Commercial Real Estate

By Louis Llovio
August 2, 2025

Fractured condo sale near the University of South Florida

An investment firm has bought up 248 of the 260 units at a 51-year-old condominium community in Tampa.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Elizabeth King
July 31, 2025

Fort Myers shopping center under new management

Bell Tower will be overseen by third-party management company DLC.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

By Elizabeth King
July 31, 2025

Sarasota company buys Iowa hotel for $14.5 million

A St. Armands-based financial firm purchased a hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Manatee-Sarasota

By Elizabeth King
July 30, 2025

Build-to-rent community opens in Bonita Springs

Swell by Soltura will include 200 cottage-style homes when fully built out.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

By Lesley Dwyer
July 30, 2025

Manatee County purchases Mixon Fruit Farms for $13.5 million

Commissioners voted unanimously to purchase the citrus farm that operated in Manatee County for 84 years.

Manatee-Sarasota

By Elizabeth King
July 30, 2025

$10M Siesta Row Publix redevelopment proposed

A Sarasota shopping center owner is proposing demolishing and rebuilding the Publix that anchors the Shops at Siesta Row.

Manatee-Sarasota

By Janet Leiser
July 29, 2025

Developer opens SWFL lagoon-centric community to big crowds

Metro Development Group’s newest lagoon community in north Fort Myers is its fourth. Another in Parrish will open next year. Others are planned in Pasco, Hernando and Duval counties.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

By Louis Llovio
July 27, 2025

Lakeland apartments sell for $57 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota company arranges two commercial loans, a Naples developer spends $40 million in Tampa, and a Captiva gets its day before commissioners.

Florida

By Louis Llovio
July 26, 2025

Public hearing set for controversial Captiva resort rezoning

The owners of the South Seas resort — and those opposing it — will go before the Lee County Commission on Aug. 6.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

By Louis Llovio
July 26, 2025

Affordable house development in Brandon starts construction

Habitat for Humanity of Tampa Bay Hillsborough officially broke ground last week on a 23-home affordable housing community in Brandon.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Louis Llovio
July 26, 2025

Homebuilder, industrial property owners secure financing

Largo Capital has arranged the financing for five single-family homes to be built in Manatee County’s Cortez and an industrial and retail property in Sarasota.