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Florida Realtors file lawsuit seeking end to CDC eviction moratorium | Florida Trend Real Estate – Florida Trend

May 24, 2021 by Staff Reporter

Florida Realtors file lawsuit seeking end to CDC eviction moratorium

A major Florida real-estate group is challenging a federal moratorium on evicting renters during the COVID-19 pandemic. The group Florida Realtors filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Tampa that described the moratorium imposed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “an unprecedented and unlawful federal administrative order.” The lawsuit contends that the CDC overstepped its legal authority in imposing the moratorium, which is scheduled to expire June 30. [Source: News Service of Florida]

Major funding source for affordable housing in Florida slashed in half

A major funding source for affordable housing in Florida has been slashed by 50%. But an expert in the field says there could be a silver lining. The state Affordable Housing Trust Fund (known in Tallahassee as the Sadowski fund) covers things like down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, repairs of older homes, and construction of affordable houses. A bill awaiting the Governor’s signature would permanently reduce the amount of money sent to that fund. [Source: WEAR]

As hurricane season approaches, three insurers are canceling thousands of Florida customers

As another hurricane season bears down on the state, more than 50,000 Florida home insurance customers will soon receive notices that their policies have been canceled or won’t be renewed. State insurance regulators recently authorized “extraordinary” terminations of thousands of policies of Florida-based insurers Universal Insurance of North America, Gulfstream Property & Casualty, and Southern Fidelity. And the bloodletting will likely continue over the coming months with other insurers seeking to shed risky or unprofitable policies. [Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

Can’t find a home to buy? More people are building instead

More people are choosing to build their own homes in South Florida as bidding wars push prices out of sight and existing homes remain scarce. Sales for newly constructed homes have surged 113% compared with last year, according to Zonda Home, a market research company for the real estate industry. It’s a shift escalated by the COVID-19 pandemic, as a newly built home is seen as a simpler, less complicated option than buying an existing home. [Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

Effort to save Dunedin’s Kellogg mansion shifts to guest house

There’s a new focus among those hoping to preserve the history of the nearly century-old “Kellogg mansion” in Dunedin, and it looks like a compromise. The city’s Historical Preservation Committee held an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss what might be done concerning the home once owned by W.K. Kellogg, founder of Kellogg’s cereal, at 129 Buena Vista Drive S. The home, which was on the market for years and was listed at $4.59 million, remains under a sales contract with a Pinellas County physician who plans to demolish it to make room for a new family home. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]

STAT OF THE WEEK
$515,000
In Miami-Dade County, the median sales price for a house grew to $515,000 in April, a 5% increase from $491,250 in March, according to the latest Miami Realtors Association sales report. [Source: Miami Herald]

ALSO TRENDING:

› ‘Now, it’s about elevation’: Buying a South Florida home in the era of sea level rise [WUSF]
In South Florida, top considerations for choosing a new home have shifted, thanks to climate change. “Before it was location, location, location. Now, it’s about elevation, elevation, elevation. The new buyer has to worry about both,” said George Jalil, broker and president at Miami Way Realty.

› Southwest Florida housing market sees rising cash-paid homes [WINK News]
An exorbitant amount of people are paying cash to Florida homes, and we learned last month that at least 25% of homes sold in the state were all cash purchases. That’s great for sellers, but we’ve seen what it means for people who buy a home. Real estate broker Kelly Constantin said he saw homes selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars above the asking price. She started to schedule viewing every 30 to 15 minutes, but the demand for homes is so high that they just open the home.

› Punch time clock heir sells oceanfront Palm Beach estate for $95M [The Real Deal]
Edward G. Watkins sold his oceanfront Palm Beach estate for $95 million, marking the second most expensive sale this year in the ritzy town. Records show The Goodrich Florida Realty Trust II sold the mansion at 1341 South Ocean Boulevard to The 1341 South Ocean Boulevard Trust. The buying entity borrowed $60 million from Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Mortgage to finance the purchase.

› Massey Properties to break ground on luxury homes with airplane hangars in Florida’s Volusia County this year [Orlando Business Journal]
An Edgewater-based real estate firm is soaring toward expansion of its airfield residential development. Massey Properties & Associates LLC plans to break ground by September on 13 single-family homes with private hangars next to Massey Ranch Airpark in Edgewater, Massey Properties broker Bliss Jamison told Orlando Business Journal. The construction likely would create jobs and subcontractor opportunities, while also adding to Volusia County’s bustling airpark residential sector.

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