Hortense Leon

When it was called the Panhandle, northwest Florida was considered a sleepy, rural part of the state. Today the area — which runs roughly from Pensacola to Tallahassee — is sprouting large, planned unit developments...

Foreign investment in U.S. commercial real estate continues to grow by leaps and bounds, but fierce competition has boosted the price of admission and led to more creative ways to finance deals — from joint venture...

Everyone in Miami has seen the ads — full-page spreads which look like they belong in Vogue, but that are actually promos for luxury condominiums...

Until the onslaught of the Walt Disney Co. in the 1970s, Orlando was the sleepy center of the citrus industry. Since then, to the outside world it has become synonymous with Disney. But to local residents it has...

After being pummeled by four hurricanes during a six-week span this summer and early fall, Florida's hotel industry is still trying to assess the fallout. The preliminary indication is that some key markets performed...

When Africa-Israel Investments and Brooklyn developer Shaya Boymelgreen announced in July that they were planning to build $1.5 billion of residential and office development near downtown Miami and on South Beach...

In June, Miami Mayor Manny Diaz visited the Manhattan Institute's Center for Civic Innovation to deliver a message: his city's government has been restructured and is more efficient than in years past. As a result...

The long-suffering seniors housing industry has turned a financial corner. The delinquency rate for permanent loans on assisted living properties dropped from 10.01% in the second quarter of 2003 to 4.3% in the third...