It seems to be a trend, no thanks to the housing market crash and the recent foreclosure stoppage in most states: former homeowners are turning into renters. And South Florida is following in the trend. The area’s Boward and Palm Beach counties have been seeing fewer empty rental apartments and higher rental rates year after year.
The flurry of foreclosures in the past four years may have scared residents out of owning a home, leading to a boom in the rental housing market. Most new renters are actually former …

Two Clay County mortgage loan modification companies were ordered shut down on Thursday by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation (OFR) and the county’s Sheriff Office, issuing search warrants at the same time enabling authorities to sift through the companies’ records for possible malfeasance.
Ordered closed were Global Equity Solutions, located at 3332 Old Jennings Road in Middleburg and Hope Financial Services at 252 College Drive in Orange Park.
Immediately following the clamp down and the execution of search warrants by the sheriff’s office, the OFR also issued cease-and-desist orders …

“Presales for Ocean Pearl Estates are very strong, and the luxury home market is relatively independent from economic fluctuations”
Pompano Beach, FL October 11, 2006 - Katerina Brosda, Broker Associate with Century 21 Oceanfront Realty and principal at MiamiJustListed.com signed an agreement to exclusively market and sell Ocean Pearl Estates, an elite enclave in Pompano Beach, Florida featuring a gated community of sophisticated, ultra-modern and art-deco-chic 4-story town homes across the street from the beach at the Atlantic Ocean.
Katerina Brosda, who has been appointed in the past by various Florida …

Gulf Actions Spill Counsel (GASP), a national team of prominent attorneys, allege multiple failures by BP, Halliburton and other Defendants
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As the devastating BP oil spill increasingly threatens Florida’s fishing, maritime and tourism industries, a team of nationally known attorneys led by Tallahassee lawyer and Northeastern University Professor P. Tim Howard last night filed an amended complaint in one of the first Florida class action lawsuits over the sinking of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.
First filed last Friday in the U.S. District Court …