The Orlando Condo Blog

We’ve posted over 250 articles on the Orlando condo scene since we went live just over a year ago, covering every conceivable condo angle from financing to home owners’ associations, to the very best deals Orlando has to offer. To celebrate the end of our first year, we’ve picked the TOP TEN posts that we thought were the funniest, most newsworthy or [...]

Coming to a neighborhood near you - maybe - is a $625 million 49-story condo project which will sit near Universal and Sandlake on Lakehurst Drive. It is slated to accommodate over, wait for it… 1,188 condos (no, you read that right). Convention space and retail are expected to swallow up another couple of hundred thousand square feet.
Planned at 500 [...]

The Vue condos, downtown Orlando, had it’s residents’ grand opening last as night, as covered by local TV stations. And those that had closed seemed happy with their purchase.
Floors 2-15 are completely sold out and about 50 folk are reported to have taken up residency to date. In fact, the entire project is nearly sold, although the top floors and Penthouses are still being [...]

In April, we brought you news of Knightsbridge at Stoneybrooks demise. This week’s Orlando Business Journal reports that TA Associates, a Boston firm, has now purchased the 396-unit condo conversion for $45.3 million. Not bad for a community built in 2000 on 25 acres.
The same fate will await many of those Orlando communities which are marked “Off [...]

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Arguably the father of modern economics, Adam Smith was a proponent of a Laissez-Faire style of economics.  Translation: government does as little as possible and the natural laws of supply and demand will determine price levels and purge the market of any impurities.  Very much a “might makes right” kind of approach.  Admittedly, there are [...]

Real Estate Video by - Real Estate Blogger

“I’m waiting to see what happens to the prices.”
“I still don’t think we’ve hit bottom yet.”

Poppycock.
For overseas buyers, the exchange rate is far more important than the price. And for U.S. buyers, personal credit score and the ability to qualify for a mortgage in 2008 will become [...]

It’s been a whole year since Condo Metropolis opened its online condo doors. And despite a slower than normal market, the site has received many thousands of visitors, and equiries are received daily concerning the Orlando condo scene.
“Orlando Condo buyers just love having a site that’s dedicated to condominiums,” said Marcus Burke, company founder. “We’re the only place in [...]