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Home Prices Expected to Bounce Back in 2008 The prices of existing and new homes are expected to bounce back next year after a dreary 2007, a real estate trade group said Wednesday. The National Association of Realtors also said it expects existing-home sales to rise to nearly 6.4 million in 2008...

Paulson: Housing slump likely near endThe Associated Press, Martin Crutsinger (AP Economics Writer)WASHINGTON - June 21, 2007 - The major slump in the housing market is nearing an end and should not have a significant impact on the overall economy, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday....

The Florida market has been hit particularly hard by the current real estate slowdown. Investors, potential owners of second homes and retirees are backing away from buying there, says David Hehman, chief executive of EscapeHomes.com , a vacation home Web site. In the Fort Myers and Cape Coral ar...

You'll find no better experts on the real estate boom and bust than Joyce and Louis Bertulfo. Between 2004 and 2006 the couple successfully navigated a hot San Jose housing market, buying and selling two homes for a profit. By the time they relocated to Tampa with their three children this Januar...

UF study: The price is right, so buy now GAINESVILLE , Fla. - March 9, 2007 - Hopeful homebuyers in Florida should act now: The price is right as the state's single-family residential housing market bottoms out, according to a University of Florida study released today. "If you're thinking of buy...

REAL ESTATE The Buyer's Advantage In most markets, buyers are calling the shots. Sellers have to be smarter. By Pat Mertz Esswein From Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, March 2007 As spring arrives, home sellers and buyers are dredging up tools and tactics that have lain dormant ever since t...

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - It will be either a major boon or a boondoggle, depending on who's talking.But one thing is certain - a proposed new Panama City-Bay County International Airport could within two years change how metro Atlantans think about getting to the sugar-white sands of the Florida...

Seagrove Beach an ideal getaway from crowd in Florida panhandle Cassine Garden resort sits quietly near beach By Linda Howdeshell Tuesday, March 6, 2007 4:40 PM CSTThe tiny hamlet of Seagrove Beach in Walton County, Florida, was established in 1946 and has been the vacation destination for genera...

The Best Places to (Still) Invest It's far too late to play the buy-and-flip game. But there are some great opportunities out there for those with the patience to buy and hold. By Paul Kaihla, Janet Rae-Dupree and Michael Fitzhugh, Business 2.0 Magazine February 12 2007: 4:56 PM EST(Business 2.0 ...

Florida Panhandle: No Longer the "Redneck Riviera"by Lew SichelmanOnce the province of vacationers and second-home owners from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and elsewhere in the Deep South, the strip of the Florida Gulf Coast that stretches from Panama City Beach to Destin and once known as the "...