Scrappy, innovative real estate entrepreneur reaps rewards of hard work

In just six years, Josh Marzucco, thanks to a robust housing market, has transformed his real estate startup into a statewide player.

  • By Jim Stinson
  • | 5:00 a.m. June 5, 2023
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Josh Marzucco, 36, founded Marzucco Real Estate in 2018 and, with $420 million in sales in 2022, it's now one of the fastest-growing real estate companies in Southwest Florida.
Josh Marzucco, 36, founded Marzucco Real Estate in 2018 and, with $420 million in sales in 2022, it's now one of the fastest-growing real estate companies in Southwest Florida.
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Josh Marzucco, president of Marzucco Real Estate in Naples, says Florida’s residential real estate market could correct. But if it does, he believes any correction will be minimal.

The red-hot Florida market has been overheated before, and it crashed in 2008 and 2009. Some like to say Florida invented the boom-and-bust cycle. So that would seem to make Marzucco's optimistic claim a bold outlier. 

 

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