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  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 24, 2015
Stored value

Self-storage is attracting more buyers than ever, driving returns down and prices up.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • July 24, 2015
Commercial Real Estate

Vue units going fast; Mystique developer taps Premier Sotheby's

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 24, 2015
Where's the money?

Ever wonder how much the Gulf Coast is worth?

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 24, 2015
Apartment living in Tampa is hot, hot, hot

Construction cranes are all over the downtown Tampa area, nearly all working to add thousands of residential apartment units to an area that once was a ghost town after-hours.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 24, 2015
Commercial Real Estate Profile: Steve Kempton

Steve Kempton, Regional president of Florida, Taylor Morrison

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 24, 2015
And pigs (and profits) will fly

Canada sends a lot to Florida, starting with thousands of winter tourists and snowbirds.

  • News
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 23, 2015
A lot of pancakes in $4M IHOP sale

Sale of building in Venice included drone marketing and a bidding war.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 23, 2015
Four Naples attorneys bolt from firm

Atlanta-based FisherBroyles is on an aggressive expansion plan.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 23, 2015
Brothers grab funding for movie industry startup

Folio Holdings says it will help take the risk out of distributing independent films using its own analytics system.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 22, 2015
Phony makeup seller gets 18 months in prison

Tina Oleszczuk pleaded guilty last September to selling nearly $1 million worth of counterfeit makeup products.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 22, 2015
College launches ID theft think tank

Hodges University hopes to become a hub for identity fraud information statewide.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 22, 2015
Mortgage rates look sweet in Manatee, Sarasota

Lee County also has one of the best mortgage approval rates in Florida.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 21, 2015
Airport sees gains in people, plus stuff

Traffic continues to grow at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 21, 2015
Girls Inc. names new leader

Angie Stringer, new executive director, has more than 20 years experience in nonprofit management.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • July 21, 2015
Onetime Lingerie Bowl site to get $45M apartment complex

Pollack Shores Real Estate Group will build on land that made news in 2009 for failed plans to host a Lingerie Bowl there.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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