Miami-Dade County, once center stage for the U.S. foreclosure crisis, has fallen to fifth place out of the country’s biggest hot spots for distressed...

St. Joe Company and four former executives agreed to pay $3.7 million to settle charges of improper accounting for residential projects in the late 2000s....

Home flippers are playing a role in South Florida’s real estate comeback, the Sun-Sentinel reported. Buyers are picking up distressed homes at big discounts,...

Hedge funds are snapping up discounted single-family homes in South Florida to feed a growing appetite for rental properties, the Palm Beach Post reported....

Home prices may be rising, but many of these gains are based on the demand for distressed properties, especially among first-time home-buyers and deal-seeking...

Distressed sales, including short sales and real estate owned transactions, accounted for a large portion of the drop in U.S. home prices in March,...

Special servicers are getting creative with their stall tactics as the volume of distressed retail mortgages mounts, according to industry magazine Retail Traffic. Loan...

Summer 2009 marked the first time in almost two years that the seasonally-adjusted Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index rose, according to a S&P...

In the distressed commercial real estate market, so-called real estate “vultures” are swooping in to take advantage of low-cost opportunities. Barry Sternlicht, chairman and...

Lew Freeman, Principal of LBF Global Investors looking at the low prices of South Florida distressed assets can’t focus on the cost alone, according...