Southwest Florida – Neal Communities recorded its highest number of home contracts of 2010 with 41 contracts in August, a 25% increase over last year. The majority of the contracts – 18 – were in the new Central Park at Lakewood Ranch community, which features homes priced from the mid $100,000s and ranging from 1,040 [...]
(Bradenton) Barry Grooms of RE/MAX Alliance Group was recently elected as the 2011 Florida Realtor District 13 Vice President, at the 2010 Annual Florida REALTOR (FR) Conference held in Orlando. He will serve a one-year term as District Vice President responsible for Manatee/Sarasota/Charlotte/Desoto and Lee Counties. His responsibilities will include; communicating with local associations and [...]
TAMPA, FL – Blue Rock Partners, LLC, one of Tampa Bay’s largest owner-operator of apartment home communities with a soon-to-be 5,000 units (and nationally featured in Multifamily Executive magazine’s July 2010 article titled “One To Watch”), is fast on its way to doubling its Orlando-area holdings to 2,014 units with its August 20 acquisition of [...]
Tampa, Fla. – August 2010 – Paul Davis Restoration of Tampa will participate in the launch of Paul Davis Restoration, Inc.’s national, advertising campaign on The Weather Channel and weather.com starting this month. The ads will feature Paul Davis’ “Call Paul!” campaign to promote the organization’s 24/7 emergency cleanup, restoration and repair services. Paul Davis [...]
TRINITY, FLA. – Construction of a 2,500-square-foot model home by K. Hovnanian® Homes®is under way and on schedule for a mid-September opening in the Evergreen neighborhood of Trinity, the $1.5 billion master-planned community in southwest Pasco County. According to Dan Aldridge, vice president of Adam Smith Enterprises Inc., Trinity’s developer, K. Hovnanian®is building the two-story [...]
SARASOTA, FL – Realtors, homebuyers and homesellers who are losing real estate deals because of low-ball appraisals from out-of-town appraisal management companies will benefit from a series of appraisal seminars scheduled in September. Sponsored by HomeBanc, “Appraisals 2010” will educate participants on how to secure sound appraisals in the era of the Home Valuation Code [...]
LITHIA, FLA. – With construction nearing completion on its model homes at FishHawk Ranch in Lithia and Seven Oaks in Wesley Chapel, Homes by WestBay has selected its sales team for the four communities where it will build. Representing more than a half century of collective new-home sales experience, the WestBay sales team includes Janet [...]
TAMPA, Fla. — Ashton Woods Homes has opened a new model home at Ridge Crest, off Wheeler and Valrico Roads in the Brandon area, and started construction of a second model home at Ridge Crest that will open in October. Michael Roche, vice president of sales and marketing for Ashton Woods Homes in the Tampa [...]
TAMPA, Fla. — Lennar’s pro team of home building partners—more than 25 carpenters, electricians, plumbers, roofers, painters, flooring specialists, technicians and installers—pulled out the stops recently to build a magnificent four-bedroom model home in just 12 calendar days at Lakeside, Lennar’s newest community located off Hudson Rd. in Hudson. Mark Metheny, president of Lennar’s Central [...]
TAMPA, Fla. — Only three single-family homes remain for sale at Citrus Park, located north of Citrus Park Mall, east of Gunn Highway (C.R. 582) in northwest Hillsborough County. Michael Roche, vice president of sales and marketing for Ashton Woods Homes in the Tampa Bay area, said new three, four and five-bedroom single-family homes at [...]







