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Archive for April, 2007

Southwest Florida could net a healthy number of visitors this winter, but the local competition for their business is fierce.
People who manage hotels and condos are starting to realize that visitors have many, many options.
After three years of raising rates, they are now focused on making sure guests return.
David Teitelbaum, president of a small condo-hotel […]

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The commercial real estate markets continue to grow with record investment, and individual sectors in many areas are seeing tighter vacancy rates and higher rents, according to the latest Commercial Real Estate Outlook from National Association of Realtors® (NAR).
“The office and industrial markets continue to shine, supported by job growth and trade, while the rental […]

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Impact of rate relief in question

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

What homeowner wouldn’t be ecstatic over a 25 percent cut in the property insurance bill?
Probably the one whose premium just jumped by 200 percent.
State lawmakers will consider proposals next week that could roll back property insurance rates from 25 percent to 40 percent.
At The Inlets in Venice, where the condominium association’s windstorm insurance increases this […]

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Sarasota - a Decline

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Sarasota-Bradenton posted a pricing decline — 9 percent — to $291,500, though the area’s median has been trending up when compared with the last several months.
The varying pitch of pricing in the region makes perfect sense to David Lipstein, founder of Manasota Key Realty.
“Buyers are looking for bargains — there’s no question about it,” Lipstein […]

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A new housing community is going up in North Englewood. Beechwood Builders will build Heritage Creek, a single-family community to be located off State Road 776 in Englewood, a half-mile south of Manasota Beach Road.
Beechwood Builders is a custom home and remodeling builder and has been in business for more than 15 years in the […]

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Posh hotel could join Ritz

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Officials from Four Seasons, which hopes to open as many as eight new properties annually, according to its Web site, did not return a telephone call for comment.
If Four Seasons does commit, it would mark the second time the Toronto-based hotelier has considered Sarasota.
A decade ago, when plans to develop a Ritz-Carlton were jelling on […]

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Many of the health care workers, police and teachers that communities rely on for vital services can’t afford to buy homes, and some even have trouble covering rental costs, a new study found.
The Center for Housing Policy, the research affiliate of the National Housing Conference in Washington, D.C., found that a working family needed an […]

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