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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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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As part of Coldwell Banker’s new ad campaign On Location, the company aims to project more of an updated tech image with a new 3D logo, listing syndication, and video tours of local areas. Coldwell Banker now syndicates their listings to over 350 sites. I didn’t even know that many real estate sites existed. Now [...]

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In honor of Martin Luther King day, we take a look back at a dark day in history for the city of Ocoee. It occurred on election day, 1920, when Mose Norman, a black guy attempted to vote. He wasn’t allowed, so he decided to return later that day armed with a shot gun. Mose’s [...]

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View Larger Map The Dr. Phillips area offers plenty of choices in the $500,000 to $900,000 range. If you’re looking for larger lots Bay Hill, South Bay, North Bay, Bay Hill Cove, Torey Pines, Brentwood Club, Bristol Park, Turnberry Woods, Kilgore and Charles E Limpus Rd., Windermere Heights, and Courtleigh Park. are great choices. Bay [...]

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View Larger Map I’ve worked with lots of buyers in the Dr. Phillips area and also encountered lots of confusion on which areas are considered to be the Dr. Phillips area and which are not, so I created this map so people can figure it out. The zip codes that make up the area are [...]

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Below you’ll find plans for the Executive Series homes built by ABD Development at Vizcaya located off Sand Lake Road in the Dr. Phillips area. Originally, prices started at $354,900 and went up to $478,900 but currently prices stand much higher. You can click any of these floor plans to enlarge the view. I believe [...]

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The Townhomes at Vizcaya were originally built by ABD Development and priced quite reasonably. I believe the key phrase here is was but prices have become more reasonable with the declining market. The end unit plan Villa Amore which has 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, sitting room, balcony, and 2,058 square feet was priced originally at [...]

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John’s Lake in Winter Garden is one of the premiere fishing lakes in Central Florida offering great bass fishing year round and numerous different types of structures to fish including lily pads, grass beds, timber, and deep drop offs. Half of the lake sits in Lake County and the other half in Orange County. This [...]

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Joy Wallace Dickenson, author of the “Florida Flashback” section in the Orlando Sentinel, has published a book entitled Historic Photos of Orlando that’s filled with hundreds of poignant images of Orlando’s past. I’m always a sucker for great photography and this one is no exception. The slideshow provides a sample of some of the stunning [...]

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