Counter balance: Nimble developer finds ways to navigate housing crunch

Metro Development Group has capitalized on pandemic-driven market trends to bolster its appeal to frustrated homebuyers. Now it has to keep up with newfound demand.

Courtesy. Metro Development Group Vice President of Marketing Vaike O'Grady.
Courtesy. Metro Development Group Vice President of Marketing Vaike O'Grady.
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As home prices skyrocket in St. Petersburg and Pinellas County — which, being a peninsula on a peninsula, has scant land available for new construction — residential real estate developers are reaping the rewards of offering a new vision for surburban living.

 

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