Your summer escape, your winter sanctuary or a year round inviting haven, Singer Island, Florida is an oasis for its residents no matter what time of the year.

Singer Island, between North Palm Beach and Riviera Beach, Florida rests a beautiful oceanfront community that offers a tranquil blend of natural beauty of up to seven miles of white sandy beaches and upscale resorts, homes, and high rise condominiums.

John D. MacArthur State Park resides on the island and features many environmental activities. Such as, snorkeling and scuba diving, hiking and biking trails, natural wonders filled with mangroves forests for the eco-adventurer. “Nestled on the barrier island the park also sits in the urban estuary of Lake Worth Lagoon and the Intracoastal…

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Mid-way into 2015 and the American housing market is continuing to boom. Of late, new construction and building permits have been sky rocketing. Over the past year, building permit applications have risen 30%, an incredible advance compared to years past.

There are a few factors leading experts to believe that housing starts will only continue to rise in the upcoming months. Some of these factors influencing the promising stats include; a currently robust inflation and a recent rise in homebuilder sentiment. Home builder sentiment is a homebuilders' confidence in the market for new homes. The level of home builder sentiment in the United States is back up to levels not seen since the height of the housing boom a…

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Found in the highly desirable city of Palm Beach Gardens is a brand-new and beautiful community called Alton. Designed by Kolter Homes, Alton will feature over 1 square mile of luxury homes, hotel, shops and retail businesses as well as 136 acres of lush parks, lakes, nature preserves and open space.

Comprised of 2,000 single and multifamily homes, 700 apartments and 300 hotel rooms, Alton offers something for every lifestyle. Alton also offers over 500,000 square feet of retail space and also include up to 3.8 million square feet of biotech and office space for the future expansion of the Scripps Research Institute.

This incredible community is intended to offer a cutting edge and superb level of living with an energetic community atmosphere unlike…

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Last week, realtors from across the nation attended or virtually attended a conference held by the REALTOR® University Richard J. Rosenthal Center for Real Estate Studies during the REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo about the importance and benefits of “urban developments.”   Walk able urban developments are the up and coming trend in real estate development, and with good reason. In highly populated, urban areas this concept, “Creates walkability with restaurants and stores can help transition an edgy part of town into one that is hip and hopping with pedestrians,” said National Association of Realtors® Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. “This type of real estate development transforms the community for the better.”  

Christopher…

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Have you always pictured what your home should look like, but just couldn’t get it right on your own, The Home Design and Remodeling Show offers help and have been conveying the most prosperous Home Shows to the South Florida area. For over 40 years, the spectacle brings purveyors that offer superior products and services to the homeowners who are fascinated in renovating, decorating or want to purely enhance the appearance of their household.

There is a lot scheduled for the Fort Lauderdale Home Design and Remodeling Show planned for Memorial Day weekend, May 22-25, at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  This is the only place where professional vendors are able to network and intermingle with the homeowners, which in turn…

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The State of Florida Senate Finance and Tax Committee is in support of reducing commercial real estate lease tax.  The bill (SB 140) recommends reducing the current 6% tax on commercial real estate leases to 5%.  This reduction makes Florida even more attractive, in addition to the perfect weather and beautiful beaches, for homeowners and business owners.

Under the bill, the cut would take effect January 1, 2016.  Reduction in the state tax commercial real estate lease percentage will allow Florida to compete for businesses to move to the state.

Governor Scott said, “This part of our Tax Cut Agenda is a $100 million reduction in the sales tax on commercial rent, which costs businesses about $1.4 billion per year. This reduction will make it more…

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Housing Market Growth

The U.S. housing market continues to recover even with a slight dip in housing stars (i.e. new home construction). Due to a strengthening economy and gains in the job market, the housing market has been positively affected and continues to strengthen. 

However, in 2014 we saw an overall increase of 19% in housing start ups and as of January 2015 that number has fallen. “U.S. housing starts fell 2% in January from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.065 million,” the Commerce Department said Wednesday, February 18. This dip reflects a decline in new construction of single-family homes. This decrease reflects solely on new construction of single-family homes NOT apartment complexes. Nor does the dip affect the market for already…

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South Florida Weather

You can almost continuously tip your sun hat by the ending of another flawless day in South Florida. It is the state with the sunniest winter climate on the east side of the United States as well as the highest temperatures on average during the winter months. “The climate has always been Florida's most important natural resources, which is reflected in its official nickname, the Sunshine State."

According to the Palm Beach Post and New York Daily News, the tourism office in Ithaca, New York is waving the flag urging visitors to go to Florida instead! Stating that “The home page displays Sunshine State vacation photos and provides links to the website for tourism information about the Florida Keys and Key West. The National Weather Service say anywhere…

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infographic-research-2014-job-growth-02-05-2015_1139 Infographic: National Association of Realtors   2015 is full steam ahead with positive market trends in more than one market! Well into February and 2015 is continuing to show signs of a healthier economy in the United States. “Existing-home sales are forecasted to rise about 7% in 2015 behind a strengthening economy, due to solid job gains and a healthy increase in home prices,” according to National Association of Realtors’ Chief Economist, Lawrence Yun.

As the American economy continues to improve and job gains accelerate the ripple effect onto markets such the housing market, especially in home sales. Last year across the nation, 2.95 million new jobs were added to the American economy. Many larger, metro markets (around cities) show the…

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Wealth-X, the world’s leading “ultra-high net worth (UHNW defined as having a net worth of over $30 million) intelligence and prospecting firm with the largest collection of curated research” for the mega rich, noted in the recently released  “Global Luxury Residential Real Estate Report 2015” that nearly $3 trillion of the world’s private wealth is held in owner occupied residential properties.  The report also forecasts “an ongoing shift in the wealth creation cycle from the West to the East.”  Main hubs of luxury real estate are New York City, London and Hong Kong.

Luxury residential real estate is a core component of the high net worth market.  Lifestyle and investment are affected by location.  According to Forbes annual list of richest…

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