Monday, August 20, 2012

Integrity Home Loan of Central Florida reports home loan volume in July up 30 percent over same period last year

LAKE MARY, Fla. --- Integrity Home Loan of Central Florida, headquartered in Lake Mary, reports it has seen a 30 percent increase in residential mortgage volume in July compared to July of 2011.

“Much of the volume comes from refinancing older mortgages,” Malloy said. “We anticipate that this sector will remain strong for at least another year,” said Matt Malloy, president of Integrity Home Loan of Central Florida.



NAI Realvest negotiates renewal lease for 3,000 square feet at Airport Industrial Center in Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. – NAI Realvest recently negotiated a renewal lease of 3,000 square feet at 7480 Narcoossee Road in the Airport Industrial Center in southeast Orlando.

Michael Heidrich, a principal at NAI Realvest, brokered the transaction representing the landlord, Columbus, Ohio-based Airport Investment Properties LLC and the tenant Plant It Earth, Inc. of Orlando.

About NAI Realvest:
NAI Realvest, serving all of Central Florida, is a fully integrated commercial real estate operating company specializing in brokerage, development, investment, leasing and management, consulting and research services in the U.S. and worldwide. NAI Global is an international commercial real estate network with over 350 offices spanning the globe. Since 1978, clients have built businesses on the power of NAI Global’s expanding network. Extensive services include multi-site acquisitions and dispositions, sublease, tenant representation, lease administration and audit, investment services, due diligence and related consulting and advisory services. To learn more, visit www.NAIRealvest.com.


Emerson International Negotiates New Long-Term Lease Agreement at CenterPointe Office Park in Altamonte Springs

Altamonte Springs, Fla. --- Emerson International recently negotiated a new long-term lease agreement for 705 square feet of office space at CenterPointe Office Park, 370 CenterPointe Circle in Altamonte Springs.

Zac Starkey, commercial associate at Emerson International, negotiated the lease agreement representing the landlord.

The new tenant is The Back Office, LLC.

Emerson International is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Emerson Group, the global corporation that is one of the largest privately-owned property development companies in the U.K.

Equestrian Center, Ranch has Quarter Mile of Frontage on Little-Known Waterway that Cuts Across Florida from Atlantic to Gulf

Palm Beach, Fla. --- The Okeechobee Waterway is a 154-mile stretch of man-made canals and channels that link Florida’s largest freshwater lake---Okeechobee, with four trillion gallons of fresh water that feed the Everglades---with ports on the Atlantic and Gulf sides of the state.

From Sunlight Ranch, a private 790-acre riding, hunting, fishing and outdoor sportsman’s paradise near Palm Beach, the Okeechobee Waterway cuts across to Fort Myers on Florida’s West Coast, bisecting the state and turning all of South Florida into an island, though only technically.

“It is an amazing waterway,” said Roger Soderstrom, founder and owner of Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty in Orlando, the firm charged with selling Sunlight Ranch for its $11.9 million asking price.

The Okeechobee Waterway has a storied past. Opened in 1937, the Depression-era public works project was designed to help protect surrounding lands from floods that killed more than 2,500 people a decade earlier.

It cuts across a line charted in the late 1800s by well-to-do adventurers who were sponsored by Forest and Stream, the best-known sporting magazine of the time and the predecessor of today’s Field and Stream.

One of those sportsmen wrote that the area they mapped was less well known than the deepest, darkest heart of Africa. And halfway across Lake Okeechobee, the sportsmen uncovered an ancient relic: a submerged dugout canoe that held a steel helmet of the sort worn by Spanish conquistadors in the 1500s.

“The Okeechobee Waterway tells a story that is truly ancient,” Soderstrom said. “At one time NASA used the waterway for the shipment of Saturn rockets,” he said.

Today, the Okeechobee Waterway provides recreational boats a way to cross the state---the trip takes about a day, maybe a day-and-a-half---through some of the most majestic vistas Florida has to offer.

“Flocks of birds of every sort, alligators by the hundreds, this is the way Florida looked to people hundreds of years ago,” Soderstrom said.

That’s not the case at Sunlight Ranch. Two twenty-acre parcels at Sunlight Ranch currently provide a deepwater marina that can easily dock sixty-foot boats.

A quarter-mile of frontage on the Okeechobee Waterway makes it a perfect location for a boater’s stopover, with quick access to the Atlantic Ocean nearby.

But it’s the 32-acre equestrian center at Sunlight Ranch that is drawing the most attention from potential buyers, Soderstrom said, and they hail from all over the world.

“We’ve had inquiries from 17 different countries on three continents, so we expect to sell the property soon,” he said.

“Sunlight Ranch is a sportsman’s paradise with riding, hunting, fishing and scenery that is as old as Florida,” he said.

The equestrian facility includes a main show barn with 25 stalls, show rings, polo club barns, polo fields and a clubhouse.

The Sunlight Saddle and Polo Club is presently the “home-base” training facility for renowned international professionals, Olympians, professional equestrian teams, and experts in all riding sports including western riding, show jumping, dressage and polo.

More than 12 miles of scenic bridle trails wind along the banks of the Okeechobee Waterway and snake through the property.

“The list of potential buyers includes some of the most recognizable names in international business, commerce, finance, entertainment and equestrian sports,” Soderstrom said.

To view a video produced by Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty go to http://www.wellcomemat.com/stirlingsir/E0DEB09771.html and to see an eBrochure, http://stirlingsir.netii.net/Sunlight%20Ranch%20Saddle_eBrochure.pdf

Matt McDonald and Mark Arnold, Stirling Sotheby’s Global Real Estate Specialists, are representing the property.

About Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty
Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty is affiliated with Sotheby’s International Realty, the largest luxury real estate brand in the world. Stirling Sotheby’s exclusive global marketing services include luxury residential, new homes, new home communities, commercial and investment properties. In addition the company provides support to builders and developers locally and internationally. Visit www.StirlingSIR.com.

Ashton Wood Homes Starts Construction Five Bedroom Estate Model Home at Laureate Park in Lake Nona area

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Ashton Woods Homes has started construction of a new five bedroom estate model home at Laureate Park located off Narcoossee Road and Tavistock Lakes Blvd. in the Lake Nona area of Southeast Orlando.

The new estate home design has four-and-a-half baths, with a study and game room in 4,064 square feet of living area, plus a second floor rear balcony, three-car garage and pool house, according to Michael Roche, vice president of sales and marketing at Ashton Woods Homes in the Orlando region.

The two story estate home model – base priced at $499,990 – will be completed and ready for viewing in the fall.

Ashton Woods Homes, headquartered in Atlanta, is one of the nation’s largest private homebuilding companies with operations in growth communities in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Killeen, Orlando, Phoenix, San Antonio, Raleigh and Tampa. For more information, visit http://www.ashtonwoods.com.