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Buyer's Market Intensifies as Florida Struggles with Mounting Foreclosures

Issues may be that typical Florida residential land is still over $500K an acre, property taxes are 3% of real value, and the majority of homes up for sale are second homes.

U.S. Homeowners Underwater

"housing" decline seems to actually be a "land speculation" decline, which, when the folks in CA and FL have been getting mortgages where the land is valued at several million an acre, can fall a lot. Maybe a 1/5 acre of residential land in San Jose is worth $1.5MM, but it could just as easily be worth $100K tomorrow. Fun on the way up, not so fun on the way down.