Vacation Home Expertise in Orlando, Kissimmee, Davemport, Championsgate & Clermont Buyers
Well located just minutes from Disney. This Disney Dream Home has a brand new roof, recently upgraded HVAC & pool heater, new granite counter tops throughout, and upgraded bathrooms. It is only 5 minutes to Mystic Dunes Golf course & 30 minutes from Universal. This home is complete. There is no work to do!
Searching for your dream property near Disney Orlando for less than $160,000?
Come see this beautiful second floor 3 bed/2 bath condo overlooking conservation located in a premium gated resort just minutes from Disney. Enjoy your morning coffee sitting on your private, quiet and peaceful balcony watching the wildlife.
This spacious condo has been totally renovated and includes all new furnishings, appliances and even the utensils; just bring your toothbrush.
Property is located in building #3 which is conveniently located near the resort style pool. This is definitely the place to take a morning or evening dip after visiting the theme parks with your family and friends.
Your Tuscana Vacation Condo is so close to the theme parks that you can go back for an afternoon nap and head back for the evening fireworks. Tuscana is is zoned for short term rental so you can enjoy your vacations here in Florida and let others help pay your expenses.
The resort has quick access to I- 4 and minutes from fabulous shopping as well! With amenities such as a resort style pool & spa, theatre, workout facility and a restaurant/tiki bar onsite, what are you waiting for?
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What was once a fairly easy search has proved to be increasingly difficult, if not impossible, during the past year or so: finding a property for those clients who wanted a brand new home for less than $200,000 close to the Disney theme parks. Single family (“detached”) homes with a pool, in communities where short-term renting is allowed, are now around the $300,000 level or more and builders have focused on large 4 and 5 bedroom town homes which have starting prices not too far below the $300,000 level.
There is however one community that is thriving and we’ve just added some details to our web site here. Prices currently start at less than $200,000 for a 3 bed 3 bath 1500 square feet new town home and, not surprisingly, the builder is having a busy time meeting demand. We expect prices to keep increasing. So if this is the budget level that fits the bill for you, please get in touch by phone or e-mail (see details on this page) before things change.
Deciding to take the plunge and put some of your money into a piece of property is a serious decision for most people. There is no absolute right or wrong answer when you need to reach a conclusion. If you’re like me, you can usually find reasons both for and against the decision. So it’s always nice to read some background information to help you make up your mind.
A recent article in Forbes Magazine ranked the best cities to buy in throughout the USA and, luckily for us, Orlando came out favorably. They looked at several factors indicating a positive outcome for Orlando home buyers and the city came out as 4th in line in terms of a positive ranking as a place to buy. Read the whole thing here.
Nothing is certain of course (and here we will ignore any consideration of those things that are), but if you want to find some reinforcement of your plans to go ahead with a Central Florida real estate investment, this is only likely to spur you on!
Just a brief alert to let you know that we have more details on the new Pulte community in Kissimmee, not far from Paradise Palms if you’re familiar with the area.
The community has a very promising look and a list of some really good features so check things out here.
Some Florida home owners (and some of the many who would like to be Florida home owners!) just want to enjoy their place in the sun, regardless of how their piece of paradise was built. Others are fascinated with the construction process and they like to see how it’s done and how long it all takes. So if you’re one of the latter group, you might be interested to view some pictures of one Orlando vacation home that is part-completed.
The builder is one of the largest in the USA and they are doing well with the schedule on this one. This home is a “to be built” – our clients, the buyers, decided on the lot that they wanted in October and then made decisions on options such as carpets, kitchen cabinets and so on. At the time of writing (December), progress has been good, as shown in the photographs below. The outer shell is complete, plus internal framing. The next key step is insulation followed dry-wall. Excavating the pool and then finishing that aspect has not yet started, but that’s a normal part of the process.
From our experience, it looks as if this home should be completed within the next two to three months and our initial examination of the quality of work gives us positive “vibes”. Onwards!
We recently wrote about a new vacation home community opening up in the Davenport / Champions Gate area and an article in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper this week highlighted how busy the market for such homes has become. Builders have definitely seen an increase in demand and in particular they are reacting to a trend towards larger vacation homes containing 7, 8, 9 or even more bedrooms.
