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Leisure Linx announces the launch of four new websites, aimed at showcasing leisure accommodations and property for sale with social media. These dynamic websites enhance the Internet search experience by socially engaging visitors with the Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn pages of its lodging and real estate professionals. The online real estate and travel experience is further highlighted with special offers, testimonials, photos, detailed property descriptions, pricing, and booking information… Continue

By: Brittany Dunn

As many exotic adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) are set to recast in 2010, the Consumer Mortgage Audit Center (CMAC) is projecting a mortgage crisis in 2010 as large as the subprime.

“We’ve spoken to Florida attorneys who sit at the forefront of the U.S. foreclosure crisis and have learned that 53 percent expect recasting ARMs to present a mortgage crisis as large as subprime and 61 percent expect to work on more loan modifications in 2010 than they did in 2009,” said Sylvia… Continue

BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Homeowners lost almost half a trillion dollars in the value of their homes this year, down from $3.6 trillion in 2008, when the real-estate bubble burst.

Forty-eight of 154 housing markets tracked by Zillow, an online real-estate marketplace that maintains a database of housing statistics, showed gains this year, with the Boston metropolitan area posting the largest increase, $23.3 billion, to its estimated $540 billion in housing stock. Boston had a loss of $54 billion in… Continue

RISMEDIA, November 24, 2009—When I entered the real estate industry in 1984 I was told real estate was a numbers game. I never forgot that. The more people I reached and made a connection with, the better chance I had they would turn into buyers and sellers.

I was young and eager to succeed so I called a minimum of 50 people every day from the Yellow Pages, ran as many newspaper ads as my pocketbook would allow, sent out flyers, sent out postcards, etc. I tried to reach as many people as I coul… Continue

By Paul Owers South Florida Sun-Sentinel

A tsunami of South Florida foreclosures in the pipeline is dampening hopes for a housing recovery, despite an optimistic report Monday on home sales and prices.

Sales of existing homes rose 32 percent in Broward County in October, to 826 from 625 a year ago, the Florida Association of Realtors said. The median price was $211,600, down 16 percent from a year ago.

In Palm Beach County, sales rose 36 percent, to 841 from 618, while the median price of $24… Continue