Archive for the ‘Real Estate’ Category

Major high rise in downtown has groundbreaking.

ORLANDO – Four years after the Central Florida housing market went into a tailspin, taking the local construction industry, home prices and sales with it, the city of Orlando marked a milestone today with the groundbreaking ceremony for the first new high rise apartment complex getting built in the city’s downtown. Skyhouse Orlando will be [...]

A tanking housing market? Not in Poinciana today.

POINCIANA – Few communities in Central Florida have experienced the roller coaster ride of extreme highs and lows in the housing market quite as dramatically as Poinciana. The community of 84,000 residents, located in unincorporated parts of Osceola and Polk counties, was riding very high between 2004 and 2007, when a residential construction boom had [...]

Davenport Realtor wants to clear his name after state drops all charges against him.

DAVENPORT – For Eddie Henry and his wife Adrienne, Independence Day truly does represent a special amount of freedom to both of them. That isn’t just because the couple living in Davenport, who came to the United States from their native England, have a green card and are able to continue living here in Central [...]

Wells Fargo launches down payment assistance program for Orlando residents.

ORLANDO – As Orlando continues to rank among the top five cities with the highest percentage of vacant homes, a local bank is teaming up with the city to find creative ways to get more people into those empty houses. Called NeighborhoodLIFT, the newly-launched program is an effort to help stabilize city neighborhoods that have [...]

Poinciana housing market, hard hit by recession, may be poised for a big bounceback.

POINCIANA – What goes up, it’s often said, inevitably has to come down, and that was definitely the case for the Central Florida real estate market, which soared for a while, before finally coming to a complete halt. And one of the communities that rode the wave with a major building boom, and then fell [...]

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