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PORT ORANGE, Fla. - ICI Homes will host a gala Realtor preview and reception on Thursday, July 30, to showcase three new model homes at Waters Edge, located off Airport Road and Pioneer Trail in Port Orange.

Rosemary Messina, vice president of sales and marketing for ICI Homes, said the Realtor preview event is scheduled from 5 to 7:00 p.m. and refreshments will be provided.

All three model homes at Waters Edge are fully furnished and decorated.

New homes at Waters Edge are priced from under $200,000.

MAITLAND, Fla. – NAI Realvest recently negotiated three industrial lease agreements totaling more than 35,400 square feet in Orlando.

Michael Heidrich, principal at NAI Realvest negotiated all three transactions representing the landlords.

ORLANDO, Fla. – NAI Realvest recently negotiated two lease agreements totaling nearly 3,900 square feet for industrial and office space in Orlando and Winter Park.

Tom Kelley CCIM, principal at NAI Realvest, negotiated both agreements representing the landlords.

SANFORD, Fla. - Orlando Sanford International Airport recently leased a five-acre parcel on Moores Station Rd. just east of the Airport on airport property.

Diane Crews, vice president of administration at Orlando Sanford International Airport, said the new tenant, Sanford-based C&R Pallet Co. will repair and store wooden pallets on the site.

SANFORD, Fla. - Stirling International Realty’s Commercial Group recently negotiated a second long-term lease agreement at 1100 Lexington Green Ln. in Lexington Park, located on the northeast corner of S.R. 46 and Mangoustine Rd. in Sanford.

DAYTONA BEACH – Realtors who attended a recent Power Selling seminar at Aswin Suri’s EXIT Realty of Daytona got a lot of bang for no bucks.

The session, titled Power Selling 101–Mindset 2009, was offered free to the more than 130 Realtors who attended the daylong event, which included an afternoon catered lunch and an evening wine and cheese mixer, according to Suri, owner of EXIT Realty of Daytona.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Ashton Woods Homes recently released its Power House Green with Environments for Living™ program where new home buyers can realize at least 25 percent savings on their energy bills.

Building green may seem like a new trend to some, but not to Ashton Woods Homes – a national builder which has built more than 10,000 homes meeting Environments for Living™ standards. Environments for Living homes are more energy efficient, comfortable and durable than conventional code-built homes and provide the homeowner energy usage and comfort guarantees.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Mez Birdie, CCIM, director of retail services at NAI Realvest, recently negotiated a long-term lease of 3,682 square feet of retail space in the Volusia Point Shopping Center at 504 International Speedway Blvd. in Daytona Beach.

Birdie represented the new tenant, Plato’s Closet, a clothing franchisee, which deals in children, teen and young adult gently-used apparel.

Beechwood, Ohio-based American Industrial Properties is the landlord at Volusia Point.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Ashton Woods Homes will host Green Day on Saturday, July 18, at all 11 Ashton Woods Homes communities in the Orlando and Tampa areas.

DAVENPORT, Fla. - ABD Development Company recently introduced a new designer series of luxury homes at Heritage Green at Providence Golf and Country Club, located off U.S. 17-92 in the Loughman-Davenport area of Polk County.

David Kohn, president of ABD Development Company, said the new homes are smaller, smarter and more efficient designs, with prices starting from the $350s.

MAITLAND, Fla. - NAI Realvest recently negotiated three lease agreements at industrial facilities in Longwood and Sanford totaling 23,544 square feet.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Ashton Woods Homes was recently recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a 2009 ENERGY STAR Leadership in Housing Award. The award recognizes the important contribution Ashton Woods Homes has made to energy-efficient construction and environmental protection by building more than 1,202 ENERGY STAR qualified homes last year. Collectively, these homes will save its customers approximately $537,294 on utility bills each year.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty was recently named exclusive sales and marketing representatives to sell a prestigious $8.5 million oceanfront estate home across from the Oceanside Golf Course in Ormond Beach.

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Lake Mary, FL - Carolyn Wilson, a sales executive with Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty and member of Orlando Regional Realtor® Association, was recently awarded the Accredited Home-Staging Specialist (AHS) designation.

Wilson joins a select and growing group of real estate agents who have recognized the importance of providing this value-added service to their clients. In today’s increasingly competitive real estate market, these trained agents set themselves apart by helping homeowners market and showcase their homes for maximum impact to potential buyers.

MAITLAND, Fla. - NAI Realvest recently completed a new lease agreement for 4,369 square feet of industrial space at 556 Florida Central Parkway in Longwood.

Robert Blackwell, SIOR principal at the firm, associates Sean DuPree, CCIM and Jim Murr negotiated the transaction representing the landlord, Parkway Business Center LLC of Longwood.

The new tenant, Longwood-based Rockit Management LLC & Street Unit Performance Inc. leased unit 1008 in the industrial park.

At loggerheads with claims of economic recovery, the National Income Property Index has raised its recommended cap rate to 7.75%. The growing national debt service weighed heavily into the equation, which includes interest rates, unemployment, and consumer confidence.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Ashton Woods Homes reports its annual sales of new homes in the Orlando region jumped by 42 percent.

Michael Roche, vice president of sales and marketing at Ashton Woods Homes in the Orlando region, said the home builder closed out its fiscal year 2009 at the end of May.

TAMPA, Fla. - Grubb & Ellis|Commercial Florida, associated with 130 offices worldwide, recently negotiated a long term retail lease of 30,000 square foot lot and 700 square foot sales office at 4756 N. Dale Mabry Hwy. in Tampa.

Brent Lindsey CPA, senior vice president in the firm’s Investment Group brokered the transaction. Parkedge Enterprises of Tampa is the landlord and Orlando-based CJB Enterprises is the new tenant.