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Sell Your House Before the Holidays

As you look ahead to the winter season, you're likely making plans and thinking about what you want to achieve before the year ends. One of those key decision points could be whether or not you want to move this year. If the location or size of your current home no longer meets your needs, finding a house that better suits your lifestyle may be a top priority for you. But with today's cooling housing...

The Reason Home Prices Are Finally Dropping. But Not Everywhere.

In March 2021, a woman in the D.C. area put her house on the market and got 88 bids including 76 all-cash offers and 15 from people who hadn't bothered to visit the property in person. The offers just kept coming, she told CNN at the time. I'm thinking, This is just out of control. That frothy, oozing-over-the-top market has been over for a few months now, and new data suggest that we might be entering a...

Orange County to challenge ruling on rent control ordinance

Despite a Florida appeals court ruling against the ordinance, Orange County voters will still see a proposed rent control measure on their ballot this November. The would-be regulation was narrowly approved as a ballot measure by the Orange County commission earlier this year. It proposes a rent cap based on the year's most recent percentage changes in the Consumer Price Index, which measures the...

New performing arts space coming to downtown Orlando. Here’s when.

ORLANDO, Fla Orlando Fringe announced the upcoming grand opening of Fringe ArtSpace, its new performing arts venue in downtown Orlando. The new space, located at 52 Church St., will feature two performing theater spaces: a mainstage with 166 seats and a black box with 40-60 seats. Fringe ArtSpace will not only feature traditionally programmed theatre and concerts, but also workshops, artistic explorations...

Get 2 Free Trees for Arbor Day | City of Orlando

From the City of Orlando's website: Welcome to Energy-Saving Trees, a unique program designed to help you better understand where to plant trees on your property for maximum energy savings. This program is made possible by the City of Orlando, Arbor Day Foundation, Orlando Utilities Commission and the Florida Forest Service. Did you know that if every resident planted a tree in the City of Orlando, our...

Amazon Fresh Grocery Store Planned for Maitland Shopping Center

Amazon is looking to build a grocery store in Maitland. Orlando Business Journal reports that the online retailer and recent entrant into the grocery game will build an Amazon Fresh in the planned Trelago Market shopping center. Amazon has owned organic mega-chain Whole Foods since 2017. Amazon Fresh began its life as a produce and grocery delivery service, growing into brick-and-mortar grocery stores...

Downtown Orlando Project with Hotel, Apartments in the Works

A six-story building that will include a hotel, apartments, restaurant, and retail space soon may rise at a busy corner near downtown Orlando and its neighboring Creative Village district. The development team behind the project, titled Westmoreland Square, is seeking approval from the city of Orlando for a master plan for the project, as well as a conditional-use permit for its proposed building height...

JW Marriott with Rooftop Garden to Anchor Downtown Orlando Convention Center

It looks like downtown Orlando will be getting its luxury hotel and convention center, as promised by developers Albert Socol and Marlene Weiss, according to a report in GrowthSpotter. The husband-wife heads of Summa Development Group have filed updated renderings with the city naming JW Marriott as the anchor for their 33-story mixed-use tower at Church and Pine streets once slated to include a branch of...

Downtown Orlando: This Weekend’s Events (August 19-21)

Craft Beer Festival at SEAWORLD Orlando Florida Kids & Family Expo | August 19 & 20 | Orange County Convention Center | 10am-5pm 8th Year Anniversary Celebration at Southern Nights | August 19 & 20 Rock the Block Party in Orlando | August 20th, 9pm | 595 W Church St, Orlando, FL EPCOT International Food And Wine Festival | August 21, 9am-10pm | 200 Epcot Center Dr, Lake Buena Vista,...

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