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Quick Hits Around Orlando Real Estate

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Dawn Pratt gets an update from Commissioner Linda Stewart on the time line for extending Alafaya Trail (Innovation Way) to the 528 (the Beachline).

Hojin Chang is showcasing some of the houses that famous people live(d) in SW Orlando. This week she covers the one that Payne Stewart and Tracy McGrady called home, and Shaq’s house.

Rob Arnold gives us 6 Tips to Selling in a Buyer’s Market. (Excellent Post!)

The Orlando Sentinel covers the College Park Leisure Homes (trailers) eviction saga. It’s an interesting case of squatters vs developers right in the middle of Orlando.


Linda Hutchinson
of Stirling Sotheby’s answers the question: What do the Rich Really Want?

Quick Hits Around Orlando Real Estate

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Hojin Chang’s excellent new Southwest Orlando Real Estate blog lambastes the misleading marketing of companies selling property on Lake Apopka in a post titled, “Lake Apopka: the New Florida Swampland Scam“. If you’re planning to buy there, consider this insider’s view as fair warning! A quote:

“You can’t swim there and the only wildlife that you’ll see is probably a mutant alligator.”

From another of Orlando’s new real estate blogs, Orlando Nest, Linda Hutchinson talks about the value of a good street name in, “What’s in a Name“.

“One client thought Harmony Lane was just too cute. I also had a customer who would only buy a house where the house numbers totaled seven. Fortunately, I found her a house with the numbers 421 and she bought it!”