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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • May 22, 2015
Read Property Group buys Oaks View apartments

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Read Property Group LLC purchased the 152-unit Oaks View apartment complex for $6.35 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • May 22, 2015
Equity Management Partners buys Largo's Midway Plaza

Equity Management Partners purchased the 75,096-square-foot Midway Plaza shopping center for $9.3 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • May 22, 2015
Florida Silica Sand expanding in Plant City

Florida Silica Sand Co. purchased 5.21 acres in Woodside Airport Industrial Park for $5.02 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Michael Hinman
  • May 22, 2015
Finding home

Site selection for fast-growth firms made easy? Sounds like fantasy. A Tampa-based startup aims to make it real.

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  • May 15, 2015
Longboat's Christ Church buys adjacent commercial buildings

Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian (U.S.A.) purchased a two building, 8,614-square-foot office development for $1.1 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • May 15, 2015
Polk County | Carefree buys Haines City RV and residential complex for $10.45 million

One of the nation's largest manufactured and RV community owners has acquired Central Park in Haines City for $10.45 million. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Carefree Communities Inc. said the late April purchase, its 40th of the past two years, will add 368 RV sites and 110 manufactured home sites to its portfolio.

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  • May 15, 2015
Naples plastic surgeon buys Preston Professional Center

Plastic surgeon Dr. Kent Hasen purchased the Preston Professional Center for $1.97 million.

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  • May 15, 2015
Waterfront apartment, home sells for $1.3 million

Ann Arbor, Mich.-based McKinley Inc. purchased the nine-unit Mont Carlo Apartments for $1.28 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • May 15, 2015
Sarasota Memorial creating island urgent care center

The Sarasota Memorial Health Care System purchased the 5,476-square-foot St. Armands Medical Center for $3.5 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • May 15, 2015
Developer buys former restaurant site

Fortino Construction & Development LLC purchased a 1.62-acre parcel for $1.5 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • May 15, 2015
Blue Rock, Konover South buy Hamilton Bay Apartments

A joint venture of Tampa-based Blue Rock Partners LLC and Konover South LLC of Deerfield Beach purchased the 444-unit Hamilton Bay Apartments in Brandon for $43.6 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Barry Friedman
  • May 8, 2015
Loan harvesters

Entrepreneurs Brian Philpot and Rob Harper plowed their real estate profits into an agricultural lending business. It was a wise move.

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  • May 8, 2015
Imagine School St. Pete building sells for $3M

A company led by Patricia Duggan of St. Petersburg purchased the 34,055-square-foot former Imagine School property for $3.15 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • May 8, 2015
Ave Maria law school buys Vineyards campus

The Ave Maria School of Law purchased its north Naples campus from Ave Maria University for $13 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • May 8, 2015
Punta Gorda buyer pays $1M for Jones Loop land

A company led by Thomas Gruber of Punta Gorda purchased 30.1 acres of grazing land on Jones Loop Road for $1.15 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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