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Commercial Real Estate

  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 9, 2025
After years of setbacks, key piece of South Seas redevelopment can begin

The Lee County Commission's decision to approve a rezoning request for the Captiva resort's owners allow for hotels and residential development on the property to move ahead.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 6, 2025
Largo office park sold for $6.2 million

The six-building park in Pinellas County sits along one of the main thoroughfares connecting the area’s commercial hubs and beaches.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 6, 2025
Nearly $1B Captiva resort gets Lee County zoning approval

South Seas resort is building 435 hotel rooms and 193 residential units at the historic property.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 5, 2025
Tampa Publix-anchored center included in $395M portfolio sale

The New Tampa Center on Bruce B. Downs was one of 10 open-air retail properties included in the deal.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 5, 2025
Kentucky Ford dealer buys Lee waterfront lot for $6.1M

The nearly 1-acre parcel is on the east side of Captiva.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 4, 2025
Fort Myers medical group picks global real estate firm to oversee portfolio

Avison Young will manage 130 locations for the Millennium Physician Group.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 4, 2025
Tampa REIT buys Texas medical centers for $16M

Sila Realty Trust bought the two-facility portfolio in Southlake, just outside of Dallas-Fort Worth.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 4, 2025
Tampa retail center near Raymond James Stadium sells for $5 million

The plaza on MacDill Avenue was bought by a local commercial real estate company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 3, 2025
Prominent Sarasota corporate HQ up for sale

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Naples high-end shopping center gets an upgrade, a Tampa condo complex to be "repositioned" as rental apartments, and Manatee buys a historic farm.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 2, 2025
Hoffmann Family's new Naples boutique a step toward national expansion, says matriarch

More than 50 years of marriage and helping create a multibillion business has not dimmed Jerri Hoffmann’s entrepreneurial drive.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • 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
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