Short sales, real estate owned properties, and bank properties were a significant reason that deeply discounted South Florida condos, townhouses, and single-family houses traded in 2008.

For the year, resales fell by -19 percent in Miami, -4 percent in South Florida, and -6 percent throughout the state of Florida.

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Sales of South Florida condominium units and single-family houses jumped on a year-over-year basis by nearly 17 percent in the month of November as buyers picked off bank-owned properties, foreclosures, and deeply discounted residences.

For the second week in a row, the number of available residential properties in South Florida has dropped by several hundred units as the number of new pending sales has increased by a smaller amount, according to a new report by Condo Vultures® LLC.

Construction lender Wachovia Bank has filed a foreclosure lawsuit on the remaining 285 units in the new 42-story Wind by Neo condominium tower in Greater Downtown Miami, according to Miami-Dade County records.

Greater Orlando has nearly 156,000 vacant residential lots sitting idle in central Florida due to the state’s dramatic housing crash.

South Florida’s number of active residential listings decreased by -1 percent on a week-over-week basis to 106,420 condos, townhouses, and single-family houses, while the number of pending sales increased 1 percent to 9,393 properties on Dec. 1, according to a new report from Condo Vultures® Realty LLC.

South Florida has a combined 107,527 condos, townhouses, and single-family houses for sale and an additional 9,302 residences under contract as of Nov. 24 in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, according to a new report from Condo Vultures® Realty LLC.

The wealthy may be immune to economic downturns but that hasn’t stopped 33 luxury properties valued at between $1 million and $5 million from going into foreclosure in South Florida, according to a new Vultures Database™ report from Condo Vultures® LLC.