by Hubert Miles If you’ve ever been to the beach you’ve seen a beachfront home. Some are large luxury homes while others are more modest. And if you are like me, you’ve probably wished to own one some day. Beachfront homes provide lots of summer fun and even some good investment and rental opportunities. But owning a beachfront home is not always a walk in the park. It is getting hard to find an insurance company to write an affordable policy on a beachfront home.

Real estate : Lease-to-own an option for buyers Florida Today … ‘I do believe there’s someone for every property, and this is it,’ ” said Walker, a Realtor for South Island Real Estate in Melbourne Beach. … and more »

The Coastal Florida barrier island are really spits of shifting sand that move in and out and back and forth with the seasons and the weather. However, they are also beautiful places to live. When hurricanes Frances and Jean in 2004 and then Wilma in 2005 came through, much of the coastal shorline along expensive Singer Island returned from where it came…the sea floor. The gov’t has long used beach replenishment as a means to restore the beach and its expensive real estate and give condos owners confidence.

Yesterday, I posted a piece on the special section of Tequesta Country Club that lies along the Loxahatchee River. What makes River Drive different from the rest of the Club is that the homes face south and look directly across the water where the Jupiter Inlet becomes the famous Loxahatchee River. River Drive is where Steve Marino decided to pay around $ 1.5 million for a home last December and Keith Hernandez lives right down the street. A couple of blocks away Joe Namath has been enjoying the view for years.

Seamless Short Sales Come Of Age – va-mountain-land.com 07/18/2009 Real estate investors looking for steady, relatively safe returns, and who are also interested in helping financially-squeezed homeowners remain in their properties, should check out the “seamless short sale” concept. Rather than homeowners being forced to leave their houses after a short sale to an investor, they instead rent back the property on a triple-net basis for less than they were paying per month to the bank.

Just sold in Paseos in Jupiter Florida I closed today on this house in the Jupiter community of Paseos for $ 350,000. The house was sold in just 17 days because the seller agreed to price the house correctly from the start. He had none of the hidden carrying costs associated with keeping a house on the market for months. If you want to take home the most amount of money for your house, price it correctly from the start. You will get the most amount of activity in the first 3-4 weeks.