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Home prices in Florida are dropping sharply, with Miami seeing a 12.4% decline, followed by Jacksonville (6.1%), Orlando (5.6%), and Tampa (5.5%).

This decline comes amid escalating climate risks and rising insurance costs, worsened by recent hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Florida’s insurance crisis—exacerbated by insurers leaving or going bankrupt—has made it increasingly difficult and expensive to insure homes, prompting some residents to sell flood-damaged properties “as is” to investors.

Despite these challenges, new construction continues in high-risk flood areas, heightening long-term vulnerabilities.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because only an idiot would move there. Next hurricane season is going to be amazing with no FEMA after the Republicans give that money to billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The solution is obviously to ban talking about climate change.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Don't be so naive. The real soluton is obviously hopes and prayers.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago

However, in cities such as Miami, median list prices are still 50% higher than before the pandemic,”

This is still pretty much the case in Tampa too, property values are so inflated from 2021 and 2022 that a 5% drop really just shows the market leveling off.

But the home insurance market is a sword of Damocles hanging over the state, and Desantis is too busy campaigning against universally popular ballot measures to do anything about it (and has found other culture war bullshit to distract himself from it for years now).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Home prices do tend to plummet when all the still-standing homes have severe damage from the two massive hurricanes that just went through.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

And when people say “Fuck this, I’m getting out of Florida.”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

This Yahoo Finance article is a dumb clickbait take on this realtor.com report. Probably better to go straight to the source material

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Texas has 4 of the top 10 cities where cops run away and hide from mass shooters.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Dropping house prices won't help in a state where disaster insurance becomes unaffordable. Not having an insurance is not an option, either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It's almost like we just had a wombo combo of hurricanes.