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‘It’s a good thing,’ home builder thinks [Central Florida] Lifestyle diva Martha Stewart is bringing her taste in homes and decor to Central Florida real estate. The first Stewart-inspired development in Florida will be built by KB Home on 31 acres southwest of Windermere, company representatives confirmed this week. The model homes should be completed …
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Bealls buys office space [South Florida] It was not exactly a building with a broad audience: a Class A structure with all the tony accoutrements but tucked away behind an old East Bradenton neighborhood and surrounded by a steam-gouting juice manufacturing plant. But to the great relief of Manatee County economic developers and the small …
Complex has trove of bargain condos Thought the days of finding a home in the $100,000 range were over? One- and two-bedroom units at the Kanner Highway condo complex Hemingway at Stuart have hit the market for $109,000 to $129,900 – well below the median price of a condo in Martin County. In November 2005, …
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Failed land deals link Husani and Kolbe circles [South Florida] It is a coincidence that Neil Mohamed Husani and Todd Kolbe, two of the most prolific real estate deal-makers in Southwest Florida, lived in the gated community of Laurel Oak Country Club in Sarasota. But it is no coincidence that their business and investment circles …
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Lawyer defends official’s role in wooing Scripps [South Florida] In October 2003, Greg Fagan served as tour guide for Scripps executives sizing up Palm Beach County real estate by helicopter and on foot. That’s because Fagan, a civil engineer, had information almost no one else had, and a position of power as the outgoing chairman …
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Foreclosed options More people in Alabama are losing their homes to foreclosure, thanks partly to bad homeowner choices, market fluctuations and bankruptcy laws. The good news, if you can call it that, is that Alabama’s foreclosure rate is still well below the national average. The bad news is that the number of foreclosures here is …