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PopStroke, a 3-acre, mini-golf course and restaurant designed by Tiger Woods, is expected to open in a lot north of George Bush Boulevard during spring 2023.
What Buyers Need To Know About the Inventory of Homes Available for Sale
If you’re thinking about buying a home, you’re likely trying to juggle your needs, current mortgage rates, home prices, your schedule, and more to try to decide if you want to jump into the market.
If this sounds like you, here’s one key factor that could help you with your decision: there are more homes for sale today than there were at this time last year. According to Calculated Risk, for the week ending in November 18th, there were 47.7% more homes available for sale than there were at the same time in 2021. And having more options for your home search may be exactly what you need to...
Roaches at gentlemen’s club; bug spray over cilantro sauce: 4 South Florida restaurants ordered shut
An employee hoping to exterminate flies sprayed a can of Off insect repellent over a container of cilantro sauce at a Hollywood eatery, one of four restaurants ordered shut by state inspectors last week. Other issues included cockroaches and accumulated food debris and “black mold-like substance.”
Ground-shifting ‘Men Who Dance’ returns to Broward Center: ‘There’s an aversion to male beauty in this country’
“Men Who Dance,” a ground-shifting program showcasing all male performers, returns to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ Amaturo Theater this weekend.
‘Below Deck’ premiere: What does Capt. Lee Rosbach think of Season 10?
With the Season 10 premiere of “Below Deck” on Nov. 21, the man at the helm of the series, longtime Fort Lauderdale resident Capt. Lee Rosbach, is now one of the longest-serving captains in TV history, alongside Capt. Merrill Stubing on “The Love Boat.”
What Homeowners Want To Know About Selling in Today’s Market
If you’re thinking about selling your house, you’re likely hearing about the cooling housing market and wondering what that means for you. While it’s not the peak intensity we saw during the pandemic, we’re still in a sellers’ market. That means you haven’t missed your window. Realtor.com explains:
“. . . while prospective home sellers may lament that they missed their prime window, in reality, this is still a terrific time to sell. In fact, according to a recent Realtor.com® home seller survey, 95% of sellers who sold their home in the past year got more than they paid for it....
Book reviews: In two powerful new mysteries, racism swirls around missing girls
Haitian-American author Erin E. Adams’ “Jackal,” a devastatingly powerful debut mystery. Ausma Zehanat Khan launches a new series with “Blackwater Falls,” focusing on detective Inaya Rahman, a Muslim woman who fearlessly stands up to bigots and criminals.
Mortgage Rates Will Come Down, It’s Just a Matter of Time
This past year, rising mortgage rates have slowed the red-hot housing market. Over the past nine months, we’ve seen fewer homes sold than the previous month as home price growth has slowed. All of this is due to the fact that the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has doubled this year, severely limiting homebuying power for consumers. And, this month, the average rate for financing a home briefly rose over 7% before coming back down into the high 6% range. But we’re starting to see a hint of what mortgage interest rates could look like next year.
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Capt. Lee reveals all (almost): ‘Below Deck’ stars to gather for Season 10 premiere party in Fort Lauderdale on Monday
Join Fort Lauderdale resident Capt. Lee Rosbach and other favorite crew members at a watch party for Season 10 of “Below Deck.”
‘Love, Charlie’ is a documentary about the fearsome, legendary Chicago chef Charlie Trotter. A movie and food critic debate the cost of his kind of fame.
“Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter” is now at the Music Box. “It forces you to consider, in his case, what restaurants can do to people.”