Shawn Chait, who sold it for $7.3 million last month to 13th Floor Investments in Miami, according to Broward County property records.
You can get to the water garden in all sorts of ways.
You might meander through the ginkgo allee, where the crunch of pea gravel under your soles plays against the rising crescendo of hard-splashing water. Or you could cut through the rose garden, where bumblebees put in a hard day’s buzz. Perhaps you would parade through the open-air canopy of seven hand-forged steel arcs, then sweep by the meadow, a drift of prairie grasses and perennials that would make an impressionist painter drool. Read more…