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BlogOrlando - Local Community Real Estate Bloggers Talk

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I’m attending an interesting local conference called BlogOrlando today, located at Rollins College in Winter Park. What’s interesting about this is that there are a number of local bloggers who talk about real estate and the local communities in Orlando.

So far I’ve been able to meet Tim Welch (pictured), who writes Colonialtown blog, and Chris Gent, who writes about the Conway area, for the Orlando Sentinel.

I also had the chance to have lunch with Debra Horowitz who is an expert in the Avalon Park real estate market in East Orlando.

Blogging about communities within Orlando is an area I hope to see increase greatly. The best news about an area is put out by the locals in that community - I see our job at Roofable as finding some of the best news and commentary from them and helping even more people find it.

Posted in Avalon Park, Downtown Orlando, East Orlando, Orlando, Winter Park | 10 Comments »

$250 Million Tradition Towers is Back on Track

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Even with a cooling condo market, Tradition Towers overlooking Lake Eola is back on track. This time however, half of the building will be a new top end luxury hotel. Developer Steve Walsh claims that their hotel will be even more exclusive than Orlando’s Grand Bohemian. I’ll be interested to see if that is the case.

It’s a brave move to continue building into a slumping condo market. I certainly hope to see Orlando continue to grow though, so am glad that it’s happening.

(more at the Sentinel)

Posted in Condos, Downtown Orlando, Real Estate News | 1 Comment »

Habitat for Humanity to Build Pine Hills Condos

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Habitat for Humanity Orlando has put together a proposal to build a 58-unit, $6 million condo complex in Pine Hills, near Downtown Orlando. Interestingly, perspective owners would need to put in sweat equity of 300-500 hours, just like their “normal house” counterparts do on Habitat projects.

The project, called Staghorn Villas, will be built on 3.9 acres at Staghorn Drive and Silver Star Road. Plans call for 10 two-story buildings, each with four- to eight-unit townhouses, and green-space play areas. Habitat Orlando hopes to break ground in February 2008 and finish in spring 2011.

(read more at the Orlando Sentinel)

Posted in Condos, Downtown Orlando | 1 Comment »

Lake Eola in September

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Lake Eola in September, originally uploaded by stephgum32807.

A great shot by Stephgum32807 on Flickr of Downtown Orlando viewed across Lake Eola. I love the shot - it’s one of the few that I’ve seen that doesn’t feature the fountain.

If you take pictures of Orlando, we would love it if you would add them to the Roofable: Orlando Real Estate Pics group.

Posted in Downtown Orlando, Orlando | No Comments »

The Best of Orlando 2007

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Orlando Magazine has put together a “Top 3 List” covering the best of Orlando. Besides the lists of restaurants and shopping places, here are a few that we like best at Roofable:

Best Gated Community:

Isleworth - Windermere
Heathrow Woods - Lake Mary
Reserve at Belmere - Windermere

Best Orlando Building:

LYNX Central Station - map
The Sanctuary Downtown - map
SunTrust Center - map

(hat tip EKDAY, who also has the full list with links)

Posted in Downtown Orlando, Lake Mary, Local Community, Orlando, Windermere | 2 Comments »

Downtown Orlando is Growing Up - Literally

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

(click here to “>download a PDF version of the map)

The skyline of Downtown Orlando has been in flux for the last 5 years, and doesn’t seem to be slowing down. A healthy portion of the condos that have been completed are sitting vacant, and there are quite a few more (like 55 West) that will become available soon.

All of this is part of the Downtown Orlando 20-Point Strategic Plan (PDF - beware, this is a 100 page document).