MANATEE - The bad news: the number of existing-home sales fell 8 percent in Bradenton-Sarasota in January, compared to a year earlier. The good news: Bradenton-Sarasota was the second strongest performing market in the state, which saw the number of sales fall 27 percent.
Helping more homes change hands was a 20 percent fall in the [...]

Local real estate professionals reacted to the final sales figures for 2006, released Thursday by the Florida Association of Realtors, by saying the market correction has plateaued and the local real estate industry is likely on the rebound.
The final statistics for existing single-family homes showed that sales in the Bradenton-Sarasota market fell 34 percent in [...]

A few projects may have been canceled or, in the words of some developers, “repurposed.” But it seems that the condo-sales market in Center City fared better during the 2006 real estate slowdown than markets did in Washington, New York, Boston, Miami and Las Vegas, according to economists, developers and local real estate agents.
Though final [...]

Napier real estate agent Malcolm Cox has called for an independent authority to deal with complaints and offences relating to the real estate industry.
Mr Cox, of Cox Partners Estate Agents in Napier, said the real estate industry should not be the judge and jury of its own people.
The call follows a Real Estate Institute investigation [...]

While hurricane Rita certainly hurt the southeast Texas community, local real estate agents say it may have helped too.
A study by the national association of realtor shows prices in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area increased at the 10th highest rate in the country.
Real-estate agents say a dried up rental market has not only caused home sales [...]