This year, he and Mr. Cruz were part of a team that won the Palm 100, a six-runner, 100-mile, team relay from Fort Lauderdale to Palm Beach, Fla.

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By contrast, Florida metros Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach saw slower price drops than expected in Q2, with prices falling 5%, less than half as much as they did the previous quarter.

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But South Florida, specifically Miami and its neighboring metro divisions of West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale remain pricey.

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Following the announcement, Bush, his wife and their three children made their first campaign swing from Tallahassee to West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami.

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The Democratic base is centralized in the so-called "Gold Coast" communities of West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale (Broward County), Miami (Dade County), and in both Tallahassee and the minority communities of the panhandle.

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His most lucrative push began in the mid-1990s, letting him reap prodigious profits on 1, 400 units in South Beach, 4, 000 in downtown Miami and 10, 000 luxury cribs in Fort Lauderdale, West Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) Beach, North Dade and South Broward counties so far.

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