Current offerings that reflect this trend include Windsor at Waterside, Solterra, The Dales at West Haven and Championsgate, and the article begins with a little history:
Gutted with foreclosures during the downturn, Orlando’s vacation-home market is making a comeback with big-name homebuilders rolling out neighborhoods of six-, seven- and eight-bedroom pool homes.
The communities, which are popping up within about 5 miles of the Walt Disney World area, come with resort-style lazy rivers, water guns, water slides and Tiki bars.
Whether you are a buyer, seller or just an owner of vacation homes, it makes interesting reading – see the whole thing here.
If you’re as old as me, you probably remember the theme song to the movie “Love Story”, where Andy Williams starts by singing “Where do I begin . . .?”. After today I feel very much the same, having viewed some bold website promotions for what seems to be a new Central Florida development. This isn’t Festival, the one that I wrote about recently, it’s another community that’s emerged recently.
The gist of the promotion for this additional one, an “exclusive gated community” just 10 minutes from Disney World, is that you have the opportunity to get:
Ok, there are a lot of “fantastic”, “unique”, “exclusive” and other hyperbolic words that you can choose to downplay or ignore, like many of us have learned to do when the advertisement seems just too good to be true. So other than that, what’s the problem with all of this? Isn’t this just sales hype, nothing to be really concerned about?
Well, the problem is that we’ve been here before, haven’t we?
Ten years ago, during the property frenzy that was the Central Florida market in those days, some “creative” people started selling vacation homes here and made a fortune with rental guarantees, real estate guarantees and every variation on the guarantee theme that you can imagine (plus a few variations that I bet you can’t come up with, I know that I couldn’t). Many of these “creative” people spent a lot time marketing Florida property to potential UK buyers and the latter too easily believed the marketing presentations. Like proverbial lambs to the slaughter, they often believed what they were told because it was what they wanted to hear, and it was an expensive mistake for many.
Some of the guarantees/assurances evaporated rather quickly, even before the property “bust” of 2007/2008. I don’t know of any that survived that property price crash. All of a sudden, the builder, developer, property manager or anyone with the buyers’ deposits went missing or bankrupt. I personally received phone calls and e-mails from (mostly UK) people who had been sucked in to the scams and who were phoning round to find someone to come to their rescue. As a UK expat, it was quite depressing to see how successful some individuals were at talking the naive and unwary out of their money.
Of course, I’m not suggesting that this latest promotion is anything like those earlier schemes (!!!) but in 2014, does anybody really believe that a “guarantee” is worth relying on? Really? Are memories so short or are people still so careless?
Let me give you two things to use when you want to evaluate this type of offer, one from a very elevated perspective and one that could be considered trivial but about which you can make up your own mind:
We’ve devoted whole podcasts to telling you to run, not walk from people who tell you a high return is “cant miss” or “guaranteed”.
That’s relevant not just for an investment in shares – it applies to any sort of investment. If ever you were in doubt, you have now heard it from people far more elevated in life than me!
If you still need more, read this web page before putting any of your money into a scheme offering investment returns (in particular, read the first “red flag” starting “High investment returns . . . “). Or this one, which has some disturbing parallels with things under discussion here . Convinced of the need for caution yet?
So what should you take away from all of this? Just remember to be highly cautious before paying out any money whatsoever.
Ten years ago we saw several enthusiastic property developers come into town with many promises and leave with buyer deposits after building nothing. “Buyer beware”, indeed!
The vacation home market has definitely grown during the past 12-24 months and both existing and new communities are in demand. So it’s no surprise to see a new community opening up.
A Canadian builder that has not previously been involved in the Central Florida market, Minto Group Inc., has revealed plans for even more choices if you’re looking for your place in the sun: Festival, close to Championsgate and therefore just minutes from the theme parks and other attractions.
Based on artist’s drawings only (building is only just underway), the planned facilities certainly look impressive and give some idea of what’s on offer.
There are more details at our Festival community page, plus some photos and a video from the builder. But along with the big positives, there are some aspects that you need to be aware of before you make up your mind – so call us (407-908-8023 or 407-702-8663) or contact us via this inquiry form so that we can give you the information that you need.