{"id":180,"date":"2026-10-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:00:00","slug":"florida-sellers-face-an-equity-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/08\/florida-sellers-face-an-equity-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Sellers Face an Equity Squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/frank-bluestein-1225751\/florida-home-equity-28f8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A Florida example showed how a home worth ~$500K with a $350K mortgage may appear to hold $150K in equity before selling costs intervene.<br \/>\nAfter one price cut, buyer negotiation, repair concessions, compensation, and closing costs, that example produced ~$422K before payoff and ~$72K after mortgage.<br \/>\nIf the same Florida property also needed ~$50K in deferred maintenance, proceeds in the illustration shrank to ~$372K before payoff and ~$22K afterward.<br \/>\nMany Florida owners can feel caught between a higher-net traditional sale and a discounted cash offer, while one alternative structure targeted smaller profits.<br \/>\nThe key number for Florida sellers is not estimated market value, but net proceeds after price changes, repairs, costs, concessions, and mortgage payoff.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida example showed how a home worth ~$500K with a $350K mortgage may appear to hold $150K in equity before selling costs intervene. After one price cut, buyer negotiation, repair concessions, compensation, and closing costs, that example produced ~$422K before payoff and ~$72K after mortgage. If the same Florida property also needed ~$50K in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackbluesteinrealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}