Low real-estate prices—and sweet tax breaks—may make buying a condo preferable to student housing.

Times Staff Writer Thursday, April 19, 2012 Florida home prices rose last month, but sales dropped. The median price of a single-family home climbed to $139,000, a 10.3 percent bump from March 2011. The median price on a condo rose 20.8 percent to $105,000, according to Florida Realtors data released Thursday. Realtors recorded 18,730 sales last month, a 5.7 percent drop from last March. Condo ...

Banned, embraced and parodied for its graphic sexual content, "Fifty Shades of Grey," is fiction, but the home much of it takes place in is real. A luxury condominium in Seattle.