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If you’re a real estate owner or investor, you may have noticed a significant increase in insurance costs compared to previous years. In fact, renewal increases have jumped 20% year-over-year, ...

When Michael Monaghan, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Sellers Realty in northern California, got an offer for a home in Bayside at the seller’s $650,000 list price in September, he told the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It continues to be a hot topic in Florida: The property insurance crisis that’s resulted in skyrocketing premiums for homeowners and more than a dozen insurance companies that ...

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MIAMI—Florida’s property-insurance market is in trouble, as mounting carrier losses and rising premiums threaten the state’s booming real-estate market, according to insurance executives and industry ...