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Commercial Real Estate

  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 21, 2026
Fort Myers medical office sells for $1 million

The doctor who purchased the office condominium plans to use some of the space and lease the rest.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 19, 2026
Cape Coral senior community sold for $10.5 million

The Lee County property was bought by a New York firm focused on healthcare facilities.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 18, 2026
Benderson Development acquires three retail properties in region

The new acquisitions — in Sarasota, Pinellas and Lee counties — total nearly 350,000 square feet.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 17, 2026
Clearwater firm starts work on $51 million government office project

Creative Contractors is building Pinellas County's new North County Service Center on U.S. Highway 19.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 17, 2026
Manatee County apartment complex sells for $67 million

Improvements are in store for The Crossing at Palm Aire, the new owners say.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 17, 2026
Clearwater firm brokers sale of Hillsborough industrial property

The property in Gibsonton, between Tampa and Manatee County, was bought by an adjoining property owner.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 14, 2026
North Port daycare property sells for $3.6 million

La Petite Academy has a long-term lease on the building bought by a New Jersey investor.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Anastasia Dawson
  • August 13, 2026
$31B construction product firm leases large space in noted Tampa project

The Fortune 500 company will lease about 50,000 square feet, bringing the Gasworx development’s office building to full occupancy before its completion.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 13, 2026
Naples senior living community sells for $148 million

The Carlisle, the 350-unit facility, was sold to a California REIT as part of a five property portfolio sale across four states and totaling nearly 1 million square feet.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 12, 2026
Charlotte County community expanding with 400 new homes, Publix

The developer behind the West Port master-planned community is expanding it to east, adding more house and a shopping center.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Andrew Warfield
  • August 12, 2026
Sarasota cottage row businesses ponder options as demolition lingers

With an apartment building slated to replace an entire block of small businesses on Fruitville Road, a group of five businesses there hope to move their buildings to create Sarasota Bungalow Village.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 10, 2026
St. Petersburg coffee company Kahwa moves into larger headquarters

The roaster and café owner has moved into a new 24,700-square-foot building in the city for space to produce, operate and educate.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 10, 2026
Nonprofit buys Sarasota restaurant property for apprenticeship school

Suncoast Apprenticeship Academy purchased the former Perkins on Fruitville Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • August 6, 2026
Recently shuttered Denny’s property in Sarasota sells for $4.25 million

The restaurant property on Bee Ridge Road is a “unicorn site,” says one of the brokers involved in the sale.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 6, 2026
Hillsborough latest locality to take up ban on data centers

County leaders are looking to pass a moratorium on the facilities and want to study land use rules.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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