Jeff Brandes

November 2024: 7 of the nation's 50 largest metro area housing markets (14%) had falling year-over-year home prices February 2025: 12 of 50 (24%) April 2024: 20 of 50 (40%) May 2025: 22 of 50 (44%) June 2025: 25 of 50 (50%) Chart via @ResidentialClub

Much of Southwest Florida's housing market remains in correction-mode Punta Gorda, FL: -18.6% since peak Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL: -13.7% since peak My latest for @ResidentialClub: resiclubanalytics.com/p/southwest-fl…

Thank you former Senator @JeffreyBrandes for leading on auto insurance reform. stpetecatalyst.com/st-pete-think-… #leadership

. @GovRonDeSantis is celebrating Florida being ranked #1 economy in the nation for the third straight year. floridianpress.com/2025/07/desant…

BREAKING: The sale of the @RaysBaseball from current owner Stu Sternberg to a group led by Jacksonville developer Patrick Zalupski for about $1.7 billion has been agreed to in principle and is expected to be completed as soon as September, per @TheAthletic

2/5 Florida’s auto insurance laws were written in 1971 — the year Disney opened and gas was 36¢. Fifty years later, we’re still using the same minimum coverage: 💥 $10K for injuries 💥 $10K for property damage But the average crash costs $23K+ You do the math.

1/5 Driving in Florida is like playing Russian roulette with your wallet. One in five drivers has no insurance. Many more are dangerously underinsured. You follow the rules. They don’t. But when they crash into you, you pay. And the state built the system to work exactly like…

Had to run down to Miami tonight—scored a $117 rate at the Marriott. Driving Alligator Alley, I couldn’t help but think about Alligator Alcatraz and its nightly cost per detainee: 🧾 At 5,000 detainees: $246.58 👥 At 3,000: $410.96 🐊 At current 750: $1,643.84 That’s based on…

🚨 Just wrapped an op-ed I’ll publish next week: “Florida Auto Insurance: Trapped in the ’70s, and You’re Paying the Price.” Outdated laws. Soaring premiums. 1 in 5 drivers uninsured, many more underinsured. Florida drivers are playing Russian roulette. floridapolicyproject.com/researchs/best…

100% true but this location is not ideal for a detention center in Florida. In fact it maybe among the worst place in Florida logistically and for staffing to put a detention center.

Check out my piece in @VitalCityNYC today in which I argue that we can most effectively fight crime by shedding our ideological blind spots and focusing on the evidence of what works!

Let’s run the math on “Alligator Alcatraz. The state says $450M to house 5,000 inmates, that’s $90K per inmate per year. In its current unfinished state, the cost is likely over $200K per detainee. For comparison: FL inmates cost ~$27K. Where’s DOGE? winknews.com/wink_investiga….