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Industries

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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 27, 2017
Pulte executes large land deal in Collier

Homebuilder sentiment remains high throughout the Gulf Coast, and one of the nation's largest residential builders appears to be equally confident in the future.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Adrian Moore
  • January 27, 2017
Power to the doctors

The more control health care professionals have over the process, the more efficient and effective medical operations are likely to become.

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss
  • January 20, 2017
Capital intensive

Consider 1997 the year Florida's banking industry witnessed the equivalent of a gust of wind on a dandelion. That's the year NationsBank announced it would buy Barnett Banks, Florida's largest homegrown banking institution for $15.5 billion.

  • Finance
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 20, 2017
Shift in progress

Few Gulf Coast industries have undergone as much change -- or expansion — over the past two decades as commercial real estate.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 13, 2017
Tampa apartment tower sells for $88 million

In what is believed to be the Gulf Coast's largest urban multifamily sales of the past year, a New York firm has acquired the Skyhouse Channelside tower for $88 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 13, 2017
Cunningham launching SVN office in Fort Myers

It's not often that commercial brokers leave the company they helped launch.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach
  • January 6, 2017
Move on over

Traffic and congestion issues confound officials across the region. But some answers (and relief) could be forthcoming.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 6, 2017
Saturation point?

New Sarasota hotels leave some questioning how much is too much.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 30, 2016
2016 Top Deals | Southwest Florida

Like the Sarasota and Manatee submarket, Southwest Florida's largest commercial sales of the past year involved apartment projects.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 30, 2016
2016 Top Deals | Sarasota-Manatee

Although the largest commercial real estate transaction in Sarasota and Manatee counties in 2016 involved a hotel, multifamily projects were the star asset class in the region.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 30, 2016
Revenge of the suburbs

Apartment sales dominated commercial real estate transactions along the Gulf Coast in 2016 as investors scrambled to capitalize on the region's rising rental rates and job and population growth.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 30, 2016
2016 Top Deals | Tampa

The top Tampa Bay commercial real estate sales of 2016 stand in stark contrast to those of the prior year, and reversed a trend toward investors buying downtown trophy properties.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 23, 2016
Lee Memorial deal dominates Southwest Florida

Speaking of superlatives, Lee Memorial Health System's commitment to lease 40,000 square feet of space being constructed adjacent to its hospital in Fort Myers marks the largest office deal of the year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 23, 2016
Horizon Bay at Hyde Park sells for $74 million

In one of the largest senior-living deals along the Gulf Coast in 2016, a St. Louis-based company has acquired the Horizon Bay at Hyde Park independent and assisted-living project in Tampa for $74 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • December 23, 2016
Bowden exits SVN for Michael Saunders

Sperry Van Ness | Commercial Advisory Group senior investment adviser Gail Bowden, one of the Gulf Coast's top producing commercial agents, has jumped ship after more than seven years at the Sarasota-based commercial real estate brokerage firm.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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