Foreclosure Help | Plantation Florida

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! CBS on Monday announced the names of the first 16 contestants for this season’s Survivor: South Pacific— and among them is a Broward County man.Albert Destrade, 26, of Plantation, who says he is both a baseball and a dating coach, will be introduced when the latest Survivor premiers Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. with a 90-minute episode.Back in 2003, Destrade, who is of Cuban descent, was a stand-out high school outfielder for Florida Christian …

Homes and condominiums in some stage of foreclosure accounted for 42 percent of all Broward County sales in the second quarter, a slight increase from a year ago, RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday. In Palm Beach County, 37 percent of all home and condo sales in April, May and June were in the foreclosure process, up from 25 percent during the same period last year.Nationally, foreclosures accounted for 31 percent of all sales. In 2005, at the height of the housing boom, the share was only about 1 percent.Properties …

As data last week from the Florida Realtors showed, home sales in Broward and Palm Beach counties remain strong even as the national numbers are hit and miss.Sales have been up in the two counties in every month this year compared to 2010. But what can we expect for the rest of the year? We asked two real estate agents and an analyst for their opinions.David Dweck of Charles Rutenberg Realty in Fort Lauderdale says the positive sales trend will continue. “We’re affordable again, and that makes a difference,” …

Broward County’s housing market was one the brightest in Florida in July as home sales and prices rose from a year ago.The county had 1,087 sales of existing homes last month, up 8 percent from July 2010, the Florida Realtors said Thursday. The median price was $193,000, a 5 percent increase.Fort Walton Beach, Melbourne-Titusville and Sarasota-Bradenton were the only other Florida markets where both sales and prices increased. Palm Beach County sales rose 21 percent in July, to 972 from 802. But the median price fell 17 percent …

An encouraging sign for the South Florida housing market: The numbers of homes and condominiums for sale continue to shrink.Palm Beach County had 21,737 listings in July, down 23 percent from July 2010, according to Realtor.com. Broward had 14,932 properties for sale, a 36 percent decline from a year ago.In June, we wrote that the shrinking inventory was giving sellers more power than they’ve enjoyed in years.The glut of homes on the market helped fuel the housing bust during the past several years. Reducing the inventory is a key …