More encouraging news for the local real-estate market: Preliminary numbers for Orlando’s industrial segment show that the amount of available space dipped by 600,000 square feet during the second quarter. It’s the first evidence of a tightening since late last year, a sign that vacancies could be stabilizing.
That’s the early reading from David Murphy, senior [...]
It seemed like a great idea at the time: Rent a fabulous apartment and spend a week living like a Parisian.
First of all, look at all the money we would save with four of us staying in an apartment instead of pricey hotels, then doing our own cooking to avoid expensive restaurants and cafés where [...]
The Lake Arrowhead Condominium Association is suing luxury home developer Toll Brothers Inc., alleging that the developer violated local, state and national building codes by building condos that have numerous cracks and many other defects.
The lawsuit filed this month in Collier Circuit Court comes two months after the same lawyer, William Stockman of Fort Myers, [...]
Call it the Metro Atlanta commuter backlash.
Fed-up commuters — conquering traffic congestion by simply moving closer to work.
And one of the most popular “live-work-play†communities is right in the urban heart of Metro-Atlanta’s vast, 28-county sprawl, a region that is now the fastest-growing in the nation, with 5.1 million people and counting.
The community is Midtown [...]
A Margate condo association has dropped its lawsuit against a wheelchair-bound widow for allowing two caretakers to stay with her around the clock.
Rose Normoyle, 86, who worked as a “Rosie the Riveter” in Long Island aircraft factories during World War II, had been accused of violating rules that prohibit “unauthorized and-or transient occupants from [...]
Southern California’s residential real estate market continued its wayward course in March with the median price reaching another record while sales declined to a 10-year low for that month, a market tracker said this week.
Last month the median price of a home in the six-county region rose an annual 4.6 percent to $505,000, said La [...]
More than 15,000 condo-hotel rooms could flood Central Florida during the next several years in one of the biggest, and possibly riskiest, building booms ever to sweep the region’s lodging industry.
Condo hotels are outwardly indistinguishable from their conventional counterparts. They have lobbies, room service and even affiliations with the world’s best-known hotel brands. It’s their [...]
ANAHEIM - The Happiest Place on Earth doesn’t want any new neighbors.
The Walt Disney Co. has sued the city of Anaheim to stop the proposed construction of 1,500 condos, including several hundred low-income units, at the doorstep of Disneyland.
Housing advocates say the units are desperately needed to accommodate workers who are essential to the city’s [...]
Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa is pleased to announce the appointment of Jim Mauer as the resort’s new general manager. Mauer, a 22 year Marriott veteran, has returned home, so to speak, as he started his hospitality career at the premier Fort Lauderdale resort back in 1984. He brings over 20 years of hospitality [...]
Anna Nicole Smith spent her final hours in a suite in a hotel as gaudy and over-the-top as the pinup herself, with at least one $1,600-a-night room featuring an orange corduroy couch, a mini-bar stocked with lubricant and glow-in-the-dark condoms, and a leopard-print ironing board.
The voluptuous centerfold arrived at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and [...]
Durham’s burgeoning retail sector is drawing shoppers of a different sort — national real estate firms with deep pockets that are spending tens of millions to buy area shopping centers as investments.
In the last couple of years, big-name companies with billions in assets have spent $100 million to acquire four retail centers in Durham and [...]
The newest multibillion-dollar wave of construction on the northern Gulf Coast is along the piney banks of a manmade ditch, protected from the twin threats of storms and high land prices.
With beachfront acreage in ever-shrinking supply and much of the coast still recovering from hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, developers are putting up luxury condominium towers, [...]
