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Commercial Real Estate

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 21, 2016
Piece of the Puzzle

Michael Saunders & Co.'s recent move into more than 16,000 square feet in the 13-story Ellis Building in downtown Sarasota marked a new chapter in the 40-year history of the region's largest locally based residential real estate brokerage firm.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 21, 2016
Fort Myers multifamily complex sells for $95 million

In what is believed to the largest multifamily complex sale along the Gulf Coast in at least the past decade, a 936-unit apartment community in Fort Myers sold for $95.2 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 21, 2016
Centauri HQ deal tops in 2016

Centauri Insurance's decision to push ahead with development of a 30,000-square-foot building in Lakewood Ranch isn't just a move to accommodate future company growth.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 7, 2016
CommERCIAL REAL ESTATE PROFILE | Charles Mann

Charles Mann is the managing partner of the Pavese Law Firm, which has offices in Fort Myers, Cape Coral and West Palm Beach.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 7, 2016
Biter reviving apartments plan

More than 1,400 new apartments are slated to come online in downtown Sarasota during the next year or so, an explosion of product in a city of roughly 55,000 made possible by macro trends and the city's adoption of a residential overlay district that granted density bonuses to developers.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 7, 2016
Thibaut promoted at LSI

Justin Thibaut was promoted to director of sales at Land Solutions Inc., the Fort Myers-based commercial brokerage firm that specializes in Gulf Coast land transactions.

  • Commercial Real Estate
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 7, 2016
Feldman Equities is growing, hiring

In preparation for the development of a 52-story mixed-use downtown skyscraper in Tampa and potential acquisitions, Feldman Equities LLC has hired a handful of new employees in the past month.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 7, 2016
A positive trend for Gulf Coast CRE?

“As pricing in first-tier markets stalls and yields hover in the sub-4 percent range in some of the major gateway markets — which are, in some cases, already in peak pricing territory — we should probably expect investors to move more aggressively into secondary and tertiary markets — and to opportunities beyond core assets to core-plus and value-add properties.”So says David Lynn, CEO and chairman of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Everest Medical Core Properties.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • October 7, 2016
Growth point

A new study says Florida's population will surge by 2070. That could be good news for commercial real estate sectors.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • September 30, 2016
Osprey sheds Sarasota County business park

Continuing a push to whittle down its portfolio amid squabbles between partners, Michigan-based Osprey SA Ltd. sold a 19-acre business park in North Sarasota County for $4 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • September 30, 2016
Exeter buys Polk County industrial property

A Pennsylvania-based commercial real estate investment firm has acquired a Polk County warehouse occupied by Amazon.com for $24.6 million, the latest in a series of industrial purchases and developments in the county aimed at taking advantage of the strategic Interstate 4 corridor.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon
  • September 30, 2016
Jail sale

A developer with experience in offices shifts his focus to apartments. Will the project break free?

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • September 30, 2016
Vision quest

New Jersey-based owner of Renaissance Center likely will be first out of the ground with new office space in the Tampa market.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • September 30, 2016
MARKET SPOTLIGHT | Southwest Florida Retail Market

Southwest Florida's retail properties have rebounded considerably from the economic recession of the past decade, when vacancy rates overall topped 11.4%.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • September 23, 2016
Earth mover

EHC Inc. shifted gears to survive, then thrive.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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