Archives for the 'Neighborhood News' Category
Starting to plan for Spring Home Cleanup?
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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A great time to start planning for that spring clean-up is now. Spring is just around the corner and here is a list of some ideas to get you started with your own Spring Cleaning Plan.
1. Thoroughly dust your home and clean air conditioning and heating filters, ducts, and vents to decrease your exposure [...]
Group representing small businesses oppose GOP plan to end property taxes
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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TALLAHASSEE · The head of a group representing small Florida businesses opposed the House Republican leadership’s plan to exchange lower property taxes for a higher sales tax, in testimony Thursday before the Senate Finance and Tax Committee.
Members of the National Federation of Independent Business are worried that such a swap, while providing short-term property tax [...]
Could Condos Rise Above The Vizcaya Museum
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
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Miami city commissioners are still going ahead with a controversial construction project that would offer visitors from around the world who enter the Vizcaya musem a view of condos rising above its manicured tree-lined surroundings.
A proposed 300-unit luxury condo complex on nearby Mercy Hospital is steadily moving ahead but resistance is beginning to mount.
Vizcaya was [...]
Scripps project moves ahead
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
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Exactly a year after a divided Palm Beach County Commission approved the final siting of Scripps Florida in Jupiter, the ground’s been cleared, concrete columns have sprouted and officials are for the first time in years looking forward to the project’s completion.
‘It’s been a year, but there was so much work to do to get [...]
Boca Hospital gets a $75 million gift
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
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Boca Raton - In one of the largest donations of its kind, a $75 million gift from a local benefactor brings Boca Raton Community Hospital a significant step closer to raising $250 million for a teaching hospital that could transform health care in the region. The donation from the Schmidt Family Foundation — the largest [...]
Village-like project planned in Delray Beach
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
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A Dallas-based real estate developer has acquired Office Depot’s sprawling Delray Beach headquarters for $80 million. Lincoln Property Co. sealed its deal for the three-building, 43-acre campus - on Congress Avenue just south of Linton Boulevard - on Dec. 22.
Office Depot will lease back its 566,852-square-foot headquarters until the end of 2008, when [...]
Save Florida from SAVE OUR HOMES
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
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“… There will eventually be dramatic differences in the assessed values of identically valued homes.” “… Property-tax payments will be effectively shifted from homestead properties that have not been sold recently to properties recently sold and to non-homestead properties such as businesses and rental units.” “Over time, the changes may work to limit (economic) growth, [...]
2007: A time of widgets and Web redesigns
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
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The new year is here, and brokers are already buzzing about new Web sites, widgets and other technological doodads that they expect to use in 2007.
Carolynn Ozar-Diakon, broker-owner of Resources Real Estate in Rumson, N.J., said she plans to explore the use of a “virtual kiosk” module for her real estate office this year.
Simon L. [...]
Condo Conversion Aims at Affordability
Friday, January 12th, 2007
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Willow Lake Apartments are going condo - with an affordable twist.
Newly formed Esperanza LLC will sell its newly acquired 218 units at 2500 10th Ave. N. for rock-bottom prices starting at $109,900.
Local prices for condo conversions have frequently started at above $200,000.
Lennard Kligler, one of two businessmen behind the $13.5 million purchase, said in a [...]
Snowbirds may find roosting a bit cheaper
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
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Snowbirds arriving in force this month will find a renter’s market.
Mary Hass, a 57-year-old from Louisville, Ky., who has been spending winters in Florida for 20 years, said she saw rent drop for the first time in several years.
“We actually paid a little less this year,” she said, “but it was minimal.”
She and her husband, [...]
