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RealtyTrac, the Irvine, Calif., real estate industry analytical firm, reports this week that home bank repossessions were up by 4% in July. For sure, that figure bears watching for August and September. But the big picture tells a different story. Those figures, RealtyTrac reports, are actually d...

Well this is encouraging and also unsettling. It seems like usual the fate of South Florida is driven by real estate. We are clearly in a boom and we have tons of new developments (condos mostly) coming to market. If we bust again, then what. Do we have tons of empty storefronts, or will we have ...

Terry Gene Bollea v. Gawker Media, LLC – USDC M.D. Florida The United States District court for the Middle District of Florida denied the motion for preliminary injunction by Hulk Hogan to compel removal of sex tape from website and to prevent tape from being posted on other websites, finding tha...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Alison Dame-Boyle has a good post on Victoria's Secret bad-tempered attempt to censor a campaign by the feminist group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, which parodied the “Sure Thing” and “Unwrap Me” underwear that Victoria's Secret sells to high-school students...

Anyone considering buying property or land should investigate and research the property carefully on a legal basis, financial basis and by inspection. This advice applies to any land purchase, whether a single lot or a large tract. General advice to the buyer is that decisions should be based o...

How to Protect Yourself: Worthless Bank Checks What is a Worthless Check? Under Florida law, any checks returned “NSF” (non-sufficient funds), “Account Not Found” or “NSF Unless Otherwise Indicated is a worthless check subject to prosecution under Florida's criminal statutes. Checks stamped “Re...

Identify theft plagues our world these days. The horror stories are endless. Identity theft is a serious problem that affects millions each year. When an imposter uses your name, social security number (SSN), credit card number, or any other form of personal information without your knowledge, it...

A barometer of South Florida house prices increased in May for a 17th consecutive month. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index, released Tuesday, rose 14.2 percent from a year ago. Case-Shiller measures Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties and 19 other major metropolitan areas. All 20 p...

You could lose your home, the equity you have built in your home, and your money if you are pressured to take out a loan by unscrupulous lenders or mortgage brokers who offer you a high-cost loan you cannot afford. Mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers may mislead you into signing a loan that is ...

Foreign investors, who rapaciously scooped up U.S. real estate during the 2007-2009 recession, are backing away from the same markets they so eagerly jumped into a few years ago. Real estate brokers say demand from international investors has flagged in locations that have been most attractive to...

Gloria Estefan's Miami restaurant “Bongos Cuban Cafe” is being sued after a woman was reportedly ‘disfigured' TMZ reports. The woman is claiming “bodily injury, pain, physical handicap, disfigurement, mental pain and suffering, loss of income, and loss of the capacity to enjoy life.” The woman, G...

It appears that Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust has settled its differences with Juiceblendz and former Miami Dolphins' star Jason Taylor. The Coral Gables-based bank filed a lawsuit in March against the Weston-based company, CEO Jason Adam Ogden and Taylor, an investor in the company, over a line...

A lawsuit claiming that the gallery owner Larry Gagosian defrauded a prominent collector is pulling back the curtain, if ever so slightly, on the way high-end deals are sometimes made in the contemporary art world. The collector, Jan Cowles, 93, sued in January, accusing Mr. Gagosian of selling a...

Attorneys Jonathan Davidoff and Aaron Resnick to try Federal Court Action Involving Carmine's Restaurants The New York Post has recently reported on a case handled by Attorneys Jonathan Davidoff and Aaron Resnick. To read the article, click here. Mr. Davidoff is the lead counsel on the case and M...

Well one thing is for sure, the market for the Versace Mansion was not $125 million or the $75 million that it has been previously listed for. The posh US seaside villa where Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace lived and was murdered in 1997 sold in auction Tuesday for $41.5 million. The full...

Electronic Arts' college sports franchises have been sacked by a U.S. federal appeals court. In a 2-1 vote, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court that EA had used the images in its video games of several ex-NCAA athletes without their permission in its NCAA football and ...

Florida led the nation in foreclosure filings during June, though Orlando experienced a decline in activity compared with a year earlier, a new report shows. “There is an indication that the shadow inventory is still there, but there is also an indication that the courts in Florida are slowly but...

A Florida lawyer once dubbed the “foreclosure king” should be disbarred for failing to supervise law firm personnel who mishandled foreclosures and filed improperly notarized paperwork, a disciplinary referee has concluded. The lawyer, David Stern, closed his firm in 2011 amid lost work caused by...

This Article By Mark Huffman Below Comes from http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/foreclosure-crisis-over-the-data-is-mixed-082713.html It is my opinion that we are far from the end. Certain markets have appeared to recover from the bottom, but there are hundreds of thousands of foreclosures on t...

Foreclosures on U.S. properties are down 23% for the first six months of 2013 compared to the first half of last year with a total of 801,359 properties with filings, according to RealtyTrac's Midyear 2013 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. Filings for foreclosure–including default notices, schedule...

Floyd “Money” Mayweather has been sued by VIP lifestyle management firm called “White Glove International” for $80,000 plus interest for failure to pay for courtside seat at game 7 of the NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs. TZM reports that Mayweather is said to have purchase...

The Florida Legislature enacted the Florida Uniformed Servicemembers Act (FUSPA) to protect members of the military who deploy in the defense of the United States. The FUSPA codifies several areas of concern which the Legislature feels are necessary to protect Florida's military personnel. The FU...

It never ceases to amaze me that while the lenders are settling with the government for billions of dollars admitting their fraudulent foreclosure practices, the State of Florida is again trying to gut its citizens and residents by passing bills that undermine homeowner rights including the right...

Five of the nation's largest banks have provided $3.6 billion in mortgage relief for Floridians as part of a nationwide foreclosure settlement, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday. An additional $1.3 billion in modification relief is “in the pipeline,” Bondi said in a written statement. M...

In 2005, Florida's legislature decided that commercial real estate brokers needed the protection of lien rights. To cure the problem, the legislature adopted a comprehensive statutory system by which commercial brokers could establish liens for both sales and rental commissions. The commercial br...