Hojin’s Southwest Orlando Real Estate Scoop

Silliman Homes, formerly Reiche Silliman, is now building in the community of Waterstone, the last gated community on the Butler Chain of Lakes. They’re not offering any of the lakefront lots with this builder, but prices range from $500,000 to $700,000. I hear they’ve sold two homes already. I love the homes they’ve built at [...]

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Local timeshare mogul, David Siegel, has put his unfinished mansion on 10 acres along Lake Butler named “Versailles” in the guard gated community of Reserve at Lake Butler Sound in the Town of Windermere for sale at $75 million “As Is”. It’s actually listed at $100 million in the MLS which is the price if [...]

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There was a post on this blog back in 2008, Disney Planning New Luxury Home Community, and now it’s finally coming to reality. I had my doubts as well, but it looks like Disney is finally getting this community underway. According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Disney unveiled it’s plans for it’s [...]

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I was out showing some properties to Joshua & Danielle Rouse this week and they told me they were off to SeaWorld to check out some new roller coaster called Manta. Apparently, you ride this sucker horizontally and not in a seat like traditional coasters so you really feel like you’re flying like Superman or [...]

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The 2009 Parade of Homes got underway yesterday here in Orlando and it’s not much of a surprise that this year’s parade has a lot less homes and communities participating especially here in Dr. Phillips and Windermere. After all, home prices are now below replacement cost so there’s not much incentive to build these days. [...]

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I got an email about Chinese drywall from my boss today and at first, I deleted it thinking the Chinese are making everything these days. It seems like everything I own from the cheap tools I got at Wal Mart to my Nike shoes seems to be coming out of this place. So when I [...]

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This week I’ve been showing homes in Clermont to Tom and Jean from Illinois. They’re die hard fisherman, and can’t wait to move to Central Florida. We came across a new community in our search yesterday that I thought was worth mentioning. It’s called Foxchase and the builder is Standard Pacific Homes. It’s conveniently located [...]

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My heart’s been heavy this past week because many of us lost a dear old friend this past week. I feel so fortunate to have known Barbara Brady. She’s the original Southwest Orlando specialist and an guardian angel to me. She’s been my mentor into the real estate business, but most of all one of [...]

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I ran into another local agent, Jason from Remax, and he said that there’s no pools allowed in the new Pulte development off Maguire Road in Ocoee called Meadow Ridge. I don’t know if there’s any truth to this, but if anyone knows about this, please make a comment on this post. Besides the obvious [...]

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Today, I spoke with the reps at the Palazzo del Lago condominiums near the Orlando Convention Center and they have suspended sales of these units for the time being. I tried to find out if they plan on ever building the condos, but I did not get a response. These condos will probably never be [...]

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