Newsroom Archive

VERO BEACH, Fla. — When Hollie Billero Buldo bought her first home at 23, she admits she was nervous. She had scraped together savings for a down payment and wondered if she was really ready.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s housing market reported more closed sales, increased pending sales and higher pending inventory in April 2026, compared to the previous year, according to Florida Realtors®’ latest housing data.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — At a gym in Panama City Beach, a broker watched Charles Sower chat up strangers between sets and made a bold pitch: “You’d be good at real estate.” Sower laughed it off, but the seed was planted. After retiring from a 20-year Coast Guard career, he took a year off, learned he didn’t want to live on retirement alone, and decided to try the thing everyone said he’d be good at. Nine years later, the joke’s on him.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) has selected Form Simplicity, one of the real estate industry’s most trusted and widely used transaction management solutions owned by Florida Realtors®, to provide members with an easier, more streamlined and accurate way to complete rental forms.

ORLANDO, Fla. — As the spring season began, Florida’s housing market reported more closed sales, increased pending sales and a rise in pending inventory in March and the first quarter of 2026, compared to a year ago, according to Florida Realtors®’ latest housing data.

MIAMI — Nineteen years into a career at Miami Children’s Hospital, Sandra Fernandez looked around her department and did the math. She loved the work but felt limited in her career advancement. Over lunch, she told her manager how stuck she felt. The reply changed everything: “Let’s take a real estate class together.”