Hojin's SW Orlando Real Estate Scoop

I finally got a little time and decided to add some photos of Celebration, Florida. It really is a picturesque little town and a great place to live and visit. The golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones is superb and there’s always wild turkeys that roam the fairways here. The downtown area offers so [...]

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Lake Starke and Lake Olympia in Ocoee are some of the very few places in SW Orlando where you can find affordable properties on a ski lake. Lake Starke is a good size lake covering 203 acres and much deeper than most lakes in Central Florida. A marshy area connects it to Lake Olympia which [...]

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Buyers looking for homes in SW Orlando may find that many of the homes are on small lots with little or no trees. The lack of large trees is due to the fact that many of the subdivisions in SW Orlando were built on former citrus farms. Since citrus trees are notorious for attracting termites, [...]

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The Bay Hill Marina and The Orange County Sportsman’s Association are two places in SW Orlando that you can gain private access to the Butler Chain of Lakes and have a place to store your boat. Both places do have a place to get gas so you don’t have to lug around a heavy gas [...]

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Ever wonder how SW Orlando looks from a helicopter? Ed Fink of Big Eye in the Sky has been flying around cities in a helicopter shooting stunning virtual tours so there’s no need to go rent one anymore. Here are some of his full screen tours of SW Orlando: Butler Chain of Lakes in Windermere [...]

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The town of Windermere offers some of the finest golf communities in the world with Isleworth, Keene’s Pointe, and Windermere Club. Isleworth is a world renowned golf club originally designed by Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay with Tiger Woods, Mark O’Meara, and Stuart Appleby as members. Keene’s Pointe is the newest golf community and a [...]

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Golf community offerings in Dr. Phillips include Bay Hill and Orange Tree. Bay Hill offers a PGA tour quality course with lots of amenities where the “king” Arnold Palmer reigns, while Orange Tree offers the most difficult course in Central Florida with a low number of members. Homes in both communities will require some updating, [...]

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The Quattro Cavalli horse fountain at Veranda Park has recently been completed after months of construction. The bronze horse sculpture was created by artisans in Pietra Santa, Italy to be an exact replica of the horse sculptures that sit at the world renowned St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy.

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The local publication, the Southwest Orlando Bulletin, gathers a list of local restaurants every year that are the favorites among local residents. They vote for their favorites at the Southwest Orlando Bulletin website and the list is published in September. They also compile a directory for Back to School Shopping, Realtors, and Doctors every year. [...]

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Take the best ideas from the towns of yesterday and the technology of the new millennium, and fuse them into a community that meets the needs of modern families. The developers of Celebration started down a path of research & study that resulted in an innovative new community. Homes are a blend of traditional southeastern [...]

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