Top News

ORLANDO, FL --- Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty has been named exclusive sales and marketing agents for a luxury golf course home at Alaqua Country Club (top left photo) , one of Seminole County’s most exclusive, gated and guarded communities on Markham Woods Road in Longwood. Roger Soderstrom , founder and owner of Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty, said Jere Matheny (lower right photo) , International Luxury Home Specialist with the firm’s Heathrow Real Estate Gallery is...Read Full Story

ORLANDO, FL –   Integrity Home Loan of Central Florida, Inc., which provides residential mortgage financing through seven branch offices throughout Central Florida, has promoted Craig Cimring (top right photo) to branch manager of the firm’s new Downtown Orlando location on E. Pine Street.   Matthew Malloy , president, said Cimring joined Integrity Home Loan three years ago as an experienced loan officer. Cimring is a graduate of Florida State University.   Malloy said Integrity Home Loan...Read Full Story

MOUNT DORA, FL   – First Green Bank hosted more than 750 visitors at its official “Grand Green Opening” of its new award winning headquarters facility in Mount Dora recently and the following week opened its first branch outside Lake County in Ormond Beach. Soon, additional First Green Bank branches could be premiering in the Orange and Seminole County regions as well. “The FDIC has extended their period of scrutiny from the historic three year limit to seven years, which constrains our...Read Full Story

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Among the many indicators that the real estate market is recovering in Central Florida, this one is bound to leave some sellers breathless. Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty in Orlando recently sold a $500,000 luxury home in Windermere in five days. For cash! Roger Soderstrom, founder and owner of Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty said Realtor Associate Bruce Elliott, ABR, CIPS, CSP, e-Pro, GRI, SFR, TRC, PHP listed the 6425 Cartmel Drive home in Lake Butler...Read Full Story

  ANAHEIM, CA (Feb. 13, 2012) – Grubb & Ellis Company today announced that Jeff Read (top right photo) , executive vice president and Greg Osborne (middle left photo) , senior vice president, both of the company’s Industrial Group, represented Pittsburgh-based Neville Chemical Corporation in the sale of a 10.5-acre land site in Anaheim.   The buyer is Newport Beach-based Western Realco LLC and its partner, Connecticut-based Penwood Real Estate Investment Management. The sale price was not...Read Full Story

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. --- Rachel Elias Wein, founder and principal of WeinPlus Real Estate Advisory Services in St. Petersburg, recently presented to retail property developers and real estate professionals at the 2012 ICSC North Florida Idea Exchange on how to do more with less in a recovering economy. The formula works, Wein said, and can turn marginally profitable projects into income-generating super stars. Her message: streamline the development process and focus on generating revenues...Read Full Story

MAITLAND, Fla. --- NAI Realvest recently negotiated the acquisition of a 10-acre parcel at 8900 Albemarle Rd. near the intersection of Maitland Blvd. and SR 434 in Maitland for $1.15 million. NAI Realvest Principals Kevin O’Connor and Matt Cichocki negotiated the acquisition representing the buyer, Orlando-based Maitland Blvd. Apts. Assoc LLP. “This transaction culminated a five year assembly of adjacent properties the new owner plans to develop as a mixed use project that will include office...Read Full Story

CHARLOTTE, N.C – Ryland Homes recently opened a new, fully decorated four-bedroom model home at Cureton, the homebuilder’s newest Union County community where homes feature all brick exteriors and three-car side entry garages. Krista Long, vice president of sales and marketing at Ryland Homes in the Charlotte division, said Ryland’s Eastover model home offers four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, in 4,195 square feet of living area and is base-priced from $374,990.  Special features of the...Read Full Story

MAITLAND, Fla. – Kevin O’Connor, a principal of NAI Realvest in Maitland, was recently named to the NAI Global Elite, a group comprised of the organization’s top producers. O’Connor qualified as a Top Producer at the Silver Elite level based on production in 2011, which placed him in the top 35 among his peer commercial brokers worldwide.    The award was presented recently in a ceremony at the NAI Global 2012 Convention in Las Vegas.  Based in Princeton, N.J., NAI Global manages a network of...Read Full Story

TAMPA, Fla. --- Ryland Homes has opened Windchase at the master planned community of WaterGrass, located just north of SR 54 off Curley Road in Pasco County. Tony Crimi, vice president of sales and marketing for Ryland Homes in the Tampa Bay region, said Ryland plans to build 40 new three and four bedroom single family homes in the first phase at Windchase, priced from $158,990 to $189,990. Crimi said Ryland is introducing its new Sabal Series of Energy Star® qualified home designs at...Read Full Story