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Residential Real Estate

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  • 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
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 28, 2025
Babcock Ranch reaches key sales milestone

The Southwest Florida master-planned, environmentally friendly community has sold a quarter of the total homes it expects to build.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 28, 2025
105-home community to be built in Lakewood Ranch

Lennar will begin construction this fall on Stillwater.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • By Andrew Warfield
  • July 26, 2025
Sarasota rejects 58-unit apartment project north of downtown

Sarasota city commissioners side with residents of The Strand to deny the long-delayed plans to build 58 apartments on the 1700 block of North Tamiami Trail.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • July 24, 2025
Cortez community now accepts cryptocurrency from homebuyers

Pearl Homes, which developed Hunters Point, has partnered with a crypto-to-real-estate platform.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 22, 2025
Fort Myers Beach property listed for $35 million

Marketing for the Royal Beach Club property is aimed at developers looking to build a luxury project.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 20, 2025
Cape Coral shopping center sells for $4.5 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a day care chain is growing in Lee County, a beachfront property sells in Pinellas County, and a medical building is going up in Sarasota County.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • July 19, 2025
Real estate agent goes viral with racy jokes, Trump impersonations

Bidets, big trucks and everything in between. Not much is off limits for broker Breanna Banaciski as she carves out a comedic cult-following in a competitive field.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 17, 2025
Naples residential tower tops $300M in sales

As housing struggles, luxury market remains solid in the Collier County city.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Steven Benna
  • July 16, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

Deals for an auto repair shop in Tampa and vacant land in Parrish, both for $11M, pace the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Lesley Dwyer
  • July 16, 2025
Manatee receives threat of litigation over increased impact fees

Freedom Housing Alliance Inc. says the impact fee increase — it could go from $13,442 for a house to more than $33,000 — violates state statute.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • July 14, 2025
$53M roofing firm expands office, facility in Fort Myers

Tallahassee-based Lloyd Roofing has seen a continued increase in demand the past three years in Fort Myers and the surrounding areas.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • July 13, 2025
Lakewood Ranch hotel project gets key construction financing

In the week's top commercial real estate news, neighboring office buildings sell in Cape Coral, a Lakeland real estate giant expands, and a Naples project hits a sales milestone.

  • Florida
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