The longtime lakefront home of the late real estate investor and philanthropist Robert “Bob” Gordon and his wife, Arlette, has changed hands for $7.8 million, according to the price recorded Wednesday on the warranty deed filed with the Palm Beach County Clerk’s office. Palm Beachers Abe and Giovana Haruvi bought the five-bedroom house at 980 [...]

Fite Shavell & Associates closed the sale of a five-bedroom, 6½-bath home in Old Marsh Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens for $2.65 million, one of the highest prices paid for a home in the exclusive neighborhood since March 2009. It was under contract 72 days after listed and initially was priced at $2.95 million.The [...]

Mirasol manor Expansive home offers golf, water views SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY his stunning single-story home in Mirosal in Palm Beach Gardens offers water and golf views. It features five bedrooms and 5½ bathrooms in 7,043 square feet of living space, and 10,565 total square feet.The home at 116 Via Capri was built in 2003. [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. –  Florida’s existing home and existing condo sales continued their upswing in September, according to the latest housing data released by Florida Realtors®. Existing home sales increased 10 percent last month with a total of 15,036 homes sold statewide compared to 13,723 homes sold in September 2010, according to Florida Realtors. “One of [...]

DANA POINT, Calif., Oct. 14, 2011 — The Beach House at Dana Point, an exquisite beachfront residence with adjacent buildable lot along the white sands and crystal blue waters of the Pacific Ocean, will be sold during a live auction on November 11th by Concierge Auctions and First Team Real Estate. Originally listed for $10.5 million, the property will sell to the highest [...]

Over just two years, homes prices in the United States of America have risen by almost 3 to 6%. What does this trend reveal about owning a home? Home loans and home mortgages are the only way out This should be a worrying trend as it also seen in almost every part of the world. [...]

Real estate agents who sell single-family homes in Palm Beach may need to replace their Jimmy Choo pumps and Gucci loafers for the upcoming season. The latest Evans Report sales analysis shows plenty of shoe leather hit the pavement during the first half of this year, when the number of house sales rose substantially over [...]

Kyle Richard’s husband, Mauricio Umansky, has partnered with Billy Rose and Blair Chang to form a new real estate company, “The Agency.”  Sounds more like a top-secret NSA underground government black-ops outfit than it does a real estate venture… Here’s what Mauricio hopes his new real estate company will accomplish…and he’s talkin’ directly to you, [...]

The Obama Administration’s Making Home Affordable program may have gotten off to a slow start, but ever since the press started criticizing the program’s insipid results, things have improved quickly and dramatically. According to data released by the U.S. Teaseury Department, when you add up the numbers of loan modifications being reported by the Hope Wow [...]

From January 1 ’11 to September 5 ’11 for Home Estate/PUD in Carpinteria Real Estate/Summerland Real Estate there were 61 sales compared to 53 in ’10 and the median sales price has gone up from $665,000 last year to $700,000 this year. The average has gone down however, falling from $1.193 million last year to $916,072 this [...]