Cheap foreclosed properties for sale have been driving sales of single-family houses and condo units in Florida, based on a report published by the Florida Association of Realtors, now called simply Florida Realtors.

September home sales in Florida rose significantly making it 13 months of consecutive sales increases in the state. And cheap foreclosed house sales continued to have a sizable share in the total home sales.

Cheap foreclosed homes for sale are in abundance in Florida, based on data from an online real estate research firm.

A prospective homebuyer or investor can buy a cheap foreclosed property for sale in Brevard County, Florida. According to realtors in the area, there are a lot of good homes priced below $100,000 in Brevard.

Foreclosure for sale took the lion share in the total home sale deals in Polk County, Florida in July. Last month, 385 existing properties were sold in Polk County, representing a 23 percent increase from the same month last year’s 313 sales deals.

The city of Cape Coral is trying its best to maintain foreclosed homes for auction despite a decrease in budget for foreclosure maintenance programs.

In May, the number of foreclosure notices filed in Florida dropped from the April total, but the state is still second among all states in number of filings including foreclosed property units, according to a foreclosure report released this week by California-based real estate research service RealtyTrac.

The continued rise in foreclosed properties in Florida clouded the speech of Governor Charlie Crist last week at the signing of Florida’s budget of $66.5 billion.

Despite the inability of lenders and volunteer lawyers to come out with solutions to some problems presented, the summit held by Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink to reduce foreclosure properties across the state resulted in a major achievement: the lenders agreed to appoint a person to negotiate with troubled homeowners under the Florida Attorneys Saving Homes initiative. The lenders also agreed to appoint an individual who can bargain with the volunteer lawyers.

The foreclosure properties crisis unleashed its force in Southwest Florida, making the area a wasteland of foreclosures in 2008.