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The Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate office on Longboat Key scored some big coups in August.

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Medical office space in the Tampa area is so tight only a half dozen properties have blocks of 5,000 square feet or greater, according to a new report from commercial real estate brokerage firm Cushman & Wakefield.

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Senior living grows crowded

Michigan-based developer Dale Watchowski isn't necessarily daunted by competition from others in the region-wide senior housing industry boom, but it's something he thinks about — often.

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Broker buys real estate company

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Medline Industries Inc., the nation's largest privately held maker and distributor of health care-related products, is planning to develop a new 830,000-square-foot distribution center beginning later this year in Auburndale.

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Boston-based Farley White Interests, fresh from its $73 million acquisition of the Hidden River I, II and III complex in Tampa's Westshore district last month, hopes to assemble a portfolio of Florida properties.

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National builder forges ahead on new project

Toll Bros. recently closed on a deal to buy 133 acres in Collier County.

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West Villages comprises four communities totaling 10,000 acres in south Sarasota County.

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McMullen Properties Inc. was founded in 1910.

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