The Melvin Mark Cos. has joined a small corps of real estate firms bundling finance services with its core brokerage, management and development businesses.

 Local real estate investors may be hearing the phrase, ?Do I hear $1 million?? more often as owners and lenders turn to auctioneers to sell commercial and residential property.

 Devonaire condo could lose 68 unsold units to foreclosure The Devonaire condominium conversion project in Pembroke Pines could lose its 68 remaining units to a foreclosure action by iStar Financial.

 Central Florida?s counties are feeling a lot better about 2010 after this year?s tax certificate sales.

 Two local business brokerage firms are joining forces and plan to add another 20 agents within the next year.

 Pieces of the pending financial-services reform bill make sense to community banker Patrick Cullen.

 Shops at Sunset Place in South Miami appears to have everything going for it: It?s 90 percent leased, it easily covers the debt service on its $76.6 million mortgage and its last appraisal valued it significantly above its loan.

 As much as South Florida?s financial sector benefits from all the European business in booming times, local bankers are concerned about the government debt crisis and real estate troubles spreading through much of Europe.

 The stability of Twin Cities credit unions has weakened since a year ago, with three-fifths of the largest 25 reporting lower capital ratios.