Commercial Real Estate

By Kevin McQuaid
January 6, 2017

Saturation point?

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

Manatee-Sarasota

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Beth Luberecki
December 23, 2016

Venice on the verge

This southern Sarasota County city has gone from afterthought to a developer's darling. What's fueling the mini-boom?

Manatee-Sarasota

By Kevin McQuaid
December 23, 2016

Citigroup deal is tops for Tampa in 2016

At $116 million, Citigroup Technology Inc.'s purchase of the six-building office campus in Tampa that houses its Global Shared Service Operation Center will likely rank as the largest single-asset sale of 2016 on the Gulf Coast.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Kevin McQuaid
December 23, 2016

Fallow no more

Plans to revamp an important downtown Fort Myers tract imploded during the recession, leaving it derelict. That's about to change.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

By Kevin McQuaid
December 16, 2016

Omega Healthcare adds to FL portfolio

Omega Healthcare Investors Inc., a Hunt Valley, Md.-based firm that specializes in buying nursing homes, has purchased a trio of Sarasota and Collier County properties for $44.3 million, county property records show.