Perched above crashing waves at weathered wooden tables, Tides Bar & Grille diners drink in the quaint locale and oceanfront view even while the 49-year-old landmark is up for sale and under foreclosure.
Investors with rental properties and homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages because of other debt can now qualify for federal aid under radical changes to the Obama administration's main foreclosure prevention plan.
Board-certified real estate attorney Gary M. Singer answers housing questions in this space each Friday. To ask him a question about short sales, mortgages, refinancing, homeowner's associations or any other residential real estate topic, click here.
Bank of America Corp was the fourth-biggest U.S. mortgage lender in the fourth quarter of 2011, continuing its descent in the rankings after it stopped buying loans made by smaller banks.
Another sign that the housing market is bouncing back: Century 21, the iconic real estate company, is spending serious coin on a Super Bowl commercial.
Over a few glasses of wine in 2007, South Florida wine insiders Shari Gherman and Monty and Sara Preiser dreamed about putting the area on the map while highlighting American wine?s greatness. The dream included a small judging by the area?s best palates, a large event for the greater wine-loving public, and the opportunity to [...]
Sometimes the simplest dishes are the best. A fresh filet of salmon, thin-sliced and expertly seared, dressed with an Italian first cold press extra-virgin olive oil, crispy, fragrant garlic and fresh herbs, served over a bed of sautéed spinach with sliced potato and crisp green beans. It?s simple and it?s delicious. The key to the [...]
Sal Richards and Guy Richards are headlining the entertainment Saturday night for the Taste of Little Italy in Port St. Lucie. They are the true ?like father, like son? combo. Not only have I had the pleasure of interviewing both men, I watched them perform on stage together just last week. The audience was the [...]
At the Boca Raton Museum of Art, entering the small alcove devoted to "Martin Schoeller: Close Up" can, at once, be an unsettling experience. With near-microscopic detail, five-foot-tall portraits of dozens of famous people eerily gawk at entering museum patrons like Orwellian Big Brothers on telescreens. The placid, poker-faced expressions of hyper-recognizable faces - George Clooney, Helen Mirren, even President Barack Obama – flank from every angle and appear to analyze viewers as a wall-to-wall, 360-degree panorama of A-list celebrities.
