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Brevard Property Values Break Freefall

Local property values have flattened after a long decline, a positive sign for the economy, as well as for Brevard County and its municipalities, which are beginning work on their budgets for the coming year. According to preliminary estimates from Property Appraiser Jim Ford, this year's decline in taxable property values will be less than 1 percent...

Brevard property foreclosure registry in progress

Brevard County officials plan to establish a registry of foreclosed residential and commercial properties in unincorporated areas of the county to better track who is responsible for blighted sites and to get them cleaned up faster. Brevard County commissioners gave county staff the go-ahead to work out details of how the registry would work, including...

New high-speed rail effort won't preclude train service on Treasure Coast

Treasure Coast officials and Amtrak supporters who have been working for about 13 years to bring passenger service back to the Florida East Coast Railway, say they don't see All Aboard Florida as a threat. "We're pleased to hear about All Aboard Florida," Amtrak Government Affairs Director Thomas "Todd" Stennis told his company's supporters last month...

South Florida housing prices have hit bottom, Zillow analysts declare

There are three little words South Floridians have longed to hear since the housing slide began: "We've hit bottom." Analysts at the online real estate database Zillow are declaring just that for Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties in a report to be released today that shows tri-county home prices bottomed out in the latter part of 2011. Although...

South Florida's Commercial Real Estate Market Takes Center Stage

In two weeks, leading brokers, industry experts and commercial real estate stars will come together for the 5th Annual Commercial Real Estate Luncheon organized by the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce. The event, in partnership with the Commercial Industrial Association of South Florida, Realtors Commercial Alliance of the MIAMI Association of Realtors...