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Florida may require disclosure of flooding in homes for sale

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Florida may require disclosure of flooding in homes for sale

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Florida may require disclosure of flooding in homes for sale

Florida lawmakers are expected to consider proposals that would require people selling real estate to tell buyers about whether the property has suffered damage from flooding. The bills filed for the March session come after two hurricanes struck the state in 2022. Sen. Jennifer Bradley, R-Fleming Island, filed a bill (SB 484) on Thursday that would set a series of disclosure requirements. Rep. Susan Valdes, D-Tampa, filed a similar measure (HB 325) last month. [Source: News Service of Florida]

Experts and their data differ on the future of South Florida’s real estate market

Is Florida headed for a housing crisis, or are home prices ready to rise again? Well, it might depend on which statistical data you prefer. A recent report by GOBankingRates.com, titled "7 Florida cities that could be headed for a housing crisis," includes Miami, but an article by Goldman Sachs researchers last week, titled "Miami to escape the home price correction in 2023," shows that home values in the Magic City could be back on the upswing. [Source: Islander News]

New bill would make it riskier to sue to protect undeveloped lands

Floridians would be on the hook to pay when they lose lawsuits that oppose building new homes on undeveloped lands, under a newly filed bill. Environmental groups fear that if the bill were to pass, it would deter people from filing lawsuits limiting development — and lead to greater sprawl. “The intent of the legislation seems to be to chill people from filing these sorts of challenges,” said Gil Smart, Policy Director for the Friends of the Everglades. “These are often situations that are controversial — development is such a huge issue statewide.” [Source: Orlando Sentinel]

How backlash reversed a Florida city’s reforms to allow denser housing

Just hours after being sworn in, commissioners in the Florida college town of Gainesville voted to reverse a zoning plan that sought to increase housing supply in the city. That plan, passed by a lame duck city commission in August, had made Gainesville the first city in Florida to eliminate single-family only zoning citywide. Now local leaders are poised to repeal the plan before it can be implemented. [Source: Bloomberg]

Here are the states Americans are moving to — and the states they are ditching

The pandemic sparked a restlessness in American life, with many families opting to move in search of more space or a lower cost of living. That trend continued in 2022, with hundreds of thousands of people uprooting their lives and moving to new states. The states that attracted the most new residents in 2022 are Florida, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina, followed by other states in the South and West. [Source: CBS News]

STAT OF THE WEEK
$22 million
The Walgreen Co.’s real estate staff has been busy. Over the past several weeks the drug store chain has rid itself of four properties in and around Tampa Bay, totaling nearly $22 million in sales. [Source: Business Observer]

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