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Check out the latest news and notes that relates to the Real Estate Market and Central Florida.  Keep up to date with mortgage rates, housing pricing trends, and other related items that impact Central Florida and the surrounding area.

• Rent Prices Climb While Asking Prices Point Towards Recovery

  May, 09 12 Post by: gwalmsley | No Comments

  While reports on home prices have been mostly uninspiring, with some flickering of hope here and there, rent prices continue Read More

• Metro Orlando Home Values Increase In March

  May, 09 12 Post by: gwalmsley | No Comments

  

  Metro Orlando saw another year-over-year increase in home values in March, according to a new report by CoreLogic.

  The Orlando area, Read More

• OIA Experiences Double-Digit International Traffic Growth in March

  May, 09 12 Post by: gwalmsley | No Comments

  

  The Central Florida area proved to be a very attractive international destination for the first quarter of 2012. Orlando International Read More

• Census: Homeownership Hit 15-Year Low In 1Q

  May, 09 12 Post by: gwalmsley | No Comments

  

  The American dream of homeownership is at its lowest point in 15 years, the latest evidence of a housing market Read More

• Is Fla.’s Shadow Inventory A Rebound Threat?

  May, 09 12 Post by: gwalmsley | No Comments

  

  The term “shadow inventory” hangs over the real estate market, suggesting a thinly veiled catastrophe seen through the mist, just Read More

• Stunned Home Buyers Find The Bidding Wars Are Back

  May, 09 12 Post by: gwalmsley | No Comments

  

  A new development is catching home buyers off guard as the spring sales season gets under way: Bidding wars are Read More

• Florida Trend On Lake Nona

  May, 09 12 Post by: gwalmsley | No Comments

  

  An economic tale of two cities in Florida

  Orlando and St. Petersburg embody the Florida challenge: Creating a new economic reality Read More

• Downtown Orlando’s SunTrust Center Sells For $131.5M

  May, 09 12 Post by: gwalmsley | No Comments

  

  The nearly 600,000-square-foot SunTrust Center in Orlando has another new owner less than two years after it changed hands as Read More

• Orange County Convention Center Ranked Top Center In U.S.

  May, 09 12 Post by: gwalmsley | No Comments

  

  The Orange County Convention Center has been ranked the top convention center in the U.S. by Business Review USA.

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• Disney Announces New Opening Dates For Fantasyland

  May, 09 12 Post by: gwalmsley | No Comments

  

  Walt Disney World has announced new opening dates for Magic Kingdom’s Fanatsyland, Central Florida News 13 reports.

  The next phase of Read More